Ultra Light starts

[Butcherboy]

My ultra light journey starts in morning. Quite looking forward to this

 

[John Aston]

You will bloody love it, I bet. Progress reports please.

My tentative view is that this prolonged high pressure weather is making the fish disinclined to move far or fast for a lure. Takes I had in September, with more unstable conditions , were often violent . Now most are very subtle.

 

[ian g]

I'm looking forward to hearing how you go on . I enjoy lure fishing but just don't do enough . Need to remedy that.

 

[Butcherboy]

Will report in gents, out Monday River Hull hopefully

 

[The Sogster]

Look forward to your results in the 'Simon Pavey memorial big perch challenge'

 

[Butcherboy]

Managed a couple of hours this morning. Small Perch and something that felt like a Marlin on this setup unfortunately the big one slipped the hook. Great fun

 

[Butcherboy]

Look forward to your results in the 'Simon Pavey memorial big perch challenge'

I'll try

 

[Butcherboy]

Fantastic scrap on light gear

 

[flightliner]

My ultra light journey starts in morning. Quite looking forward to this
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I have the same pair of scissors.
Good luck with the ultra light setup BB hope you net a few nice fish!

 

[John Aston]

Most fishing involves taking far too much gear- and one of the charms of fly fishing and ultralight lure fishing is how little gear you need. Apart from rod, reel and net , nearly all my ultralight gear is in this zip bag . If your signifcant other buys Clinique stuff at the perfume counter , bags like these are often free. They are brilliant at holding all your stuff for a day's sport. (And terrific for leads, feeders etc too).

I don't like having jigs loose as they can get jumbled up and even damaged. I use these very small snap lid fly boxes , and they are perfect.

My tackle audit shows I have 2 or 3 of these boxes spare. They are all well used but still fit for purpose. It is nearly the season of goodwill , so if anyone wants one , let me know and you can have it FOC .

 

[Keith M]

I use these boxes for keeping some very small 4cm plugs in which I was going to try for Chub; however I haven’t yet got around to replacing the treble hooks with single hooks; so haven’t used them yet.
I also have one for keeping a few of my very small mepp’s spinners in.



Keith

 

[Butcherboy]

Confidence is building

 

[@Clive]

Well done.

This and John's thread had me digging out my own UL outfit. I also dug around in my old fly-tying box and found some long shank lure hooks and copper beads that will come in handy for drop-shotting and adding a bit of weight to small latex paddle tail lures. The temperature is dropping down to low single figures though as the week progresses so it might be a few days beforer they get an airing.

 

[Butcherboy]

Well done.

This and John's thread had me digging out my own UL outfit. I also dug around in my old fly-tying box and found some long shank lure hooks and copper beads that will come in handy for drop-shotting and adding a bit of weight to small latex paddle tail lures. The temperature is dropping down to low single figures though as the week progresses so it might be a few days beforer they get an airing.

Ive been really enjoying it. Might be a bit too cold this week from today though

 

[Butcherboy]

Starting to get addictive now

 

[Butcherboy]

-4'c start to the day today. 35 Perch to a 1lb in a couple of hours. This style of fishing has totally hooked me
The Milfine Ghost Blade is a joy to use, I'm fishing 0.6g jigheads and can't fault it.