Author Topic: Microfishing & Miniatures Gallery (Read 166637 times)

BAUMANNATOR · « **Reply #160 on:** April 10, 2015, 09:14:54 AM »

Allsorts, I'm always keen to learn. Have been surfing the net and found good info under Light Rock Fishing....also use micro soft lures and jigs. Please share. Have been testing jig fly ideas that I make.

WalkersKiller · « **Reply #161 on:** April 10, 2015, 09:20:34 AM »

What jig fly ideas have worked for you? Prefer catching micro's on a fly setup

I mainly use bait for my micro's, but I also use curly tails and pieces of berkley maggot...

allsorts · « **Reply #162 on:** April 10, 2015, 10:08:47 AM »

Quote from: dugongboy on April 10, 2015, 08:06:26 AM

That snoek in #152 looks like a seapike/pickhandle??

I know it has an almost uncanny resemblance to a pickhandle but deffo a snoek.

allsorts · « **Reply #163 on:** April 10, 2015, 10:12:54 AM »

Quote from: WalkersKiller on April 10, 2015, 09:20:34 AM

What jig fly ideas have worked for you? Prefer catching micro's on a fly setup

I mainly use bait for my micro's, but I also use curly tails and pieces of berkley maggot...

Let me say that I've been amazed how well the micro-jigging approach has worked - I've done a lot of fishing with SPs ( starting in 1990 in Durban harbour) and SW fly fishing but I think the MJs are at least as good, if not better than fly and SPs. Heaps of potential, especially once you mix jigs and small SPs together. I fantasize about being on a boat in Durban harbour near the Coal Terminal at dawn in mid-summer....

WalkersKiller · « **Reply #164 on:** April 10, 2015, 10:15:35 AM »

Nice! What is involved in the micro jigging purpose?

allsorts · « **Reply #165 on:** April 10, 2015, 10:55:58 AM »

I'll do a separate micro-jigging post over the weekend...

WalkersKiller · « **Reply #166 on:** April 10, 2015, 11:56:39 AM »

Awesome

BAUMANNATOR · « **Reply #167 on:** April 10, 2015, 06:12:59 PM »

Walkerskiller, I see you do lots of fly fishing for yellows....same idea, just use bucktail or jig with soft plastic for weight and lighter streamer fly on dropper...American striper fishermen do it using the bucktail or spoon with a teaser fly or soft plastic minnow on a dropper. Jigflies as I use are just flies tied aroung very small jig heads. Surf float and fly for further ideas.

WalkersKiller · « **Reply #168 on:** April 12, 2015, 10:15:42 AM »

Awesome, will give that a go!!!

allsorts · « **Reply #169 on:** April 12, 2015, 04:09:11 PM »

Ultralight / micro-jigging thread as mentioned http://www.ultimateangling.co.za/index.php?topic=19757.0

BAUMANNATOR · « **Reply #170 on:** April 12, 2015, 10:34:25 PM »

Walkerskiller here is a combo I use......self tied micro jig (balloon strip for tail) and twinflex fly (strip and cut to shape).

BAUMANNATOR · « **Reply #171 on:** April 12, 2015, 10:37:00 PM »

The shrimp is on a #14 mustard bait-holder.Simple and easy to tie, costs nothing and catches from glassies and tigers up.

WalkersKiller · « **Reply #172 on:** April 13, 2015, 07:33:17 AM »

Thats awesome! Want to give that a try asap!

allsorts · « **Reply #173 on:** April 13, 2015, 08:18:15 AM »

Yo that shrimp is a killer - we need what the fly boys call an SBS - step-by-step please. I'll post up on this later but combining a jigging spoon with 1 or more micro lures (like this shrimp) works very well as you get very good casting distance and an attractive action. I wonder what could be caught fishing micro-jigging spoon and 1 or 2 micro lures in the surf behind the shore break or in the channels you get at Winkelspruit for example.

BAUMANNATOR · « **Reply #174 on:** April 13, 2015, 09:50:40 AM »

It is what I use for wave garrick and have caught 'whiting' or bananna fish in the surf. Any surf from Toti to Winkel.

allsorts · « **Reply #175 on:** April 13, 2015, 10:16:27 AM »

Excellent - whiting is a great catch. I know they get them in Oz on small topwaters and my mate got one on SP (I think) in a Zululand estuary. I remember back in the 80's we stayed in Winkel and as the waves lifted over the rocks you could see lots of stone bream, blacktails etc. These days you don't see much in the waves anymore...

I'm working on a new to South Africa product which would allow you to fish those tiny shrimps at 30-40m over shallow rocks without snagging up - does that sound interesting....?

WalkersKiller · « **Reply #176 on:** April 13, 2015, 10:20:22 AM »

Quote from: allsorts on April 13, 2015, 10:16:27 AM

Excellent - whiting is a great catch. I know they get them in Oz on small topwaters and my mate got one on SP (I think) in a Zululand estuary. I remember back in the 80's we stayed in Winkel and as the waves lifted over the rocks you could see lots of stone bream, blacktails etc. These days you don't see much in the waves anymore...

I'm working on a new to South Africa product which would allow you to fish those tiny shrimps at 30-40m over shallow rocks without snagging up - does that sound interesting....?

Tell us more

allsorts · « **Reply #177 on:** April 13, 2015, 10:53:22 AM »

All in good time - need to maintain competitive edge till we are ready. Can be used just as well for flies, smalls SPs, small baits. What about redbait on the drift at 40m?

BAUMANNATOR · « **Reply #178 on:** April 13, 2015, 11:36:44 AM »

Resorted at times to using eye-drop bottles critically balanced with sand and water to get the depth you want and then let it drift in the wash.They cast far too. Other than using the bottom jig, I use running sinkers with trace wire through and 'pinched' at the top just like they use for bass, just helluva cheaper.

allsorts · « **Reply #179 on:** April 13, 2015, 12:47:26 PM »

Sounds like I need to send a sample or two to you for testing...