by lumpy » Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:04 am
have been reading this with quite alot of interest, especially with regards fly colour. from the past 3 years ive concluded i could get away with 2 patterns, a size 1 white gurgler for surface work and a white with black and olive backed hollow fleye in different sizes. these 2 flys have caught me 85% of bass ive had in the past 4 years.
ive concluded that it is the action and sillouette of the fly which is the most important. the hollow fleye has a great action in the water, every strip it pulsates very enticingly, and when tied with a relatively heavy epoxied head it tends to fish in a sink and draw fashion. i have on 2 occasions stalked bass with them and one small strip and stop the bass has engulfed them quite agressively. olive and black over white gives quite a nice sandeel colouration. as well as resembeling, sprat and other white bait...
as has been wellm pointed out when targeting specific areas is establishing the feeding patters of fish. generally these are quite specific. one mark i fish will produce fish from half an hour before lw to 45mins after, outside these periods i have yet to catch a fish, this is especially true between july and september. outside this period bass tend to feed in a more confined period, i.e half an hour around lw..
as regards time of year i wwould have to agree with jim.. from my experiences ive noticed 2 distinct periods of increased bass catches on my behalf, one between the final week of june and the last week of july and again the 2nd last week of september to the middle of november...of these 2 periods the average size of fish is far greater in the second period but numbers are slightly lower than the early summer fish..again with regards fly size smaller flies proove more succesful in june/july while later in the year flies up to 10 inches fish better...
time of the day i have also found to vary with the different times of the year. in the mid summer period fish i find are quite slow to feed out side the dawn/dusk periods, especially if these periods co-incides with specific tide periods..the opposite i find occurs in the late september/october period. . apparently sandeel activity is greater at dawn and dusk in the summer monthes due to the decreased light levels and thus decreased sillohette and shadows..the converse is also true as with a decrease in light levels the basses ambush ability is heightened..why fish tend to feed quite heavily throughout the day during the later of the year i'm unsure althought the possible decrease in metabolism and subsequent inability to hunt as effectively in the following winter, i.e break up and offshore movements of baitfish and decreased visability may mean they have to bulk up...
shore species 2008(25):dogfish(3.1lbs), bull huss (12lb 2oz), bass, shore rockling, coalie, whiting, pollack, conger (22.4lbs),flounder, thick lipped mullet (4.8lbs),turbot,ling (11.2lbs),ballan wrasse(4.5lbs), cuckoo wrasse, pouting, poor cod, cod (9.5lbs), dab, 3 bearded rockling, long spined scorpion fish, corkwing wrasse, plaice, trigger fish, sea trout, garfish
regards neil
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