Yellow Patchinko

Day Off

Had a day off today, so did my good mate and partner in fishing crime Cian, so plans where made, reels rinsed, lures picked and boxed, vans packed and hope where high. It was the first day of the bigger tides, we had a westerly that was gradually shifting south west and some sunshine. It looked good for a few fish. We where hitting a new mark so excitement was running high we knew this was capable of producing some awesome fishing. I had the trusty red rod as did Cian with a fly rod packed on his back. We got out to the water and Cian pointed and said bass attack, one flick of the red beauty and my yellow patchinko was in the thick of feeding fish, bang fish on, then drooped the beat of a heart and bang another fish on, unbelievable. Fish caught photographed and released un-harmed, then Cian got the fly rod out. I think he made four casts before I heard a yelp and saw his rod buckle over into another fine Irish bass. All in all a class days fishing, what a way to spend time with your mates. In total we had twelve this morning with no fish under 3lb and the biggest about 6lb. All my fish where taken on the yellow patchinko a truly awesome surface lure, Cian had one on the fly and the rest on the Feed Shallow another absolute dynamite lure. Both these lures are currently in stock so drop me a line or give me a ring on 087 7403445.

Patrick

Xlayer Gurnard!

Here is something you don't see every day! I caught this on an xlayer, I have caught lots of Gurnard over the years but this is a first on a Lure! Absolutely delighted with it! The challenge may be to find a fish that wont take the xalyer. So far that is bass, wrasse, mullet, sea trout and Gurnard! Not bad for a bit of high-tec plastic.

Bass & Gurnard??????

So myself and Pauley Big Fish as he is now affectionately known headed out this morning to catch the ebbing tide. Water was nice and clear weed died off a bit with a slight westerly, reasonably warm, it felt right despite the small tide! We had some fantastic sport taking twelve fish in a hour and a half including a double hook pictured. All fish fell once again to the sinking tide minnow, then home for a feed of Rashers! Life is good! Tight Lines!

Patrick

Hazedong & Xlayer

So a quick look at some soft palstics that have just come into stock the new Hazedong and the old trust worthy Xlayer. Both palstics are rigged on the bachi head which is the ultimate head for finesse plastic fishing. Really to appreciate just how good these baits are you hae to see them in the water, whilst in jersey myself Cian and Paul where messing about on the dock with a Haze dong on an off set weighted texposer head some small pollock decided they wanted to make friendly with it, unbelievable, they have a fluid subtle motion in the water that is incredibly life like. The French lads swear by these when the bass refuse the Xlayer, if the last couple of weeks have reaffirmed anything for me it is that bass are not always switched on, we saw numbers and i mean numbers of fish over the last big tide but they would not hit our lures whilst on a certain mark. It is at times like this that an ultra realistic bait like the Hazeong would come into it's own.

Having done a lot of fly fishing over the years this new finesse plastic fishing is as close as it gets to fly fishing, the lure presentation is so similar. Indeed it seems that in France there is a huge crossover between fly guys who have gotten into and been completely turned on by finesse plastic fishing. There is a whole range of specialist kit for this type of fishing, I am waiting for the new Injection rods to arrive, not so patiently I might add. I am ridiculously over excited about them at this stage and not sure how much more I can stand. Can you imagine hooking a 6lb bass in shallow water on a 7 2" rod with 15lb braid and 2500 twin power, now that's fishing!

This type of fishing however is available to all lure anglers whilst the above kit might add to the experience and lend itself to better presentation it is not essential, in fact I watched Mr G Hill fish plastics all last winter on a Red Dragon and Hammer some stonking big bass I might add.

Catch & Release

Here is one of Paul looking after his latest capture. It would never enter any of our minds to hram these beautiful creatures. We return them back to the sea to live and fingers crossed fight another day. What a fish for july once again well done Pauley on a cracking result.

Another Clonker

Here is the fish described below, I know this is Paul's best bass to date indeed this is a fish of a life time by anyone's standrads. An absolute cracker, well done again Paul, I know no one who has worked harder to get results.