New Lures

Have lots of smashing new lures in stock lads check them out on the link on the right hand side to the lure store.

Patrick

Week Ahead

So really looking forward to the week ahead, the posse from England will soon be en-route to Ireland and there should be some serious fun had by all. The forecast is not great but the Met have been wrong before and I always have a trick or two up my sleeve no matter what the wind is doing. Mr Henry Gilbey,his and our good friend Andy Bignel, Mr G Hill and family are all coming over for some serious bassing over the next week. So safe journey guys we are really looking forward to seeing you lads again and thrashing up and down the rocks chasing Irish silver even if the weather is a bit wild. Our last days summer rock fishing together was a truly awesome day out, it was wild, wet and filled with big bass on light gear what more could a man ask for. Oh and last but nort least Jess henry's dog who usually dose a better job on the rocks than any of us. One of my fond memories of jess is her swimming past me on the way out to a sand bar up to the top of our boots, sometimes she just has the advantage on us there is no doubt. Cant wait men, quality!

The Lure Store "New Lure Blog"

Guys I have added a link to a new blog where you will be able to see some pics of the plugs I have in stock. It is under the blogs I am following section on the right hand side. I will be adding to this as the weeks go by. It is just a stop gap measure whilst my web site is under construction but it should help you in making your selection. You can then contact me by phone or e mail and I Will send you out a paypal request for whatever you choose. Thanks guys and tight lines.

Patrick

One Happy Customer.

Love this picture think it says it all about plugging for Bass. Once again as always, fish where returned un-harmed to the sea.

Zonk Gateride

OK so I have been talking to one or two people about new lures what's hot and what's not etc! And they where making a fuss about the Zonk Gateride and the new special lip. Well I'm not one for gimmicks but always have some faith in Megabass and I know the japanesse guys love this lure for their bass fishing. So really gave it a go this morning, I was guiding so I don't really fish very much at all when I am working i try to focus on my clients and get them fishing the marks, gullies, holes etc. So I was demonstrating casting over the gully with the Gateride on and bang hooked a stinker of a fish which turned and was gone. Recast the lure just to see was I right about the action on this thing and by god I was. I could be wrong but I think this lure is going to out fish everything else in it's class by a long shot.

So yes the bib is fussy and probably prone to breaking but hey if it nails fish like that then I for one don't really give a damn. Imagine the action of a diving lure that thunk thunk thunk on the rod tip but your lure is in the top three feet of water and you are close to what this lure does.

Time will tell and i need to fish it a lot more but I reckon this one is an out right bass buster! Had a call from a friend Pat this morning who just bought a red dragon and took it out first trip today. He hammered fish on a local mark, what a way to christen the new red rod! Well done Pat and I hope it brings you years of pleasure, I have yet to meet a more enthusiastic character! Quality!

Plastic Fishing

Had a few this morning on the plastics! Fishing a mark with a serious rip of current and it looked like there should be some fish there but I was having no success. I pulled back a bit from the water to try and read the flow. There was a sand bar with a gully dug out behind it by the current a perfect spot for Bass to hide in wait for prey! So up with the 6" mother worm in shrimp cast across the current drop the rod tip and let it bang back through the rip. Touch fishing as it goes, pluck pluck then bang lift into a nice fish about 3 lb. I repeated this five times over the next hour and them it was time for home. All in all a great mornings fishing and without doubt had I not had the plastics I would have come home fish-less. Best fish this morning was about 4.5lb not nad considering the fishing is tough at the minute with the un-settled weather.

125 Sld

Have a look at this little peach, it's 125mm long, slim profile weighs just 14.5g and is slow floating. Slow floating means that once you jerk it then it slowly floats up to the surface inducing a Bass to hit it. The reason I got this into stock is that a whole stretch of coast that I fish is subject to murky, milky water conditions and I hoped this might be far more visible to the fish. The good news is that it is not just working for me but for a number of people I sold one to. I find this colour so good that I have order several other Tide Minnows in the same pattern, including the 145 Sld and the 90S.