The eyes fogged of dreams, you'll not regret the view over your beach casters. Foggy dawn in Lannion bay  -(22)

 

ithout making an exhaustive list, the baits I use most usually are the cuttlefish, the arenicola marina (and you will find here an "how to freeze" example), the razorfish, the sipuncula (see picture) or the mya arenaria, one particular bait is the soft crab.


I can however ensure you that the bass or the sea-bream does not wait for the "peeling" to stuff themselves with a "hard" crab.

An advice : a blow of teeth in the shell to let flow the "juice" and that's it !

Remove one grip or both with the so much appreciated quick welvet-swiming crabs would not be too much.

 

 

A significant detail that I would like to underline here :
Even if the oil tastes nowadays are becoming common to the fishes' taste bud, wash your hands thoroughly before hooking your bait.

Effectively, a simple drop of gas oil or some PPM of benzene on your hands skin when filling up your tank, will transfer integrally to your bait and will do the "monster" you're waiting for since one year and more, spit out the mouthful you are proposing. (something you'd never know).

Moreover, I suspect the sea water salt to "magnify" those traces of unknown smell in marine medium.What is true for fuel oil is also true for after shave perfumes and others..

 

or night surfcasting, it is not possible to fish seriously without knowledge of the sands where you'll cast your baits on. Thus, do scout your future fishing spot at low tide, know by heart the location of the boulder rocks on the sandy beach where you'll stand.

Measure the distances, evaluate the area between the -say 60 to 120 metres- (where you're supposed to cast), foresee your position at high tide : there is nothing as different as a daily low tide beach when you return there at high tide to fish in a dark night.

Have a look down on the sand : check or guess the types of baits available on the fishing spot. Imagine the currents according to the configuration of the terrain. Set yourself in the scaly skin of your future prey.

• Where would you pass ?
• Nose toward the current ?
• Or descending the flow back of the tide ?
  

An other important question :
what is the orientation of this beach ?
Knowing the wind forecast is NNW, would it be more productive than this other one differently oriented ?

Peanut Worms
Sipuncula










Even if the oil tastes...













There is nothing as different as low / high tide beach.