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Originally Posted by miles
...Mr.X, it seems as if you've already started a lure collection!!! ...You'll soon end up with a tackle box FULL of very expensive lures!! If i was restricted to ONE colour, it would most definitely be a RED HEAD. Thats a rapala with a white body and a red head...
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Yes, I have got enough plug/rapala type lures now, including a couple of variations on the white body-red head theme (one made in SA! Real solid, with a long metal lip
). Mind you, I'll be in trouble if I hook a fish the size you guys get though, Miles! (Do you have any of those huge squid lures?) Glad to hear that you are using the red-heads, it crossed my mind that they might be primarily intended for Pike.
I should probably sell some off some lures but will experiment a little first -- although I suspect finding the fish will be more important than chosing a lure. I might get some cheap Toby's (saw several nice sets of 5 for £3 at the Gamefair, various sizes & weights, & in "bass bullet"-style...which are often expensive) & a couple more small Eddystone eels. I was expecting to loose more gear than I have recently. Still, plenty of time for that on holiday!
BTW does anyone bother adding extra weight (to cast further) when using Rapala-style lures?
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Originally Posted by miles
...Some hints on bait. Fresh bait is ALWAYS better than old bait!!
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The exception that proves the rule: an old friend told me recently his brother caught a huge bass (14lb?) fishing with him one night...on the oldest most festering bait he had ever seen. A lot of land animals like rotten meat because the bacteria have done some of the digestive work for them...and the smell is hard to ignore!
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Originally Posted by miles
...When using squid/calamari or octopus, always bash it with a tenderising hammer. The softer you can get it, the better it will work. Always use squid that is pure white in colour. When they start becoming pinkish, its time to discard the bait. I don't know whether you guys catch your own squid, but we do, and we have a special way of storing them. Firstly, wash them off in clean salt water. Dry off with paper towels. Wrap EACH squid in a sheet of newspaper. Put 5 wrapped squid in a plastic bag, and freeze. If you go fishing, take only how many bags you'll need. After a trip, your left over squid would most likely have thawed. Now you'll have to remove them from the newspaper. Simply pull off the tentacles, the insides will also be ripped out. Remove the plastic peice that is still inside the squid. Now remove the skin, by simply pulling off the small little wings on the top of the squid. Wash in salt water and wrap up again in newspaper. I've kept squid like this for over a year and it still looks VERY FRESH!!
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Sounds like squid & rag worm are the baits of choice. If I caught a squid, it would be served for dinner...so I may need to take Foxfish's advice & visit the freezer section for bait.
BTW anybody watching the series on trawlers (7pm Mon, Tues,... on, maybe BBC?) -- pretty interesting. £1.5m loans on the boats focuses the mind. Weathering out force 10 gales looks pretty grim. Makes you wonder how tough it was in the old days.
