2010 Lure failures
May 17, 2011 20:31:31 GMT -1
Post by bedhead on May 17, 2011 20:31:31 GMT -1
Thurso
Yeah I do ok
The only drawback with weedless rigging and this is not restricted to just large mouth fish is that hook point is going to be flush with the lure or if the point is "skinned" (ie just the point is pushed a couple of mil into the lure) This means that the fish has to bite down on the lure before it makes contact with the hook.
With bass the fact that the lure is a supple soft plastic, and he is has gone in and aggressively malleted it means you don't really have a problem most of the time hook up wise. Wrasse on the other hand are more territorial and can be less committal and tend to nibble more and aren't as easy to hook, but then again they are more plentiful than bass so its not really a problem.
Loss wise it really depends, not just on your rigging, but also your rod, braid and technique. With a rod with a nice supple fast action tip and a decent braid you can really feel your way around the seabed. after a while you get attuned to the feedback you get from some of the worst areas, so a sharp flick of the wrist and you can jump the lure through it.
You will lose tackle tho even when weedless no doubt about that. Almost always its the weights getting wedges between rocks not hooks in weed/kelp etc. Still no where near the amounts of tackle you would loose if you were fishing conventionally.
Thats one of the good things about fishing with soft plastics in my experience that is the amount of flexibility you have with what you can chuck out there and how you present it. And the tackle is not as expensive as you think if you now where to look ;-)
www.agmdiscountfishing.co.uk/index.php
How to present it
www.thereheis.us/rigging-tips.html
Yeah I do ok
The only drawback with weedless rigging and this is not restricted to just large mouth fish is that hook point is going to be flush with the lure or if the point is "skinned" (ie just the point is pushed a couple of mil into the lure) This means that the fish has to bite down on the lure before it makes contact with the hook.
With bass the fact that the lure is a supple soft plastic, and he is has gone in and aggressively malleted it means you don't really have a problem most of the time hook up wise. Wrasse on the other hand are more territorial and can be less committal and tend to nibble more and aren't as easy to hook, but then again they are more plentiful than bass so its not really a problem.
Loss wise it really depends, not just on your rigging, but also your rod, braid and technique. With a rod with a nice supple fast action tip and a decent braid you can really feel your way around the seabed. after a while you get attuned to the feedback you get from some of the worst areas, so a sharp flick of the wrist and you can jump the lure through it.
You will lose tackle tho even when weedless no doubt about that. Almost always its the weights getting wedges between rocks not hooks in weed/kelp etc. Still no where near the amounts of tackle you would loose if you were fishing conventionally.
Thats one of the good things about fishing with soft plastics in my experience that is the amount of flexibility you have with what you can chuck out there and how you present it. And the tackle is not as expensive as you think if you now where to look ;-)
www.agmdiscountfishing.co.uk/index.php
How to present it
www.thereheis.us/rigging-tips.html