Snood Lengths.

why do you use the small beads art?




just a link, don't agree with it all but here yee go anyway!

http://www.worldseafishing.com/sea_diar ... _may.shtml
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no particular reason
could use 2inch leanths of tubeing
art/

Sorry art is that 4 hooks on one snood? I heard that if there was more than 3 hooks on a rig a fish caught by it couldn't have a specimen claim. Is that true?

Donagh

there was 3 hooks
plugs have 3tribles each with 3 hooks =9 hooks
mack. feathers have up to 6
muppets,hokkies,ect. have all multi hooks
the 3 snool patanoster with 3 pennels =6 hooks
records have been claimed on the above
art/

i see(?) u are using the beads/tubing to space out the hooks?

i see(?) u are using the beads/tubing to space out the hooks?

yepp
art/

The 3 hook rule applies to catching specimen fish, but trebles on Plugs, spoons etc only count as single hooks

Mb3.

Ha, yeah no problem. Dublin seemed like the easy option. But whatever suits, maybe greystones or somewhere down that way!

Codswallop

we should be probably try gettin a few codling?? Alby had a few in september on North beach. kilcoole could be worth a try too?? whatever yee think!

Sounds good to me!!!! Im starting to forget what codling look like!!!! Early november suit? Kinda tied up for the next few weeks.

ahh yes! sounds good. i'll keep my ears open for any reports. failin that i'll give it a trial run myself first(so we know when and where not to fish!!). i'll pm you closer to the day.

could do with a cod fix myself. it's been a long time. never got out over the summer for 'em.

Lads,
I'll be down the Greystones area over the weekend,I'll keep yous informed.

I'm heading to the north beach tonight myself, the easterlies will have stirred things up a bit but ideally I'd like to fish when they've stopped, this weekend could be excellent Richie if the easterlies blow themselves out on wednesday or thursday.

Will let ye know how i get on, hopefully the oul man was able to get a few peelers, that should put us into a few fish!

i'd love to get out wed. alby. the winds due to go westerly then. goin crabbin today!!!!!! argh the coddies!!

The sea was flat calm on the east coast at the weekend despite the forecast but it is nice and brown. It has got up a bit today but not much tough. The high pressure is keeping the wind down.

Don't know about the rest of you guys but 4 hoooks on a snood length :roll: I have used pennell's on a regular basis and split length wishbones but using 4 hooks on a single snood length sounds very odd, expecially considering the known fact that bass drop baits when the feel pressure or excess weight? The secret for getting Bass from my knowledge was always long snoods. Short snoods will produce fish but 9 times out of ten Bass drop the bait when weight or resitance is felt. So I would imagine their be a little resitance using 4 hooks :shock: and lets face it we would not be using size 6 hooks for Bass, so my point is the bait/snood plus four decent hooks would be locked onto the bottom not moving at all in the tide, and this is where the point gets really strange, with such a heavy snood fishing on sandy surf beaches it would just become buried in the sand after a few waves, we have all experienced our lead being buried in the sand on a surf beach after only a few minutes of casting out, the same would apply to such a heavy snood. !!

just to mix things up a little Robert!! i have been having more success these days with short snoods for my bassing in estuaries and the like?? 9" or less.


agree on the baits gettin buried alright...

I have had a few varied results myself in estuarys but the open beaches has been consistent for long snoods for me.

I'm heading to the north beach tonight myself, the easterlies will have stirred things up a bit but ideally I'd like to fish when they've stopped, this weekend could be excellent Richie if the easterlies blow themselves out on wednesday or thursday.

Will let ye know how i get on, hopefully the oul man was able to get a few peelers, that should put us into a few fish!

Nice one Alby,how did you get on?.The north beach is alot more sheltered than the south which is where I'll be heading with a bag full of peelers,rag,sandeel and squid.If it's too windy though I'll probably just go to the north beach.

there were a few around alright. fish just over the pound mark. crab best. not too many dogs either. it was extremely warm out too! fish came from 50- 100yards.