Soft Lure Fishing

[paulus 26]

Anybody else doing it?. I have had a few days this year and to be honest am beginning to like it more and more, The freedom to just walk the canal towpaths flicking a lure about is great, Not caught anything of any size mind, 

[Daniel cain 44,945]

Its  a great way to fish ,travel lite and cover aload of ground,my lads all over it,all he bloody talks about lol,hes had perch,jacks,chub and some decent trout on his own , this season..

He Uses a 6ft 6" Abu Maxx rod and little baitcaster reel set up

[steve66 3,350]

A big part of my fishing these days is with lures, soft plastics and hard crank baits 

Some great channels on youtube for learning off

 

[paulus 26]

Just now, steve66 said:

A big part of my fishing these days is with lures, soft plastics and hard crank baits 

Some great channels on youtube for learning off

 

I am not completely new to it but have been watching a fair bit on YouTube. I have a little 6ft Diawa  Presso in 0.5 to 5g with a little Shamano Sienna 500 reel and a 6ft Bass Pro Shops stick in 7 to 19grm with a little bait caster reel. Really enjoyed the couple of hours on the local Canal even though something removed all the front appendages on my creature bait lol

[steve66 3,350]

Ypc bank comps been a good watch on tube 

[mackem 26,072]

I have a microlure kit,tiny balanced combo I got in Cabelas,reel loaded with braid,and a box full of jellies and plastics,really nice way to fish for jacks and perch.

[paulus 26]

8 minutes ago, mackem said:

I have a microlure kit,tiny balanced combo I got in Cabelas,reel loaded with braid,and a box full of jellies and plastics,really nice way to fish for jacks and perch.

I think for me the simplicity is the thing that makes me interested, Spent years feeder fishing got £1000`s of quid's worth of tackle but to be honest i have lost interest now, This fish and move idea really appeals to me. 

[neil r 1,842]

Soft plastics are all I use for perch and pike on the canals with the bfs gear and in particular the 40mm crazyfish nimbles/supercontinent copies . I used to use it on the rivers for trout aswell but prefer the jdm hardbaits now 

[mackem 26,072]

Was in Walmart earlier and saw some Uglystik light spinning rigs in the bargain bin in the fishing department,in pink for girls as well.

[Borr 5,712]

I've ordered a couple of bits of terminal tackle, I've been watching quite a bit of the ginger fisherman. I definitely fancy having a bit of a go this winter...

 

[neil r 1,842]

2 hours ago, mackem said:

Was in Walmart earlier and saw some Uglystik light spinning rigs in the bargain bin in the fishing department,in pink for girls as well.

Coloured rods are getting more popular in lure fishing especially glass ultralight/bfs rods . I’ve got 2 coloured modern s-glass setups that I use . The white one is 4.7ft and the olive one is a 5.6ft both rated upto 5gm . The company I got the white one off does them in orange , light blue and green aswell and the full custom olive resilure rod can I think be done in any colour . Recently ive seen a completely clear one on aliexpress . I think rawr fishing was using one in a recent video aswell 

[neil r 1,842]

6 hours ago, paulus said:

I think for me the simplicity is the thing that makes me interested, Spent years feeder fishing got £1000`s of quid's worth of tackle but to be honest i have lost interest now, This fish and move idea really appeals to me. 

It’s a good way of quick session fishing , no loading/unloading and lugging loads of gear about and messing about setting up or having to sort bait out beforehand , just leave a small rod and reel set up plus a few lures , jig heads and some leader or traces in a bag and your fishing . 

[mackem 26,072]

13 hours ago, neil r said:

Coloured rods are getting more popular in lure fishing especially glass ultralight/bfs rods . I’ve got 2 coloured modern s-glass setups that I use . The white one is 4.7ft and the olive one is a 5.6ft both rated upto 5gm . The company I got the white one off does them in orange , light blue and green aswell and the full custom olive resilure rod can I think be done in any colour . Recently ive seen a completely clear one on aliexpress . I think rawr fishing was using one in a recent video aswell 

Yes the pink ugly stik was in the bargain bin for about £15,seen quite a few coloured lure rods in Cabelas,and they have a huge selection of jellies.I caught a few salmon this year on bits of red wool,lures have changed the game.

[walshie 2,804]

Do you need a wire trace if you're likely to catch jack pike?

[neil r 1,842]

8 minutes ago, mackem said:

Yes the pink ugly stik was in the bargain bin for about £15,seen quite a few coloured lure rods in Cabelas,and they have a huge selection of jellies.I caught a few salmon this year on bits of red wool,lures have changed the game.

I suspect there’d be more salmon caught over here if more salmon anglers took the blinkers off and realised there’s loads of brands doing brilliant lures that would do well for them and there’s more to life than flying c’s and tobies . Seen a few walk round videos of cabelas and bass pro shops , they’ve got some gear in them , think I’d be skint within minutes of going in there . 
If you’re ever round peoria in Arizona check out the hook up tackle . They do a few American brands like st croix but specialise in Jdm brands . Their YouTube channel is worth a look just to see the amount of Japanese gear they do