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As the title says I wasnt going to bother mentioning this but hey its relavent. I took one of my reps out on friday on the boat with a few rods and an assortment of soft lures. There was simply nothing about, I mean we were trying for wrasse in the normal places but it was simply a waste of time.
We headed back after only fluking one nice pollack on a tiny paddle tail and a 5g jighead, the fish was about 2lb but must have been starving and lost where we caught it. Anyway on the way into the harbour it was so clear we could see a shoal of tiny pollack on the bottom.
So there we are, lrf gear out, one SSG split shot on, 4ft of 6lb flurocarbon with 1inch rubber wax worms on a size 8 hook. Two minutes later we are in to the first of maybe half a dozen 8oz pollack. Moral of the story though, we would have no way caught those fish on any other method of lure really, I mean we did try on 5g jig heads with 3inch paddle tails, but it wasnt until Mark (a big fly angler) scaled right down that we started to catch.
Oh how things have changed since the autumn.....
We headed back after only fluking one nice pollack on a tiny paddle tail and a 5g jighead, the fish was about 2lb but must have been starving and lost where we caught it. Anyway on the way into the harbour it was so clear we could see a shoal of tiny pollack on the bottom.
So there we are, lrf gear out, one SSG split shot on, 4ft of 6lb flurocarbon with 1inch rubber wax worms on a size 8 hook. Two minutes later we are in to the first of maybe half a dozen 8oz pollack. Moral of the story though, we would have no way caught those fish on any other method of lure really, I mean we did try on 5g jig heads with 3inch paddle tails, but it wasnt until Mark (a big fly angler) scaled right down that we started to catch.
Oh how things have changed since the autumn.....