tope hunting mon to fri 26 north west
Fri Jun 26, 2009 10:48 pm
spots around north west
rigs tope rigs float
bait fozen mack ,bluey, lug rag crabs ,sea trout ,place ,salmon pollock,dab sand eel and live mack
people all by myself help from a mate
after loseing to seaniebo in the last man standing i decide to go on a wee tope hunt for the week to cheer myself .so armed with everything in my arsenal i landed to a spot where one of the lads had a tope the week early . i decided to try a couple of differnet techniques .
first morning i got set up 2 hours before low with half frozen mack and lug with a home made swim feeder on after 2 hours with bait coming in untouched i set up swim feeder with mack and a whole dab on a slow retrieval no joy de cided to go back to bed and give another go the next day
second morning same crack 2 hours before low i had first line out whole sea trout on a float after 20 minutes had a serious rattle but as soon as i reeled in it was gone reeled in to find no bait left on hook set up whole joey no joy second blank
third day had a greta idea the night before of using live mack hooked on the lip on running line with a gripper weight out far and hook with a a fillet of fresh mack to scent up the area so head out in my wee boat with one of lads and caught aout 30 mack put them a keep net so i could keep the mack alive got off near the beach and waded in with my rod cold cold water
baby drove out and droped off my line about 200 yards tried this 3 times wading out in cold water with no waders on to bait up decided to give up when my man hood had almost fully retreated
today just casting out tried every bait possible and every hook for 4 hours either side of low no joy not even a nibble after this week i think maybe i am not meant to catch tope but am going to give it a go next week or prob week after i will have to spend some time with herself she is not impressed but def finitly not put as moch effort (expensive) in to it if anyone has any tips feel free to help me
rigs tope rigs float
bait fozen mack ,bluey, lug rag crabs ,sea trout ,place ,salmon pollock,dab sand eel and live mack
people all by myself help from a mate
after loseing to seaniebo in the last man standing i decide to go on a wee tope hunt for the week to cheer myself .so armed with everything in my arsenal i landed to a spot where one of the lads had a tope the week early . i decided to try a couple of differnet techniques .
first morning i got set up 2 hours before low with half frozen mack and lug with a home made swim feeder on after 2 hours with bait coming in untouched i set up swim feeder with mack and a whole dab on a slow retrieval no joy de cided to go back to bed and give another go the next day
second morning same crack 2 hours before low i had first line out whole sea trout on a float after 20 minutes had a serious rattle but as soon as i reeled in it was gone reeled in to find no bait left on hook set up whole joey no joy second blank
third day had a greta idea the night before of using live mack hooked on the lip on running line with a gripper weight out far and hook with a a fillet of fresh mack to scent up the area so head out in my wee boat with one of lads and caught aout 30 mack put them a keep net so i could keep the mack alive got off near the beach and waded in with my rod cold cold water
baby drove out and droped off my line about 200 yards tried this 3 times wading out in cold water with no waders on to bait up decided to give up when my man hood had almost fully retreated today just casting out tried every bait possible and every hook for 4 hours either side of low no joy not even a nibble after this week i think maybe i am not meant to catch tope but am going to give it a go next week or prob week after i will have to spend some time with herself she is not impressed but def finitly not put as moch effort (expensive) in to it if anyone has any tips feel free to help me
Re: tope hunting mon to fri 26 north west
Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:52 pm
unlucky fair played to you for putting the hours in
Re: tope hunting mon to fri 26 north west
Sat Jun 27, 2009 12:01 am
determination and perseverance result TOPE very soon 
...drop me a pm maybe i'll join you for tope hunting 
tight lines
zeke
...drop me a pm maybe i'll join you for tope hunting tight lines
zeke
Re: tope hunting mon to fri 26 north west
Mon Jun 29, 2009 10:03 pm
hard luck, you will succeed if you keep persefering.