Blimey Keith, where were you with 8deg water mate.....the M5 buoy in the 51°38'.88N, 006°42'.00W area, or just of the SE Ireland coast, shows the water temps to be 11.4deg at 21:00hrs tonight :? :?myfish said:
Blimey Keith, where were you with 8deg water mate.....the M5 buoy in the 51°38'.88N, 006°42'.00W area, or just of the SE Ireland coast, shows the water temps to be 11.4deg at 21:00hrs tonight :? :?myfish said:I had just showed Nathan an Xrap holding beautifully at 1ft deep in the 8 deg water and then we hooked up this minnow, straight from the packet.
Thanks for that Keith, I'll let the Marine Institute know of the variance in in-shore water temps to that of their buoy 38 miles off shore......might be useful?myfish said:local backwater temp m8. 8 degree's C.
Measured it with my Suunto D4 and that is very accurate.
Sea temp was 9 deg according to local data.
xrap 10 and 12's are brilliant.Keith,
Read your blog article this morning on the train about suspenders (fishing lures for the avoidance of doubt!). Do you rate the xrap or not? I am off to the US next week and can get them for $8 each so could stock up.
Thanks
Those are the fresh water ones though. The SW ones designed exclusively for european sw lure fisherman are only available in Europe and in the 130 size only.Got an email from Plat - they have some in ...
http://www.plat.co.jp/shop/catalog/default/language/en/cPath/31_543_778_1625
Good enough reason.I just prefer the slimmer profile of the maxrap and would work a lot better on my marks because of the abundunce of sand eels.