Soft plastic seminar for beginners.

[rayke1938]

There will be a seminar on soft plastics for beginners at Fishhead Victoria point at 6.30 on Wed 17th december. its free with nibblies and soft drinks.

I have emailed the regulars on my email list if you wish to know more pm me your email and i will forward the newsletter.

See you there.

Cheers

ray

[Sparksie]

That would be me Ray.

I have my beginner hand up.

PM sent.

Thanks for sending this out...

[rayke1938]

Looks like its going to be a AFO night 6 so far.

Cheers

Ray

[Eug]

im in!

[Dano]

would be keen to come check this out too!

[rayke1938]

These seminars are very well put together and this one will be invaluable to any noobies wanting to learn about sps.

Cheers

Ray

[MoparKevUk]

I'm in!!

[jeff]

Very keen to come along to the seminar! I am getting very frustrated as I am not having much luck at all.

[Eug]

neither... got a braided outfit and some flurocarbon. always end up settling for bait

[Chafule]

I would have loved to come

But im already booked dam, Staying in the coast fishing the Nerang River from my friends backyard for 2 nights!!

[boz]

i,m in too

[hulk]

I'm there,

may get in earlier and drop a line before hand

Hulk

[MoparKevUk]

Sounds like a plan, Hulk. Where are you thinking of fishing? Do we have to bring our tackle to the seminar??

[rayke1938]

No need to bring tackle.

Cheers

Ray

[rayke1938]

Bump dont forget its tomorrow night.

Cheers

Ray

[Eug]

cheers for the tip off ray!

Learnt a lot especially about colour choice and retrieve techniques.

Fish-head definitely seem like a well sorted bunch and have a great range of not so badly priced gear

[sax]

would some people who made it to this seminar please share some of the information they picked up?!?

Cheers

[rayke1938]

Guess which peabrain completely forgot about it?

Bit peeved that I missed it.

Cheers]

Ray

[fisho50]

I would like to thank ray for the heads up on the seminar it was well worth the time,also i think i have found a new hang out,fish head have some great gear and friendly people.

Cheers

steve

[sax]

Hey Fisho50!

Maybe you could share some of the info you learnt at the seminar?

[Eug]

basically

clear water = natural colours, translucent and if they don't work the bright fluros

dirty/murky water = solid dark colours

fish tend to bite on the drop.

went over a few different jig styles, weedless/snagless hooks (difficult to explain in text)

got a sampler gulp pack and a really good DVD which summarises a lot of what was explained last night.

there's a lot more that went on, hard to go over with just words

[sax]

Hard to put in words for sure, thanks for giving it a crack tho! some good info there, i was interested in colour selection..

[rayke1938]

I used to try and take notes at these seminars but found I was missing out on other things whilst writing.

I have made suggestions before that maybe the presenters should give out notes but noone seems to take it up.

Cheers

Ray

[Sparksie]

Hi there

Picked up a few good tips and there was a DVD in a sample bag, which is pretty good also.

Thanks for the note Ray.

[Feral]

Stick an MP3 recorder in your pocket, you'd be surprised how much it picks up.

[fisho50]

sax, Eug has somed it up pretty well, but one thing i did learn was about getting them to hit bottom and not be afraid of how much wieght you use, if there is a strong current move or fish for aggressive fish that don't mind some lead.hope this helps a bit.

Cheers

Steve

[hulk]

Mopar Kev and I went.Very informative especially how the speaker used visual aids to help you to understand the way the plastics works and which ones to use for particular species.

Kev wanted the best plastic on the wall identified by the speaker which he said was a pumpinseed minnow and Kev said he'd grab one packet straight after.Got given a sample bag with stickers soft plastics and also a 90 minute Dvd so was certainly worth the trip.

I also asked whether to ditch the SP once the tail had been bitten off and he said if they are on the bite keep them but dispose of them if they are not on the bite.Has anyone used braid scissors to reshape a tail on one thats been bitten off?Just curious.

He also suggested that fishing SP's in windy conditions would be no more difficult than trying to do the same bait fishing.

We then tried some fishing but was blowing a gale so went to pontoon at Raby Bay where Kev got three small Bream and had something decent send his line peeling but didn't manage to even get near to bringing it in.

I tried to help but Kev's a leftie so I was so unco trying to help him with the rod having the handle of the reel on my wrong side.

Thanks for the heads up Ray.It was well and truly worthwhile for the newbies or uniformed SP fishermen out there.

Hulk

PS. they were filming the whole night so it may pay for those who missed it to ring up and see if they are going to distribute this to the general public to view

[bootyinblue]

I was so keen to get there, till some idiot decided he wanted my attention more than I wanted his!

Love sitting through these seminars as you learn a little more from each. I was always under impression that colours should be other way around till I attended some of these.

Thanks for the info that the guys who attended posted.

[cpetrie]

who do i call to see if i can get that video.

i couldnt make it,

[MoparKevUk]

Great night out: Pizza, drink, free sps and a DVD! Sweet! I reckon it just about summed up all the great sp advice on here, but in a concise chunk. Very interesting. (And I would have had the monster down Rabby Bay if old Hulk hadn't of spooked him off with his righty (unnatural!) technique on my lefty (natural!) rig!!!) Oh, yeah! Pom 3, Oz 0!!:fishing: