It’s easy to make a good photo if you have such a beautiful sunset as you can see below. Sunsets are corny.

I was out, with my friend, on fishing today. We tried to catch some bass but were unsuccessful. Conditions were not right, so we knew we had a little chance for success  but tried to catch something anyway. Clear water, extremely low tide.

Oh well, if nothing we at least had some exercise. I tried something that resembles shore jigging the most, you take a cast master, cast it as far as you can and then jig it back. I tell you it is hard and painful job.

What kind of lure size do you prefer? Do you prefer bigger or smaller lures?

Rapala and Maria side by side

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A product of boring evening and a camera.

TOTO42 from DUO, TG-20 decor.  Great little lure! I think trout and also other fishes¹  will love it.

TOTO 42

1. chubs, gobies, weevers, painted combers,… [↩]

When I saw DUO lures on the internet for the first time, I was like OMG! Must have at least one of these.  And here some problems showed up. Most stores I could find that have DUO in their catalog sell Tide Minnow series. And here comes my second problem, most of these lures are off my lure budget limit. Most of them cost like 22-25 pounds which is around 25-30 euros, and most postal charges are too high to buy just one lure. Beside that, I’m more interested in smaller lures from DUO, like Tetra Works series, and Spearhed series.

But then I found out that one of the stores here in my country just started to sell DUO. Oh my! Need them, I must have them! I’m gonna go crazy if I don’t buy at least one. So I went and bought two lures. First I almost bought Toto 42 and Yurameki,  but then I changed my mind and bought Toto 42¹ and By Ruf SV-70².

Goby likes Bay Ruf

The same day I bought these two awesomenesses  we also went Egigng. A very successful technique invented by Japanese for squid fishing from shore. I’ve never tried this type of fishing before. ActuallyI never liked squid fishing at all, because our traditional technique is dyingly boring. But Eging is awesome, not boring at all.
So this was also a good chance to try how the new lures work. And I was impressed immediately. I tided on Bay Ruf and made first cast, and then second. BAM, strike! Omg, what was that? I first thought that it was a sea-bass who attacked the lure but didn’t hook properly and immediately fell off. But on the end, a decent goby was hooked on. That explained the strike and later no fighting back.

Almost smaller from its prey

Now, let’s say something about eging part of the fishing. It was my first time to try this technique, as I’ve already mentioned before. I like this technique, because it is more dynamic than our traditional. It is also pretty technical. You must know what lure to use in certain conditions and so on.
Because I don’t have my own set of lures, yet!, my friend Jolly borrowed me one. So I was able to learn the proper technique. With old lures I have, one can also do this technique, but it’s not the same as if you have lures specifically made for it.

The Monster, squid I mean

Unfortunately, despite I basically knew how to do this technique, and had a proper lure, I caught nothing. But I’m not disappointed at all. Plus, conditions were not ideal, it was just after Burja sopped blowing in the morning of that day. And first days after Burja usually are not very good for squid fishing.

But! We didn’t go home without a catch! Jolly caught a couple of cuttlefish AND one squid. It weighted at least a kilo if not more. Just look at that “kursk”.

I’m already planing to buy at least a few of these Yamashita lures and head out to try to catch some squid next time.

1. TG-20 color [↩]
2. GB-47 [↩]