Over the past week or so we've been out after the trout again and trying to tempt them with some new lures. I have to say that we were particularly impressed with the quality of
these new lures, much like little scaled down bass plugs and with price
tags to match. However we were interested to see how they would compare
with the old tried and trusted Rapala F5, and were particularly
impressed with the little Smith Panish. A lovely little lure to use and
proved to be a good fish catcher too, although we did find ourselves
casting a lot more carefully than we normally would for fear of losing
them in overhanging trees.
I also got a chance to try out some interesting handmade trout lures made by a company called Taps. My friend Tomasz from Sea Bass Hunting sent me on a couple of them to try out and I have to say I was impressed, lovely little lures.
As before we found dusk and well into the dark to be the most productive times and caught plenty of fish between the two of us, with Sam catching the best of them.
My Set-up:
Rod: Cormoran ULX 1-9g
Reel: Shimano Rarenium CI4 2500Ra
Line: Sunline Rockfish 0.3PE braid
Sam's Set-up:
Rod: Cormoran ULX 1-9g
Reel: Daiwa Certate 2500
Line: Varivas 0.3 light game braid
Leader: Triple fish 6lb
