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The Fiiish Black Minnow as we all know has become incredibly popular, despite its relatively poor casting from the shore. Than about 10' (i.e bit less than shown). The bottom shad and the next jelly should not be more Readers of this blog will know of my recommendations relating to Fiiish Black Minnows from a couple of years back, along with Savage Gear Sandeels and other paddle tail designs that I find are safer to fish with from a kayak (no stray trebles hooks) and catch just as many fish.Д®arly test rigged failed as the Black Minnow 160 heads In recent years there have been a whole slew of designs targeting European sea bass in particular. Many of these originally came over from the USA and Japan where they're widely used for black bass fishing, though they'll pretty much catch anything predatory. Luckily my sea bass fishing had taken me down the route of soft lures several years previously. They might work ok on the their own, but when added to a rig of jellies the tide drag on a 100ft of water is considerable and means that shad needs to be at least around 100g / 4oz or more to fish the bottom effectively for cod. Unfortunately, even so called 'heavy' shads are often just not heavy enough for use on the kayak as they are not intended to be used with a string of jelly lures above them. Most large shads are not designed to be weedless, they're usually designed to go with a weighted head which is nearly always not weedless. The search was on for a weedless version of the big bottom shad. This time the culprit had to be the big bottom shad. We favour the 2' and 3' sizes, but it might be possible to go bigger.В Sometimes it is possible just to leave a rig of these in the current and watch your rod tip as fish try nibbling at them! Of course if let them do that too long, you'll reel in a string of bare hooks! But despite the success we had with these lures last year, we were still losing tackle to snags. I particularly like the Reins range of small paddletails calledВ 'Rockvibe Shad'.

Last year we tried for the first time replacing hokkais with tiny jelly lures rigged weedlessly and the results were fantastic. Neither am I wildly keen about littering the sea bed with heavy lead weights and the rest of the rubbish that anglers use. Now I don't like throwing money away as much as the rest of you. A single exposed hook surrounded with a bit of fluff and plastic! And having three of these on a rig means that pot lines, kelp forests and even rough ground are a recipe for snags and tackle losses. These themselves are a more effective replacement for the traditional cod feathers, but essentially they are the same.

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But the tackle losses continued to be heavy, despite the big shads only having a single hook and generally staying free of snags.ДЄnother fat cod falls to a big 6' bottom shad. We had already found that by replacing the traditional pirk with a big weighted shad, we caught more cod and bigger cod. Readers of this blog will know that last I tried some experimental rigs that replaced hokkais with small soft lures known sometimes as jelly worms or paddle tails.

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