For the zander jiggers

[Ken L]

I'd imagine this would be a nightmare to cast, but the video is fascinating and may interest anyone with access to a boat:

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[The Flying Tench]

Wow!  An amazing action. At first I thought the video was showing 5 real fish, as I couldn't see how lures could be made to work in relation to each other in such a way. Very cheap, but I don't think I'll buy at present cos I do so little lure fishing for health reasons. Nor do I have a boat, but it might work from a pier?

[Ken L]

1 hour ago, The Flying Tench said:

Wow!  An amazing action. At first I thought the video was showing 5 real fish, as I couldn't see how lures could be made to work in relation to each other in such a way. Very cheap, but I don't think I'll buy at present cos I do so little lure fishing for health reasons. Nor do I have a boat, but it might work from a pier?

Yes, they're a bit niche.

I'm sure they'd find a place in the arsenal of the zander guys or anyone who wants to drift a kayak over sand though.

[Vagabond]

On 1/20/2022 at 1:40 PM, Ken L said:

I'd imagine this would be a nightmare to cast,

Can't see it would be any worse than casting a string of feathers.  All sorts of wallies convert our harbour walls, jetties, piers etc, into a sort of war zone during the mackerel season. Torpedo leads, strings of rusty hooks  (last season's) dodgy main lines (also last season's) flying about.

I remember as a teenager Newhaven E pier suffered many such. all aiming for the horizon, with crack-offs, birdsnests, overruns etc abounding.   Not many were catching.  then an old boy came along  , lobbed out about twenty yards half a dozen times, and then packed up because he had enough fish. Somebody the commented on his success.

The reply summed up successful lure fishing everywhere, from dry fly to marlin fishing.   "It ain't 'ow yer bungs the fevvers out, mush, Its 'ow yer 'oicks 'em back"

 

[Ken L]

1 hour ago, Vagabond said:

Can't see it would be any worse than casting a string of feathers.  All sorts of wallies convert our harbour walls, jetties, piers etc, into a sort of war zone during the mackerel season. Torpedo leads, strings of rusty hooks  (last season's) dodgy main lines (also last season's) flying about.

I remember as a teenager Newhaven E pier suffered many such. all aiming for the horizon, with crack-offs, birdsnests, overruns etc abounding.   Not many were catching.  then an old boy came along  , lobbed out about twenty yards half a dozen times, and then packed up because he had enough fish. Somebody the commented on his success.

The reply summed up successful lure fishing everywhere, from dry fly to marlin fishing.   "It ain't 'ow yer bungs the fevvers out, mush, Its 'ow yer 'oicks 'em back"

 

Each one has its own weighted jighead - a bit more interesting than a single weight to cast I reckon.

The most terrifying casting I've ever seen was an old boy in India. There's half a dozen anglers clustered around the point of a spit and casing lures at night for barramundi when along comes our boy, slides in between two unsuspecting anglers and whips around like a tornado, doing a full 360 with his rod and chucking a plug off at random angles into the dark. Every few casts, he'd move and the guys on either side would dive for cover.

Rumour has it that he was "spoken to" at some point.

I just got the hell off the tip of the spit, and after a bit of experimenting, I discovered that fish could be picked up on the downtide side of the spit by working jigs close to the bottom.