Cool little Ruffe caught on a tiny, pink creature bait. Good one to tick off.
Soft Plastic Lures
The choice in small, soft plastic lures suitable for LRF and light lure fishing is immense. Take your pick from shads and paddle tails, darting lures, pin tails, worms and creature baits. All in every conceivable colour. If you are looking for inspiration, browse through the dozens of posts that feature my successful soft-plastics and the many varied catches made.
Horse Mackerel at Weymouth
Great little session with Chris Wheeler in Weymouth on Saturday night. Wind dropped away to nothing for a couple of hours around midnight and we were able to fish delicate Aji-type lures on jigheads, using the curve fall method, on-the-drop (OTD). We picked up the desired Horse Mackerel (Scad), Mackerel and some decent sized Pollack, plus the odd tiny Whiting caught well off the bottom. Really enjoyed it.
Every Fish A Predator
Deep in summer, when the numbers of baitfish build, put down the Isome, match-the-hatch, and you’ll be surprised what species go full-predator!
Doiyo Blaze Micro Craw & Rabbit Craw
Something new (I think) and very cool. Check out these micro creature baits that we found in Holland!
Night Games at West Bay
Saturday night saw me hatching a plan to administer a Flounder smackdown. Wedged between my Lulworth wrasse-a-thon in the morning and the Bristol BLAC qualifier the next day, I settled on West Bay, in Dorset.
20 Wrasse Before Breakfast
Has to be one my favourite venues. 20 Ballan Wrasse to LRF tactics before a fried breakfast in the sun. Simple Texas rig. Fished my favourite, Bug Ants, the super effective Lunker City Ribster and the world’s most expensive wrasse snacks – 2″ One Up Shads!
Reins Aji Nyoro
One of the highlights from Saturday’s session at Swanage Pier was catching on the new Reins Aji Nyoro lure. New for the 2015 French Touch Fishing catalogue, the Aji Nyoro is a tiny 50mm eel replica. There’s a huge amount of tiny sandeel around at the moment and the Nyoro is the perfect lure to match the hatch.
Lure Caught Gudgeon
One of two lure caught Gudgeon I had in the GUC BLAC qualifier on Sunday (Report to follow)