This is just a brief post as it’s been a long day but to say it was spectacular is an understatement, the weather fantastic, the sea state calm to slight and the fish well !!
What was a bassing session ended up a species session too, over 50 plus bass, bream, brill, place, makerel, cod and red gurnard. This thread is worthless without video so just to confirm what I have written the video will be up soon.
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Time to make a decision list of what I want to take with me Friday to use if we can’t get fresh live sandeels or joey mackerel, First choice are the Killies these come in two colours and resemble the sand eel well plus the tail action is very realisitic especeialy on the up jig and a quick drop gives that injured eel feel Killie Colours, plus they usually do the trick if other lures fall flat. Another advantage of all our softbaits they are all pre-hooked which make it easy to quick rig them especially with our Lumi Traces.
Next choice will be our Latex Eels also pre-hooked with fine wire hooks and I have used these before with success so they’re in the bag. Assorted sizes and colours of Shads ready to fish out of the bag with a lumi tube on the trace. I like these in fast tides as they’re un-weighted so perfom well on a drift when worked on the 20 up and down method, especially on a fast drop, had more bass on the drop than the up wind.
Raging rattling shads sound crazy don’t they and they are I just love these and they perform well as an alternative to the eels or killies. Side vibes, vibrating heads and they get a real wiggle on too, sounds like a sex toy doesn’t it and they are to fish, had some great cod and pollack catches on these so see how they perform with the bass. Again will be using a Lumi Trace good thing you can pull the lumi tube out of the trace quickly so try both options. That will do for starters so roll on Friday.
I saw an article that Tuna have been taken off Portland by some spear fisherman and there where pictures so perhaps it’s true BUT !! as I’m off Portland on Friday here’s hoping just watch this movie of a monster Tuna taken off New Zealand. Sent to me by a fishing friend just to pull my string, hope one of these do. Get the chips ready !!!
Fishing off Portland Races trip is getting closer and time to get the tackle ready as the weather forecast looks really good wind SSE force 2-3. New rods here ready to trial an upgraded Xtra Flexx boat and a Charter boat rod, both cheap as chips rods so going to see if I can break them as the Xtra Flexx is supposed to be unbreakable
Had one of the Xtra Flexx from when they where launched and this later version has more heavy lift characteristics I have been told so it can only get better as it was good before. The Charter boat rod again low budget rod in the 15-30lb class so a good range rod. I was going to run with my CA30L reel but new stock of the Vantage 300 reel has arrived so going with one of them see what happens plus a Chieftain 45 reel another low cost reel to try and blitz. Haven’t sorted softbaits yet will post on those later.
The page for details on how to fish articles has been updated with a new video and information on the interlock swivels a useful piece of terminal tackle to have in your bag. The video is in 720p HD and you can play it full screen and the quality for flash HD is pretty good.
You will see details of the interlock swivels and how to attach them to your trace using the half blood knot tucked which I use for pretty near all my hook, swivel and trace attachments. See the How To Fish link above to visit the page.
Well we already have a few How To Fish articles in it’s own page and new ones are in progress. Now the movies are designed for the newby anglers and perhaps some experienced fishermen may pick up a different technique. But experienced anglers must also appreciate these are my takes on fishing and how I do it so they may not agree with them, but with new guys just taking up fishing then it’s somewhere to start and see some rig making options.
I am also going to be getting new footage when out on the charter boats of the different techniques that are used in boat fishing so there will be lots to see in the updates on this blog. Bookmark the permalinks or subsribe using our RSS feed and get the updates as they happen.
Roll on the 30th Sept booked on the Katie Anne out of Weymouth for a bassing trip and possibly a few drifts on the Shambles bank see if the Turbot and plaice are about. Early weather forcast looks fantastic may even have to break the sun cream out too.
Couple of new rods and reels to check out too see how they perform and the new HD video camera will be getting an airing too. So hopefully there should be some nice bass ready to vac pack into the freezer and some useful video action and reporting back on a couple of boat rods and multiplier reels ready for next weeks blog updates.
Portland races are usually difficult to fish as it can get quite bumpy if the conditions are not in balance but from what I can see even that should not be an issue and the tide is just right to bring the bass on the feed. May be live sandeels about, if not plenty of softbait lures will be in my tackle bag, have to wait and see what Paul the skipper suggests to rig with. Last time I fished the races we had about three hours of non stop bass coming on the boat and some good double figure fish.
Most went back and we just took enough to have some good bass dinners and it is a fine fish for eating but best to look at taking low figure fish 5-7lb as they’re tastier and the flesh more subtle. So early start Friday morning but hopefully will drive into Weymouth catch the sunrise, crack a full english and then steam out off Portland and look out Billy Bass here I come !
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Product Description: Strong O’Shaughnessy hooks tied to super strong ultra abrasive resistant mono, trace is 1.5metres approximately and terminates with a double surgeons loop and a 1/0 interlock swivel is fitted to easy attachment to your main line/leader. All traces are supplied in their own resealable waterproof bags.
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