Advice on Lures

[Dave -------------------]

In October i will be spending my annual week fishing the river Bure around Horning.

Over the past few years i have had some success using both live and dead baits.

I would like to give lure tactics a try.

I realise that there are no hard and fast answers, but i would appreciate comments on some points.

1. If you could only afford 5/6 lures which ones would you take.

2. Would lure fishing be productive at this time of year on the Bure

 

[Rob Brownfield]

Firstly, I would recommend contacting Harris angling and The Brundall Angling Centre, both of which are lure supplies based in Norfolk. They should be able to help u no end.

Lures i would no go anywhere without are as follows

A copper spoon. Old and out of fasion, but deadly. One about 28g should do fine.

Several rubber shads and hooks around 5 inches in silver or orange/yellow if the water is dirty. (same price as a normal lure)

An Abu hi-lo in pike colours. Lets u fish from surface to down deep.

Rapala Shad Raps in Roach or Perch colour

Several large Mepps spinners in silver.


With these simple, and on the whole, cheap lures, you will almost certainly catch. I also like Flipper jerkbaits, Jake and Grandma lures, big rapalas etc...but u are looking at a tenner each for these....ouch.

Infact, I would be tempted to tell u to just arm yourself with as mant rubber lures as u can as i have been doing fantastic with them, and they are relatively cheap. Infact, Harris do a bargin bucket of 200 shads, grubs etc for under ?20..well worth looking at. Remember, u will need jig hooks to go with them!

Good luck on your quest!

 

[Richard Drayson]

Some good advice from Rob about choice of lures and everybody will have their favourites. My faves would include the Shakespeare Big-S, South Bend Oreno, along with a couple of Ondex spinners.

 

[Chris Bishop]

Copper spoons work all over and they're dead cheap. You can get blanks (spoons without hooks/rings etc) for two or three quid for a couple.

 

[Nicky Garbutt]

my all time fav's are
1 rapala minnow spoon
2 nils master spear head
3 rubber shads
4 rapala jointed "j-13"
5 and a big buck tail spinner.

 

[Dave -------------------]

Thanks for all the replys

Rob, do Harris angling have a web site ?

With the rubber type lures i assume you need to use an inline type weight to get them down in the water ?

and excuse my ignorance but "jig-hooks" i guess a particulaer type of hook used in rubber lures ?

Chris, do you know any stockists for the cooper blanks ?

Anyone use lures on the Bure ?

 

[Nicky Garbutt]

www.harrisangling.co.uk

and yes the best way ive found is to use jig hooks cause the don't get snagged as much as other lures.

and sorry i can't hely you with the rest

good luck

 

[Nicky Garbutt]

make the spoon out of old copper boilers which i get for nout cause im trainning as a plumber. cheap lures for me !

 

[Rob Brownfield]

Dave........ The jig hooks are basically a hook with a weighted head moulded on it, made from lead. They come in all sizes from a few grams upto ounces in eight. Nip onto the harris site and u should see them on there.

All u do is take a shad and thread it onto the hook so the weight is against its nose and the hook stands proud of the back.

Have a look at the Toothy Critter Head Cases. These are a modern version of shads...u will see how the hook sits.

Best thing about thses is that they are virtually weedless coz the hook pionts up the way.

Another site to look at is www.fish4lures.co.uk

 

[Dave -------------------]

Thanks chaps,

I have been on the Harris site, very impressed, couldn't help but order a few lures selected with your help.

They arrived this morning only ordered them on tuesday night.

Got a copy of the catalogue thrown in and i see what you are saying about hooks Rob.

May order the bargin bucket as you suggested.

 

[Rob Brownfield]

Dave, log onto there site everyday...have a look at the half price bargin section. I have saved a FORTUNE by getting lures from there. I bought a heap of Beastie jerkbaits from there with a saving of ?30 )

www.luremania.co.uk is another good site

 

[Dave -------------------]

Went fishing last Friday, used my new Lures
only one fish a Jack around 5lbs but the fact i caught it on a lure made it a good day.
Plus no one else was catching on deads.

Rob i got the Mega pack of rubber lures this morning and there are some pretty wierd looking things in there !

Also included were some 'Jig' Type hooks although not weighted so not sure if Jig hook is the correct term.

Anyway whats the best way to get the hook into these rubber shads, had a quick try this morning anf it seems a bit tricky, i am sure there must be an easy way !

Any advice welcome as usual

 

[Nicky Garbutt]

just brute force thread them on the hook nosie first right up to the eye.

 

[Rob Brownfield]

Dave...the hooks that u have will probably be for the worms and grubs. Generallt, you push the hook into the nose and out through the back so it fished point up.

Have a look at some of the american sites on soft baits...they have pics etc on how to rig....

Have a look at http://fishing.about.com/library/weekly/aa092198.htm and work through the links...photos of how to rig worms etc
Also try http://www.bassresource.com/features/soft_plastics.html or http://www.thefishingline.com/using.htm which has a section explaining shads