boat fishing

[Guest]

hi lads,can anyone tell and give advice on best lures for pollock and what colour works best,and what sort of set up should i use for ling cheers.

[codseeker]

for ling large baited daylites mackerel strips shud get you ling or pirks

[KeithB]

or a flowing trace with 8/0 or 10/0 baited with a big slice or whole mackeral flapper.

Also caught pollack on the same rigs.

Shads, jelly worms etc good for pollack.

[oldessox]

Firetail jellyworms , the black body red tail ones are deadly for pollock , but so are those cheapy silver cloured metal mackerel spinners , loads of pollock been caught on them off Amble. For the ling get a set of giant hokkais 7/0 hooks and put half a side of mackerel on the bottom two hooks and drop it hard on the bottom as close to a wreck as you can get it , rarely fails to take a ling or two (cod like em as well )
When you've mastered it and worked out how to catch the BIG ones , don't post it on here just send me the details in a p.m. lol
Happy hunting

Ray

[The Great Wallsendo]

Firetail jellyworms , the black body red tail ones are deadly for pollock , but so are those cheapy silver cloured metal mackerel spinners , loads of pollock been caught on them off Amble. For the ling get a set of giant hokkais 7/0 hooks and put half a side of mackerel on the bottom two hooks and drop it hard on the bottom as close to a wreck as you can get it , rarely fails to take a ling or two (cod like em as well )
When you've mastered it and worked out how to catch the BIG ones , don't post it on here just send me the details in a p.m. lol
Happy hunting

Ray

are the spinners being fished on a flowing trace? that's so simple it's genious

[keithm]

most ling i,ve caught have been on the pirk , 1st time i ever went on a boat i caught a massive ling in the 80s period, head was massive real big biggest ling i,ve ever seen in my life , anway this was first proper trip on boat and at time there was 17 on boat all into fish and 1 gaff, this ling just needed gaffing and i had my bro shouting at me to get the gaff but i had 100lb line on so i thought plenty of time but no line snapped fish rose but thats the last i seen of it always remember it though as its head was enormous trying to shake pirk out

[wildcard]

All good advice. Everyone nowadays seem to use Calamari squid which is marketed for human consumption and usually originates from California. It is bleached to make the flesh paler.

The best bait is unwashed Ilex or Loligo squid which usually originates from Argentina or South America. The Loligo is normaly 90mm to 125mm in length and is the best squid bait available (in my opinion)

Ilex squid is huge, sometimes 10 inches long. Unbleached, unwashed it is killer bait.

Alan

[oldessox]

are the spinners being fished on a flowing trace? that's so simple it's genious

Any which way , one of the lads I fish with is a lazy so and so and regularly leaves his rod in the rod rest fishing a lure just below mid water , he always catches pollock like that , can't do it myself , I have to be working the bait/lure all the time. We used to take a light spinning rod with 10lb braid , tie a mackerel spinner on the end cast out let it sink a while , retrieve ...... pollock , some up to 7lb, till he got carried away one day and snapped the rod. I've caught them on jelly worms on a flowing trace , sink and draw style , and one or two cod too but I prefer to fish with big baits hard on the bottom most of the time looking for something heavier

Ray

[keithm]

All good advice. Everyone nowadays seem to use Calamari squid which is marketed for human consumption and usually originates from California. It is bleached to make the flesh paler.

The best bait is unwashed Ilex or Loligo squid which usually originates from Argentina or South America. The Loligo is normaly 90mm to 125mm in length and is the best squid bait available (in my opinion)

Ilex squid is huge, sometimes 10 inches long. Unbleached, unwashed it is killer bait.

Alan

yea alan ya right about stuff in shops as i read about them bleaching it too