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    chug bugs/poppers/maria chico boca for sale ..job lot

    in For Sale/Auction & Wanted

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    I have brand new and boxed 7 saltwater chug bugs + 2 maria chico boca

     

    2 x rattlin chug bug in bleeding pearl

     

    2 x met blue/mullet

     

    1 x rattling chug bug in bass

     

    1 x rattling chug bug in shad

     

    These are all 3/8 oz and 3 1/2 inch ....10gram and 8 cm

     

    I have a saltwater chug bug in speckled trout in 15/16th oz 4 3/8th inch or 26g and 11cm

     

    I have a boxed maria chico boca cb1 15 floating and an unboxed lure used once. Anyone that uses surface lures willknow that the maria is an outstanding lure that can be hard to get a hold of.

     

    That is 9 lures in total ..8 brand new and 1 used once. The retail of these would be around the £75/80 quid mark.

     

    I am offering ALL of these for £50 delivered.

    help needed!

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted

    I am having a couple of days grayling fishing in a week or two but the place we are staying has a coarse pond with carp/tench/etc. I have never fished for any of these before and was wondering about a couple of methods that you guys would suggest. I normally flyfish but we will have maggots/sweetcorn/worm for the grayling. We will have some feeders/floats etc but apart from that i wouldnt where to start! The simpler the better as there are a couple of guys with us that havent fished before!!

    First time carp/coarse fishing !

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted

    I am having a couple of days grayling fishing in a week or two but the place we are staying has a coarse pond with carp/tench/etc. I have never fished for any of these before and was wondering about a couple of methods that you guys would suggest. I normally flyfish but we will have maggots/sweetcorn/worm for the grayling. We will have some feeders/floats etc but apart from that i wouldnt where to start! The simpler the better as there are a couple of guys with us that havent fished before!!

    float set up ?

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted

    If you can purchase a ticket for winter grayling fishing, then there isn't a problem but you're talking about some pretty exclusive fishing. The Tay, the Tummel and the Earn are 3 of the most famous and tightly run rivers in Scotland. The majority of permits I've bought in Scotland don't even acknowledge the existence of grayling, never mind regulating access to fish for them.

    On the subject of garbage....

    ....sounds like pretty standard brownie fishing kit to me but what do I know?? I've never fished in Scotland.. :rolleyes:

     

     

    Your right it does exactly sound like brownie tackle...but not in November !!

     

     

    There are lost of rivers including annan nith tweed teviot etc that have specific grayling tickets but they are completely seperate to the trout tickets so it may be worth asking .

    float set up ?

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted · Edited by hairyscotsman

    The problem you have there is that Grayling tactics are non-discriminate, meaning that you're just as likely to pick up a Brownie as you are a Grayling and you'll probably find that bailiffs will fail to see how you can separate the two. Basically, in their eyes, you're poaching/endangering protected breeding game species, out of season and that scenario could land you in hot water, even if your intentions are genuine.

    I don't think there's a bailiff in Scotland that would accept your suggestion that "I'm fishing for Grayling".

     

     

    I take it you have never fished a river for grayling in scotland as i have never heard so much garbage in all my life. The beats that we fish on the tay/tummel/earn all issue grayling tickets in fact some beats such as stanley on the tay and kinkell bridge on the earn have a lot of grayling fishers. There is not a baliff in Scotland(i have met a few) that would think you are fishing for anything other than grayling if using 4lb mainline and 2 or 3 lb hooklength. You can not be poaching as you suggest if you have the relevant ticket(you need written permision on any river with a protection order on it to fish for any species).You are right in that you do pick up a few out of season brown trout that are always safely returned.

    which feeder rod ?

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted · Edited by hairyscotsman

    I would also agree...I tend to float fish when i can.. however there are a lot of occasions when its more practical to ledger than float fish . When the tay is big its very difficuilt to float fish some of the areas we fish so thats where this rod will come in.

    float set up ?

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted

    Maybe my last post confused matters. When i said "its fine" what i meant was as long as you are fishing for grayling and do happen to catch an out of season game fish as long as the fish is safely returned and you are not deliberately trying to catch them "its fine" as these things happen whilst grayling fishing.

     

     

    If you're fishing a river in Scotland, you're out of season, regardless of your chosen method/species.

    I assume you mean apart from when you are grayling fishing ??

    float set up ?

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted

    No problem on the legality and its quite commonoly used i am just not to sure on the best set up. As we fly fish as well for grayling i know how deadly the fly can be at times.You do pick up out of season brown/sea trout /salmon but as long as you are not fishing over 4lb mainline and put the fish back its fine.

     

    No problem on the legality and its quite commonoly used i am just not to sure on the best set up. As we fly fish as well for grayling i know how deadly the fly can be at times.You do pick up out of season brown/sea trout /salmon but as long as you are not fishing over 4lb mainline and put the fish back its fine.

    float set up ?

