Best Pollock Lures

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Best Pollock Lures

#1 Post by Indyexe »

Heading to Dingle in the middle of May and hope to be able to get on the rocks to do some lure fishing for Pollock. I have caught them on Black Firetails but do you have a favourite lure and does the weather affect which colour to use ?

Many thanks for any advice.

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#2 Post by chuckaroo »

IMHO they will take almost anything. if they are there, if they are on the feed, then any assortment of spinner, lures or soft plastics will be all good. i honestly dont think that light/weather or anything like that will make any great deal of difference
my favourite at the moment are side winder soft plastics, blood heads. they have big hooks and will prevent the smaller guys getting caught if you are targeting the bigger fish
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#3 Post by roryodonnell »

They feed verociously at dusk. Worms should do the trick. Have silver spinners as backup
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Many thanks for the advice.

I have heard of good reports about the Sidewinder lures and will give the Blood Head ones a try. I'll certainly try for them at dusk but will take a head torch in case I get carried away.

Thanks again

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#5 Post by SlackLiner »

chuckaroo wrote:my favourite at the moment are side winder soft plastics, blood heads. they have big hooks and will prevent the smaller guys getting caught if you are targeting the bigger fish
Agreed, wouldnt go anywhere without sidewinders. Although I prefer the berkley sandeels as the vmc style hook is stronger than the aberdeen style on the sidewinder/rage eels which I've had straighten out on fish before....not good! :x If the pollock are a little picky and not rising to the faster spinners, a slow sidewinder often does the trick.
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#6 Post by Preston »

I use the big hook hookkai feather rigs . They come in 3 hook strings and have a glow in the dark jelly head and red tail Ive always caught on them and big pollock at that . I think the correct name is devil rig . I sometimes put a germab sprat on the end just to up the numbers :-)
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I have seen them feeding very finicky in bright daylight where they have refused all artificial offered but taken a spun frozen sandeel presented on a barrel lead.
As for the artificials in the past I have done very well with the Storm wildeye sandeel in holographic. I am going to be using Savagear sandeel slugs for them this year as their action looks very good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0hazPdu ... re=related. I have had a few bass on them already but havent tried them on the pollack marks yet
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#8 Post by SlackLiner »

Those slugs look lethal! Anyone know how to rig them 'Twin rigged'? Looks like they are moving independent of each other - much better than just a paternoster? Would be great from the boat that.
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SlackLiner wrote:Those slugs look lethal! Anyone know how to rig them 'Twin rigged'? Looks like they are moving independent of each other - much better than just a paternoster? Would be great from the boat that.
I did a bit of a search before and couldnt find anyone who knew how to twin rig the eels but would guess that it would be easier to work them vertically from a boat rather than near horizontally from the shore. I would be interested in trying it if anyone could find out how it is done.
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#10 Post by lugworm »

All u need are jelly worms man dont go spendin loadsa dosh on lures one jellyworm is at most 50c a couple of them and a couple of jig heads and ur sorted thats all u need........... :mrgreen:
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#11 Post by bassboy »

weedless hooks are great with jellly worms and dont get snagged as much :D :D :D :D
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lugworm wrote:All u need are jelly worms man dont go spendin loadsa dosh on lures one jellyworm is at most 50c a couple of them and a couple of jig heads and ur sorted thats all u need........... :mrgreen:
plus one, cheap jellys outfish any expansive lures with pollock fishing in my area, for some reason i catch more with a once ounce lead with 3/4 foot of leader down to my hook and jelly than I do when using the jig head. The bigger jellys seek out the bigger ones :wink:
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#13 Post by Indyexe »

Darol - when you say bigger jellies which ones do you mean ? and are they fished any different to normal jelly fishing ?

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#14 Post by keano »

i never seem to catch anything with jelly worms :oops:

i find 60g stinger lures to be the best for me (yellow/silver) and easy to cast
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keano wrote:i never seem to catch anything with jelly worms :oops:

i find 60g stinger lures to be the best for me (yellow/silver) and easy to cast

How are you fishing them?? do you use black firetails?
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#16 Post by lucky13 »

i wanna know how to twin rig those bad boys too...anybody wanna shed some light???
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#17 Post by sailnfish »

Sidewinders, Hokkai's and firetail jellyworms would be my choices along with a few spoons/tobys. Happy rockhopping :)
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#18 Post by BigPhil »

is one of the slugs dropshot rigged above the bottom one on the jighead?
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#19 Post by kieran »

single white feather (mack lure) no hook followed six inches later by any big flashing lure (German sprat) is a killing combination. Pollack mistakes combo for mack / launce chasing fry... and bear in mind pollack are ambush predators who attack from BELOW so you need to fish is deep to bring it into range, and to vary the speed of retrieve. Often they follow without a proper take, or pluck at it. Pulling in at a fierce speed near the end often extracts a take.. weird but true
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#20 Post by Mahoney »

http://www.finsntales.com/all/savage-ge ... ull-monty/
there you can find something about twin rigged sandeel slugs
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