Slide plugging the races, rips and gutters.

I don't know if this has ever been covered before.
It is a trick I devised many years ago after talking to the slide baiters
from Hawaii on my casting forum.

We have limited casting range as plug anglers.

I've got headland races a plenty here. the water pumps though em.
This though, just doesn't work on the races, it works in shallow gutters.

It is not a purist method but, it is plugging or lure fishing.

What I'm talking about is slide plugging these races, rips and gutters.

We use 2 rods, 1 X Beachcaster, 1 X plug rod, 1 X clip.
It is like down-rigging in some respects, slide bait in another.

You need to a plug that pulls but, not one that wobbles over violently.
I use alot of older plugs for the method, or did when I fished the method
quite a bit.

You cast a decent weight, i use 200 or 225g in really heavy tide with a leader of 80lb.
15lb line is good as a mainline. I use Sakuma nite crystal at 0.35mm mostly as it is easy to see.

Always cast you sinker way down tide but at varying angles. What you need is a line
to your sinker without any bow that will trap your plug as it pulls itself down and along.

Plain sinker casts in excess of 150 meters are possible on some marks. Others, much more
IF you can get the footing.

What you do next is a whole subject on its own.

Are you guys interested in this as I fear many won't see it as 'pure'.
It is a combined method and I make no excuses for it as such.

However, your plug running across and away from you over a gutter is a sight
to behold. It looks to me, like a fish struggling to make it out of the main current
and heading in to the safety of the edge. You can, with a little practice cover alot of water
with the method in ways just not possible with conventional means.

It might need drawings etc to show this stuff in detail so let me know..