Recent content by Plaicehunter

Me too!

Two points about circles. One is that offset circles deep-hook fish just like J hooks, so use only online circles such as Mustard Perfect Circles. Second point is that they don't work very well for conger. This is because they swim backwards with the bait, rather than turning to swim off and...

I think Sea Angler II picks up from the pontoon at Mount Batten, or used to. PH

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I have many happy memories of fishing Boscombe Pier when I was a teenager and young adult. My brother and I had some cracking bags of flounder, big dabs and many other species, but my best catch was a 17lb cod in autumn 1969 on my ABU 484 and Penn Squidder 146. It was landed by hand from the...

Circle hooks work on the principle that after taking the bait, the fish turns away and the hook is pulled into the scissors, the corner of the mouth on a typical round fish. This works reliably only if you use inline circles, ie hooks which are not offset. Unfortunately, not all fish obligingly...

My one and only red band fish was 'caught' coiled up like a belt inside a rather plump whiting!

Well it is Sunday, Gary! PH

Seems to have a lot in common with what I do! PH

Sorry if you found my answer unhelpful or lacking in detail. PH

I have had quite a lot of success fishing South Devon reef marks and inshore wrecks with a variation on slow jigging. I use a killer rig with two Slug-gos on droppers above the pirk, black-and-silver or black-and-gold being the most generally effective. The droppers are about 2ft and 4ft above...

Easy answer for me - this 80cm bass taken on a Megabass Flatbacker lure from my local estuary in May. Obviously a veteran fish which probably weighed a lot more than 10lb 8oz in its prime but what a tail!

There is a lot of pleasure in casting well with a multiplier. Back in the 1960s, when I started sea fishing, basic multipliers like the Penn Sea Boy and later the Mitchell 602AP had no braking system, so you had to use your thumb. Frustrating at first but very satisfying when you had learned the...

Always a good idea to fish hooks with incurved points when fishing over stony ground - less likely to snag or be blunted. PH