The first few cast on this fine afternoon didn’t a single
bite, casting into rocks, into the open, into the water flow, it was all useless.
The plastic should have worked; it looked exactly like a herring everyone
netted in the run throughs, a staple diet of these fish. I noticed some commotion
in the water, fish taking baitfish close up to the rocks, not herring but
little mullet, tiny mullet around 2inches long. These mullet were a shin brown
in colour with a dull white belly, perfect, my new plastics from McArthy should
do the trick, namely the 3inch finesse minnow in gold fish colour. The fact
that these fish are around the rocks moved me to make up some weedless rigs for
the plastics, now perfectly rigged I was throwing the plastic up into the water
flow with a slow gentle retrieve full of little flicks.
The first fish was not
a big fish, even for this small gear but no matter, it let me know my mind
track was right and the colour, size and rig of the plastic is working. The
next fish climbed on to the lure, perfectly hooking it in the side of the jaw,
as it swam, I saw the silver flash, that’s when the heart got thumping, finally
my target species, a bream.
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| Match the hatch, in this case the Gold fish colour by McArthy |
After a quick pic this fish was let go to live
another day. After that commotion I really didn’t care what I caught, I was
just ecstatic in the limited time I had I was able to land my target species, a
few cod climbed on to the lures after that, some big, some small but one again
a hooked nicely in the jaw, these weedless rigs a perfect for fishing heavy
structure.
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| The Mcarthy finesse minnow pefectly pinned him in the jaw |
On first thought, in a tiny session to land that many fish in this
extremely overfished area, these plastics truly must have matched the hatch for
this day.
‘Fish light get the bite!’
Clayton
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