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Bang ..bang.. bang head.. smash lures .. gnash teeth
breathe .... in with hate... .out with love ... breathe.....
Right. So had a lunch session and I put my walking shoes on and left my usual stomping grounds. On my travels I come across at 3 different times what I will describe as 3 packs of horses. I've never seen bream so big. Now - when I presented my 25mm of yumminess to them they went nuts and I can only describe it as a fish fight. The issue: I ended up with 3 dropped fish. The first was on for at least 3 seconds before the lure pinged out. The last two well ... lots of bumps on the line and the micro vibe was in the middle of a melee of 4 or 5 fish ... strike ... nothing. Exciting. Yes. Frustrating. Very. I waited til I saw a 'tick'/bmp on the line then struck. I didn't let them hang around with it. As always, I look to the breammasters to tell me .... is there something I can fix in my technique or is that just fishing? Should I have let them have the lure for longer before striking? |
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Possibly blunt hooks?
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Only 1 way to find out. Try it next time you get a chance.
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Brand new owner stbc-36 trebles so hopefully can rule that out.
I'm thinking its more of an issue with the timing of my strike than equipment - thanks for you input though |
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If you've felt the tick and struck provided not too hard, then its all part of the game.
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Bream: 3, Sloth: 0
You should be glad to have such excitement in your lunch break! You'll get em next time... |
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I think Piscateur is right though. If anything I think a slightly softer drag on the first but otherwise - thems the breaks. |
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You're doin it right, sometimes youll pin them and sometimes not. Im with piscateur "its part of the game". I was there yesterday, dropped two good ones(both destroyed the trebles) and hooked one.
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I guess one other question .... I also had a number of follows where the bream went after the dropping vibe and both went out of sight below the depth of water clarity. I think in that situation you just let the lure keep falling yeah?
I couldn't seem to convert follows to strikes. It was kind of entertaining - there was a temporary platform on the water. Every cast to it would cause a couple or more bream to appear from underneath it and follow the lure. Regular as clockwork but they seemed content just to follow it. Switched from a micro vibe to a shinku and the following stopped. They know what they like |
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Yeah ... I'd read that too but I only had the 36s as replacements after the originals were destroyed. I've caught fish with the 36 equipped vibe so it still works ... hard to know if I miss fish though ... Probably need to get some lighter gauge 11s - only downside is they don't last long.
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I wonder for a lure such as this if using an extra split ring on the treble would improve hook up rate? I use double split rings on some lures which seems to help.
Camo |
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Funny you say that .... I was musing on experimenting with removing the treble entirely and just putting a pair of single stinger hooks on there. Might see how it swims in a bucket first tho ....
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