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OK, this was touched upon on the other forum I think??
I have been using all sorts of SP's lately with some success, mostly pollack unfortunately but had a bass of 3-5-12 as my first fish on a weightless SP. Pollack on the stuff with leadheads.
The issue I have is the style I like to fish (veeery slow and occasional twitch like a real fish) and the areas in which I fish which they tend not to be all that deep, max 20ft I guess but often just 8ft in places but that's not the top of weed which is at 5ft or so (though its dying back now).
Anyway, I have tried several types of SP, spindle worms, hazedong Magnums, Xlayers, but my fav is the Pafex Sagat and Samara which look like little grasdos/roselet/smelt.
With that lure, in fact with all of them, they sink fairly fast (1ft/sec approx ?) just weightless rigged weedless style.
I feel that if I could get the lure to suspend at a foot or 2 or even in the surface film, I would have more success, especially when it comes to weedy bays where the bass are hunting roselet between the weed beds. I have watched roselet behaviour several times and 90% of their lives seems to be sitting there, hoizontal, not moving with just an occasional movement of the tail to re-align themselves with the tide I guess or change the direction they are facing.
Now suspending hard baits have had great coverage and they normally have the problem of being too buoyant and *fairly* easy to adjust with extra weight etc, this is the other way round in my fishing with SP's, they sink too much. It's Ok on the deeper tide swept marks but not on the shallow rocky weedy bays where I want to have a lifelike roselet on the end of my line which I can make react like a roselet. It's not about attracting the bass in, it's about making it take when it is seen. I know the bass are there, they hunt methodically through the shallows, between the weed, hanging deep and I have been lucky enough to see several attacks on completely stationary roselet which have done nothing at all to attract the bass other than being in the "wrong" place at the "wrong" time.
I want to imitate this by making my SP's more buoyant so I can have a play.
So what can people suggest I do to make an SP more buoyant, the hook is what it is, 2/0 and 3/0 is the right size for the lure, can't do much to make it lighter so I need to shove something up the lures behind?? What can I use? Finding something sinking is fine but what about something to make a lure float more??
Any ideas chaps?? A wonder tound the tackle shop found all sorts of booby beads and bubble floats and polystyrene white float things to float bait up but nothing I thought would work here.
Cheers all!!
I have been using all sorts of SP's lately with some success, mostly pollack unfortunately but had a bass of 3-5-12 as my first fish on a weightless SP. Pollack on the stuff with leadheads.
The issue I have is the style I like to fish (veeery slow and occasional twitch like a real fish) and the areas in which I fish which they tend not to be all that deep, max 20ft I guess but often just 8ft in places but that's not the top of weed which is at 5ft or so (though its dying back now).
Anyway, I have tried several types of SP, spindle worms, hazedong Magnums, Xlayers, but my fav is the Pafex Sagat and Samara which look like little grasdos/roselet/smelt.
With that lure, in fact with all of them, they sink fairly fast (1ft/sec approx ?) just weightless rigged weedless style.
I feel that if I could get the lure to suspend at a foot or 2 or even in the surface film, I would have more success, especially when it comes to weedy bays where the bass are hunting roselet between the weed beds. I have watched roselet behaviour several times and 90% of their lives seems to be sitting there, hoizontal, not moving with just an occasional movement of the tail to re-align themselves with the tide I guess or change the direction they are facing.
Now suspending hard baits have had great coverage and they normally have the problem of being too buoyant and *fairly* easy to adjust with extra weight etc, this is the other way round in my fishing with SP's, they sink too much. It's Ok on the deeper tide swept marks but not on the shallow rocky weedy bays where I want to have a lifelike roselet on the end of my line which I can make react like a roselet. It's not about attracting the bass in, it's about making it take when it is seen. I know the bass are there, they hunt methodically through the shallows, between the weed, hanging deep and I have been lucky enough to see several attacks on completely stationary roselet which have done nothing at all to attract the bass other than being in the "wrong" place at the "wrong" time.
I want to imitate this by making my SP's more buoyant so I can have a play.
So what can people suggest I do to make an SP more buoyant, the hook is what it is, 2/0 and 3/0 is the right size for the lure, can't do much to make it lighter so I need to shove something up the lures behind?? What can I use? Finding something sinking is fine but what about something to make a lure float more??
Any ideas chaps?? A wonder tound the tackle shop found all sorts of booby beads and bubble floats and polystyrene white float things to float bait up but nothing I thought would work here.
Cheers all!!
