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,
Thanks for Reading,
Sam Johnson

First Pike off the Surface 2014!

  Weather seemed perfect on my local water to try for the first Pike off the top. No wind and overcast meant the water was flat and calm so on went the Megabass Dorum 120, my most successful lure last season. The Megabass Dorum 120 has a bib on the front but is so buoyant due to its wooden body that it wiggles on the surface and creates an excellent V wake behind it.

Megabass Dorum 120 

    I cast the Dorum across a shallow bay and slowly started working it back with the odd pause and twitch when about 3/4 through the retrieve a Pike of about 3lb came up to hit it! I always remove the middle hook of lures with three hooks to aid with unhooking and also fish welfare.

Thanks for Reading, Sam Johnson

Video on Surface Lure fishing for Bass

Searching through YouTube and found this video by Boat Fishing Monthly which shows Bass being caught of the surface in the UK. Tips on how to improve your catch rates are also mentioned so well worth a watch. The lads managed to catch 67 bass between them with fish up to 7lb 3oz!




Just a few weeks until the Bass start to return along the UK coastline and surface fishing is up there with the most exciting way to catch them.

Thanks for reading, Sam

Amazing Fly Fishing!

  I, myself, am a lure fisherman who fishes for many predatory fish using lures but i have never been too interested in the art of Fly Fishing. I have never had the urge to learn the technique in the UK for trout species, Salmon or even Pike but the video i stumbled upon below makes me want too!

  This is not the traditional art of slowly wading quietly up a chalk stream to tempt a brown trout into taking a dry fly which i must admit, doesn't really appeal to me. This fly fishing is brutal, chasing big predators with large surface flys in the mangroves of Australia. Watch the video and tell me you wouldn't want to experience this!

Thanks for Reading, Sam Johnson