Dorset Spearfishing 2013

[stevenevenage]

I've been considering using weighted underwater lures / baits to attract fish to a kill-zone. Find a nice spot which is easily re-diveable, set up some lures near a nice overhang or blind spot then re-dive until you have attracted some fish.

I've not tried it yet, but I wondered if anyone else does this or has heard of this technique ?

I was thinking of a lure like this [ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lineaeffe-Mackerel-Floating-Minnow-Fishing/dp/B0089EVHSS"]Lineaeffe Green Mackerel Floating Swim Minnow Fishing Lure: Amazon.co.uk: Sports & Outdoors@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/310Fu3rh-eL.@@AMEPARAM@@310Fu3rh-eL[/ame]

Or Sidewinder-Joey-Mackerel-Lure

 

[ickledevil]

Arguably no reason why it wouldn't work if the fish are there, fishermen manage it after all. I have a squidy type lure on the end of my guns.. 99% of the time does nothing other than look pretty but every now and then a bass will fly straight in to it or turn for a better look letting me get a shot.

Oh and small update vis is still zero, but you didn't need me to tell you that I am sure!

 

[speerolee]

Mate, lures will help..but I've been known to chum up the water with 5 loafs of bread mixed with 19-15 mackerel all mashed up then thrown into the designated area....also u have used an onion sack or grab bag filled with fish and a rock tied to line and a marker!! Reckon you will get better results using this method :thumbup:

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[manalive!]

Yeah right....lol
Decide to stay home and take advantage of glibal warming instead mate.View attachment 35394

I stand corrected: stupid southerners!

 

[Highlander]

Mate, lures will help..but I've been known to chum up the water with 5 loafs of bread mixed with 19-15 mackerel all mashed up then thrown into the designated area....also u have used an onion sack or grab bag filled with fish and a rock tied to line and a marker!! Reckon you will get better results using this method :thumbup:

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I like the sound of that.

I may do that & suspend it beneath my considerable safety float & see what happens, maybe get some tinned oily fish & mash it with the bread.

 

[denian]

Jesus boys 5 loaves and 19-15 ? Mackerel that's more than I eat in a year and catch for that matter.!What you after tuna and sharks.!.I do like the idea will try it in the summer with some fish heads and left overs!

 

[speerolee]

Really good for lobsters......but the snakes and dogfish live it too.

I usually do it at night near a reef over sand in the shallows. Make sure u mash it up into tiny partials, place it and give it a really good shake in the tide.

Come back in half hour to check the bag, grab the lobsters....then give it another good shake. Bass are usually down tide of the bag; hunting the millions of sand smelt etc... that you have attracted with the chum trail.

Watch out fir big congers with teeth stuck on the chum bag.

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[ickledevil]

Lol I used to catch eels in freshwater in a very similar method.. Well teeth and bags at least! - hessian/cotton bag filled with hay and a couple of rocks for weight add something stinky and tasty (rabbit insides worked well) drop in the river and leave over night, come back the next day pull it up and find the slimey snakes curled up inside after a nice meal, or occasionally attached to the outside tangled on the bag fibres after they tried to eat through. I do like free food but would eat anything!

 

[Camanche killer]

A lure on the end of your gun may just hold the interest of an inquisitive bass long enough for you to make the shot.

Baiting in a mesh bag with mussels has worked well for me in the past, be sure to choose the right bait for location and targeted fish. I have always been tempted to try with peeler crab in May, June and July when the bass are regathering there strength after spawning, this is prime time for bass to target peeler during the crab's moult, close to the shoreline in a gully would be my favoured location........

Another, possibly the best, method is thee ol faithful bass mating call

 

[scottie3030]

Another, possibly the best, method is thee ol faithful bass mating call [/QUOTE]

Ssshhhhhh! Youve said to much!

 

[stevenevenage]

All sounds good. Looking forward to trying a bag of chum and watching the feeding frenzy!

Once it clears up a bit and I get a chance to get in the water Ill let you know how I get on.

 

[speerolee]

Watch out for them mako sharks......especially out nr portland and outer arms of harbour. They love the chum trail and you will stir uo their fight and bite response

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[Broseidon]

Watch out for them mako sharks......especially out nr portland and outer arms of harbour. They love the chum trail and you will stir uo their fight and bite response

I hate posts like this as I'm never quite sure if you're joking rofl

 

[speerolee]

They are out there mate! And a few Dorset boys can confirm sightings.

But as for an attack.....pretty unlikely, but not impossible.

I always crap myself thinking of mr mako or even a porty porby prod will see me finning to shore as fast as my legs will take me.

Don't know what I would do on a night dive if I ever saw a shark....I did have a starry smooth hound if around 14lb swim right up to me last year; that was bad enough...had a garfish swim into my head on a night dive too.

But the worse thing ive encountered thus far is a dead dog!!!!!!!!! Followed by a dead seal.



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[Camanche killer]

But the worse thing ive encountered thus far is a dead dog!!!!!!!!! Followed by a dead seal.

That must have been one hell of a standoff!

 

[ickledevil]

Lmao, I have preferred my shark encounters much more than a boat encounter, and a dead seal encounter.. And even more thhan one dolphin encounter.. Well it was night and the bloody thing kept swimming against me but never in the torch light.. 'Shudder!'

 

[moomin]

I think I would produce my own chum trail if I had a shark encounter!

 

[misterlizard]

Quick viz report: Michal and I went down to search all the usual backup (windy weather) spots around Weymouth and Portland yesterday evening and found... no viz. Grr. That was a waste of a 70-mile round trip. Ah well. That is only the second time in two years and somewhere around 150 dive trips that that has happened. Still annoying though. There was no viz anywhere, and I'm pretty sure it's not due to the windy weather as I have dived at some of these spots in far worse wind conditions before. I think it must be all the rain clouding it all up.

 

[speerolee]

Yeah....it's driving me mad! I wanted to jump inat least twice a week through the winter; like last year, but we just haven't had the vis.

I am gagging to get out on mud chesil, but don't think there is going to be vis there for a long while.

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[portland spearo]

I also had a look after work, all around the island and its a brown out everywhere. On the plus side the temperature hasn't drop to much (i'm sure it will now I've said that) so we might get a good start to the summer! We can but hope..