IMA Salt Skimmer Bass + Underwater Release!




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Sam Johnson

Dusk Pike on the Savage Gear 3D Bleak Glide GoPro Video

Not been able to get out on the bank for a while due to work picking up but finally managed a short session in the evening just as the sun was on its way down.

Headed to the mark with only a small period of daylight left but conditions looked good for this shallow bay. On went the Savage Gear 3D Bleak Glide 135 in the Firetiger pattern and i swung it along the reed line to my right, decided on a twitch retrieve which makes this lure glide side to side just under the surface and half way back it was grabbed! nice to feel a bend in the rod after some time!

A short fight and a pike of around 4lb was safely chinned, unhooked in the water and released with lots of energy still as you can see in the vid below!




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Underwater Bass Release from a recent trip to Wales

Some great footage of an underwater release of a Bass caught on a recent trip to North Wales.


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Sam Johnson

Salt Skimmer Strikes Again

Another few days down at the caravan in wales gave me another opportunity for a Bass or two. Got down to the mark as the tide was dropping, flat calm conditions meant only one thing.. Surface Lures! And of course, with my recent success, it was the IMA Salt Skimmer that came out of the box.
  A few casts in to the session and the lure was hit about 20 yards out, no hook up! but the bass were here. Another 15 or so minutes passed working the Salt Skimmer over the reefs when it got hit again, this time the hooks were set and a short fight resulted in a lovely fish of around 2.5lbs.

2.5lb Bass off the surface on an IMa Salt Skimmer

 I returned to the same mark a couple of days later, this time at a different state of tide to see if it would fish the same, it didn't. 2 hours passed without a sign of a Bass, plenty of mullet milling around on the surface but not bass. The tide then was on the way down and had reached the same state as my previous trip because i could now reach the rock i was standing on as it got exposed. A few casts in and the Salt Skimmer was hit by a feisty little schoolie, landed and returned unharmed i carried on fishing and another schoolie was landed, a twin of the first one.

A couple of Schoolies on the IMA Salt Skimmer

This was to be the last of the action, but great to out fishing all the same.

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Sam Johnson

Old Wooden Wobbler produces a Pike off the Top

Found an old wooden surface wobbler hidden away in a little corner of the garage, a fire tiger pattern, perfect for my pike fishing. I took the lure up to my local water to have a look at the action, it was excellent, the balsa lure was so buoyant which enabled the lure to wobble across the surface in a lazy slalom which proved to be irresistible to a little pike in the shallows. the lure is around 15cm long and quite bulky which meant a lot of commotion was caused on the top, second cast down the side of a reed line and the lure got smashed!

2lb Pike on an old wooden surface wobbler in Fire Tiger Pattern

I carried on with the lure along the bank and had a lot of interest, 3 fish tried to take the lure off the surface without the hook setting but great fun to watch and heart stopping stuff.

The Old Wooden Surface Wobbler in Fire Tiger Pattern

Hope to be out again soon,
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Sam Johnson

Underwater Release of a Lure Caught Bass

Managed to film the release of this little Bass of around 2lb that i caught on an IMA Salt Skimmer over the Easter Bank Holiday. I always use a Catch and release policy in my fishing as it preserves the future stocks of our Bass in the UK.



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Sam Johnson

Another Day on the Bass! IMA Salt Skimmer!

Another Day of Bass

  Headed out again for a final trip before I set off home the next morning. A few friends of mine had come to visit me at the caravan for the bank holiday weekend so no fishing was done then but when they had left I was out again in search of the Bass.

  Now, with waders and boots on, I went down to the same mark I had success with the previous trip. This time however, with the neap tides, I decided to fish much close to high tide and down. This proved to be a good choice!

  On went the Salt Skimmer again and within minutes of it dancing across the surface it was slammed, a nice schoolie around a pound had taken a fancy to the lure.

A little Bass on the IMA Salt Skimmer

The bass were here again! On went other surface lures to try and tempt a fish on a different lure but no success. Switched back to the Salt Skimmer and first cast it was finally engulfed after numerous attempts by the Bass. A short fight later and another bass was in the net, this time a little bigger at 2lb.

2lb Bass IMA Slat Skimmer

  A couple of casts later and its twin decided to have ago, this time flip out the water to attack the Salt Skimmer, Another nice little fish of around 2lbs was netted.

Another 2lb Bass on the IMA Salt Skimmer

After that fish was released I noticed boiling at the surface where sandeels were getting attacked by the bass and being forced to the surface. I flung the Salt Skimmer out over the back and started the WTD retrieve. The Salt Skimmer then got hit hard, this was a better fish, a nice bend was on the Injection and the fish was making some nice clutch screaming runs. I waded out and eventually managed to get the fish to the net, she was a nice fish of 3.5lb and had but up a great fight. With my Iphone set up on a tripod this time I took a couple of snaps and back she went.

 3.5lb Bass on the IMA Salt Skimmer

 3.5lb Bass on the IMA Salt Skimmer

That proved to be the last of the action, despite fishing down to the same level of water I had caught the previous trip, the bass had seemed to have moved on.

  All in all and excellent trip down to the caravan in hope the Bass would be about and a new mark proved to be successful for me with 8 fish in total, all off the surface on the IMA Salt Skimmer.

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