tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57657143120410266062024-03-14T02:22:01.408-07:00Lure Fishing. A Diary of Danny & FriendsDanny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.comBlogger121125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-89214375170819042882013-10-07T11:53:00.000-07:002013-10-07T11:53:26.472-07:00Return of the blog!!!!Hey guys, been super busy with work over the summer and obviously lots of fishing thrown in!! Im going to post up a few photos from my summers fishing antics in Ireland and of course Devon and Cornwall. Hope you enjoy these photos sorry no write ups but ill be back on track this week so will keep you posted <br />
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Ill be starting my Pike and Perch sessions this weekend so keep your eyes peeled! looking forward to a productive winter so enjoy this gallery from the summer and watch out for the fresh water sessions <br />
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DannyDanny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-1887224257728956392013-05-20T09:29:00.001-07:002013-05-20T09:29:45.039-07:00Pigs and PB'sGot out again this weekend and with the forecast to die for we were raring to go and get down on the rocks, so we headed down to a old faithful mark that Me and Jimbo used to fish allot and we were greeted with literally seas flat as a pancake and little to no wind with gorgeous wall to wall blue skys Me and Andy had that fishy feeling!!<br />
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We literally got bites in the first gulley and that wrasse fishing buzz was soon in the air things looked like it was going to be a cracking day! the first gulley didn't produce just lots of taps, so we clambered over the hole and within mins I was into the first tiddler of the day, it took a Poor Boys beaver tail literally crawled along the botton of a clear pebbly hole surrounded with vertical rock faces covered in weed, literally had to just haul this fish before it binned me in the rough! well I opened the days account (secret Andy vs Danny comp) and I was a happy bunny! we carried on rock hopping and crawling around the bay casting into every fishy looking hole and gulley. One thing I noticed was now the season is finally rolling the amount of life in the water!! plenty of sand eel and sprats and tons of mullet, such a pleasant sight after such a crap 8-9months with the skys beaming and the waters gin clear with all these wonderful creatures swimming around I only had one thing on my mind and that was to get Andy a good fish as he's been trying sooo hard to finally crack his awful bad luck, he finally broke the spell the other weekend with his first proper wrasse on the lure so it was game on!</div>
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I was nailing a few fish here and there but was missing soooooo many fish! this fish above was a nice break in the bad lusk after losing three good fish in the brief madness of there brutal scrap. Im not sure exactly what was going on but I just couldn't get fish to stick.... various lures and changes of hook size the little shits just wouldn't nail the lure! we fished some gulleys and pits we haven't fished properly since last season and again its a bite a chuck I managed one more tiddler from here then Andy snipers one out at long range, it looked big his HPR was looped over and drag was screaming, should of got a snap of Andys panicky face :-) this fish was certainly bigger than his previous effort so I scrambled down the with the net and by this time the wrasse was coming up the ledge. </div>
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as I netted this beauty I couldn't be happier, Ansy was proper chuffed I could tell it was a easy 3lb so after a quick scramble to a rock pool for a rest we got the scales and camera ready. Coming in at 3lb 4oz and couldn't help but be super stoked for any its been a tough few sessions and with him also struggling to connect with the fish today it certainly was a pleasant sight :-) this beautiful fish just doesn't get the justice the camera gave it, it was utterely amazing..... the blues and greens and a choccy brown base layer. These fish never fail to amaze me with there awesome colours every single one a different colour which makes them even more special! not to mention that brutal power! now im not one for jealousy but fcuk me he was now beating me in the biggest fish contest and im not having the apprentice do me over like this.... its just not on but well done all the same Greeno for you new PB Ballan :-)</div>
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There was a nice shallow bay normally plagued out with snitcher ballans and tint Pollack but I know a few times last season I hit fish here that handed me my ass so me not being the reserved type I chucked out a Hawg senko out at range and I kid you not the bites were instant, I missed a good fish straight away which ruined my lure so after a quick change of senko and out again! this time a proper smash and I lifted in to this awesome bright orange kelpy and it pulled like hell back to the rocks but I wasn't having any of that!!! so it wasn't long before I had it coming into the net. few quick snaps and it was off for another angler to hopefully catch when its a bit bigger ;-) shame it wasn't as big as Andys but I didn't care with the final score being 10 wrasse I had a blast of a day with good company! the sun beamed all day it was like a summers day, shame about the awful winds which were a pain in the ass but all in all a cracking session! well until next time, tight lines its a bank hols this weekend and the Lure Forum meet in south devon so good luck if your out on that session may see you out :-)</div>
Danny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-9821903114631577222013-05-15T12:45:00.000-07:002013-05-15T12:45:03.287-07:00Rock Donkeys Kicking Off!!!Well me and Andy headed out the other weekend down to some ground iv eyed up for a while! conditions seems mint bit of low mist then a very bright day forecast with light winds and rising tides most of the morning everything pointed in the right direction!!! After the last few hopeless attemps with horrendous winds and rain then the big drop in temps!!! we even had a session where my braid froze while in salt water..... after being picked up we headed down to the rocks and I said to Andy I felt a bit fishy and had a good feeling! we set the rods up at the car armed with my Tenryu and Andy with the Century it was a long walk up and down hills and then a scramble down one of the steepest marks iv fished and it looked amazing!!! gin clear water gorgeous blues and all the reefs and gulleys clearly on show.<br />
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It wasn't long before the action started! ( first cast actually ) bite after bite the fish were hammering out senkos and after about the 5th cast I nailed this little beauty, was your typical wrasse bite tap tap smash!!! and she belted off straight to cover so I put the danny brakes on and got her to the rocks for a quick photo. by this time it was pretty much a bite a chuck and no matter what you had on fish were hitting hard or following the lures up! the most popular lures being the Hawg senkos in melon and Christmas tree colours it wasn't long for the lures to start showing the tell tell signs of wrasse!!! with ripped lures and the classic teeth marks, one happy Danny indeed!</div>
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This chunk late 2lber was a awesome fight really bending my gear and almost getting me snagged up I was very much in my element! iv missed these Ballans they literally sum up my whole angling life and this session was the proof I needed to see the season has finally kicked off with both of us getting constant bites and hitting fish! My mission for today as the Wrasse were obviously onnit was to make sure Andy nails his first lure caught Ballan and I wouldn't be happy till that happened! we left the first gulleys and headed over to a big shallow reef which looked awesome with the wind blowing over us it was flat as a pancake this looked awesome no more than 10ft deep, rough as a badgers ass rock and kelp perfect for some big pigs! it wasn't long before I got smashed to pieces I literally lifted into the bite and it just turned and fcuked off to france! there was nothing stopping this fish, I palmed the spool and it still pulled into a snag where it snapped me up! I was gutted!!! Andy was perched on a good little outcrop and it wasn't long before I could hear that sound of joy when a fish is on!!!</div>
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I was made up with this little rascal!!! and after god knows how many very unlucky sessions Andy had broken that awful luck..... with him using one of my (for sale 2quid each) Xlayers which he didn't have and boom it was like a light switch on off to on, gone with the tap tap nibble nibble and boom they just nailed this lure on the spot! this soon turned into a hour of sheer madness with countless fish bumped and hooked the we were on double figures now and the fish were getting bigger, well for me anyway ;-) we walked around to a deep pit where there was a large sloping rock face covered in week and barnicles it just screamed wrasse! I flicked my Xlayer into a small crack/gulley and soon as the lure hit the bottom I was smashed!</div>
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The camera doesn't do this wrasse justice, the electric green/blues in this fishes freckles, I love these awesome little males they and soooo bright and ballsy you would happily buy these for a marine tank! these things are addictive and with the tide just slacking off at the top of the tide just when I would be expecting the biggys to be lurking around as the start there ebb feed (my fav time for wrasse) still armed with the emerald Xlayers I cast to a 6-7ft ledge next to a deep sandy clean gully and slowly crept the lure down the ledge face and about two foot from the rocks over clean sand I was abused by a bigger fish but didn't hook up! very next cast I crawled the lure to the same spot and this time fish on!!!</div>
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these beautiful chap proper done the dirty on me slamming me into the rocks and through the weed but with my Injection looped around and a bit of Parkins persuasion I managed to turn it from the rough and high enough in the water so I could chill a bit! after a few quick snaps and a breather in the net we weighed it and slipped him back for another day :-) buzzing now I was loving getting back on the pigs, Andy was whipping the water to a froth and getting some awesome hits I even caught a few takes out the corner of my eye! these fish are the absolute bomb to lure fishing in my eyes! fight harder than anything else your catch in the uk and the techniques like Texas and Carolina are very enjoyable ways to fish, and lets not forget these fish are stunning colours what more do you want form a days lure fishing! obviously the terrain we fish isn't for everyone and id advise caution when fishing anywhere like this these aren't beginner's marks and experience of rock hopping is needed as well as knowledge of tides and weather. anyway until next time tight lines, will be out again soon on the Rock Donkeys</div>
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Danny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-88966647763337618582013-04-28T12:47:00.002-07:002013-04-28T12:47:39.169-07:002013 Wrassing!After some changes in my angling over the last 12months iv decided re-kit out my gear to fine tune my Wrassing no more ties so iv been able to go and use exactly what I want to use and after some thinking iv gone for two outfits...... so here ill go through outfit no.1 the lighter of the two. Im not going to bore you with mindless tackle pushing and name dropping this is just going to be a brief low-down on my 2013 gear.<br />
