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The choice of soft lure is crucial, but its animation often determines the success of an outing. Shads imitating sardines or sprats, slugs or sandeels, each family responds differently to your action. There is no single technique: adapt to conditions, species and fishing area. Here are three tried-and-tested animations to master.
Linear fishing: efficient and simple
Undoubtedly the most basic and natural. It consists of a continuous retrieve on the reel.
Very effective with shads whose paddle generates vibrations of varying degrees, as does rolling, which can be accentuated by the choice of lead head.
Make contact with the bottom first. A resonant rod is a plus. With a rod angle of 20-45° for optimum striking, start the retrieve by varying speed and angle. Don't hesitate to take short breaks before starting again. This technique also works well vertically, especially when fishing for pollack on wrecks.
This technique also works well with slugs such as Fiiish's Crazy Sand Eel, with the difference that the retrieve speed is bound to be faster for the lure to kick in.
For this technique, a high-recovery reel is recommended (1 m+/turn).
This technique encourages fish on the bottom who are not necessarily active, but whose curiosity leads them to follow the lure to the attack, sensing that it will escape them.
Fishing on the fly "
Fly fishing comes into its own when fish are active and moving through the water column. It consists in prospecting at mid-water or at a precise depth when the depth sounder indicates the height of the fish hunting.
