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Post by dimebagfromhell on Nov 27, 2005 17:35:22 GMT -1
anyone ever had any luck with using minnows for salmon, trout or seatrout? do u need fast water touse them properly? does anone know anywhere u can still get this minnows at a cheap price?
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Post by PB in a spin on Nov 27, 2005 18:12:05 GMT -1
Lots of fish (salmon) on them over the years. Used to turn the wooden ones myself on a lathe, saw slots and fit them with sheet plastic or celluloid fins, proof, undercoat and paint them. Still have dozens somewhere. 'Dibro' paint-them-yourself plastic minnow shells were good, too.
I still make my own Quills - do a batch made from turkey, goose or discarded swan quills found at the waterside every few years. Cut the fins from fine sheet aluminium - a real fiddle but the finished product is both pretty and pretty 'handy'. Still available commercially I believe, but the wire hooklinks used can be problematic - weakening from continued bending and being bent back straight, only to break in a larger fish...
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Post by Paul Dunstan on Nov 27, 2005 18:19:08 GMT -1
You have a PM.
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Post by Mike Connor on Nov 29, 2005 13:19:56 GMT -1
anyone ever had any luck with using minnows for salmon, trout or seatrout? do u need fast water touse them properly? does anone know anywhere u can still get this minnows at a cheap price? Have not used them for years, but I used to make most of my own. Copper pipe, brake pipe, quills, plastic, and I turned up quite a few in wood, duralon, other plastics, ( perspex is a bugger to machine), and aluminium. Good takers, but terrible line twist, even with a vane on the line. I made them with the fins set so that some turned clockwise, and the others anti-clockwise, and changed them regularly. This type of manufactured bait was never cheap to buy. Same with plugs and such like. The really good ones, Rapala, Yo-zuri, some Irish quill minnows ( Really good!), were always comparatively expensive. Nowadays I use flies more or less exclusively, except for the occasional excursion to the "dark side". At one time, I used to do a lot of spinning and plugging, and even more bait fishing, but with the right flies, one can fish in practically any conditions, and it is also a lot easier, and cheaper to boot! One can also make up poppers and the like quite easily, and these are sometimes very effective indeed. Mind you, if I had to buy them, I would soon be bankrupt! TL MC
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Post by Mike Connor on Nov 29, 2005 13:36:35 GMT -1
By the way, plugs can sometimes be extremely successful. Most of the double figure ( freshwater) seatrout here are caught on plugs, and a very large portion of the Baltic seatrout are also caught on a special type of plug. "Küstenwobbler", see here; www.angelsport-appel.de/assets/s2dmain.html?http://www.angelsport-appel.de/meer/meerforelle/kuestenwobbler/thinkbig.anglerwebs.de/index.php?cPath=29One can also make very good wobblers, devon minnows, etc etc with hot glue. Carve a simple mould in wood, or aluminium, lead etc, ( whichever you find easiest to work with), polish it with silicone wax, and Bob´s your Uncle. One can also build very good moulds using silicon kautschuk. Quick, easy and cheap. TL MC
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