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Everyone who knows me will vouch for my love of all things Shimano!! Iv had and got most of them from the Stradic and Stradic CI4 to the high end Stella XG. In my eyes this company make the best of the best and iv used Shimano from a young age as soon as I could afford them! Heres my current reel the Shimano Sustain FG, loaded up with 22lb PowerPro braid no need for fancie prancie braids when Wrassing its all about having super tough line and PowerPro has excelled for years and years. Apart from waterproof drags and sexy styling the powerful handle and good grip are spot on for my needs.</div>
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Rod wise over the last three seasons iv stuck with the Sakura Mazzera 742ml and hand on heart that rod is the best all round rod iv ever owned!!!! I still have it its not going anywhere but it was time for me to change up and after a long time checking out other brands and seeing what my friends use day in day out I went for the power house and pedigree chum of softplastics rods the Tenyru Injection. This model being the new for 2013 the SP78ml, a beautiful rod 7'8" casting to 17g kitted with the super sleek and mint fugi Kseries eyes. I cant wait to put the hurt down on this outfit in the next few weeks so rest assure ill put up a more in depth review as and when :-)</div>
Danny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-62156547039122720032013-04-28T12:26:00.002-07:002013-04-28T12:26:40.823-07:00Roll on Summer!!!!!Been a while since iv been on here! work and weather trying there very best to keep me off the water! Hope everyone has been out and hopefully getting stuck into fish!!?? For me im currently having a all time low in angling due to conditions and a bit of laziness on my behalf (only so many jacks and perch you can catch before its mind numbing!) living next to a well stocked canal full of Pike and Perch means I can literally walk out my front door and catch!<br />
Although I managed to get out and Guide on behalf of good friend of mine Jim Odonnell he had some clients down and after a week of blanking they needed some Danny time to put some fish on the rods!<br />
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I met the guys in the morning at our local tackle shop with a action plan knowing full well they have had a tough week of blanks, I needed to put these two onto the fish as it was cold and tough going! Both Richard and Ryan had tried LRF and a bit of wrassing while in Cornwall earlier in the week but the weather gods had other ideas it had snowed rained and sleeted pretty much all week, but that doesn't mean the end of the sport I had a few ideas up my sleeve! Me and Ryan walked over to the river bank and set up with a small vibe bait I took him to a slipway where I knew fish held up and it wasn't long! </div>
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Actually on his first cast Ryan nails this nice feisty Rainbow Trout and the smile on Ryans face says it all! wasn't long before Richard was gagging to get into the sport, again armed with vibe baits we were getting follows and hit on most casts you can always rely on trout these super aggressive fish are great sport for the youngsters to get into, as long as the club and local bylaws are bared in mind most towns have trout near by. Armed with there Tronix Light Game rods and light braids what can be more fun!!</div>
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What happened next was just awesome!!! Ryan cast out his small mepps spinner and shouts out he has caught the bottom, I looked up to see a flash of silver and then this beauty tare off up stream! he's only gone and nailed a fresh Salmon!! fishing with light gear -10g LRF tactics it just doesn't get any better than this!!! both me and Richard his farther couldn't of been more proud! After a good scrap and some help landing we got in this beauty. chuffed to bits and I had one very proud anglers with me that day. What a way to beat off a week of blanks and horrendous weather (20mins before this it was snowing!!) Days like this hook a young angler for life and im just glad I could be part of this story.</div>
Danny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-11702882346234963762013-03-01T11:47:00.000-08:002013-03-01T11:47:54.807-08:00Recent times out fishing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Been a while since iv been on here with work and the weather taking its toll on my angling world! but living next to the awesome Grand Western Canal means I can get the odd cheeky session in but nothing I really want to blog about. Iv had a few good sessions and some bum ones but hay that's life and all that jazz, Me and Rich and Matt managed to hit the local canal with a few pike to settle the scores nothing massive but still great to be out! I kind of wanted to hit the Perch again but only managed a few follows and knocks. we ended the session down in the marina and used a variation of the Drop shot rig to put some fish on the bank, Pike under the pontoons and boats are cracking fun fighting them in these tight little swims!<br />
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Only a few weekends ago I managed to get out and feed my addiction to Rock Pigs and got out on my 2013 first rock hopping session! Now these Ballans literally drive me mad and the shocking latter part of 2012 and early '13 was a killer for my favourite type of lure fishing so soon as conditions allowed me and Andy Green hit south Devon on my usual marks looking for some early season Wrassing! it wasn't long before the bites came in and was a pleasant surprise to see the water looking mint after so many people saying it wasn't worth the trip, I struggled with a bit of eager striking issues and missed farrrrr too many bites but I can blame it on the excitement of being back on the rocks. we fished 3 main marks all providing those heart stopping bites but it wasn't to we hit my fav mark where the fish played ball. I nailed two small Ballans in a deep gulley off the headland and couldn't of been happier!!!!!</div>
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Its a start to hopefully a good season! we are due some fine weather and im hoping we can get out as much as possible this season. Iv made a complete change of my gear this year and looking forward to abusing it like I only know how!!! keep your eyes peeled for some wrassing in the next few weeks :-)</div>
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Danny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-87933698782773494972012-12-30T15:43:00.003-08:002012-12-30T15:43:41.626-08:00What do Parrots sit on ;-)After some of the most shocking weather I have ever seen, pretty much the whole of mid Devon being under flood water I finally got out on a session with the lures! On this session I was joined by my brother for his first fresh water mission together in over 10 years!!! We hit one of my fav venues with the intention of some nice sized Pike although I secretly have a massive obsession with winter Perch! so after a good hour of slogging through slushy mud and over grown reeds and brambles. I set both our rods up with some medium diving plugs Joe had on a Orange Rapala Xrap and I clipped on a Rapala Fat Rap, after about ten mins of chucking in around the features of this bend I got a stinking great follow right up to the surface by a hefty Perch well over 2lb! I kept casting keeping away from the waters edge but couldnt produce a take so I whipped out my usual Perch lures being a 4" natural coloured shad and wasnt long before the magic started to happen!<br />
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After four or five casts where I had the follow and there was some Perch holding up under a over hanging bush and smash! This Beauty which i could of swore was a good 3lber hits the net, I was well and truly chuffed we snapped a few quick photos and weighed her tipping the scales at 2lb 8oz I was proper buzzing by now and my brother was keen to get into the action too so we tied him on a another shad and off we went and almost instantly I was hammered again! This time i was into something a bit special this was allot bigger and could tell it was a Perch and a unit at that! got it just under the surface and the hooks pulled :-( it was a beast well into the three's I could of cried! Anyone whos done any Perch fishing knows that a lost fish in the shoal is the worst thing that could happen, these beautys spook all too easily! I cast out again right on top of the fish and wham im in again!</div>
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This time its a smaller fish but still a cracking Perch coming in at 1lb 14oz I wont argue with that!!! Mean while my brother is looking a little frustrated as he's not getting a touch :-) fishing was pretty dam awesome right now and things werent about to stop! the very next cast I get smashed again....... now by this time there was quite allot of Perch moving now Its always awesome seeing them close to the surface like this! I had a cheeky cast over towards my brother and got hits straight away, pluck pluck and bang fish on again! but a split second later its off...... :-( by this point my bro is getting a little frustrated so I gave him a go on my outfit but he didnt get any hits, the problem with bumping off perch it soon ruins the fishing! we clipped of our light gear and got out the big guns! We both fished Savage Gear lures I clipped on the larger DP spinner and Joe fished the Da-bush spinnerbait two of my fav lures for Piking as they can be retrieved really nice and slow right in the zone.</div>
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This scrappy Jack just under 7lb was a pleasant quick bit of action, it nailed the DP well and after a good bit of tail walking Joe had it in the net. I could see Joe getting eager to smash a fish now and he was thrashing the lure to a foam it wasnt going to be long before he was into something! about 20mins in he shouts he's had a hit on his spinnerbait I was secretly hoping something was going to smash him soon! and it wasnt long before a monster of the deep grabbed his lure, after a good battle I scrambled down the bank with the net to tame this beast!</div>
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Mother always told us "its not how big it is!!!" ha ha ha ha Heres Joe with his first pike in over 10years!!! Not the biggest brute thats graced the pages of this blog but I dont care to see my bro nail a Pike after all these years was pretty dam quality and i cant wait to take him out again ASAP. we fished on for a few mre hours and with only a few more hits and takes we ended the day with three Pike to me plus the two tidy Perch and Joe with his Pike, we managed to escape the weather for most of the day with only one small blast of rain, the winds were happily playig ball though and at times gusted really strong but all it all what a top day out! Will do my best to break Joes PB the spring of 12lb and this is my goal until the weather sorts itself out and we can get on better waters for the Green Submarines! until next time tight lines</div>
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Danny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-33470745238824049022012-12-14T11:45:00.000-08:002012-12-14T11:45:42.094-08:00What a crap end to the year.......<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello guys sorry been so quiet but after the worst seasons fishing due to the horrendous weather this year my fishing pretty much grounded to a halt! :-( with the worst flooding iv ever seen the Southwest around Exeter was pretty much shut down with waist height water in most towns the rivers pretty much spilled there guts all over the fields of mid Devon! Recently Iv managed a couple sessions in the Fresh water (something iv totally neglected in the last 2 seasons) it was really refreshing to get back to my roots and fish for pike and Perch.<br />
