DoubleShotDamo
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Mike you say thoses guys wont use thoses few fish the guy on the right has 10 kids and the guy on the left has 12 they have a lot of moths to feed now come on .
regards
paul.
More like they have got big egos to feed!!
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Can't say I agree. Prefered the old site.
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My nephew went on an all day trip yesterday at pevensey bay, he fished at the white horses for 10 hours and caught one pout of 12oz
end of angling report...............Stavey, I look forward to the same report this time next year!
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It is a perfectly good question Sam, one I addressed a few years back. For boat fishing, I have been using Varivas 'Big Mouth' hooks from Veals. They have a good wire thickness, and if you really want a meat hook! they do them in 'extra' = x 1.5 wire diameter.
However, the critical factors I think are; 'sharp', 'gap' and 'barb size'. 'Big Mouths' are chemically sharpened with a long'ish barrel shape, a small'ish barb and the hook gap is wider than most equivalent designs. Big Mouths hold their point exceptionally well, in my experience, but will take lick with a Diamond sharpener, once or twice, then the best advices is a fresh hook. At about £3-£4 for 30, thats not expensive.
I use Penal rigs a lot in the winter, and like the top hook to have a bent over eye, (reduces trace damage by the eye) for a long time Vikings were the only hooks with this bend, so I was able to compare the two hooks together, Big Mouth as the bottom hook. Viking dont take the best point, in fact, I found a re-shaped, triangle point, with cutting edges were best. The worst factor on Viking is the rather large barb, fine for softer mouthed fish like cod, but bony mouths make proper penetration a problem.
Thankfully, Big Mouths now come in a bent eye model!
So my recommendation as a 'one type suites all' hook; 'Varivas Big Mouth'.
Sharpening hooks, the best way to test them is to draw the hook point at 45% across your thumb nail, if it digs in, thats sharp!!! You would be surprised how many hooks out of the packet often wont stand the 'thumbnail test'! Vikings being one!
Cliff
Was wondering when someone was goint to mention Varivas! Great hooks, especially the aberdeens and big mouths. Stay sharp aswell. Don't like the salt water champions...the point snaps off on them!
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Amazing fish! Well done!
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Salt? I thought you just smoked them.
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Won't make a blind bit of difference. I hear the place is a tip with loads of rubbish and line left on the beach, yet there signs telling you not to leave rubbish on the beach! You just cannot educate some people.
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Maybe some fish migrate and return due to daylight hours, and some by water temperature? Maybe it is down to what they eat, and whether that food is more readily available when warmer, and not when there is more daylight?
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Still plenty of Frytol and similar grease buckets around. There is a Chinky near me that has got about 20 stacked up out the back!
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Anyone got any info? please.
Yeah, it's spelt "Samphire Hoe" and it's in Kent and I have heard you may as well empty the contents of your tackle box over the side to save yourself a few hours! Although floatfishing is ok.
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Took a trip to Deal Pier yesterday to have my first proper go at the live baiting for bass.
On arriving a young angler asked to use my drop net to land a bass. I asked if he wanted help to do this and he replied yes please. As it turned out they didn’t need the net to land a hooked bass, this bass was just stemming the tide about 3 feet down and didn’t look that healthy. I asked the young anglers not to disturb the fish, as it looked really tiered and to be honest quite ill.
We caught plenty of pout live baits fished hard with these until the mackerel showed then we put two large live mackerel baits out.
We didn’t get any bass but did get a bite taken out of the side of a live mackerel. Also one angler had a very large bass follow his string of mackerel in, so they are about.
There was however a few things that got my back up, there was lots of mid teenaged anglers feathering mackerel, they were catching plenty of fish with many full houses. This was good to see until I noticed what they all had started doing. The youngsters were just swinging the strings of mackerel straight behind their heads onto the boards of the pier deck. Then they were unhooking them and throwing them as hard as they could at the deck to kill them. This wasn’t good to watch for me as an angler so god only knows what any antis would think.
On this trip I took a pal who is a very keen and good course angler, he started to clean up all the lose fishing line. It started in the car park some 200 yards from the pier. 100s of yards of discarded fishing line crammed in the car park hedges. When we got to the pier there was discarded line everywhere. Leaders, main line hook lengths all over the place.
Any one found doing this I think should be banned from fishing.
What's new? It's been happening for years, decades. It's just that when you get older you get less tollerant of this kind of thing.
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Plastic drain pipe is cheaper.
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The ones from Guersnsey taste the best!
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Hi mate. Yep. I'll have a crack at it. First match since last December!! Got a few crab. get yourself off down the beach sharpish. As soon as the tides get too small (like now!) the crabs will be off! Or try the river. Will be some there.
Yeah, I went Monday 5.30am! Got enough. Best bet is the river. See you Sunday.
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You fishing it mate?
I'm thinking about it but bit short of crab.......tell a lie.....very short of crab!! lol i ain't got any yet as i ain't had time to go get em!!
will see how this week goes and may fish it! should be cracker.
Hi mate. Yep. I'll have a crack at it. First match since last December!! Got a few crab. get yourself off down the beach sharpish. As soon as the tides get too small (like now!) the crabs will be off! Or try the river. Will be some there.
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Mulberry Open fishing comp, Sunday 23rd April, 2006 from 6pm - 11pm at Goring Beaches, Worthing. For more information please call 01903 821594.
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i just got back from a match, 3 eels total from 9 anglers, terrible!
Where was that?
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if you make that call again now you will find that goring beach is producing bass up to 9 lb yesterday and doggies
Yep, and they were all gone yesterday (Saturday), just a few eels and rockling came up.
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Dudes, any hounds turning up yet?
I did hear of a couple that had been caught at Brighton, nothing big.
Couple of little ones in Worthing, an a 14lb+ at Shoreham. Give it a week or two.
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Does anyone know much about this? I know that the shops in Essex get thousands of crabs from "trawlermen". How do they trawl for them? Do they use small boats, small nets or what? Just intrigued.
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Hi,
Does anyone know if any of the beaches or piers along this stretch of coast are worth the trek from London to fish yet?? gagging to wet my lines, but gagging to actually catch even more so!
Cheers,
Simon
Hello Simon,
I would say get a good supply of fresh peelers and pop down to Pagham or Selsey west beach sometime mid May. By then a few hounds should be showing. Pagham also throws up a few decent bream. Make sure the weather is fine (not too windy) as it is better when fairly calm and clear.
I tried pagham the other night with crab and rag and it was awful! One flounder of 1lb 8oz. Still a bit too cold.
Good luck,
DSD
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What a positive attitude! What I should have said was I had a really bad day actually catching something and I cannot wait until the blank sessions return
It was supposed to be tongue in cheek!
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Less for next year then!
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He's a bl@@dy novelist!! Put lots of adults to shame! (especially some on here! ;-) )
Pevensey Bay 23/01/2011
in Sea Fishing
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Fished Pevensey Bay with the Old Man, a few beaches to the right of Alice's Pipe. Bait was black lug, squid and literally 4 slipper limpets! Sea was calm and not a bad colour. End result was 22 fish between us made up of mainly dabs, 3 flounders (not bad ones), a couple of rockling and a couple of whiting. Weather was fine.
Nice to get out and fish one of my favourite areas.
Tight lines everyone.
DSD