Donagh wrote:Sorry art is that 4 hooks on one snood? I heard that if there was more than 3 hooks on a rig a fish caught by it couldn't have a specimen claim. Is that true?
Donagh
there was 3 hooks
plugs have 3tribles each with 3 hooks =9 hooks
mack. feathers have up to 6
muppets,hokkies,ect. have all multi hooks
the 3 snool patanoster with 3 pennels =6 hooks
records have been claimed on the above
art/
ahh yes! sounds good. i'll keep my ears open for any reports. failin that i'll give it a trial run myself first(so we know when and where not to fish!!). i'll pm you closer to the day.
could do with a cod fix myself. it's been a long time. never got out over the summer for 'em.
I'm heading to the north beach tonight myself, the easterlies will have stirred things up a bit but ideally I'd like to fish when they've stopped, this weekend could be excellent Richie if the easterlies blow themselves out on wednesday or thursday.
Will let ye know how i get on, hopefully the oul man was able to get a few peelers, that should put us into a few fish!
The sea was flat calm on the east coast at the weekend despite the forecast but it is nice and brown. It has got up a bit today but not much tough. The high pressure is keeping the wind down.
Don't know about the rest of you guys but 4 hoooks on a snood length :roll: I have used pennell's on a regular basis and split length wishbones but using 4 hooks on a single snood length sounds very odd, expecially considering the known fact that bass drop baits when the feel pressure or excess weight? The secret for getting Bass from my knowledge was always long snoods. Short snoods will produce fish but 9 times out of ten Bass drop the bait when weight or resitance is felt. So I would imagine their be a little resitance using 4 hooks :shock: and lets face it we would not be using size 6 hooks for Bass, so my point is the bait/snood plus four decent hooks would be locked onto the bottom not moving at all in the tide, and this is where the point gets really strange, with such a heavy snood fishing on sandy surf beaches it would just become buried in the sand after a few waves, we have all experienced our lead being buried in the sand on a surf beach after only a few minutes of casting out, the same would apply to such a heavy snood. !!
just to mix things up a little Robert!! i have been having more success these days with short snoods for my bassing in estuaries and the like?? 9" or less.
alby wrote:I'm heading to the north beach tonight myself, the easterlies will have stirred things up a bit but ideally I'd like to fish when they've stopped, this weekend could be excellent Richie if the easterlies blow themselves out on wednesday or thursday.
Will let ye know how i get on, hopefully the oul man was able to get a few peelers, that should put us into a few fish!
Nice one Alby,how did you get on?.The north beach is alot more sheltered than the south which is where I'll be heading with a bag full of peelers,rag,sandeel and squid.If it's too windy though I'll probably just go to the north beach.
there were a few around alright. fish just over the pound mark. crab best. not too many dogs either. it was extremely warm out too! fish came from 50- 100yards.