First session was on the absolute ball ache of a venue Exeter Canal<br />
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Above is a true classic and one of my Fav's the good old school Replicant, on this session I only managed one hit and that was on a Replicant in the Perch pattern on the drop across on the far bank, I lifted into it and felt a good head shake and it was on for a few seconds and came off! we fished the rest of the day without even one chase! the water was mint with cracking clarity but with pure blue skys it wasnt all that hopeful! I will be back to the Shipping Canal over christmas when we have some cloud cover and hopefully a better </div>
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I spent two hours on my local canal literally behind house! I hooked up on the very first cast using a Savage Gear Da Bush spinnerbait, the tiny jack of about a pound flung itself off the lure as i was surfing it in, I had another few casts in the same swim and fish No.1 turns up this small jack above again taken on the Da Bush lure, this section of canal was looking great with roach topping and the odd swirl there was obviously allot of pred action kincking off! and i had a fish of over 5lb follow literally to my feet before charging off! this type of urban fishing it really ticks my boxes, guess growing up on this canal catching literally thousands of pike itll always be close to my heart!</div>
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Heres another tiddler from the last few casts and even though they are only small it was awesome to get out, very much looking forward to hitting it again this weekend, thinking of going further out of town to the gin clear waters where we fish in the summer with surface lures a friend of mine fished it the weekend just gone and had them to 10lb, i know where they are just need to shift this horrid cold i have and upset some decent pike! and if im lucky the odd bonus Perch chucked into the mix! Anyway heres a quick update and ill keep on top of the blog as much as possible through the winter with all my fresh water campaigns so watch this space!!</div>
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Danny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-31397287696194077042012-09-12T12:41:00.002-07:002012-09-12T12:41:59.828-07:00Recent AdventuresSorry been quiet on here the last couple weeks we have had yet more mixed weather and not near as many trips out as id like!! anyway not being one to miss out Me and my friends have squeezed in a few trips here and there including the Art Of Fishing Wrasse comp....... I believe 17 people signed in from Devon and Cornwall for the comp as well as a few further afield! Me Karl and Jim fished our usual stomping grounds with over 45 fish landed between us to almost 50cm<br />
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Karlos manages to smash the chunky 3lb Pollack on the texas rigged wrassing gear which was always a bonus! we all caught a fair few wrasse but no biggies with my biggest being around 2lb 7oz loads and loads of tiddlers around the 1.5lb mark but all good fun!! Both Karl and Jim managed some awesome sport with Karl getting busted off in the "famous gulley" that we have all been beaten up in! I managed to sneak out a </div>
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bonus fish too which was awesome and after a weird fight i knew something was up!</div>
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Again a nice change while fishing a Poor Boys bait texas tight to the bottom, theres always been lots of bass here and between us we saw a few shoals of Bass swimming in and around the gulleys on this venue no real biggys but still nice to see!! The end of the day soon crept up and we headed back to the Art Of Fishing for the final weigh in where we managed to take two of the top 5 spaces!! cant complain with that ayy! Last weekend me Jimbo and Henry managed a pleasure session and we planned to fish a few different fairly local marks and we got off to a good start with me nailing a few Pollack and a chunky ballan on the OSP Dolive sticks while Henry and Jimbo continued to winkle out Wrasse to the right of me. </div>
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We ended the session on some of the ground me and Karl have been fishing where i nailed all the beasts a few weeks back and Me Jim Henry and the dogs Maisey and Storm scrambled down the ledges and instantly started getting wrasse to about scraper 4lb but mostly around the 2.5-3lb mark. After a few hours down here we headed back up the cliffs where Henry headed back home me and Jim stayed on and planned our next trip! We headed Bassing that night but with no action although we were greeted with some of the most stunning sunset skys iv seen in a very long time!</div>
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Me and my friend Jules a Fox consultant for the general coarse side of the brand managed to also get out and with a few ideas of getting him his first ever Bass and his first ever lure caught Wrasse i took this challenge seriously!! on the first session we both managed Bass to just over 2lb Jules was over the moon and with a confident head on my shoulders i now had to but him onto Mr Wrasse, with the weather being awful again with SW winds whipping up a big swell and chop i had only one spot worth looking at and it wasnt long before we both got into Wrasse </div>
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The light wasnt playing ball and we only managed about two hours out and we completed our mission! we both left for a well earned Mac D's and a horrid drive home in mist and rain! I get a real buzz from helping other anglers even experienced fisherman like Jules where all he needed was help in these grounds that our out of his comfort zone all in all a cracking few weeks! lets hope the weather plays ball as autumn is well and truly here! im out again soon so keep your eyes peeled!</div>
Danny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-86490149475860174672012-08-23T03:34:00.002-07:002012-08-23T03:34:33.356-07:00Evil Wrasse Cult custom DFRAt the weekend i was lucky enough to bring home my custom made Dorset Fishing Rods wrassin stick...... Richard the owner of DFR has once again proved that this guy makes the finest customs in the UK by far! my Evil Wrasse Cult rod is packed with features that are totally unique to my rod from all the blingy Matagi customs parts, the Tiger Wrap whipping in the handle section (very rare and stunning) to the work put in to make the butt section as unique as possible.<br />
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Its built on a Japanese T-Russell blank, and is a two piece with the split being above the front grip giving the majority of the blank a solid non interrupted action from the join to the tip eye rather than a joint half way which can be a weak when we are power cranking big Crab Crunchers from there holes in the rocks. the blank is whipped in black apart from one small DFR logo on the first eye. speaking of eyes this rod is loaded with a full set of Pac Bay SV low mass single legged eyes which are super light and create sweet sweet music when the braid is stripping off the drag when fighting a fish! its truly a awesome looking rod designed with rock fishing throughout its styling and functionality.</div>
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Yesterday i managed to get out on the rocks and found some boulder fields and reef that just screamed big wrasse and after some faffing and scrambling the rocks on all fours to get down onto the ledges. The water was still a little tinged from the beastly winds we seem to not get away from this summer but it was clear enough to see the bottom on most of the reefs i wanted to fish. i could clearly see the boulder fields and where the barnical covered rocks and the dark patches of kelp and weed. This venue is allot shallower than some of my wrassing grounds further down the devon coast and from previous experience i knew i was going to be in for a hard fighting tough day</div>
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This wrasse was the first fish landed and christened my DFR nicely coming in at 4lb 2oz and was very greatfull to land it as the fish before this which i nailed over the boulders literally destroyed me and after a good 20ft first run into the rough snagged me and i lost it! This fish above ran some good braid off my Stella but i managed to get its head up early and turn it only feet from the danger! The very next cast i nailed a nice chunky 3lber on the Hawg senko in black with blue glitter, they were literally nailing the lures as soon as the texas hit the bottom it was exciting fishing! I was then well and truly spanked and felt under gunned as i hooked a wrasse at range which bolted off in the direction of France and snagged me up in the reef, I managed to get the fish out when it then slack lined me and turned and ran off again! hand on spool and i still couldnt stop it, i could feel it running through rocks and then it cut me off :-( </div>
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I ended the session with 7 wrasse to 4lb 2oz which all bent my new rod well and the fact i hit some larger fish and the rod behaved like a dream was awesome! Its getting to that time of year when the Units start showing again, so im keeping my ear to the ground with the bait boys to see when the monsters are showing up! I have a good feeling about this season coming up to christmas that we should see some monsters and that beast 7lber shows its face....... iv got some pretty hence fishing coming up soon and will use the DFR on all of it so will hopefully come back with even more positive feedback. untill then tight lines </div>
Danny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-65211654172216047362012-08-20T05:53:00.001-07:002012-08-20T05:53:39.870-07:00Chesil Bait 'n' Tackle Lure Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yesterday was my first "Lure Day" for Chesil Bait 'n' Tackle in Weymouth, Me Jim Odonnell and Gemma drove down for a day of lure displays, hints and tips and general lure fishing banter. The weather played ball and boy was it nice and hot! With a good turn of Lure anglers from all ages and styles the atmosphere was awesome I spoke in detail with guys who had 50years of angling experience to people who had only been fishing 6months and was amazing to see such varied groups of people all joining in and learning new skills from my Hard lure demos to my Soft plastic clinic for all things rock fishing!<br />
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One of my favourite ways of putting across the modern lure scene is by using the large tank displays some of you may of seen me at the CLA game fair and of course the T&G show where I go through the various ways you can fish different lures, these tanks are also brilliant ways to show people in a very relaxed way different hints and tips. I love the look of peoples faces when me and Jim tied on the weightless Slug-gos and other similar lures, they literally come to life and that soon puts the sceptics in there place! Everyone left these displays in search of various products in Mikes store where myself and Jim would happily point people in the right direction. With the scorching weather the BBQ and refreshments went down a treat and all in all it was a awesome day chatting all things Lure with like minded people. Thanks for the support everyone gave me and Mike/Andy for the day and Very much look forward to the next one. please do pop in to Chesil Bait 'n' Tackle if your in Weymouth or give them a shout 01305 766222 </div>
