spoonminnow
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What are you using, set up wise? Perch are masters of throwing the hook.A query for you. Much as I love light lure fishing, the inconvenient truth is that I lose too many fish, certainly more than with bait or when using what I used to call plugs (but which everyone now seems to call crank baits). I put this down to the easily torn soft membrane surrounding the perch's mouth, exacerbated by the mass of the weighted jig head . Oddly , some fish are incredibly well hooked , even small perch on large lures but infuriatingly, I have lost several very big perch on similar sized lures.
I use braid (of course) and sharp hooks and wonder if my problem may be that if a take results in solid resistance I don't strike hard enough . Or, sometimes , when something has hammered the lure and already is taking line , I probably don't strike at all as it seems unnecessary to do so in that situation . Pike usually stay on, but I still experience higher loss rates than with other methods .
Any thoughts, from your experience across the pond ?
What weight rods are you using, I’m sure your probably not but if you were say using a 25-50g or something rod for Perch, you may find it too stiff to soak up the shakes.Rods vary from Shimano Zodias to Drennan Drop Shot, Fox etc . Reels are the usual 2500/3000 suspects with 0.10- 0.13 braid , fluoro 8-10lb or Surflon 11lb where pike are an issue , jig hooks 2-5g , 6 to 2/0 depending on lure size . Hooks resharpened as necessary . Pretty routine stuff , I think