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wrasse on lures

#1 Post by dan »

has ny1 ever caught a wrasse on a lure :?:
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Re: wrasse on lures

#2 Post by 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
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#3 Post by 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.....
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#4 Post by gfkelly1969 »

my brother got one on a mackerel feather last year
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Re: wrasse on lures

#5 Post by 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.
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#6 Post by 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.
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#7 Post by bigballs »

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

#8 Post by dan »

gfkelly1969 wrote: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 :!: :idea: :!: :!: :!: :!: :!:
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Re: wrasse on lures

#9 Post by theshoreking »

yeah,

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

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#10 Post by dan »

thanks people.
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