Catch of the day [Fishing]
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It's blowing an absolute hoolie out there today, but I think I will go down to where I caught yesterday, so see what gives....I think the wind should be behind me at that particular mark...
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My go-to rod in the creeks around here is:
https://yamaga-blanks.com/early-plus-92xml-combined/?lang=en
I use this for open beach fishing:
https://yamaga-blanks.com/ballistick-102mh-tznano/?lang=en
I pair the 92 with a 3000 size reel and the 102 with a 4000.
PE2 mainline and 18lb Fluoro leader.
Baits:
Soft plastics for weedy snaggy waters, my fave being :
https://www.highstreettackle.co.uk/megabass-spindle-worm-5-inch-2359-p.asp
But needless to say, I have bzillions in different colours/lengths. I'll use different weight belly weighted hooks depending on how deep the water is and where I want to fish in the water column.
Top water, I use loads, but this is always with me:
Mid-water hards, I have loads depending on where in the column I want to fish. But I use a variety of these and other brands:
https://www.megabass.co.jp/site/saltwater/sw_lure/
And I'm slowly getting into creature baits, like these:
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Good stuff Giles! Always fun when you get to use different gear and methods. Not so good for the inner tackle junkie though.. I'm a big fan of Megabass as well, I use their soft plastics and jerkbaits all the time.
I've been on a chatterbait bite for roughly a month, but the water is getting colder pretty fast now and the grass is dying off.
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Just sorting out some of my fly fishing gear. Found a few boxes of nymphs that a good friend tied decades ago. The only reason I got them was because he thought they were not good enough for his box
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Not a fisherman myself so amazed to see these handcrafted beauties. How long does it take an expert like to your friendo to make one of these? He must be 700 years old if he tied all those together, and they are only his rejects.
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Here some of his "Grade 1" dry flies....I have 100's of his "Grade 2's"....
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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Very, very cool handiwork.
Whoever gets into making them will fill up his home with all sorts of different stuff (strings, nylons, beads…..and on and on) to imitate the myriad insects flying around water bodies. -
It's been built to access MoD (US = DoD) owned, and very restricted foreshore, the alternative is a 2 mile walk/scramble/wade. It is surprising stable.
When my mate got back to his bike after fishing, some local shits had slashed his tyres. I told him to add it to the "fast access pile"....
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@Giles misunderstood the purpose…our local shits have an affinity of pushing shopping carts (trolleys?) into the local waterways for no good reason. Thankfully, they are too busy doing so, to spend time on slashing tires.
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@goosehd said in Catch of the day [Fishing]:
pushing shopping carts (trolleys?) into the local waterways
That's how they got there, it is the repurposing that I like......
