Shorts & T-Shirt Fishing Is Here!

Glorious weather, calm clear seas, finally the chance to get out fishing in just t-shirt and shorts. No sweaty cumbersome waders, time to work on that tan! Fished with my Nories Jig Head Snapper and a Certate 2506 reel. Decided to go with the fantastic Sunline 0.6PE RockFish braid, and also took along a spare spool for the reel, with some Sunline FC Sniper fluoro mainline in 10lb.

Wanted to try out a new jig from MARS, a scaled up sorta version of the Illex B'eye I was using for the LRF styles last week. The MARS jig comes in at 7g, and you can rig it with various softs of your choice. Went with a Nories 4" Shrilpin, and first cast, I was into a fish, a Pollack, which came thick and fast over the whole session. Also mixed in, were the occasional Wrasse, as the jig made it's way to the bottom, bouncing over the mixed ground.

Switched over to a 10g Ecogear Iwashi jighead, rigged with a 4.5" OSP DoLive Crawler, and blasted it out far. Had a take on the drop, and the familiar shakes and runs of a Mackerel were transmitted down the rod.

Finished the session off with some Texas rigged softs. This is why I really love the Nories Jig Head Snapper, it's a superb softs rod, allowing you to fish light LRF styles, right through to heavier HRF rigs, doing the job very well across the whole range. Picked up a couple more Wrasse, before calling it a day.