What are some lures to use in saltwater?
19.January, 2010
I live in Canada, Vancouver, and i go fishing at White Rock pier(it’s not exactly pier, it;s like pier) I havent caught anythin ther, i went there only like 2 times. I couldnt figure out the lures to use. So here are the questions.
1.What are some lures to use?
2.What tides are good?(Like 2 hours after the highest tide)
3.Does the tide reports like forecast, because it;s only 7:18PM here and it shows like after 12′o clock
Hey man i live on vancouver island and tidal fish from the docks all the time. Your best bet would not be lures it’s bait. I like to use small peices of herring, uncooked bacon, uncooked shrimp, small crabs and small mussels off the side of the dock. I fish all of these with a jig head like a 1/8 ounce and just drop it down to the bottom and then reel up a foot or so and jig it.
Use very small pulls from 9 o’clock to 10 or 11 o’clock it you use your body as clock and your rod as the hour hand. I would not use lures to much around here as there are not to many species that you can catch besides salmon that don’t live on the bottom of the ocean, and salmon aren’t easy to catch and aren’t very common to catch from shore or the dock.
I dont really discriminate on tides and times, but if you had to choose I`d say to go about half an hour before high tide as small food matter is being swept into shore, but it truly doesn`t matter.
You look to be fishing from a fairly nice pier, but if you are going to be fishing from the high parts of the dock that are way above the dock, i would invest in a heavier rod so that you can lift what ever you catch up onto the dock.
I would recommend fishing from the end of the dock as it looks to be deeper from my recollection ( fished there this summer while on vacation) as the larger fish tend to live in the deeper waters around this part or the world.
The fish you can catch are most likely cod, staghorn sculpin, shiner perch, ling (cod), and perhaps flounder if your lucky. If you catch a sculpin be very careful of it`s head as on each of it`s gill plates there are razer sharp spines that can really do damage if you gab it by the head. I would reccomend you step lightly on it`s head so that oyu can remove the hook, for this i would recommend you bring a pair of needle nose pliers.
Stay away from lures and stick to bait as anything will take bait but not everything will take a lure, and a last bit of advice, use a lighter leader than your mainline as there is nothing worse that getting snagged and losing you swivel and most of you mainline, especially when you 50-100 feet down.
Good luck and tight lines
19.January, 2010 um 6:44 pm
lures? try small first, see what kinds of small fish there are, small jigheads with whirly tail grubs are a good start, small spoons and really small fish imitations are also good choices, once you find some fish, try bigger until you don’t get any anymore, sometimes you only have smaller fish near the shore(like where your at).
fish on the incoming high tide, the tide brings fish in from the ocean, sometimes big ones.
with the tide forecast, the tides will relatively be the same between 2-3 days, then there’s a little difference, if you know the tide times for the night before, you should be safe to use those estimates again.
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19.January, 2010 um 6:59 pm
Hey man i live on vancouver island and tidal fish from the docks all the time. Your best bet would not be lures it’s bait. I like to use small peices of herring, uncooked bacon, uncooked shrimp, small crabs and small mussels off the side of the dock. I fish all of these with a jig head like a 1/8 ounce and just drop it down to the bottom and then reel up a foot or so and jig it.
Use very small pulls from 9 o’clock to 10 or 11 o’clock it you use your body as clock and your rod as the hour hand. I would not use lures to much around here as there are not to many species that you can catch besides salmon that don’t live on the bottom of the ocean, and salmon aren’t easy to catch and aren’t very common to catch from shore or the dock.
I dont really discriminate on tides and times, but if you had to choose I`d say to go about half an hour before high tide as small food matter is being swept into shore, but it truly doesn`t matter.
You look to be fishing from a fairly nice pier, but if you are going to be fishing from the high parts of the dock that are way above the dock, i would invest in a heavier rod so that you can lift what ever you catch up onto the dock.
I would recommend fishing from the end of the dock as it looks to be deeper from my recollection ( fished there this summer while on vacation) as the larger fish tend to live in the deeper waters around this part or the world.
The fish you can catch are most likely cod, staghorn sculpin, shiner perch, ling (cod), and perhaps flounder if your lucky. If you catch a sculpin be very careful of it`s head as on each of it`s gill plates there are razer sharp spines that can really do damage if you gab it by the head. I would reccomend you step lightly on it`s head so that oyu can remove the hook, for this i would recommend you bring a pair of needle nose pliers.
Stay away from lures and stick to bait as anything will take bait but not everything will take a lure, and a last bit of advice, use a lighter leader than your mainline as there is nothing worse that getting snagged and losing you swivel and most of you mainline, especially when you 50-100 feet down.
Good luck and tight lines
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