Cheap ebay Lures

[Daysofspeed]

Seen lots of them advertised from china for not a lot of money, packs of 5, packs of 3 etc. maybe 4" long with 2 sets of trebles and usually bbs inside to make them rattle.
Are they/will they be any good for our waters?
As you'll guess I know feck all about lure fishing but lookin to do some this summer (not Mackerel) for Wrasse, Pollock etc.

 

[sammy talbot]

Cheap lures don't normally last due to build quality and materials used. I would rather have a couple of decent lures that work rather than a bag full cheap ones. If it's wrase and Pollack your after have think about soft plastics, proberly better suited for these type s of fish

 

[Bassboyo]

Agree with post above, good quality SPs will be far better than cheap HPs for pollock & wrasse.

 

[fishingmark]

Seen lots of them advertised from china for not a lot of money, packs of 5, packs of 3 etc. maybe 4" long with 2 sets of trebles and usually bbs inside to make them rattle.
Are they/will they be any good for our waters?
As you'll guess I know feck all about lure fishing but lookin to do some this summer (not Mackerel) for Wrasse, Pollock etc.

I've got some on the way. For that price I thought they must be worth a try, nowt to lose. I'll let you know if they are any good or not.

 

[Daysofspeed]

Thanks for the replies fellas, any recommended killers to look out for then? I don't want to spend decent money on stuff thats just designed to catch the buyer.

 

[sammy talbot]

Red gills and red gill evos are a good place to start for Pollack. Never done much wrase

Fishhing so some of the other lads might be able to point you in the right direction. What sort of ground you planing on fishing.

 

[Daysofspeed]

Mainly for a weeks holiday in Portpatrick so rocky I'm guessing.

 

[phill_itofish]

Seen lots of them advertised from china for not a lot of money, packs of 5, packs of 3 etc. maybe 4" long with 2 sets of trebles and usually bbs inside to make them rattle.
Are they/will they be any good for our waters?
As you'll guess I know feck all about lure fishing but lookin to do some this summer (not Mackerel) for Wrasse, Pollock etc.

If you just want to catch fish, I'd go for a 28g zenith spinner, I've had all kinds on them including Wrasse Pollock and Bass, if you particularly want to try soft hard or soft plastics id give them a go, most of my bass have been caught on cheep hard plastics when you dearer lures were failing.

 

[wheres the fish?]

Thanks for the replies fellas, any recommended killers to look out for then? I don't want to spend decent money on stuff thats just designed to catch the buyer.

For pollack? Mate i use jelly worms, available from most tackle shops 10/20p each just buy a load of different colours, single snaplink on the end of your line, 3oz weight, swivel with a long snood and a 3.0/4.0 on the end of it (make sure their strong hooks they will straighten them), and the jelly on it. Fish it as tight to the bottom as you can. Slow steady retrieve, none of this adding action to it, you'll not catch them if you do that. This has caught me well over 300 pollack.

Deadly colours for me? :

Purple Glitter body gold glittery tail

Blue body, pink/red tail

Black glittery body gold/gold glittery tail.

Orange glittery body, orange tail.

 

[bassking]

sidewinder shimmer eels or if you can get hold of any the old storm sand eel

 

[PAUL1971]

Orderd some HP from.china used them and they were crap as water was
getting inside them even put dab of super glue were the fiting has treble.hook on
and still no good........fire tails black body red tail is a killer for pollok also red gills
and twill tails orange with black stripes on body.as for wrass slug-go fin and fish
berkley gulp rag work .rigs to use are wacky rig set up texes rig set up aswell or drop.shot
set up.deadly for wrass hope this helps matey