Soft or Hard Plastic lures

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Indyexe
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Soft or Hard Plastic lures

#1 Post by Indyexe »

Do you have a preference to use Soft or Hard Plastic lures for Bass at this time of year ?

Also do you have a favourite colour ?

Many thanks for any advice

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Mozza
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Re: Soft or Hard Plastic lures

#2 Post by Mozza »

Softies at this time of year as the water is still a bit cold, Xlayers in the Ayu colour woud be my choice. Over the coming weeks as the water warms up i will be using HPs,Tacklehouse Feedshallow in pearl colour will do the job also i like using Savage Gear Sandeels 125m 23g they are cheap and will catch you Bass.
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biker
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Re: Soft or Hard Plastic lures

#3 Post by biker »

Do SP's not work aswel when water temps are higher ? how does the water temp effect it :?:
2011 species: pollock,mackeral,coalfish,whiting,codling,conger,flounder,dogfish,pouting.Not bad for my first few months fishing :)

2012 species: Coalfish (13), Bass (1), Rockling (5), Ballan wrasse (2), Pollock (57), Dogfish (8),
Whiting (1), Conger (1)

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Indyexe
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Re: Soft or Hard Plastic lures

#4 Post by Indyexe »

Many thanks for the advice as I have never had much luck at the beginning of the season and never caught anything on soft plastics but will try the ones you mentioned.

Thanks again
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Re: Soft or Hard Plastic lures

#5 Post by baitdigger »

Indyexe wrote:Many thanks for the advice as I have never had much luck at the beginning of the season and never caught anything on soft plastics but will try the ones you mentioned.

Thanks again

I have had a couple of bass on dirty silver SG sandeel slugs on jigheads in the first few weeks of April this year.
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Indyexe
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Re: Soft or Hard Plastic lures

#6 Post by Indyexe »

Baitdigger - many thanks for your reply and very interesting web site.
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JimH
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Re: Soft or Hard Plastic lures

#7 Post by JimH »

Darol

regarding temp - softs work well in both the higher or lower temps - in fact the warmer water may give them more life, softs help your presentations by keeping your bait close to the bottom with a jig head - this is where bass spend a lot of time!
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biker
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Re: Soft or Hard Plastic lures

#8 Post by biker »

JimH wrote:Darol
regarding temp - softs work well in both the higher or lower temps - in fact the warmer water may give them more life, softs help your presentations by keeping your bait close to the bottom with a jig head - this is where Bass spend a lot of time!
Thanks for the tip man :D
2011 species: pollock,mackeral,coalfish,whiting,codling,conger,flounder,dogfish,pouting.Not bad for my first few months fishing :)

2012 species: Coalfish (13), Bass (1), Rockling (5), Ballan wrasse (2), Pollock (57), Dogfish (8),
Whiting (1), Conger (1)

Wish List : Double figure Pollock
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