wrasse on lures

[dan]

has ny1 ever caught a wrasse on a lure

[corbyeire]

ive seen one caught on a lure and have heard of it a few times - very rare though

dont really think you could go out targeting them on the lure to be honest

[thescotsman]

my son got a specimen wrasse on a silver toby lure out of the boat and I've heard similar stories from the shore. Think there was a similar discussion to this last year or earlier this year so you might do a search for it, but yes they do take lures sometimes.....

[gfkelly1969]

my brother got one on a mackerel feather last year

[JimH]

Wrasse can be caught on lures and indeed flies (to a lesser extent), vertical jigging with small soft lures and light jig heads, particularly in a black and white color will yield very good results. In fact a member of this forum had a very interesting afternoon about two years ago where he caught some 6 very good wrasse using this method.

[anthony2carr]

I've taken them on size 14 salmon shrimp flies.

But tried this again this year. Even though I was taking wrasse non-stop from the same spot with rag, they weren't interested in the flies.

So it doesn't work all the time.

[bigballs]

i was with mr.cortaz a fortnight ago and he had one on a plug [maire chase bw] but dont think its to common

[dan]

my brother got one on a mackerel feather last year

i've had them come up after mackerel feathers at portaferry, this is partially the reason i put this on

[theshoreking]

yeah,

prawn lure. Sure I put up a pic of here somewhere before.

shoreking

[dan]

thanks people.