In article , Gandalf
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However my son snagged up a few times and lost two of my traces and my new
"chubby shad"

Something we tend to forget is how those new to them lose so many lures.
Most of us buy half a dozen new ones before a *special* trip, say the week
away or the trip to the expensive, renowned water - but then we keep using
the same lures until the next such trip a year later...

Beware lending your gear to a friend for their first attempt with lures.

With experience it's usually possible to extract even a well armed lure
from a far-bank branch or a surf-lashed rock - but the "I've never caught a
fish on a spinner before" guest promptly loses lures to the value of 50 quid
before you even notice how he's getting hung up :-(

Lure fishing is actually very cheap when you get past the losing one lure in
ten trips level...

Not a single bite all day and we tried everything, smelt and bluies ledgerd,
bunged and even sink and drawn. Spinners, plugs and soft lures galore but
nothing. The only fish had out of about 10 anglers was a foul hooked perch
on a spinner, right through the tail.

The big weather change will have put them down. We needed it and it will
have done the rivers no end of good but it'll be a week before I'd expect
the pike to feed again.

Best of all was that I was given two cheep little lures by three kids, they

day they gave me these lure to say thank you which I think is so unusual
these days unfortunately.

Aw, there are a few decent kids around then. Well done them.

So it is not necessary to catch fish to have a good day me thinks. However I
would have like to have caught one and not lost a lure I was really looking
forward to using some day.VBG

g Console yourself: the lure -we- think looks really good is rarely the
one the fish think looks really good.

Cheerio,

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