Danny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-71309999890581180272012-08-13T07:26:00.002-07:002012-08-13T07:26:48.964-07:00Winning like Charlie Sheen.......Me and the Portland Penetrator hit the rocks this weekend for a bit of a "heads up" session before the Art Of Fishing wrassing comp on the 1st of sept. out the door at 4.15am sat morning for the drive down to this area i had found a few weeks back, as we walked along the coastal path the horrid easterly winds blasted across us but we knew our spots would be tucked out the way so we trooped on a good half hour walk to the grounds which we were now literally in the middle of no where and wrasse HEAVEN. We scuttled down the first cliff literally on all fours which is always a way to get my fishing brain buzzing the place looked utter Crab Cruncher bliss. There was a nice deep pit in the middle of all these gulleys and reefs it just screamed it! we both set up our texas rigs ready for punishment and it was long with me getting smashed to pieces on the second cast!!<br />
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This beauty nailed one of Karls own Slug-X sp's in black with silver glitter one of my top 5 wrasse lures and wouldnt leave home without them! unhooked, weighed and photo quick as can be and returned into its pit a nice chunky 4 and a half pounder = one happy Danny and only on my second cast! We were both getting bites pretty much every cast here and i managed 5 wrasse in 12 casts which was pretty cool going Karl also getting into the fish with a fish of 2lb the morning was going from strength to strength. I love wrasse fishing with a passion and when its kicks off like this there is nothing better in the very next Gulley we both hit small fish and getting hits on most casts some of which you could see the wrasse we were getting hit by. Behind us was a small bay which had gullied sides and a mixed reef and kelp bottom so we made the steep climb up and down into the bay and it didnt let us down!!<br />
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Karl was straight into this plumb 3lber at mega long range was awesome seeing this style of fish trying too keep the wrasse from grounding you while cranking down 20yards of braid in evil conditions Karl had a gulley in front of him where the tide had filled as the tide was coming in, this made the final few seconds a bit heart stopping after that awesome scrap was the fish going to do him over in the last 15ft?? Naaaaa Karl bossed it out brillant stuff :-) again it was pretty much every cast all very long range to our normal work. it wasnt long before i was in to another fish! and this time the magic lure was the hawg Senko in 4.5" water melon and red glitter i got totally slammed</div>
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Not the biggest wrasse to grace my line but the fact we were casting such long distances was a truly awesome way of fishing which made us really have to work for our fish this is soooo the sort of fishing that ticks all my boxes! we must of stumbled across a wrasse nest as the more we fished it the more the action ramped up with the hits getting better and better turning from nibble nibble knock knock to one hit smashes where they almost hooked themselves! you cant beat the noise of the braid through the rod eyes!</div>
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Even managing the good old double hook ups check out the markings on these Ballans such awesome looking fish and no matter how many i catch i still think every one is as beautiful as the last! We were on something like 13 wrasse from this one spot now and things just kept going and going and going, i had ruined a handful of my senkos as the fish just didnt stop chewing them my water melon and red Hawgs just worked every time they hit the bottom, funny how certain colours punch above the others on given days iv had numerous days where Blacks rule the roost but this session Green and red owned it!<br />
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We headed over to the next set of rocks where again it wasnt long before we both hit ballans again on the senkos the tide was now pretty much sitting on the high slack and we had fished most of the spots we fancied so we thought lets hit it all again but from different ledges which ment some more cliff hanger style climbing on all fours and ass twitching climbs down into likely looking spots just to get different angles on the productive spots!</div>
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As you can just about see here in this photo above to the left which was our shallow bay which carved a big bowl into the cliffs but in the entrance you can see here it just drops away on a ledge from 6-10ft to well over twenty along this one edge there had to be some bigger ballans tucked in there and boy did we find them! </div>
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I had swapped over to one of Karls Slug-X's in the motor oil colour and continued to do the damage, the tide was going out now and the conditions started to hit exactly what me and Karl like to fish so we upped sticks again and this time tucking into what we both though would be our best chance to get into the 4's again the water was about 10ft with kelp forests covering pretty much every where you could see! i had that feeling things would get pretty hectic! and literally first cast i chuck out my Slug-X and bang straight in, as im retrieving the wrasse i could see something behind it and got it closer i could see it was a huge ballan 4plus just following my tiddler in. I unhook my smaller wrasse and drop straight back in and instantly nail that bigger fish!</div>
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This old manky wrasse looked like it had been in a bar brawl after 15pints of cornish rattler with its funny wonky eyes and mis-matched dorsel but gave a beast of a fight under the rod tip making my Stella sing with the drag a few times :-) Karl was to the left of me and it wasnt long before he was in too on another one of his super SP's it was all going a bit mad with fish on and lost in quick succession </div>
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Karl with a nice wrasse on one of his Foxtrot Senkos in clear with red glitter (one of the sweetest baits iv seen) he beasted this fish out of a tight gulley island combo and got a good scrap and sent back nice and quickly after this shot this bites came thick and fast now with more smashes than nibbles it was heating up i had another 4lb 10oz but didnt get a photo as was a pain to unhook after deep hooking so i returned it straight away as fish care and safety is high on my agenda shame as was a nice deep red! I moved around to the left hand side of Karl where i was faced with a deep narrow gulley to my left two island boulders in front with a deep pit between them and open sea kelp forests to the right i Cast out my Hawg senko again and this time i knew this was something special as my Stella melted braid off<br />
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I ran up the ledge pounding on the side pressure as this wrasse steam boats through the rocks and under the island i could feel the braid slicing through the barnicles, truly heartstopping fishing with Karl giggling as we both knew this was a different stamp of fish! it them snags me up with a fair bit of braid sprawled out through the rough stuff i let the bail off and within seconds of no tension the wrasse surges again and this time i turned it we could see in the depths it was a pig of a crab cruncher and one i had landed it karl took my rod and i knew it was special weighed in at 6lb 1oz and the biggest of 2012 so far! i was straight back in the Gulley and boom in again this time a fish of 3lb then another 2lb then again in almost exactly the same spot as the 6 the rod literally lumps over and im in AGAIN!!</div>
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The water melon and red Hawg senko doing the business again! this lure was smashing them hard and the 5lb 7oz owned it! we fished on here for another half hour with a few more wrasse in the 2's and 3's before we hit the last gulley of the day where we were faced again with "a bite a cast" with both me and Karl getting hook ups almost instantly the light was dropping and the tide was pretty much bang on low water things looked good for the end of the day with both of us hitting another 7 wrasse straight away</div>
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Check out the Slug-X doing the damage again this time in a clear rubber with blue, red, green and black glitter mix (Gary glitter) these fish were nailed on the rocks on the opposite side of the gulley about 5-6ft off the wall and wallop we were in! great scraps as we had quite hefty kelp and weed under our feet the wrasse tried to crash dive every time!</div>
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and Here it is my last fish of the epic day magic number 40...... we ended the day with Karl getting 13 and i managed a pb amount of 27! Wow what a day, things looked good from the second we stepped on the barnicles and we both said in humour that the last time we fished and i nailed a 4plusser on my first few casts it was a blinding session and we nailed 24 to 5lb but i had no clue that the day was going to end up like this!! every gulley, hole or bay we hit numerous wrasse mostly in the threes and up! truly awesome me and Karl are back out this week somewhere completely different lets keep our fingers crossed!! anyway i hope you like the look of our session and it inspires people to try out wrassing soon as its addictive on the correct gear</div>
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This is just a demo and the final vids will feature more close ups of rigs and other relevant info. feel free to drop me a message if theres anything you guys feel you would like to see on here as this blog is done for you guys. Anyway we fished this weekend in south Devon for wrasse me Karl and Gemma hit some amazing ground which myself and Gemma had fished about two months ago in fairly awful conditions and we still caught some awesome wrasse and iv been gagging to get back ever since but the weather has really hit my fishing bad!</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Check out the sceney! this is the view we got as the sun popped out over the headland, truly stunning the sea was flat as a pancake and crazy clear! things looked good so we all sat on some rocks set our texas rigs whacked on some of Karls soft plastics like the Senko's and the Catapillars its wasnt long before we got hits crawling our lures over the rocks things looked mint but starting slower than hoped! we fished a few rock points on the front of the headland with just the odd bite to show so we upped sticks and ventured around the side of the headland where things looks brilliant the gin clear water showing all the reefs and and gulleys up a treat we could see the wrasse swimming around down in 15ft of water amazing sights.</span>
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Heres my first crab cruncher of the day at just over 2lb a puppy compared to the monster we knew lurked below! Karl had already nailed two wrasse to around 3lb on his home made Senko's in the black with green and red glitter i was getting eager now hearing him shouting across the gulley everytime he nailed a fish so i was glad when this pup came along and nailed my senko too! i could still see some wrasse and some fairly bigger ones too lurking in the gulley so i called Gemma over to try and smash her first proper landed ballan wrasse..... it wasnt long before i saw my girlfriend almost yanked off the rocks by this beautiful wrasse</div>