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted · Edited by hairyscotsman

    I am wanting to float fish maggotts/worm for grayling but i am wanting to incorporate a dropper with a fly that will fish higher in the water . I was wondering about shotting in a situation like this . Should i have all the shot below the dropper or some above or something else!! I am also unsure the best way to attach the dropper..should i use small rings or what is the best method that will tangle the least! :blink:

    Fly fishing for pollack with Ian Burrett ! MUST DO !

    in Sea Fishing

    Posted

    Told you the fishing was good on the Mull Richard :) I was out with Ian yesterday and brought in a 30 lb tope,Dale brought in a tope of 42lb which nearly had him over the side - thanks Ian :)

     

    Also managed a first last Sunday,a 12lb bull huss.

     

    Really enjoyed the craic from you and your lads Richard. Hope to see you all there next year m8 :)

     

    Glad you had a good day on the tope snatcher it w3as a pleasure to meet you and the guys. Dale...42lb ....f**K me . I bet he wanted it as part of his mixed grill that night the fat git!!(only kidding mate!)

    Fly fishing for pollack with Ian Burrett ! MUST DO !

    in Sea Fishing

    Posted

    There were 3 of us that were lucky enough to get a last minute booking (It was actually his day off!..Many Thanks again!). We had been doing quite a bit of fishing from the shore with the fly and spinner around drummore area with varying success but it was when we went on Ians boat..Onyermarks thats when the fun really started. One of our party has difficuilties with balance and walking so the rock marks were getting far to dangerous for him.He was not having much luck until Ian took him under his wing and within 30 mins of fishing a launce under a float had managed to break his pb fish (6lb) 3 TIMES !!.. This where the fun ended for jack as he started to turn a paler shade of green!! Things went from bad to worse for jack and we had to drop him ashore!! We were flyfishing with DI7 fast sinking lines and and a range of flies (big clousers etc) and eddystone eels. We were fishing over 30/40ft of water witrh flies hitting 20ft on the drift fairly easily . We had fish that we litterally could not stop from hitting the kelp even with the drag fully set and holding the rod until in my case it broke!!We landed fish up to just under 8lb on the fly and im sure we lost bigger. These fish are some of the strongest you are likely to encounter with even a 2/3lb giving you a fantastic fight with vthe larger fish giving you heart stopping dives that are so hard to stop....AMAZING !!

    We must have caught 50/60 fish on the fly and conditions were far from ideal.

    I urge everyone to give this a go at leat once and i guarantee you will be back for more..at points in the day the fly was outfishing the live bait by at least 2 to 1 .

    Once again i would like to thank you Ian for a fantastic day which was about much more than just catching fish. :)

     

    Richard

    Flies for carp

    in Fly Fishing

    Posted

    Good article in this months ffft magazine about fly fishing for carp. The fly used to good success was a size 16 red bloodworm with a very small red marabou tail. The idea being the fly is very light and simply cast and allowed to swing naturally in the wash. He used 3 flies on a very short 5 foot leader and struck at any movement .

     

    Richard

    new to float fishing..how do i ?

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted

    Wagglers are attached to the line by threading it through the eye at the bottom of the float only. They are locked in place by pinching split shot onto the line on either side of the eye. You should put most of the weight needed to cock the float around the float. The arrangement of the rest of it will be something a mullet angler could help you with, but on the few occasions I've fished for mullet I've used an on-the-drop rig like this

     

     

    Thanks for the reply ...That helps !! I was also wondering about fishing floating crust with the float..Would you shot as normal for a floating bait or do you use another style of float??

    :blink:

    abu 1044 ..how do i?

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted

    There is a button you push in on the opposite side to the handle, the spool cover then unscrews, but it has a left hand thread, so undo it in a clockwise direction as you look from the front of the reel.

     

    The spool is then removed by undoing the bayonet type fitting, anti-clockwise this time.

     

     

    Bingo!!!!

     

     

    Many Thanks guys

    abu 1044 ..how do i?

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted

    Don't know the reel but if it's the same as their other closed face jobbies, it's on a bayonet fitting. Push down, turn about 15 degrees anticlockwise and lit off.

     

    I am managing the bayonet part ..Its the silver spool cover underneath i can not get off. When i push the black centre piece it release and 2 pins pop back into the cover..when i turn the handle they pop back out. I just cant figure out how to get it off!!!

    floats for mullet ?

    in Coarse Fishing

    Posted

    I fly fish mainly but i have just bought a shimano 390fa for float fishing for grayling in the winter. I would love to try it when i am fishing for mullet but i have no idea of a set up or which floats to use etc. Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

    Thanks

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