by lumpy » Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:43 pm
ive been catching alot on on quite specific patterns. to go on the assumption that if its big and gauy its gonna catch in my opinion is not sufficient. i fish with patterns which are a specific representations of small mackeral, pipefish, sandeel, launce, small pollock and round baitfish like small pouting respectively. you dont have to hav this many different patterns but have sum specific sandeel, mackeral and baby pollock patterns and try these in different situations to see what works.
i have fished with the so called gaudy flies and caught alot of small pollock but when i began to tie flies which were more specific mycatches increased and the average size of the fish i caught increased significantly, i even began catching pollock in places i didnt think the inhabited. its a similar concept to "matching the hatch"in freshwater fishing
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