Bluemoon Angling Thread

[Saddleworth2]

No, it isn't anything like that cost. The TRD/Squirmz (pieces of rubber) are about £3-4 for a pack of five, and the jig heads are priced similarly.

EDIT - on those links you get 8 lures for a fiver and 5 jig heads for £5.99.

My mistake. I see there are multiples in a pack, sorry. So they will work out a couple of quid each. So I’m assuming the two pieces just fit together. What is the piece of metal protruding from the hook shaft for?

 

[Didsbury Dave]

My mistake. I see there are multiples in a pack, sorry. So they will work out a couple of quid each. So I’m assuming the two pieces just fit together. What is the piece of metal protruding from the hook shaft for?

Yes and if you shop around you could probably half that using other manufacturers. You're paying for the brand here.

The little piece of metal holds the rubber firm and flush up to the base of the mushroom head. Without it it would slip down the hook through water resistance.

 

[Newman Noggs]

Just sitting watching yesterdays Winter watch with jaw dropped. There is a little article filming trout in Rutland Water attacking a bait ball of roach and perch. Fantastic. All filmed within feet of the boat jetty.

My mate fished Rutland recently and sent me Whatsapp footage of that phenomenon.

 

[Saddleworth2]

My mate fished Rutland recently and sent me Whatsapp footage of that phenomenon.

The guy actually donned diving gear to film it. Drone footage showed the size and density of the bait ball along with the brownies and bows attacking it. Some of them looked 5/6 Ib. I cant wait to get back. Our annual match vs an English Bank is planned for Pitsford in October this year. Around the time the Brownies start fry bashing :-)

 

[Didsbury Dave]

The guy actually donned diving gear to film it. Drone footage showed the size and density of the bait ball along with the brownies and bows attacking it. Some of them looked 5/6 Ib. I cant wait to get back. Our annual match vs an English Bank is planned for Pitsford in October this year. Around the time the Brownies start fry bashing :-)

There's one of my Facebook friends regularly refers to an annual Wales v England fly fishing match between mates. I've never paid much attention but there's always banter which I don't really read. It's not the same thing is it?

 

[Saddleworth2]

Yes and if you shop around you could probably half that using other manufacturers. You're paying for the brand here.

The little piece of metal holds the rubber firm and flush up to the base of the mushroom head. Without it it would slip down the hook through water resistance.

Thanks. Will give it a shot for sure. I have my own home made rig for that type of fishing that goes like this:

I cut three feet from an old Di7 line (thats one that sinks fast), attached two floro droppers to both ends and another short piece of floro which attaches it to the main fly line which would also be Di7.

Then you can attach a couple of boobies (boyant flies with foam eyes to the two droppers). Cast the whole rig out as far as you can and let it sink to the bottom and settle. Then a slow retrieve will have the boobies swimming about 3 inches above the loch bed and most importantly above all the dead leaves and detritus that accumulate there. The flies will be seen by trout that are pretty much sitting on the bed of the loch as well. When conditions are right its deadly. I used it a couple of seasons ago on a bitter march day and my boat partner blanked and I had 15 trout, all with little leeches on their bellies which proved how hard to the bottom they were. My partner couldn't replicate it because despite the fact he was using a di7, he couldn't keep his flies just above the loch bed.

 

[yerwot?]

Spent a whole day at the old King Dome in Seattle walking round a tackle expo. Saw about half of it,
90% bass with the rest game fish tackle.
Carp are actively culled, with bows and arrows etc. in fact in most places it is illegal to return them.
My cousin's set-up cost many thousands, 4wheel trailer, boat, Lorance fishfinder dozen rods and reels, boxes of lures, troll motor, outboard 150 hp 4stroke outboard and the 100 dollar tournament fee plus the bookie bets. Books and mags and even charts on the phases of the moon ? It truly is a different world...

 

[Saddleworth2]

Spent a whole day at the old King Dome in Seattle walking round a tackle expo. Saw about half of it,
90% bass with the rest game fish tackle.
Carp are actively culled, with bows and arrows etc. in fact in most places it is illegal to return them.
My cousin's set-up cost many thousands, 4wheel trailer, boat, Lorance fishfinder dozen rods and reels, boxes of lures, troll motor, outboard 150 hp 4stroke outboard and the 100 dollar tournament fee plus the bookie bets. Books and mags and even charts on the phases of the moon ? It truly is a different world...

I love the programmes on pro bass fishing. Those boats are something else.

 

[Sir peace frog]

Yeah, Squirmz are the same. As you say, just tickled along the bottom with long pauses.

they move pretty well through the water on a slow retrieve , haha, all the gear no idea :)

 

[Saddleworth2]

There's one of my Facebook friends regularly refers to an annual Wales v England fly fishing match between mates. I've never paid much attention but there's always banter which I don't really read. It's not the same thing is it?

No mate this is a Scottish Bank vs English Bank. This years will be the 44th match - we fish one year in Scotland, one year in England. We even managed to hold it safely last year.

Thinking about that rig. I read it has a 5g tungsten head which is a bit heavy to cast with a fly rod - possible but I'm not partial to a bullet to the back of my head! Love the idea of the boyant rubber though, think I will just buy that and see what I can concoct with my own tungsten beads. Thanks for mentioning it.