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On the big tides recently, I have been scouting round at low water, a bit so far this year, but also did a fair bit of walking last year without a rod. In the rocky/broken ground areas I have seen, I have noticed more shrimps than anything else. I know that the smaller fish would be more adept at hiding, but still, some areas have been teeming with nice big fat shrimp (or prawn? Dont know how you classify). We know Bass feed on them, but so do Pollack, so do Wrasse, no doubt Bream and Triggers would go at them. Christ, maybe even Giant Gobies are no doubt partial to it.
Anyway, seems to me that this would be the predominant prey species encountered in these areas. You hear of people doing well with floatfished live prawn, but not many lure fishing with them.
Does anybody have any experience of using them? I am keen to buy a few and experiment. Hoping to get some in the region of 5-10g, hopefully will be able to insert a small glass rattle so that on a twitched retrieve I can make it 'tick' softly. Also would like to experiment with very light life like imitations that I could drift and 'trot' using bombarda tactics.
Plenty of people are happy using things like crawfish imitations, small and large, so why dont we hear anything of shrimp imitations? Surely if we were to accurately match the hatch by using lures representitive of what the fish are expecting to find and feed on, these lures are massively underused?
I look forward to your thoughts. And if anyone could provide any links to suitable looking lures (especially that one from Nantes in Mikes photos!)
Anyway, seems to me that this would be the predominant prey species encountered in these areas. You hear of people doing well with floatfished live prawn, but not many lure fishing with them.
Does anybody have any experience of using them? I am keen to buy a few and experiment. Hoping to get some in the region of 5-10g, hopefully will be able to insert a small glass rattle so that on a twitched retrieve I can make it 'tick' softly. Also would like to experiment with very light life like imitations that I could drift and 'trot' using bombarda tactics.
Plenty of people are happy using things like crawfish imitations, small and large, so why dont we hear anything of shrimp imitations? Surely if we were to accurately match the hatch by using lures representitive of what the fish are expecting to find and feed on, these lures are massively underused?
I look forward to your thoughts. And if anyone could provide any links to suitable looking lures (especially that one from Nantes in Mikes photos!)