Good Morning all.
Thought you bass fundies would be able to assist me, although I want to apply this to bream catching in the Kavango River. (I always say that the Nembwe is the "african native bass" since their feeding habits, behaviour, angling methods ect. are almost identical..)
We had inter-club bream trails this past weekend, and the following was apparent:
The bream were holding in heavy cover along the banks of the river (papyrus/reeds/watergrass). Spinnerbaits/Jigs worked OK, since you were able to reach the fish easer due to the snag-free qualities, but was far less effective than a small copper spoon (Effzett). The only setback of the spoons were of course the exposed hooks that hooked into anything and everthing botanical in near vicinity... Once you were able to get that spoon into a hole without snagging, you will almost be certain to have a pull, while the spinnerbait in exactly the same spot wouldn't be as effective. Only problem is, you might only achieve this in 1 out of 20 casts with the spoon, the others would either get stuck, or your treble would be fouled by plant material... very frustrating. Changing the treble to a single hook helped a bit, but not much. Casting just short the vegitation yielded no strikes at all...you had to get into the thick stuff.
Now for my question- what if its possible to make the effzett- spoon weedless?? Maybe attaching some broom brissle to a widegap single hook not unlike the hook on a weedless jig? Or do you get ready-made weedless hooks in the shops? Would this "weedless hooks" influence the action of the spoon?
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanx
Pieter
Thought you bass fundies would be able to assist me, although I want to apply this to bream catching in the Kavango River. (I always say that the Nembwe is the "african native bass" since their feeding habits, behaviour, angling methods ect. are almost identical..)
We had inter-club bream trails this past weekend, and the following was apparent:
The bream were holding in heavy cover along the banks of the river (papyrus/reeds/watergrass). Spinnerbaits/Jigs worked OK, since you were able to reach the fish easer due to the snag-free qualities, but was far less effective than a small copper spoon (Effzett). The only setback of the spoons were of course the exposed hooks that hooked into anything and everthing botanical in near vicinity... Once you were able to get that spoon into a hole without snagging, you will almost be certain to have a pull, while the spinnerbait in exactly the same spot wouldn't be as effective. Only problem is, you might only achieve this in 1 out of 20 casts with the spoon, the others would either get stuck, or your treble would be fouled by plant material... very frustrating. Changing the treble to a single hook helped a bit, but not much. Casting just short the vegitation yielded no strikes at all...you had to get into the thick stuff.
Now for my question- what if its possible to make the effzett- spoon weedless?? Maybe attaching some broom brissle to a widegap single hook not unlike the hook on a weedless jig? Or do you get ready-made weedless hooks in the shops? Would this "weedless hooks" influence the action of the spoon?
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanx
Pieter
