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Well, last night quite a number of us targeted Bouley Bay on Jersey's north coast.
I arrived to see Liam H, Tom Phillips and the Squid (Chris Steel) fishing happily away. I arrived with Mark Sleep who, on his first night soft plastics mission learned enough I think to do well in the future.
That made 5 of us.
Next came Kev and then Paul. 7 now.
Then Callum came, and later Ritchie. 9 guys with an interest in soft plastics (finesse style), wow.
We need a bigger harbour. We were being closely watched by some guys over on the far side slipway too.
So, Liam had just been bust out by a good fish and had 1 Pollack already.
Squid had seen loads of, Squid and Tom hadn't had a touch.
The swell rolled around the end of the wall and was of decent size and power.
People started to spread out and Paul tackled up and ready to go, made his first cast..
Paul B with a current caught Pollack to the spindleworm.
New softie man Mark Sleep concentrating inside the harbour wall.
Tom had moved up onto the back wall. 2 fish in quick succession.
Tom with number 3.
Toms soft plastic, 4" on a 5g head to 8ln mono straight through. He was just letting the jig come around in the current. The current was swinging left to right at this time. It then switched.
I joined Tom and we started to refine the method. We worked with lifting and sliding the jig back down in the current under close but not tight contact. The idea is to get the softie to swim AWAY from you, WITH the current whilst maintaining enough contact to detect the shy bites.
It surely was working by now. Tom again with a fish.
I switched to a 7g Gobix head and a Gary Yamamoto 4" curly worm. I slid the jig in the current on my Cormoran ULX with 0.8PE braid. Contact was simply awesome. Thump, reel screaming, rod doubled over !.. Reward was this very nice Pollack of around 2lb.
Close up of the same fish with the plastic and jig. Also seen are Paul's foreceps as this fish really wanted the softie. Fish was released unharmed.
Mark Sleep had a few more takes but unfortunately couldn't connect. He will though, given more practice. Paul B had another fish or 2, Liam had had some more but sadly, Kev and the Squid couldn't find them on the night. That is fine, it happens and we were in a new spot for this style of fishing. Tom finished the session with this fish as the tide died.
All in all, a great learning session. More guys coming along. It's nut's. Those bait fishermen came around to join in but sadly, they had blanked. So soft plastic stuffs bait again.
All are welcome to these sessions and don't forget, It's all training for this....
http://www.thelureforum.com/showthread.php?t=1367
Please pop along to that guys if you can.
Anyway, thanks all for turning up. I had a blast again.
I arrived to see Liam H, Tom Phillips and the Squid (Chris Steel) fishing happily away. I arrived with Mark Sleep who, on his first night soft plastics mission learned enough I think to do well in the future.
That made 5 of us.
Next came Kev and then Paul. 7 now.
Then Callum came, and later Ritchie. 9 guys with an interest in soft plastics (finesse style), wow.
We need a bigger harbour. We were being closely watched by some guys over on the far side slipway too.
So, Liam had just been bust out by a good fish and had 1 Pollack already.
Squid had seen loads of, Squid and Tom hadn't had a touch.
The swell rolled around the end of the wall and was of decent size and power.
People started to spread out and Paul tackled up and ready to go, made his first cast..


Paul B with a current caught Pollack to the spindleworm.

New softie man Mark Sleep concentrating inside the harbour wall.

Tom had moved up onto the back wall. 2 fish in quick succession.


Tom with number 3.

Toms soft plastic, 4" on a 5g head to 8ln mono straight through. He was just letting the jig come around in the current. The current was swinging left to right at this time. It then switched.

I joined Tom and we started to refine the method. We worked with lifting and sliding the jig back down in the current under close but not tight contact. The idea is to get the softie to swim AWAY from you, WITH the current whilst maintaining enough contact to detect the shy bites.

It surely was working by now. Tom again with a fish.

I switched to a 7g Gobix head and a Gary Yamamoto 4" curly worm. I slid the jig in the current on my Cormoran ULX with 0.8PE braid. Contact was simply awesome. Thump, reel screaming, rod doubled over !.. Reward was this very nice Pollack of around 2lb.

Close up of the same fish with the plastic and jig. Also seen are Paul's foreceps as this fish really wanted the softie. Fish was released unharmed.

Mark Sleep had a few more takes but unfortunately couldn't connect. He will though, given more practice. Paul B had another fish or 2, Liam had had some more but sadly, Kev and the Squid couldn't find them on the night. That is fine, it happens and we were in a new spot for this style of fishing. Tom finished the session with this fish as the tide died.
All in all, a great learning session. More guys coming along. It's nut's. Those bait fishermen came around to join in but sadly, they had blanked. So soft plastic stuffs bait again.
All are welcome to these sessions and don't forget, It's all training for this....
http://www.thelureforum.com/showthread.php?t=1367
Please pop along to that guys if you can.
Anyway, thanks all for turning up. I had a blast again.