• Becoming a member is completely free!

    • Join the community and start contributing to a large source of sea angling information.
    • Members who are regular contributors and have posted more than 25 times, have the option to turn off adverts.
    • Become an active member and you can enter member exclusive competitions.

    REGISTER FOR FREE HERE

Search results

  1. Plaicehunter

    South West Greedy Tamar cod

    Well, I was fishing for cod with the other rod, and I must admit I thought my big juicy lug 'n squid cocktail on the pulley pennell was more likely to produce one than my whiting flapper. Even with its stomach full and a throat full of mackerel it still wanted to cram in more grub! PH
  2. Plaicehunter

    South West Greedy Tamar cod

    Today on the Tamar I uptided with two rods: one with big baits, the other with a two-hook flapper with small baits for whiting. I was merrily catching good-sized 'tings when I hooked a heavier fish which thumped all the way in. As I was baiting with small bits of squid and mackerel, I was...
  3. Plaicehunter

    South West Conflicting advice...

    ....about cod in the Tamar: *Don't bother unless you have crab/I had three on lug and squid but no bites on peeler/prawn works for me/all I use is squid. *They've had loads at Devil's Point/most of the cod are upstream of the ferries. *Don't bother with the mouth of the Lynher/I had two...
  4. Plaicehunter

    Shrink tube over Leader Knot

    Tapered mono leaders are expensive but do make a smaller knot. I use a double uni and give it a dab of Hard As Nails nail strengthener to smooth the knot even more. It doesn't seem to weaken the line.
  5. Plaicehunter

    Fish Handling

    I carry a big tub of water on my boat. If I am going to weigh, measure or photograph a fish, I unhook it and pop it in the tub while I sort myself out. I learned my lesson while fishing for gilts with two rods. I had just landed a schoolie which was deeply hooked when my other rod went off. I...
  6. Plaicehunter

    Pleasantly plump

    Highlight of a cold, grey day in my local estuary today was this very fat 46cm bass. It took a Rapala X Rap Countdown fished slow and deep down the edge of a channel. Having broken my duck, I then picked up five smaller schoolies on a Megabass Flatbacker 110, again fished deep. Not a great haul...
View older results
Back
Top