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Sorry mate I like chesil , but chesil isn’t around Plymouth, I can fish for them a hours drive away , but I was looking for some where local
Wot bait squidy strips of Mac or rag ???
Only one real choice of bait for them over this way and that's maddies
Rag tail or a tiny bit of mac, literally the size of the white bit on your nail, trim the meat off the back, so essentially a bit of belly skin. Mount this on a size 12 or 14 hook. White foam pop ups on 6ft floro links. I use the foam sold to carp anglers to put in boilies to pop them up. Bigger pop ups for macs, 1cm length of 5mm foam for gars and mullet. I've had thick lips to 6lb4oz doing this. Ground baiting works well, but if the macs been driving white bait up the beach they've done the work for you. Some use a small bomb and quiver tip as an alternative method.
I found rag worm was good
Thanks for that mate thinking of giveing it a go at comp in fortnight atm weather looks pucker for it whould an Ian golds palegic rig work 6 ft trace whould you use Fluorocarbon and wot size do you recommend bud and I guess bead colour makes no difference be interesting to hear your thoughts bud ??
Have you tried maddies or small whites? will outfish anything else easily on the Welsh beaches
I use a rig body around 8ft long, hook link either end around 6ft long, I find white pop up foam the best, 4 or 5mm in diameter, 10 to 15mm in length, size 10 to 12 fine wire (so the hook is very light!). 100% use flouro ? some match anglers go very light, but I stick around 8lb. Tiny baits for gars and mullet. Yes the IG rig will work but I definitely prefer multiple hooks. For macs and scad I use huge pop ups, bits of white foam, 4 inches long, half inch wide. Decent for bream as well, just knit them onto a normal clip down rig. The scad are there now and will always appear around dusk along the edge. You might need to draw the fish in, chum with oils and sawdust, fish scraps is good ?
Ig rig is two traces top and bottem is saw dust best for chum was gonna use stale bread but if you tho k it’s better orso been saveing all old fish baits sand eel bluey and macs and got some pilchard oil to go with wot sort of consistency am I looking for mate ???
Hard to get hold of down here bud ?
Pretty hard to get hold of any where unless you get out with a fork, although you can buy them from some tackle shops in South wales. You can buy farmed maddies as well from Dragon baits which are not bad,
Get it all in there mate ? as long as you can get it in the water 20ft or so I wouldn't worry about consistency, the bread should help bind it though. Bread will sink eventually, the sawdust floats away in the tide drawing the fish in as it soaks up the oils. Just wack up a good mix.
