recommend three lures

Bet you have more fish on the Feed Shallows than all the other hard lures together!

Next time reverse your colour choices between the 105/128's and you'll really be smoking .

Next time reverse your colour choices between the 105/128's and you'll really be smoking .

Ayu is the only colour that all the sites I looked at had in 128, i thought it would be ok because there are loads of juvenile pollack around the marks I am looking at.

Bet you have more fish on the Feed Shallows than all the other hard lures together!

Frank do you go straight to the feed shallows or do you try other things first?? I often wonder when people say that a certain lure catches most for them if that is the first one they try and then keep on using it while it is working, hence it becomes the most successful.

So which three lures did you go for in the end?

well....... I got a bit confused and overwhelmed with the choice and the fact that I couldnt get what I really wanted anywhere I could find and ended up with
Tackle House Feed Shallow 128 Ayu
Lucky Craft Saltwater Gunnish 115 Aurora Sillaginoid - Kisu
ima Popkey 120F Mullet
ima Komomo SF-125 Kuriakuraun
Tackle House Feed Shallow 105 Konoshiro
and some yamamoto senkos

I still have to find the feed shallow 128 in mullet and white/pearl but nobody has them in stock. A bit of a lesson for next year- buy my new lures in winter.
I got my new rod and reel delivered yesterday and it looks nicely finished and handles well for the money. I wont really know until I load the reel up with braid and take it out and use it.

Every winter Monstertackle.Co.UK have a sale they have a great selection of lures.

Every winter Monstertackle.Co.UK have a sale they have a great selection of lures.

That is where I ordered this lot from, they did a better deal on shipping and had a good range.

feedshallow,patchinko and a ima komono II

Frank do you go straight to the feed shallows or do you try other things first?? I often wonder when people say that a certain lure catches most for them if that is the first one they try and then keep on using it while it is working, hence it becomes the most successful.

No, after having spent a lot of money on other lures last year I was determined to try and get some value out of them so would often try a range of different lures before resorting to the Feed Shallow - there were many times I would spend at least 40 minutes at a mark without any success, put on a Feed Shallow and have a bass with three or four casts.

Sometimes I would go straight to a Feed Shallow or weedless SP if it was particularly shallow ground. But if the water was not so shallow I always tried a good range of lures, but the Feed Shallow was by far the most reliable of the hard body lures.

Slug Gos were my most successful SP last year (whereas in 2009 Xlayers were lethal but they did not seem as effective in 2011 - I didn't do much lure fishing in 2010 due to a foot problem which stopped me getting on to the rocks).

Frank do you go straight to the feed shallows or do you try other things first?? I often wonder when people say that a certain lure catches most for them if that is the first one they try and then keep on using it while it is working, hence it becomes the most successful.

No, after having spent a lot of money on other lures last year I was determined to try and get some value out of them so would often try a range of different lures before resorting to the Feed Shallow - there were many times I would spend at least 40 minutes at a mark without any success, put on a Feed Shallow and have a Bass with three or four casts.

Sometimes I would go straight to a Feed Shallow or weedless SP if it was particularly shallow ground. But if the water was not so shallow I always tried a good range of lures, but the Feed Shallow was by far the most reliable of the hard body lures.

Slug Gos were my most successful SP last year (whereas in 2009 Xlayers were lethal but they did not seem as effective in 2011 - I didn't do much lure fishing in 2010 due to a foot problem which stopped me getting on to the rocks).

I know the feeling I am still having a lot of trouble myself and might have to get the metal work taken out of my ankle as the ligament is rubbing on it. I have also lost the confidence to jump from one rock to another so I spend a great deal of my time navigating the shore.

I want to limit myself to one box of lures and some SPs so I was quite keen to see what everyone though were most productive.
Thanks to everyone who answered

I can second the savage gear sandeels for using soft plastics. Had my biggest Bass of last year 5lb on the sandeels.

Was it the sandeels or the sandeel slugs?? if it was the sandeel I would be interested to know what size and colour you had success with. I think the slug gives a much broader spectrum of possibilities for use as it can be rigged in so many ways. The sandeels do look good but I havent caught on them yet.

Sorry on the late reply to question above, Just looked at the packet and they are not savage gear sand ells They are the sakura brand of magic eels in 12.5cm size, They are light but with a small jig head weight they can be deadly, they are pretty cheap also