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Fishing with soft lures
These soft lures (4-5 inches, natural colors: white, grey, blue) imitate panicked prey with a rapid vibration of the tail. Trigger them for fast linear retrieves or buzzing on the surface of weed beds, an effective fishing technique especially at night under street lights. This technique can also be used on beaches, rocky shores and estuaries.
You can also use a buldo or bombette to fish in stronger winds. The soft lure is then attached to a fluorocarbon leader at least 1 metre long.
Fishing with surface or topwater lures
Surface lure fishing is done with floating sticks or poppers that provoke spectacular attacks when wolffish hunt on the surface. An ideal technique in late summer in shady areas or when the sea is slightly rough on rocky coasts. Animations are mainly jerky jerks accompanied by pauses of varying length.
Hard lure fishing
To find wolffish on lures, you can also use short-lip jerkbaits (8-18 cm) or small minnows for slow linear prospecting. Action is twitching (pulls + retrieves) with pauses to mimic wounded prey. A perfect technique for casting parallel to the rocks. You can also add a bombette to increase casting distance.
Fishing with natural bait
Wolffish can be found surfcasting with worms, crabs or mullet on sandy beaches and rocky shores.
The well-known freshwater wolf fishing technique can be more or less transposed to wolf fishing in the Mediterranean. Preferably use live bait (shrimp, small fish, crabs or worms) and fish finely with a long rod. Discretion is the key to successful wolf fishing.
Fishing with a sardine-based paste also gives good results, especially when the sea is rough in autumn or spring.
As a reminder, the minimum size for wolf catches in the Mediterranean is set at 42 centimetres, except for special rules in certain areas.
