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I'm planning on fishing around the Torbay area towards the end of March.
I've read that it's not a great time of the year for fishing in that area, but you can target pollock and wrasse.
I've caught wrasse from the rocks before by just dropping a line with bait directly in front of me.
I'd now like to target pollock as well, using various lures (rubber sandeels, metal lures, etc.).
The marks I'm looking at are pretty deep water and some of the rock points I'm thinking about fishing from won't allow me to cast particularly far, because of the limited space (i.e. rocks or walls behind me) and my not-too-great casting ability.
I also wanted to use a weighted rig to get to a good depth, as close in to the rocks as possible.
Everything I've seen online suggests using a ball or barrel weight on the main line, followed by the snood length with a lure at the end.
I just wanted to know, will a Whitby or single paternoster lure rig work just as well from the rocks? I've only read about Whitby lure rigs being used for wreck fishing, not shore fishing.
If the pollock numbers are low - I spotted a couple of posts mentioning that just before I posted this - is there anything else worth trying for from this type of location? Even squid, dogfish, rockling, etc.?
I've read that it's not a great time of the year for fishing in that area, but you can target pollock and wrasse.
I've caught wrasse from the rocks before by just dropping a line with bait directly in front of me.
I'd now like to target pollock as well, using various lures (rubber sandeels, metal lures, etc.).
The marks I'm looking at are pretty deep water and some of the rock points I'm thinking about fishing from won't allow me to cast particularly far, because of the limited space (i.e. rocks or walls behind me) and my not-too-great casting ability.
I also wanted to use a weighted rig to get to a good depth, as close in to the rocks as possible.
Everything I've seen online suggests using a ball or barrel weight on the main line, followed by the snood length with a lure at the end.
I just wanted to know, will a Whitby or single paternoster lure rig work just as well from the rocks? I've only read about Whitby lure rigs being used for wreck fishing, not shore fishing.
If the pollock numbers are low - I spotted a couple of posts mentioning that just before I posted this - is there anything else worth trying for from this type of location? Even squid, dogfish, rockling, etc.?