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  1. Hi Try small shrimper rigs if you are trying to catch them with a rod. A dropnet hauled up quickly in a pier is useful... although you have to be very quick (a bicycle wheel rim is a good start). A castnet is better if you are working off a beach. You can buy any number of these... can also work off a pier. A pushnet is also useful if you are working off a beach where they are burying themselves... similarly you can dig them out (watch out for weaverfish) if they are there in sufficient quantities... use a potato fork and throw it up onto dry land. There is a knife like instrument called a vingler that can be used also, again where the eels are buried, but it requires skill and quick reflexes... THT...
  2. Hi Heading for the south of france and thought to add to this thread rather than start a new one... anyone fished around Perpignan / Adge in late June? Any help appreciated...
  3. Not sure how to post photos here... here is a link for the common sea bream. http://www.sea-angling-ireland.org/bulleti...php?pic_id=1342 anyone know how I can post photos here directly? Thx
  4. Hi Skeetshoot Just back and I promised lots of people here a a report so here goes... Try off the rocks near dusk in PDC with small prawn baits on 2s and 4s, tree hook flappers or similar rigs will do find. You can fish into the surf in daylight and catch small mullet and other species as well. Snorklet around to see where the fish holding terrain is... very easy to do. There are annular sea bream in shoals and a host of other species (behind the San Antonio hotel at the airport end of the strip). We also saw small jacks and a bluefish in the water nearby, not big but you might try a few plugs and spinners. I am told the 68 Yellow Hammer from the Tasmanian Devil range on www.wigstonslures.com.au is the business locally - bend it a bit in the middle and pull it in fast. It is a perfect imitation for the annular bream so that could be it. I would be careful about wading as it shelves very quickly in places (snorkeling will show you this) and there are submerged rocks, soft sand pockets and some fearsome rip currents... You will also pick up moray eels (known locally as morena) around the rocks on small fish baits, but they again require a wire trace and careful handling - teeth like a T-Rex On the subject of dangers, there are also three types of weaverfish that are caught after dark on mixed and sandy ground, so be very careful and that does not include the scorpionfish some of which are very seriously poisonous. Anything with frilly fins red/orange, play it very safe. Some of these buggers can put you in a hospital very quickly. They catch a type of megrim and sole off the beaches on prawn and strips of squid baits. Flatfish rigs will work well but I don't know about twitching - I know it puts the sole off here and suspect it would do the same there. Deckchair and beer fishing then! Crab is a good bait too but it attracts parrotfish which will snip anything except wire so avoid it unless fishing only on sand. You can buy them in jars in shops. If you can distance cast on the beaches you can hit several types of ray including stingers and butterfly. You can also pick up a host of small sharks and dogfish, including smoothies and tope apparently but all at night. There are also reports of all sorts of species including jacks, bonita, and sierra (bluefish) and up north on Famara beach, they apparaently get bar and spotted bars in the surf there. The best fishing on the island is in the west and north (the national park is prohibited) and on the small island of Graciosa. I took a day out and we ended up rock fishing at El Golfo on the west coast. Walk to the end of the strip and out onto the rocks. There is a keyhole shaped gully, deep, which is excellent for sea bream. We took four species in half an hour, up to a kilo on a single prawn threaded head first onto a 3/0 hook. You will be driven demented by micro species if you float fish so buy loads of small leads locally (Arrecife, you can collect your rod licence at the Cabildo in there as well to keep it all legal, it lasts three years but you do need your passport)... great fishing and very tasty! The coast around the lighthouse at Pecheguria outside Playa Blanca offers deep water fishing, tried it but you need it flat calm to be safe. Wonderful potential... had a monstrous bite that took a deadbaited bogue, a small local anchovy / sardine like fish. Closer to PDC, you can fish the rock armour OUTSIDE the harbours - try Puerto de Calero about 6 klicks down the road. The Punta de Congrio another 10 klicks down is also known as a decent spot. The trick is to get lots of small species float fishing and then wobble them in on a pike wire double treble rig towards dusk. Barracuda are the main target and they get very big with fish to 10 kilos reported! You can floatf ish for them using a qhole squid as well apparently. A wire trace is essential... it has also produced bluefish, leerfish and a meagre in recent months. No often, but then you will only need one! People reckon that lures do not work but they might be worth a try. If you deadbait on the bottom, again with wire, you can find morays, rays and a host of other species in the deeper water. Avoid the big harbours as the ferry wakes will wash you off.... you can NOT fish in the harbours - a 300 EURO fine. Lots of massive mullet there and big facio a local bream like fish that moves like lightning. If you ground bait from the rocks outside, you might be able to tempt some of them out but the barracuda tend to hang around the harbour mouth, so it can be a problem. Hope this helps, will post photos when the mate emails me them! Let me know how you get on, Ryanair are rumoured to be introducing direct flights from next year!
  5. Panic over Wigstone tackle in Australia are the makers, you can even buy direct! No 68 is the Yellow Hammer apparently.
  6. Hi Anyone know where I can get a Tassie Devil No 68 - plain with a yellow / green head? Quite urgent, heading off in a week... Thanks
  7. Hmnn Could be a corkwing wrasse, typically green and yellow colouration when adult. Never seen even a small ballan with than colouration. Most unusual. Several other species of small wrasse like rock cook and goldshinny are possible, but not the right colour, but then what is!!! Did you catch it anywhere near Sellafield!
