Choosing Sea Fishing Lures, Bait, Hooks And Other Small But Essential Items

In this article we will consider those smaller but essential items you will need

to complete your sea fishing tackle once you have your sea fishing rod and reel and sea fishing line.

Youll obviously needs hooks to catch fish. Hook size is probably the first thing a sea angler should think of when buying hooks. Sizes from most manufacturers range from the very smallest freshwater trout hook at a number 32, to the very largest game fish hook at 19/0.

The size breakdown from smallest to largest looks like this: 32, 30, 28, 26, 24, 22, 20, 18, 16, 14, 12, 11, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1, 1/0, 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 5/0, 6/0, 7/0, 8/0, 9/0, 10/0, 11/0, 12/0, 13/0, 14/0, 15/0, 16/0, 17/0, 18/0, and 19/0.

You will entice your fish either with real food (or bait) or with a lure which is designed to look like some kind of creature, perhaps a small fish or squid moving through the water. There are lots of varieties of lure which are intended to mimic your preys favourite food. A good example of one of these is mackerel feathers which, although made from feather like material, once in the water looks like a mackerel meal swimming through the water. A shad is also another popular form of sea fishing lure.

If you are looking to fish using bait a huge range of fresh and vacuum packed bait ready for use is available from your local fishing tackle shop. Sometimes you will actually catch your bait and I once went shark fishing. We first caught mackerel using mackerel feathers, then used these as bait to catch Pollack which in turn we used as bait to actually attract the sharks.

As well as bait or lures youll also need a float to enable you to control the depth at which your bait/lure is fishing as well as tell you when you have a bite.

Weights such as a bomb lead are also important for two reasons. The more weight on your line the further you will be able to cast as the weight will create forward momentum. Weights will also, of course, allow you to get your bait or lure deep into the water.

A popular piece of gear is whats known as a rig such as a mackerel, squid, sandeel or halibut rig which is a ready tied set of lures to enable several lures to be fished at the same time. Fish such as mackerel feed in shoals and so it is not unusual if you find a shoal to catch more than one fish on the same cast by using such a rig.

Thinking about connecting lines, lures and rigs in a flexible way that makes changing easy you will probably also want to purchase some swivels such as the crane interlock swivels that come in a variety of sizes.

Finally you can also get help finding fish from a boat with an electronic fish finder that helps you locate shoals of fish. Once you have your fish on the line you will also need a landing net and it is important to remember to put the net into the water and scoop the fish up with the net. If you pull the fish clear of the water just with the line you risk losing it.

by: Bruno Blackstone

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