Mr Fish

This has to be my most favourite lure of all time, purely because of the adaptability it offers, to me it is the king of all things soft. The mineral spindle worm can lend itself to many situations and different forms of lure fishing without any compromise. You will never see me without a few of these stashed away somewhere in my armoury of lures.


Weightless
Because of the very high salt content in the mineral

Guess who's back? Back again.

It's been asked for by customers so much that Ultimate Fishing have reintroduced the old classic Patchinko and Frosty Mullet pattern. This is one of the original colours that I very first used many years ago, and I have treasured the couple I have left, always dreading the thought of losing one.

The Mullet (or Mulet as the French spell it) was in fact the colour that my fishing buddy Bob Jameson was using a couple of years ago when he caught that cracking 10lb Bass off the top. 

For many years I have found something rather appealing about plastic boxes, I think it stems from my teenage years when I worked in a hardware store. Ever since those first days when I left school I have been a sucker for a gadget to make my life easier. 

So when I saw the new range of Meiho boxes from Ultimate Fishing I knew I had to "test" a few. There is nothing worse than tangled/unorganised lures, I have been guilty of this in the past and it does nothing but hinder your quality time out fishing. Tangled lures take time to sort out, and also damage each other, rubbing and scratching the paintwork and bluntening the hooks.

Starting with the smallest of the boxes I know my small selection of Tetras and micro hard

Recently we have had a lot of interest in big shad fishing, customers wanting these beautiful lures for vertical fishing from boats, and also for casting them from the shore. This technique has become very popular in France where anglers have some amazing fishing for Bass and Pollack. It has always amazed me that it isn't as popular in the UK as it is across the channel, as the terrain they need to be fished over is very similar.
 

There is of course a technique to it, but that is a whole blog entry on its own so I am just explaining today about the rigging of them. We have all seen soft shads in our tackle shops for decades, pre-rigged ones like the Storm shads have caught many fish over the years but as always these

I really can't stop using big soft plastic lures at the moment. It has proven to be an amazing way to target the bigger fish, it's just so bloody exciting. Knowing that a monster could hit you're lure at any moment is something else, and when it does happen all hell breaks loose.

Up until a few weeks ago big lures and heavy rods were totally alien to me, and I didnt know anyone other than my mate Liam fishing like this. When we started looking into the tackle we needed we soon realised there are people in the world already doing this style of fishing..... the French. Ah yes, they've beaten us to it again, but that's not necessarily a bad thing because they have already done the research, and groundwork, to cater for this

One of the joys of my job is loading reels for people, this may sound sarcastic, and although I may curse whilst doing it, I do appreciate a nicely loaded reel! It used to be fine just loading mono and normal braid by sqeezing it between your thumb & finger to apply pressure, but these days modern braids and ultra fine LRF mono is so thin, it is impossible to sqeeze it between your thumb & finger tightly enough.

What I started doing a couple of years ago is loading it onto another reel and then back onto the reel you want the line on, under the strain of the drag of the spare reel. This is a bit of a procedure and requires two people, so a gadget had to be made. My good friend Dave "The Monk" came

After taking pictures and adding the soft plastic Prawns to the site recently, I thought it would be a good idea to show you one of the ways I rig them. The trouble with the way they are rigged in the packet is the lure is supposed to be used as a teaser, under a float or even on a fly fishing out fit. Like most lure anglers do I am always re-rigging my softies to suit the situation I am fishing in, so getting Prawns like these on a jighead is a must.

I personally find the "Sabot" style jighead the best for rigging Prawns, they are set at about 45 degrees and I find this makes them look the most life like and visable. When twitching through weed and cover they seem to be looking up like real Prawns do.

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These prawn imitations from Flashmer should have been on our website since the day we opened, but some secrets are kept here in Jersey!! (Yes, I have been too lazy to upload them!)

The Flashmer Bouquets have probably been the main lure used for tearers especially in late summer/autumn when the prawns here seem to be everywhere.

Used under a float or on the end of a Carolina rig these prawns have taken so many Bass, Mackerel and Pollack it is ridiculous. Along harbour walls, reef or even on open sand, when a fish see's a prawn it is going to eat it. I would go as far to say that apart from my daughter I don't think anything in the world turns their nose up to a juicy prawn.

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As many of you know from personal experience this summer, the Tackle House UB-15 colour has been a sensation in the Feed Shallow 128's and the Feed Popper 100's & 120's. We have had friends and customers from all over the country emailing and mentioning their great results on these lures, especially the Shallow.

Well I was talking to French friend of mine recently and I mentioned how good the UB-15 colour is. He instantly asked if I had tried the BKS90 in the UB-15 colour, as he and his chums have been loving life this season catching all manner of speciaes on the 90. He said fish from Bass, Sea Trout, Twaite Shad, Mackerel and the usual Scad and Pollack have given into the BKS. 

So here I am, sat in my fishing shed

This summer we are running an offer with Total Sea Fishing Magazine. This offer is basically when you buy 3 Xorus Patchinko lures you receive a free Xorus Patchinko T Shirt (worth £18.99).

Now with us all being different sizes, and there being a choice of 2 colours, we have decided it would be easiest to put the offer on the blog here, and if you are interested in the offer then either email us and let us know the size and colour of the T shirt you require, or even better would be if you could phone us on 01534 618886 and we can do the whole transaction quicker and exactly right.

The T shirts look great, and are of a good quality. Here is a drawing of them, I will get some photos on once I find a model to pose in