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This picture doesnt do it justice the blues and greens of this wrasse mixed with the dark reds and bright oranges these fish never fail to amaze me!! this beauty nailed one of Karls own SP's the Slug-X in a nice natural colour you should of seen the smile across Gemmas face when we landed this i was soooooo proud!! it wasnt long before she was in again from the same gulley this time it was even bigger!#</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">By this point i was a bit pissed off as i was being beaten by a girl!! not a happy chappy! it wasnt long before she was in again, i couldnt believe it this time the braid screamed off the reel and as i looked up Karl was in too in the gulley next to us. This time i could see Gemma had hooked into something slightly more special, i had to lean over and put a couple turns on her drag as this fish was still taking braid and the ground we were fishing was pretty horrific. heres what we landed i was soooo chuffed!</span>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Check out this Beast! weighing in at 3lb 4oz this was a awesome start to Gemma wrassing day! she was on fire, so not only was she now drawing with Karl she was beating me and caught the biggest fish of the morning so far!! i felt like throwing myself in ha ha ha Karl and Gemma now being on three wrasse each i was seriously lagging behind so decided i would have to up my game!! after fishing on and missing loads we decided to head off and search out another mark. this was a personal favourite of mine and had been looking forward to heading back it wasnt long before we hit fish with all of us getting bites on our Foxtrot Senkos i had a fish on my first cast another wrasse of about 2lb Karl wasnt far behind with another tiddler being landed! once again Gemma showed us how it was done yanking out two wrasse from right under our noses. we fished on around the corner and by this time the tide was bang on low water</span>
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I managed to sneak out this little fella from a small pit but things were very slow! the sun was high in the sky so me and karl changed tactics, we tied on smaller hooks and lighter cone sinkers and the smaller 3" Go-b-fox thinking this would buy us some more bites while the tide slacked on low water. it kind of worked with this increasing the bites but these were all really small puppys all under a pound! we clambered over this point to get into deeper water where both of us continued to get knocks and bumps but not much was happening. Gemma scrambles over the rocks and flicks out another one of Karls creations the Frosty Rag a catapillar style senko it wasnt long before i hear drag belting off and Karl shouting "thats a bigger fish"
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after a spirited fight Gemma lands this nice fish weighing in just over 3lb and returned safely to fight another day, we were all tired now after getting up at 3.30am to head down here and had a blast as usual not as manic as we had possibly hoped but we ended the day with 17 wrasse between us with a good few bumped off we all left smiling! it was a nice sunny evening and a pretty walk back along the coastal path to the car where i literally cried all the way due to having my assed kicked by Gemma not only did she catch more but she caught the biggest! last time i take her out lol ;-) off out again soon where i will start doing the proper video blogs so keep your eyes peeled!</div>
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Its that time a year again........ the CLA Game Fair! this year we are show casing a number of new and exciting brands as well as exclusive lure models and styles from our standard brands such as Megabass IMA and Lucky Craft. this includes hard lures for Bass and other salt water species as well as numerous exciting soft plastics from the Megabass fresh water black bass scene! Also keep your eyes peeled for new and exciting rods from the usual brands as well as brand new companys.</div>
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This year the fair is at a new venue and hopefully this year will see a even bigger and more axciting fair! the dates are the 20th of July to the 22nd, at Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire near Grantham. Get your self there to check out the new gear, and buy your self some nice flashy fresh and salt water gear to use and abuse! as well as check out our Q&A and displays in our testing tank and of coarse your all welcome to come along and chat all things lures with Nick, Mike and Myself its going to be a top weekend so hopefully see you there! more info can be found at CLA's website www.gamefair.co.uk </div>
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We had some awful winds blowing 20+ but the ground we had wanted to hit was N/E facing so it was blown flat calm, with a bit of cloud cover and nice mild temps things looked like we would be having a action packed day on the water! how wrong i was...... hit the first mark and covered some blinding reefs and gulleys with not a sniff on the 4" senkos we had been fishing a good hour before i got some hits in a deep gulley tucked in right under my feet after a spirited scrap i yanked out a plump female Ballan around 2lb. we fished on hoping things would hot up but only managed a few taps here and there it wasnt happening at all....... by this time the Makky bashers had made the hike down the cliffs it was carnage with all manner of horrific casting flying left right and centre. We decided that venue number two was calling so a sort 10mins down the road we hit the next venue. it wasnt long before things started to show some interest with me getting hits on the very first cast, five mins later my rods slams </div>
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this plump 3lb 6oz crab cruncher nailes my Tiki stick senko and runs me under the rocks taking drag and whacking a nice big smile on my face! it was on now and me and Karlos were raring to hit some more it wasnt long before i hear a drag screaming and then some swearing from the direction of the Fox, Karl got smashed to pieces around 10yards out a big fish nibbled them engulfed his home made Slugo/Xlayer and turned before snapping him off! GUTTED so Karl rigs up again ready for some more abuse but we hit another brick wall of really slow fishing! we tried everything in the box from Senkos in 4" and 3", Xlayers, craw patterns, Karls home made SP's in various styles it wasnt happening! we moved off to the front of the headland where it was totally out of the wind, it was literally flat as a pancake this side so bites were easy to tell. it wasnt long before Karl shouts he's in!</div>
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Possibly one of the ugliest wrasse iv seen in years all covered in boils and scars but was still a good bit of fun played on Karls Nories Rockfish Bottom, was fun trying to get it up over about 12 ft of rock ledge mind you!! we were starting to get a few hits now fishing the lures smack bang tight to the bottom just wriggling our lures nice and slow, Karl went over to the Jikka rig with a 3" senko where as i fished on with the 4" lures still getting hits every now and then, it wasnt by any means kicking off and we really had to work for the bites changing through every colour we had between us, i found the darker patterns getting me more attention with lots of slams on these beautys made by Karl himself</div>
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This is Karls Goby SP fished on a 2/0 worm hook these have such a nice action and fished texas along the bottom on a 5g cone head it was the only lure all day that got me regular attention from the crafty ballans, i also used one of Karls rascal Beavers which had me another fish but this was a tacker at about 1.5lb. the day was getting on now and before we knew it we had already clocked 16hours on the water......... talk about tough fishing with only 5 wrasse to show for our efforts...... the conditions couldnt of been any better the only thing we both thought could of snuffled it was the amount of sandeel in the water everywhere you looked was thousands of Eel could this of been a factor of why we struggled to really get any proper sport this weekend?? anyway i was told of some nice wrassing on the bait only a week ago so i feel a mid weeker coming on so watch this space.</div>
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Jim nailed this wrasse on Megabass Xlayer and Gamakatsu texas rigged combo after a short spirited scrap the fish was landed! i love these fish there so much fun on balanced gear Jim was literally getting hit on every cast i could see his rod banging over the whole time it was in the water! i fished right next to him and even had the wrasse swimming right up to the surface chasing our lures it was awesome seeing them bolt up behind the lure and actually see them looking for the lures when they hit the surface in the weed</div>
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Heres another fish from the same gulley again taken on the Xlayer this type of fishing is addictive and pushes all my buttons and i cant get enough of it! we fished numerous gulleys all of which had wrasse climbing the walls, after a short walk along the sheep tracks we stumbled across possibly the fishiest set of rocks and huge gulleys iv seen! both me and Jim sat on the rocks totally blown away by the ground we had found! this just screamed bass on the rocks breaking in the distance but i couldnt help myself so i flicked my Wave Worm into this pit of a gulley and instantly got smashed up! after three or four smash and grabs i was in!</div>
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this fish took a Wave worm Baby Tiki stick, black with red glitter with a red tipped tail. these are 4" long and a bit slimmer than the standard Tiki Sticks this makes them awesome for fishing really snaggy ground as you can fish them with the hook completely inside the worm rather that nipped in texposed. the softer rubber allows you to strike the hook home when you get a bite but also drag the lure through fairly thick touch weed without it hanging the hook up and snagging! the only issue is this method tends to tear the lure up allot which can suck ass sometimes. after 3 wrasse from this pool while Jim plugged for bass we moved to the other side of this pit/gulley where we were greeted by more mouth watering water to fish!!</div>
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This was one of the coolest catches iv had in a long long time!! it was like stalking chub on our local river i saw this fish tucked up against the weed and watched it follow up and look around for the lure before jumping on my lure it was awesome! we do sooooo much of our wrassing in deep gulleys in 10-15ft of water where you cant see whats going on, being able to see this fish come up from 5ft of water and taking a lure in water with only 3-4" of water above it was epic and such a buzz! </div>
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all the fish seemed to be stacked in this tight hole it was almost a fish a cast and was epic fun! these greedy ballans are a ball to target this way, does it get any more simpler than twitching senkos anlong the reefs.... NO its soooo much fun! Jim had another wrasse and called it a day as the weather was sneaking in behind us with the colder winds making it rather chilly but i was on a roll while Jimbo sat on the rocks chilling i fished on with good results the very next fish was this beauty</div>
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with a little help from Gemma i landed this plump 3lber again taken on the superb Hawg Senko from Jacks LRF fished texas style the black with red/green glitter just shafts Ballans its like sweets to them! now by this point Dan and kyle had jumped across a few gulleys and tucked out the way of the mental wind i was now on (get my girlfriend a wrasse) mission and after a bit of casting in the right spot Gemma finally gets into a nice ballan and the rod loops around and Gemma gets stuck in and wind the fish from its hole in the pit, you should of seen the concentration on her face :-) ha ha ha bless her she's really getting into the Texas fishing for wrasse and really shows some good skills she's casting like a dream and actually works the lure better than most! so was awesome to see her with her own wrasse after the frustrating few weekends where she hasnt landed any!</div>
