Shads - Working shads and jellyworms

[Fishing Forum Admin]

Shads - Working shads and jellyworms , well with a wrecking trip on the 7th feb whats the best length of line for working shads and jellyworms

I have always gone for about 12 foot but have had good results on 6 foot lenght . So when fishing with shads / jellyworms what lenght to you find the best all round lenght

[fishypaul]

have never used either richard,i presume they will be used for pollack and the like,
i have used redgills and similar artificials on very long flowing traces (i think they are called flying collar rigs ),i remember these were about 20 foot long.

[John Marshall]

Working shads over a wreck I prefer traces of about 8' feet, shorter with a leadhead. The retrive rate should be fairly fast to make the tail work, hard to explain, dont wind at full speed.

Jellies, with tide running at full blast very very slowly, as it slackens speed up
a bit. Traces about 12' to 16'.

This is only my view based on wrecking locallly and in the west country.

[Ben]

john is the wreaking guru so he is likely to be right

[Old Smoothound]

In my experience both here and in Ireland Shads and Jellies need to be worked as follows:

Shads

Depending on the size of Shad the trace should be 6-8 feet and a fairly fast retrieve rate.

Jellies

Whether twin tails or single tails 10-16 feet. With Tide at full pace a slowish retrieve, as the tide slackens off speed the retrieve up a bit.

With both types of lures it is very important to get the tails "working" and you must use braid to "feel" the action and the eventual take of the fish.

Fish will take the lures at different depths so the best method is to fish the lures through the depths over and near to the wreck.

Also rthe length of boom is important, too short a boom and you will have problems with tangles on the way down and up.

Hope this helps on the 7th Feb ...... shame i'm not going

[Fishing Forum Admin]

Cheers guys -

Very much looking forward to the 7th should be a good day

Seems long ago when I was last wrecking - Hot summers day you could see the bass about a foot below the water chasing the macky


Oh I cannot wait till summer

[Old Smoothound]

Originally Posted by Fishing Forum Admin

Oh I cannot wait till summer

Nor me Richard...its been flipping freezing here!

[John Marshall]

Getting off the subject slightly, Pirks can also be deadly on the day.

Drop to bottom, four quick turns and jig, four turns jig and so on until you're up thiry or forty turns.

Dont do this if the guy next to you (wheelhouse side) is using a flying collar rig, tangles will result.

[wellyfish]

nice info peeps,as a boat novice i found this thread intresting ,ive just been out to buy some shads,redgills and some booms (ready for the 7th ) ,so looking forward to someone showing me how to set it up .. also i have a 7foot boat rod (devil stick) but not sure what class it is but on it it says 300-600g..!!also i have an abu 7000..is this set up ok for our pollack trip or do i need to go shopping ...

[Old Smoothound]

Welly,

You will need to load it with braid for ultimate sensitivity and bite detection.

I would use a 12-20 lb class rod for general pollocking and a 30lb class for wrecking for BIG POLLOCK.

For Pollock always make sure the clutch is set before you slowly drop down, because they crash dive immediately you hook them and if the clutch is not set properly..

Make sure you have a longish boom for the job.