PAAS day out

Day out today on a wee loch near Edinburgh, me and Dougie were on the boat, Dougie took the helm which was fine for me as i usually drive. The loch was a small reservoir with no great depth, down to about 30ft odd we found but we weren't in the middle so who knows. We headed to the other side to a deep hole, drifted the point and hole and found loads of fry high up in the water. I had a hit on a Fox 6" replicant in perch pattern that was brand new (I colour the tail in with red marker), it came in with no teeth marks? the next cast a huge rainbow followed it up. We then trolled round by the dam back where i had a fish on a shallow raider then round the corner another fish on the same lure. We anchored by a couple of friends we knew and had another fish on a perch replicant. I managed another couple of fish trolling the shallow raider again, then we anchored up and put baits out, and a huge pile of rubby-dubby i had 2 fish on baits Dougie 1 then he had a fish on a SSR.

New gear i tested out today Baker hook out 9" and Knipex mini bolt cutters. The Baker hook out is really cheap cheerful and robust into the bargain, it worked great on little bait hooks as well, very impressed with this. The Knipex cutters in my opinion are overkill 9" high leverage ones are fine for this type of work but i can't get them from america so they work out £40 from UK suppliers, the crazy thing is I Imported these bolt croppers from Rollie and Helen's for £20 the are £50 rrp in the UK so it was cheaper to buy these than the high leverage ones even though they are over and above anything you would need. They are good cutters, I had to chop a Owner hook up, they did it in seconds, I need to dry them out and find a container to put them in with oil as they rust like buggery, dunno why Knipex don't do them in a chromed non-rust finish like the high leverage ones, madness, they would sell like hot cakes to the lure market in America.

Bolt Cutters and Hook out http://www.muskyshop.com/modules/web/index.php/id/1

Owner hooks to replace shitty hooks supplied on lures http://www.dlst.co.uk/