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Chuffed to bits that Gemma finally landed one :-) while putting this wrasse back the winds actually blew so hard i lost my hat again this time it went about 50ft in the air and out to sea i had lost my lucky Costa cap :-( i had to actually grab Gemma to stop her getting blown in!! so we decided to move around with the lads. where they had a few good takes but no fish landed but Dan did have one of his SP's completely bitten in half which is always a good sign :-) the weather was horrific now and pretty much unfishable so i fished a small gulley where i got totally ruined by a wrasse it beasted me on my no holes barred drag and snapped me up which is always a gutting situation as i dont like leaving fish with a new piercing! we fished on another half hour and called it a day! nice to get out and brilliant Gemma caught her first wrasse shame the winds reared its ugly head!! Me and Dan are out again soon so fingers crossed!</div>Danny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-24121195705303860372012-05-20T06:03:00.000-07:002013-05-18T13:55:17.460-07:00WrassticalsHeaded out yesterday for a long awaited trip out Wrassing with the Portland Penetrater Karl Fox, this was my second wrassing trip since the Keys and after the last session was a flop due to pants conditions i was raring to go and was looking forward to hitting some cool ground in south devon. Tackle wise we had simular set ups karl fishing his Nories Rockfish to 18g and i had my trusty Mazzera to 21g loaded with PP braid and 3000/4000 Shimano's perfect wrassing gear to put the hurt down on these lumpy Ballans......... It wasnt long before we got stuck in, literally the first gully i cast into and Boom i was in after half a dozen casts!<br />
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After the most tiny gentle bite i wound into this Booooty above on a texas fished Xlayer, it belts off braid straight out the gully and into the kelp! i had to put the hurt down and beast the fish from the reef and it swims straight out trying to get into the next gully but i cranked down and got it to the surface where Karl lands in for me. after some quick photos and weighing 5lb 2oz it was returned back to the gully! dead chuffed as we had only been there 5mins so we headed off to the next set of gullys and reefs. The tide was still fairly high and allot of the gullys we wanted to hit still had 6ft of water on top of them so we upped sticks and headed around the corner to a spot where Jim and i had some awesome action last season, it wasnt long before the Crab crunchers started to show there faces!</div>
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We had both swapped over to Hawg senko's by this point and pretty much instantly got into the fish casting out to a reef 20yards off the rocks within a few casts we started gettin hits on the Texas rigs, i cast out and on the drop get smashed good and proper! i wind into it and this thing turns and heads off to france with a solid deep powerful run and then bites me off! almost straight after Karl shouts out he's in and after a quality scrap off the reef he lands this wrasse above. The tides going out nicely now and i scrambled down the rocks and whammed out my black 4" senko im into a wrasse straight away on the same reef Karl had his first fish not as big as my first but still a blast!</div>
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We decided a move to the next set of gullys which just looked amazing and screamed wrasse it was literally mouth watering and anyone who does this kind of rock hopping would be in pieces seeing the ground we were covering! it looked amazing deep gullys under our feet and rock pinnacles and reefs scattered everywhere. we managed some amzing sport and some hefty smash ups which every time has your heart buzzin and gagging for the next fish! after a awesome bit of coastal path in the middle of no where we hit our next spot but there was a bunch of noddy danglers on the main patch of gullys so we clambered around the corner down into the guts of the cliff such awesome coastline, almost moon like! Karl is first in the main gully and i was on the ledge above him and could actually see the wrasse chasing and hitting his lures! i couldnt hang around any longer and cliff hanged to the next rock and flicked of my Black/red glitter senko and we both hooked up straight away!</div>
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Two gorgeous ballans nailed under our feet the colours here were amazing, deep reds and oranges with white and electric blues amazing sport and such pretty fish! light lure fishing cant really get any better than this, and the sport just got better and better with almost every cast our lures getting hit or hookups!</div>
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I must of landed on a wrasse pit..... i had 4 good wrasse from the same spot all around the 3lb mark all caught on Senkos these lures are trully deadly all these fish apart from one looked shit hot with there deep reds and blues these photos dont do them justice. Karl had clambered up around and was now on a ledge to the left of me where he also gets into the fish with another fish about 2.5lb, it was long to i was in again! with another Boooty of a wrasse this one smashed me up good and proper and dragged me around the rocks i could feel the braid on the rocks but managed to turn it and get a quick snap.</div>
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we gave this spot another 10mins and it got quiet so we lumped up the rocks to the ledges on the front of this headland where there was some guys fishing for plaice, we squeezed in under there rods and chucked a mixture of senkos and other lures at these awesome wrasse i think it was my second cast and i nailed another 3.5lber and Karl gets one about 3lb. Karl was on the ledge above me to the left when i catch out the corner of my eye his Nories looping over and some drag pulling off his reel! this fish was in a big hole right under Karls feet so i scambled down to land this Boooty</div>
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Karl with his PB wrasse caught on some AGM soft plastic which was like a ribbed senko it got absolutely nailed and put up a awesome scrap this was Karls second PB breaking fish of the session! it just doesnt get any better than that! it was getting late now we had been on the water 13hours by now and had a good clamber along the rocks and coastal paths to the car both of us had a beaming smile and really enjoyed the day out wrassing! it was well over due as iv been gagging to get out on them for weeks now. good banter all round and already planning the next trip. wellll keep your eyes peeled for the next session in the next week or so</div>
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One of the fastest growing aspects our modern lure which i feel this season will get a good going over is Wrassing on the soft plastics, with a good season of showing what can be done on mine and Jim Odonnells facebooks last year and Henry Gilbeys sea angler article as well as the feature done for Total sea fishing by Jimbo this season pretty much every lure angler around has had a bit of wrassing bouncing around there brains!! This deadly simple and fun fishing is really going to kick off a storm and will be the downfall of some HUGE Ballans this summer and i couldnt think of any better way to spend my time on the rocks!! in this post im going to show the simplest method to get you into the Wrasse.<br />
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Above is a picture of the basics, i like standard worm hooks rather than the EWG style as they have a slimmer profile when rigged (gets chomped easier) these above are Gamakatsu 54413's round bend other hooks i like are the Owner ultra point worm hooks again not EWG as well as the Lunker City Texposers or the Decoy smaller rockfish styles for smaller texas rigging. Cone leads from BassPro in 10g 7g and 5g these are bulk packs 25 pieces in a tub rather than the rip off 3's sold in the UK for more than we payed for these BassPro's (which me and James stocked up on!!) There is literally endless amounts of soft plastics which are all cracking wrasse lures, i LOVE Megabass Xlayers.</div>
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Above is a closer look at the cone leads we will use all this season, these are plain no thrills bullet/cone leads with a concave back end allowing you to butt them up to your soft plastics nice and snug for a clean and affective Texas rigged lure, like i said above the weights i favour are 10-7-5 grams this gives me good control in pretty much most conditions from slightly lumpy sea's to the 5g in the really lush flat sea's we all hope for! rigging these couldnt get any simpler thread your fluro through and tie on your hook! (making sure the lead is pointing forward!) some guys like to put a small bead between the lead and the hook to act as a buffer for the knot but the way i rig the hook so the eye is inside the soft plasic i tend to leave the bead out. the key is to rig the lead and lure so they match, no point in having a tiny lead when its swelled sea's as your not getting that contact you want but also you dont want a wompa stompa of a lead which makes the lure crash dive to the bottom! but your get all that tweaked the more you fish and you get familular with the gear your chucking.</div>
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Xlayers :-)......... these little bundles of rubbery Wrasse biscuits are my best friends through the summer in the standard and giant Xlayer and have caught me some proper beautys over the last couple seasons and my biggest UK wrasse from last year. these are my personal fav's and especially in the Ayu colour above, i like the silvers and even blues which have caught more than the standard greens browns and reds. other soft plastics which i liked and caught on are senkos from Jacks LRF, as well as hawg craws, slug-go's MB spindle worms and MB it-shrimps! at the end of the day there is soooooo amny different types of soft plastics from tons of brands out there its down to your personal choice, through my work it allows me to smash these Xlayers left right and centre but to most of you guys they are a expensive wrasse SP.</div>
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Heres the final master piece..... once you have tied your hook on, i use a bog standard Uni knot but to be honest any of the knots you prefer and what you feel confident using, i use Seaguar fluro in 20-25lb and i use that higher breaking strain simply its what i like to use over the rougher ground and my no holes barred style of yank the fish from there gully! i saw on facebook on Luke Fox a cornish angler a discussion on a photo regarding super light lines against heavier and the pros and cons, again this is your choice. have that attached to your braided mainline and your ready to fish the Texas rig. simple as it gets and deadly effective, there are a few other methods i like to use for wrassing such as the hitch-hiked jigs and drop shotting, they all have there good points and ill go into detail more some other time. well i hope this sheds a little light on a method which will allow you to hit those Pigs on the rocks this summer</div>
