Storm soft bodied lures

[Tony U]

Newt:

Love to hear how you get on with them. I like tubes but had no idea chub might go for them. Interesting.

 

What sort of rod/reel/line do you use? I stay mostly with baitcasters on 6.5 to 7 ft rods and spooled with 30lb PowerPro but I gather that may not be what most UK lure anglers like.

Newt

Basically the same I use a Quantum 6' QXLC Medium heavy action, 30 lb Berkeley Wiplash and a 4400 Shakespeare/Pflueger Medalist for this sort of work.

I have relatives in Canada and have been using baitcasting gear for longer than I care to remember; at least since I got my first Bobby Orr outfit brought back from Canada by my Gran round about 1967.

It was brilliant for Perch in Killingworth and Bolam Lakes in Northumberland when I was a kid.

 

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[Tony U]

Re River Rother

It was cold very cold about 3°C all day, I tried everything soft bodies, spinnerbaits, plugs spoons small jerkbaits I could not buy a pike; I did get a Bream on a Fox Micro Demon Mini jerkbait. :confused: :confused: :confused:

My partner Sue went even better catching a solitary thumb sized Ruffe on a spinnerbait three times its size.

The only Pike caught were taken by a guy deadbaiting with Sardine who caught three, at last knockings.

 

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[Ken L]

I love the Suspending wildeye swim shad's. Not easy to get hold of but one of the best twitch baits I've ever used.

The only problem is they have a hollow hard plastic buble inside the sof body that occasionally leaks a bit. When this happens, they don't suspend anymore.

[Newt]

Ken L - 3 pack for $4

[sluk]

Hi Newt, any idea what the shipping charges are like to the UK from the BassPro site?

[Newt]

sluk - I don't but quite a few on here have ordered from Basspro to the UK so I'm sure one of them will respond and tell you.

 

With the exchange rate as it is, the $4 is around £2.10.

[argyll]

Not worth spending $4 but if you found about 27 quids worth ($50) of lures and other small items of use then the p&p is likely to be around $15. No VAT and duty at that level

[Dick Dastardly]

Tony U,go down the Rother on a high pressure day and you will bag up on soft baits.The Rother responds much better to lures,wobbled deads and especially lives than any dead bait but you got to be fishing in the right conditions.

[Tony U]

I know I have had 18 pike in just over three hours on lures before they just were not working yesterday.

That said my biggest fish from there a 23 lbr came on Sardine deadbait and most of the bigger fish appear to come out on deads.

[sluk]

Blanked today on plugs, soft bodied lures and deadbaiting with joey mackerel - maybe im doing something wrong