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Paddletail the Beaver and His Neighbors

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Hollow Body Paddle Tail Swimbaits

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Here the more natural colours seem to work better. These days it is difficult to find the River-to-Sea and Ratfink versions.

To rig plastic squid, use a Gamakatsu Soi-Eye hook that will suit the size of the squid. Take the off-set out of the hook and stiff rig it to a short length of piano wire. Use an all-bright to join your fluoro-carbon to the piano wire so that there is a very short length of wire between the hook and your fluoro-carbon. This is determined by the size of the squid you are using.

The all-bright knot is effectively the stopper although I like to put a soft glow bead or piece of closed cell foam onto the fluoro-carbon and pull it down to the knot before threading the plastic squid over this.

Basstrix Paddle Tail Swimbait

This will ensure that the lure stays straight during long hard casts. Plastic Squid are generally used in very clean and calm conditions when fish are very shy of all other lures, therefore it is important to fish your dropper quite long. Sometimes one has to go to a length of as much as two metres. When working the plastic squid, try to use a fast, erratic, jerking action with the squid suspending in between jerks.

Whilst this is definitely the most productive method of retrieve, it can often be fished in very short, sharp jerks or just on a constant fast retrieve. Flies We have had some special flies tied that have a very three-dimensional profile and suspend beautifully.


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With very large eyes and a very tough construction, they last well but should definitely be fished over a sandy bottom rather than a rocky one. The fish imitation rides with the hook pointing down and in a strong current or fast retrieve, will get really low down and quickly snag on a rock. We will be fitting weed-guards to some of the models. I found these flies extremely productive on Spotted Pompano and Kingfish when they will not respond to spoons and plugs. Chartreuse, Pink and Grey are the hot colours.

The best retrieve that I have found is a fairly gentle, long sweep of the rod, holding it in the horizontal position with the butt under the arm and then a gentle flick of the spinning reel handle to give it a few cranks before the next sweep of the rod. As can be seen from the photos you are not limited to a sinker as the weight. It is often a very good idea to use a GT Ice Cream Needle Nose if the fish are up near the surface, or to use an Iron Candy Bullet Spoon if the fish are a little further down in the water column. These sorts of lures without their hooks on act as a teaser to pull the fish in and when they see the fly they almost invariably engulf it.

Generally one will resort to this sort of lure when the water is clean or calm or both and the fish are not responding to the bolder lures, so it is a good idea to fish with a relatively long dropper. My favourite is a two-ounce barrel sinker. Take some number 19 wire, fold it in half and put a 5, or 6 power swivel onto the wire eye that has been formed. Push the end of the wire down the hole of the barrel swivel and where it comes out on the other end turn it up so that it cannot pull back through the hole.

Trim off the excess wire and then using a hammer round off the end closing the hole and hiding the wire. If you do a lot of lure fishing one of the most practical ways to fish is to have a short leader which does not go into your guides on the cast your leader should be the length of your drop. At the end of the leader you will have a 5 or 6 power swivel which is permanently attached, or you may even have a short piece of kinky wire joined to the leader by an Allbright again with the power swivel permanently attached.

Using this system one can change quickly via a split ring from one lure to another or one can simply attach the rig for casting the flies, paddle tails, etc. Plastic Squid There are two plastic squid that work very well.