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This fish was a awesome surprise as we had only just said if felt very bassy today and we had all had a few chucks with the plugs etc with not much luck, this beauty went 4lb 14oz and is Kyles PB and nailed on the lure what a bonus!! the tide had about another hour and a half before low and was looking mint we all managed a few follows on the plugs, i was using a Zonk for a bit then switched over to the MB x120 my heart was skipping beats as i had a fish come in twice on the lure but no hits Dan also has a fish follow on a IMA Nabarone. we fished on for a bit more in hopes for some wrasse when the tide started pushing but nothing happened so after some more banter we headed home! a tough day but good company and a nice bonus bass made it worth while :-)</div>Danny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-47287148094724861402012-05-05T09:37:00.001-07:002012-05-05T09:37:02.275-07:00Poonz part.2Well today was the day we would get our jigging gear ready for some action on the grass beds and flats before the evening Poon session! our tackle was going to be light jigging rods loaded with 10lb braid with 5g painted jigs baited up with Berkley Gulp shrimps and fin-shads, i fell instantly in love with this style of fishing as its vey much what i do when chasing Zeds or jigging for perch just a bit slower as Jim kept telling me to slow everything down (i blame excitement) it wasnt long before we drifted over prime trout water and Jimbo instantly commenced in the ass whooping where he nailed 6 trout to my one fish!! it wasnt long before we hit the fish properly and most drifts saw us hit trout to around 18-19inches<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The action just got better and better from then on with different fish showing up everywhere! i cast out my Gulp shrimp and soon as it hits the water my line starts peeling off the reel before iv even clipped the bail over, i crank down and get greeted with a fish which was one of my top targets while over here Mr Jack Creval :-) and man people didnt mess about when they said these fish fight like nothing else...... not a skyline jumper but long runs and grumpy dogged fighter which when you pull they pull straight Back!! not a big first Jack but i was chuffed to bits and couldnt be happier</div>
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Jimbo was still wacking out trout left right and centre, while i seemed to hook everything but trout with a couple Yellow Jacks after this fish, they didnt fight as much as the cousin above but still amazing sport! i catch out the corner of my eye Jims rod slamming over..... this was either a HUGE trout or another Jack. after a quick but touch scrap the fish shows its face and Jim has nailed a chunky "keeper" Mangrove snapper which was cool to see it wasnt long before i was in too and these puppys dont half pull your string i tell ya!! once you get them out the water you can 100% see why there called Snapper!! you wouldnt want these fcukers grabbing your fingers...... talk about savage! the noise it made when it snaps away was like clicking your fingers AWESOME stuff</div>
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It was time to stop jigging and head back to the bridges to see what Poonz were out to play on this awesome evening, but after a couple hours with the crab and pinfish live baits we managed one hit which didnt come to anything. the light was faling now and we had some Bud's to drink with some Mahi Mahi ready to eat waiting for us :-) after a quick blast home we finished the day with grinning faces from the productive day on the water. friggin awesome fun i say! when your tanking back to our place you really get a chance to sit back and realise what your doing and what a angling paradise we had around us.<br />
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The next day Jimbo had some old lobster boat wrecks lined up for us to try where we would fish lures and cut baits which could literally show up any fish..... every hit on the lure or bite on the bait rods got your heart thumping! we chummed the water around the boat untill all you could see for as far as you could see was tons of Pinfish and other baitfish, it wasnt long before the cut baits got a hammering from the small snappers and pinfish i landed a few tiddler Yellow tail snapper and muttons and then my rod lumps over im IN!!! on the ultralight jigging gear, i could feel the fish peeling braid off the rod and rubbing the wreck but i dont fcuk around and tried to put the breaks on using only 10lb braid but i was getting somewhere and the fish was coming my way! to my joy i nailed my first Gag Grouper.... such a pretty fish!!</div>
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Chuffed to bits over this fish and WOW what a fighter!! by this point the wreck was crawling with pinfish so Jimbo said lets hit the Flats with the bucktails in search of the Bonefish...... and i wasnt prepared for what i was going to see next! these flats are soooooo beautiful and really have to be seen with your own eyes to be believed. they had fish screaming from every nook and cranny, truly amazing stuff drifting these flats where we saw huge nurse sharks, stingrays and the one fish that triggers my imagination HUGE Barracuda..... with a few over 30lb! now iv had about 15 Cuda so far nothing over 4lb so seeing these monsters with teeth like a dog my heart started ticking!! Jimbo swears by Cuda for shark bait which gave me the chance to load up the "proper" rods....... i clipped on one of the wake baits and a wire leader and stood ready for battle with these monsters of the deep! I kid you not everywhere you looked was unit sized Cuda until i clipped a lure on..... they certainly arent the savage beasts everyone makes them out to be! and after 20mins of firing out plugs i only managed a few follows! i cast to this awesome looking channel where we could see Cuda lined up in the tide and WHAM i get a hit! but hang on this isnt a Cuda.......</div>
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Talk about Garfish on steroids........ if we got these in the UK trust me you would want to be hooking these all day every day!! soon as its hooked it leaves the water on this "mini Marlin" run this stuff just cant fail to get your fishing juices flowing, if it doesnt then you need to consider golf or something!! it was getting Hot now so we headed back in for a pit stop and chill before the evening Poon chasing...... fishing doesnt get any better than this!</div>
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Carnage...... Heres a look at what these Cuda do to lures..... this Lucky Craft Sammy was fresh out the box on this morning! i took 19 cuda to 5-6lb and a small black Grouper all off the surface while wading the flats in front of the house i had trebels literally squashed and the lure completely destroyed by these Cuda and hand on heart had some of the best fun ever! once i had figured out what they really wanted to hammer it was like taking candy from a baby and the Cuda just loved to smash the shit out of these lures! what will always stick in my mind here was the whole peacefull atmosphere around me as i waded along a island with not another angler in sight and onlt the noise of birds in the LongKey reserve behind me, Turtles and rays swimming around me and warm water up to my waist. HEAVEN ON EARTH and ill never forget this day. On this evening Jimbo had some guys stayin near by who would be on the boat for my last few days, so it was time for me to crack on and hook some more Poonz and enjoy fishing these amazing waters...... it was just me my rod oh and the fishing buggy!! </div>
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On the second form last evening i managed to get out in the break of some bad weather where i could shore fish off the rocks with my trusty lure rod in hand! I managed to get the fish going cross eyed again for the IMA melty nymph where i jumped 4 Poonz all around the 20lb mark except one that beasted me id say around 40lb which literally kicked the Shit out of me there was nothing i could do.... that fish spooked the others for a bit! so i messed around trying for a snook behing the marina for half hour before giving the Poonz another go! when second cast i get smashed good and proper! with a massive hit i struck 4 times and braced myself..... i kid you not this fish ran off best part of a 100yards on the first run before leaping out of the water a good 6-7ft and then tanking off again sooooo fast my reel got HOT from the friction of me trying to calm it down..... my heart was skipping beats as i scrambled down the rocks in hope of landing this fish, i was shaking like a leaf and after 15-20mins of sheer madness and tug of war i managed to touch the fishes flank before yet again it decides to go ape shit right at my feet almost jumping into my arms!! two more 20-30yard runs and my arm is aching now so time to get a grip on life Danny Boy! one last ditch attempt and i get it to the Boga where i bear hugged the fish to get it under control. i lifted it out the water and sat it on the soft lounger where it behaved good as gold. i removed the jig and quickly weighed it at just over 24lb on the Boga..... BUZZING</div>
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The whole time iv been in the keys we have been baiting up the canal behind the house, we had Poopy fish, Mangrove snappers, HUGE Pinfish, jacks and Angelfish. but a target for me was the beautifully marked Parrot fish that swan around as if they were flying such a amazing sight, i had to catch one of them buggers!! the photo above doesnt do this Parrotfish any justice truly amazing colours the greens/blues and the hot pinks and WOW dont they scrap...... like our ballans but X4 all the way to the net!! we also stumbled across one or two weird and wonderful fish which made us question ummmmmm how and if we should actually pick this up!! including the awesome Pufferfish which i caught while getting bait for the Poonz but also this crazy character....</div>
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Some kind of Triggerfish which had teeth like some horror character in a film iv never been so unsure what to do with a fish than this creature.... it had skin like a shark and covered in lumps and bumps with a silly little trigger on its forehead! the eyes actually looked at us they were almost as big as a humans eyes very Unfish like indeed....... by this time my time here in florida was rapidly coming to an end and i started to feel the UK blues coming on a trick! talk about gutting knowing i was leaving here after two solid weeks on the water. Jimbo had more guys ready for there fishing trips and the final day saw us hiding for cover in epic thunder storms so my day of 100% fishing till i dropped didnt happen but it didnt matter as i had a complete ball here in the keys with my good friend and fishing Buddy Jim Odonnell where i was made to feel at home and enjoy the lifestyle and good company...... truly a mind blowing trip and will change my fishing for the rest of my days..... fishing here in cold damp UK seems a little less appealing ha ha ha ha ha. well tight lines and i hope you enjoyed the pictures and tails i know i certainly did! Thanks again to James i had a ball buddy :-)</div>Danny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-77530678676036045612012-05-04T10:48:00.001-07:002012-05-04T10:48:54.334-07:00Poooonz Baby.......Been home a few days now and finally getting used to being back in this charming country!! Im still buzzing from my fishing trip to Long Key, florida!!! light tackle fishing doesnt get any better than this....... i headed out in april for just over two weeks of fishing madness. Me and Jim Odonnell headed out from Heathrow over to Miami, after a short drive in the keys shuttle we grabbed a beer and chilled in his garden in paradise!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Literally within 10mins of being there i could already see numerous species of fish! all of which had my name all over them, from Mangrove Jacks to Poopy fish all of which i was told by Jim love to scrap like a bitch and will all happily nail all sorts of baits from jigs to live shrimp. after we sorted a few jobs the next day we could hopefully get some fishing in around lunch time by this point i was gagging to hit the water now! Jim took me to "tiki island" a breakwater in front of our docks with a little palmtree hut on with two lights either end for navigation. and at night these lights draw all sorts in including the Poons i had been waiting for!! we walked down to the most amazing noise of Tarpon busting left right and centre! i tied on my trusty Megabass Giant dog-x as the Poons happily chomped on shrimp off the surface! it was crazy, any warm blooded angler couldnt resist casting out to what was going on in front of my eyes!</div>