  8. Hi all Can I strongly recommend that you amend this to show p*ta and amend the website listing as well, that way you are not giving them free publicity and enhanced Google ratings... When reading P8ta, its worth recalling "A truth told with malice is worth a thousand lies"
  9. Hi Seaside is right, dabs like stinky baits - old lug and squid has a use after all! This said it will not do for anything else so you need to be targetting them specifically. They are the most active of the flatfish and will move around quite a bit, especially in a tidal flow. They also tend to shoal, although the specimens seem to be loners. They definitely do react to the bling, so I would use a plain lead, let it move around and twitch it as well, and the longer the snood the better. Adding a floaty bead or two will do not harm at all. As for the plaice, they're a little more fussy and less impressed with the bling IMHO but I am told that it varies from mark to mark. They feed as young fish on mussels, and indeed as adults too, which is why mussel is probably the best plaice bait (assuming the are mussel beds in the area). Very fresh bait will Plaice are active predators as well, so all the tactics mentioned above should work well. One thing about plaice is that they are very greedy buggers, and you can rarely have too big a bait for them. The one point about all this is that the twitching will scare the bejaysus out of any sole that might be in the area - static smelly baits left on the bottom close in is the only option if you want to catch a slip or two... Hope this helps...
  10. The key is fishing early or late, i.e. from or into darkness. Once the sun is up you will need very long distance casting or deep water off rocks to hit fish properly... I fished the Guanacaste coast many moons ago and it can be excellent. There is a step caused by the tide on many of these beaches, often no more than a few metres from the edge, and at dusk and particularly at dawn the big predators, rays and sharks, move in and swim laterally along this checking for small fish and flotsam caught around this, also turtles heading to / from the beach. We camped on the beach - probably illegal then, almost certainly illegal now - and got up in darkness. Saw tuna breaking the waves but very far offshore, had one really good run from a big ray (very big, bugger came right out of the water at me) and lost it right at the end. Locals informed me that wire is essential (was using very heavy mono) and that they use wire even for the smaller fish - even things in the 1-4 lb range will bite through mono. They also never swim in the sea at or around dawn - enough said. Strongly recommend a guide or excellent book as there are lots of scorpion like fish especially in the rocky marks - we got through around 15 species over about a week, half were flats... some nice flounder like species that grew to 5-6 lbs, wow! We were convinced they were ray until we saw them... Lost tons of fish to bitten off snoods, didn't have a clue of what we were doing to be honest! I'm deeply envious, enjoy!
  11. Try www.seaspin.com or www.caranx.net - both good on tropical species with small English sections. There is also another wow side in development based in the Seychelles at www.flyaway.com FWIW
  12. Hi This is a really interesting thread, thanks guys. Just to clarify my suggestion, if you limit it to three per species for shoaling fish, the idea was that yes you could continue to catch and measure and release, enjoy the fishing (we're not all in it for the prizes in fact as a club we have an agreement that there are no cash prizes) and competitors can record them all and at the end, you just count the top three. I accept that it complicates the tot but we're a relatively small club and we have yet to consider holding an open. I guess for the bigger competitions it would not be workable. The problem with the undersized gut hooked whiting is easily resolved. Boost the minimum size well past 18 cms (is that how bad its got?) so that people stop using tiny hooks. Ask club members to consider a minimum hook size - even a move to 1s or 2s will reduce the number of tiddlers being brough ashore. If someone persists in this unacceptable behaviour then consider having a club bye-law about unsportsmanlike conduct and if they persist after a warning chuck them out. Who would want that kind of a lout in their club anyway, its a sport for heaven's sake! The last thing we need idiots 'arming' the antis... I was interested in the piece on the bait bans. I guess it depends on the local conditions, certainly if we felt that rag beds were getting destroyed due to competition based demand... Not likely here. Living in Mayo - all clean storm beaches ... I've forgotten what ragworm look like! Not quite but close enough... Winter, can you PM or email me the SAMF regulations. Thanks kieran.hanrahan at sea-angling-ireland.org
  13. You could apply the same idea to common species like mackerel or coalfish at different times of the year. Landed 64 coalfish all over 30 cms in one session two years ago, absurd stuff. As a club we've yet to encounter this in competition but it is only a matter of time. I always felt that banning mackerel was unfair to an extent and very counterproductive especially in juniors where you want to encourage participation. How about a one two or three per species limit, i.e. you can try for whiting but only the best one or two or three count in competition? Same rule can be applied to other shoaling species like mackerel, coalfish, etc. so that people can still catch, still enjoy the day out, and if someone targets and lands a bigger species like cod etc. they do not lose out to someone who has spend the session scratching for sand dabs, whiting and other tiddlers! It has the effect of turning most competitions into species hunts, which to my mind, is the best test of an anglers skill in that it forces peopel to adopt different tactics throughout the session... Just a thought...
  14. Hi Although this is written by a fly fisherman working off the slat flats around florida, I reckon it has to be worth a read. Some interesting tactics that I am sure can be utilised by lure anglers... http://www.outdoors.net/site/features/feat...V+N+SearchTerm+ HTH
  15. Just to whet your appetite you understand... http://www.stripersonline.com/cgi-bin/ubb_...ic/1/19503.html?
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