first match comp

Joined: Apr 03, 2010 Posts: 3 Location: isle of man

hello
going to fish the isle of man ramsey week in may any good tips for me as its the first big comp iv fished and dont want to look a complete TOOL on the beach.
had some good ones from some people just wanted to no wat you all thought.

many thanks.

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 1:33 pm

MY PHILOSOPHY IS
small hooks catch big and small fish
big hooks normally only catch big fish

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 4:28 pm

So use small hooks and catch everything.
Cheers
keith big grin

Joined: Apr 03, 2010 Posts: 3 Location: isle of man

thanks for the tips iv made flappers and loop with small hooks.

Member Joined: Feb 11, 2010 Posts: 98

Duff advice for this particular match - you'll be fishing for dogfish so you want reasonable size hooks - white ragworm if you can get it and sandeels- and make sure you can cast straight

Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 9:07 pm

Are you telling me that dogfish can't be caught on size 2/0 long shanked aberdeen's?

Member Joined: Feb 11, 2010 Posts: 98

Nope I'm not saying that at all Rabbi because nobody actually mentioned specific size of hooks other than to say use small hooks-

who mentioned 2/0's? I cant see that size mentionaed anywhere apart fromyour reply to my post.

it depends on what your definition of small hooks are- what I would say to you is that 2/0's are generally considered to be big hooks by shore match anglers. 2/0's would be fine for targetting doggies- personally I'd use size 1 Kamasans for doggies.

Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:10 am

Sorry my friend, as usual I misinterpreted your post and I do apologise.
Cheers
keith big grin