Want to catch bass?

[Simon Everett]

The old favourite lure is available once again. The jointed Thunderstick. Harris angling are having them made exclusively for them and they are well priced too at about £6.

They also have the excellent rubber eels from RAGLOUT I have discovered. Get the 105mm one and they work a treat, that is what I was smashed up on the other day with Nifty.

[GB]

JTS Classic lure and a proven catcher. I still gotta few in my box.

 

My mate got me some Raglout glow in the dark eels from France a few weeks back and I must say I do like them, especially when they have been doctored

[Fodder]

GB:

.... especially when they have been doctored    

[Simon Everett]

They don't have balls, so he cuts their tails off!

[Fodder]

Hmm, now I dont know if that is an insult to GB or a set of instructions..... 'They dont have balls'?

[GB]

Simon Everett:

They don't have balls, so he cuts their tails off!

LMAO fair play.

 

Doctored/tweaking, everyone has a tweak for a particular thing, I tweak me lures. As far as tweaking eel's, 1. change the barbarick stainless hook and replace it with a bronze mustad 79515 wrap the hook with whipping thread so it fills out the cavity of the eel and makes it slightly fatter. 2. Use a scalpel and trim the mould seams properly, they dont have time to finish them properly hence the cheap price. 3. Dip the tail only of the eel into a pan of boiling water for 20 seconds, remove and stretch the tail a good bit (let the eel tail cool naturally while under stress for a supper supple tail)

 

And thats all your getting from me tonight without a gun or a very large bottle of whisky

[Simon Everett]

I have my gun loaded - last time it was for bear, but now I am moving up the hunting chain....

[Fodder]

And here's your whiskey!

 

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[Simon Everett]

But it's empty :confused:

Roll on first week of October - I'm off to Islay to do a piece on the stags. Bruichladdie straight from the cask Oh joy of joys! Taking the kayak too because apparently there are some good bass to be had off the beaches to the north of the island. Fly rod, spinning rod and kayak. Should be able to get some pollock and coalfish(sorry laith and saithe) anyway.

[GB]

I,m of to Whitby at beginig of October for a 3 day fishing trip and a bottle of scotlands finest will be accompanying me aboard, for medicinal purposes of course I wonder if the skip will let me bring the canoe and act as my mother ship