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Last night a few of us ended up at Bonne Nuit again. Jamo, Ritchie, Callum, Gary and myself. Dougie Ward turned up for a chat but not alot happening really.
Ritchie and Callum had previously done Rozel and had 5 fish I believe. Bonne Nuit was much quieter.
Jamo was first in...
Quite a nice fish taken on a cut down megabass hazedong.
I was testing one of the new £25 carbo star rods from MrFish and through the evening tried 1g thru various metals. I also tried a small 'spinnerbait' as seen in the picture (below).
This fish was about 1.5lb. The rod was well BENT, right through to the handle and i was using 4lb straight through FC line. Fight was awesome. So, we know it can handle the bonus fish. However, it's a rod for LRF scratching on Pout, smaller Pollack, Gobies etc.. Very sensitive and casts the weight range well. Has little reserve backbone but won this hard fighting Pollack over.
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Ritchie was playing with his new 'tool' the Sakura 'Rookie'. He was next int a fish.
As the evening drew on and the tide continued to drop, the guys drifted away. Gary was the last guy to say goodbye and I'd been playing with my newly learned Japanese Eging techniques using my new Daiwa Eging rod and Egi's. I opened a bottle of drink as Gary left, with the rod leaning against the railings.
Half way through the drink the rod keeled over...JEEEEZ !!
What was that.
I decided to continue with the Eging for 10 minutes.
I used a single stroke and a double (1 long and 1 following short tap). IKA !
Nice one and a first on my new Eging rod, the action of which is 'completely' different to that of a fishing rod imho. It is stiff enough to really JERK the Egi in fast aggressive moves yet leans over into what were Squid of around a 1.5lb to a Kilo in weight.
Yamashita Egi and another lovely Ika (Squid) Call em what you will, this was Eging, not traditional jigging.
They just kept coming but, to the 'double stroke'. Strange but true. After the stroke, within 30 seconds the line would tighten and away we went. Just casting and leaving it didn't get takes within that time frame and single stroke was similar although i did get 2 Squid using it.
Thinking it was purely the Yamashita Egi doing the damage I swapped out to size 4.0 Egi. One of the 'Pheromone Skin' ones Mick sells. Here we go again. Same double stroke result. Hardly any water now and I'm battering Ika's and can see them swimming around.
Nice sized Squid all. Here is a shot with the camera on a self timer. Note the squid 'butt hooked'. In Japanese DVD's, they butt hook the Squid they don't wish to keep and lower them back. Dropping them in kills them. However, a light nick in the tail, lower them back and once in the water, they are away. I kept a few to eat but returned nearly all of the 11 i caught in less than an hour of frantic Eging. Mental sport, seriously mental.
Ritchie and Callum had previously done Rozel and had 5 fish I believe. Bonne Nuit was much quieter.
Jamo was first in...

Quite a nice fish taken on a cut down megabass hazedong.

I was testing one of the new £25 carbo star rods from MrFish and through the evening tried 1g thru various metals. I also tried a small 'spinnerbait' as seen in the picture (below).
This fish was about 1.5lb. The rod was well BENT, right through to the handle and i was using 4lb straight through FC line. Fight was awesome. So, we know it can handle the bonus fish. However, it's a rod for LRF scratching on Pout, smaller Pollack, Gobies etc.. Very sensitive and casts the weight range well. Has little reserve backbone but won this hard fighting Pollack over.

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Ritchie was playing with his new 'tool' the Sakura 'Rookie'. He was next int a fish.
As the evening drew on and the tide continued to drop, the guys drifted away. Gary was the last guy to say goodbye and I'd been playing with my newly learned Japanese Eging techniques using my new Daiwa Eging rod and Egi's. I opened a bottle of drink as Gary left, with the rod leaning against the railings.
Half way through the drink the rod keeled over...JEEEEZ !!
What was that.
I decided to continue with the Eging for 10 minutes.
I used a single stroke and a double (1 long and 1 following short tap). IKA !

Nice one and a first on my new Eging rod, the action of which is 'completely' different to that of a fishing rod imho. It is stiff enough to really JERK the Egi in fast aggressive moves yet leans over into what were Squid of around a 1.5lb to a Kilo in weight.

Yamashita Egi and another lovely Ika (Squid) Call em what you will, this was Eging, not traditional jigging.

They just kept coming but, to the 'double stroke'. Strange but true. After the stroke, within 30 seconds the line would tighten and away we went. Just casting and leaving it didn't get takes within that time frame and single stroke was similar although i did get 2 Squid using it.

Thinking it was purely the Yamashita Egi doing the damage I swapped out to size 4.0 Egi. One of the 'Pheromone Skin' ones Mick sells. Here we go again. Same double stroke result. Hardly any water now and I'm battering Ika's and can see them swimming around.

Nice sized Squid all. Here is a shot with the camera on a self timer. Note the squid 'butt hooked'. In Japanese DVD's, they butt hook the Squid they don't wish to keep and lower them back. Dropping them in kills them. However, a light nick in the tail, lower them back and once in the water, they are away. I kept a few to eat but returned nearly all of the 11 i caught in less than an hour of frantic Eging. Mental sport, seriously mental.