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I cast out over the lights my Dog-x with a nice slow retrieve and in the distance you could see these small Poons turning with interest and my heart started thumping..... and right under my feet i could see a fish swimming under the lights, i reeled in and cast a few feet in front of it and instantly the small poon turns and charges at my lure and whollop its on! by this point im buzzing and scrambled down the rocks to chin my first ever Tarpon out! it was big but i was soooooooooo chuffed, the thing tail walked all the way in from start to finish and completely nailed my Dog-x i unhooked it and returned it safe and sound to fight another day. i slept that evening one happy chappy indeed! The next day we had a small tackle shop trip planned and a quick breaky trip into Robbies to see the monster Poons somewhere iv always wanted to see!!</div>
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Nothing could prepare me for what i would do the next day!! after a quick stop in BassPro we headed off to Robbies where the water was full to the brim of monster Poonz..... there was a handful of fish around the 180lb mark all the fish there seemed to be 80-100lb pluss with only a few smaller fish, under the Poonz there was hundreds of chunky monster Jacks these fish are sooooo impressive and just scream tackle busters!! it was truly a awesome morning and ill never forget those huge Poonz jumping to grab the threadfins from our hands!</div>
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When we finished here i was ready for action and set up the lure rods for some multi species fishing in the docks behind our base, loaded with live shrimp and cut baits we chummed the water to get the local fish to start chomping anything sinking through the water in there zone! fishing couldnt get any simpler...... braided mainline, tied to 15-20lb fluro and size 2-4 Gama circle hooks thats it! freelining the live shrimps really ticked all my boxes you could see the shrimps going mental when the Mangrove Snappers bolted out of the deep to smash the shrimp to pieces! talk about heart stopping fishing knowing you cant strike and to just hold on and wait for the fish to sppok and go mental and hang them selfs on the circles!<br />
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This fishing just brings a smile to my face!! simple yet a great giggle, if only UK fishing was like this ayy and not only was it super simple all the above fish fight like demons and rip drag off the reel and run into cover and snags! they all fight like fish 4-5 times bigger than what you land its mind blowing and infectious fishing where you just want more more more!! i had a handful of times where my shrimp got smashed and the fish ran off so quickly and strong that i couldnt stop them! I was on a roll now and after talking with Jim i decided i would head back to Tiki island in the evening with my lure gear in search of some larger Poons which we could see shoaled up in the marina. I had a feeling things would start hotting up and braced myself for a action packed night!</div>
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First decent Poon nailed from the shore, took over 15mins to land and was beasted in on a 30g travel rod and Shimano Stradic Ci4 4000. Hardest fight from the shore iv ever been in truly heart pounding fishing!!<br />
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IMA Melty Nymph on a 8g jig head was the that got the Poonz juices flowing!! i knew the fish were eating shrimp off the surface so i went through my box and found the Melty nymphs which just screamed shrimp! it wasnt long before i had Poons in the 20-30lb mark hammering up behind the lure and showing proper interest! i walked to the right hand light wacked out my lure clicked the bail over and cranked it in on a steady straight retrieve and smash!! im in...... after a explosive first run of 40odd yards the Poon jumped and landed i struck three times to make sure the hook is set and all hell broke out! 60yard run so quick i couldnt figure out where and when to move i clambered down the steps where after a arm aching fight i chinned the fish out and lay it on a soft sun lounger for photos. at just over 20lb i was shaking like a leaf and chuffed to bits! and on the very next cast i managed another fish of around the same size in the low 20's i was i nervous wreck by this point! both fish returned safely to swim another day!</div>
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we woke the very next morning raring for action and with the weather playing ball in our favour we decided the boat was going to get a outing Jim had some trout jigging and some bone fish lined up on the flats so we loaded up the rods for a action packed day! can fishing get any better than this...... tune in tomorrow for part.2 of my florida trip with Jim Odonnell on Longkey, </div>
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Danny</div>Danny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-26646297704942050362012-04-06T10:45:00.001-07:002012-04-06T10:45:54.320-07:00Sorry for being quiet.....Alrite chaps, sorry been a bit quiet here recently! been a busy bee and neglected my blog SHOCK SHOCK HORROR! just to fill everyone in the last month or so iv been out mostly piking with surface lures and managed to land some awesome fish off the top which is a really nice sign for things hotting up! watch out for more surface action in the up and coming weeks!<br />
Next weekend im jetting off to sunny climates in search of Tarpon with good friend and guide Jimbo where im having two weeks chasing all things nasty over in Long Key, florida i will of coarse take lots of piccys for full write ups and hopefully vids. untill then tight lines and ill update when over on the states so keep your eyes open!<br />
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DannyDanny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5765714312041026606.post-49891147747365661732012-03-09T04:50:00.001-08:002012-03-09T04:50:53.108-08:00The Good the Bad and the Ugly no.6<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My
name is <span style="font-size: large;">Jim O’Donnell</span>. I work in the wonderful world of British saltwater
angling and have done so for the past 13 years. I’m a qualified charter
skipper, small boat handling instructor and fishing guide and I also work as a
freelance angling juorno/writer and photographer. Basically I’ll do anything to
keep myself fishing and on the water, rather than get a real job! Life’s too
short! I love it!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Truthfully… just a bunch of normal everyday anglers.
I love meeting normal, non famous, anglers and talking shop about the big wide
world of fishing, with a pint and a bit of banter! You learn so much from just
chatting with other like-minded anglers<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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you are not fishing/writing/photographing what would we normally find you doing
in your spare time?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I have 4 girls, ages 2, 4, 9 and 15, so I like to
chill with them. We tend to be an outdoors family, so we’re always of hiking or
visiting somewhere. Other than that I love food and I love to cook!</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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was your favourite year and why?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">2005 – the year I caught my first 100lb+ Tarpon,
which was 130lb. I like that year because it marked a big change in my personal
angling. Florida opened up my eyes to what a protected sport-fishing fishery
could be like here in the UK. </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Animals can’t afford expensive fishing
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not famous, living or dead, real or fictional. with whom would it be?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Honestly, nobody. I enjoy being myself – I love my life and I love what
I do, however being me, with a shorter list of jobs to do, would be even
better! <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">What is your worst quality?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I’m ridiculously anal. I strive for
perfection and sometimes drive myself to frustration. Photographing products
for instance… they always look messy and I’m forever trying to arrange them so
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">What is your most prized angling related item you have and why?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Aha this can change daily! Currently it’s my
Ima RBB floatation vest. A proper man gadget. Makes me feel like Arnie in the
film Commando!! </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you could only fish for one fish for the rest of your life what
would it be and why?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tarpon because they have it all. You can’t
beat sight fishing for a 100lb plus fish, that swims in just a few feet of
water – they can only run one way. I love their torque and power – the fact
that they can drag a boat around for hours and their aerobatic displays and,
and, and…!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Don’t get me talking about Tarpon. Those
things are my drug! </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Angling is supposed to be one of the most relaxing hobbies around so
what one thing really pisses you off about our wonderful sport?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">People who blag fish sizes. I fully
understand that estimating is difficult, but there’s too many liars out there,
especially in the UK. Seems to be a bit of “my Willy’s bigger than your Willy!”
thing that goes on over here, which you don’t seem to get as much elsewhere. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">W</span></span>ho <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">or what got you into angling?</span></span></span></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A plastic kids setup with string for line,
which I bought from a seafront shop in Weymouth. My dad never fished and the
setup was crap, so in the end a friend of the family took me Perch fishing for
the day and I’ve never looked back. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Where do you see your self in fishing in the next 5 years?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Quote “You put that line in the water and you don't know what's on the
other end. Your imagination is under there.” ~Robert Altman<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Going with the flow, like I do now! I quite
like the fact that life has it’s own twists, turns and surprises. You can’t
guarantee what you’re going to catch, and you certainly can’t guarantee what
tomorrow will bring!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who or what has influenced your angling to get you to the stage you are
now?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Seriously, no word of a lie, all the normal
day-to-day anglers I’ve met on my travels – that’s why a bunch of normal
anglers would be my ideal dinner guests! </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />Danny Parkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134692802384107853noreply@blogger.com0