It is a hybrid technique, maybe someone will twist his nose, but if you had never experienced today we would not have surfing-casting or spinning with artificial. Let's say that the idea came to me in 2002 while I was on vacation in Greece. I went fishing at night on a small tourist pier with discreet depths. I had a bolognese primed with live shrimp and a Reed at the bottom with a weight of 50 gr primed with Rimini worm, which there was said to smash them with sea bream.
One of those nights I noticed that it was already 2/3 hours nothing happened ...neither the bologna nor at the bottom, and then I decided to radically change the fishing action; since with me there was my nephew of 12 years old who liked to rake in bogue with the groundbait of bread that kept well alive in the bucket, I changed the frame to the barrel at the bottom. I eliminate the lead and insert a fixed float not leaded by 10 gr and without inserting terminal nor further leaded Lego a hook of the No.
05 at about 2 mt from the float. I start a boga about 15 cm and launch about 20 mt from me. Many minutes pass without the starlight signals anything and I decide to recover. The hook, the boga and part of the line no longer existed. I immediately remember the sharp teeth of the Serra fish. Fast and furious I tie a heat-sealing steel terminal with 2 hooks in series of the number 2/0, I trigger another boga and launch. Not even the time to get into the water that the float starts to rocket and S'abissa. I almost lost the barrel and the chair on which the barrel was resting : greenhouse of 3 KG.
Therefore considering that for sea bass is good even a lighter equipment, in the following months, when I returned home, I began to try this technique to pit the sea bass in mouth or in Port. In fact, I got tired of the ultra-inflated bigattino, used everywhere and anyway, thinking that by now the sea bass had learned perfectly to distinguish the pitfalls from the brumeggio.
Bolognese of 5,5 Mt robust but with strong peak action, fishing line on reel from 0.14 to 0.16, fixed float not plummeted from 6 to 10 grams and I love eagle beak from number 08 to number 05 depending on the conditions of the water and bait fish. It is important to use as bait fish caught on site that are certainly already routinely predated by sea bass.
The concept is very simple : to present to the predator the same prey in the same place where he finds them every time he goes hunting. The distance of the bait from the float depends on the depth of the place. I personally prefer to generally keep more towards the surface than towards the bottom, let's say I place that distance at 1/3 of the total depth.
The fishing action takes place in 2 stages, both fundamental: the capture of live bait, the presentation of the same to the predator.
The best times are sunset and sunrise, as we know that the sea bass takes advantage of the penumbra to ambush the unsuspecting minnows, but you can also try at other times, usually in the two hours before and after the peak of high tide. It is a technique of movement, that is, if we notice that there is a lot of activity in that single spot that we have chosen, we need to move a few feet, to try more off, or under the docks, along the edges of the mouth, under vegetation, etc., this is because not using the pasture we do not have the effect of the recall, even if we know that the lateral line of bass senses the variations of the electromagnetic field emitted by the bait fish up to 10 meters away.
The natural instinct of the Queen makes her lose her proverbial distrust in front of a well-triggered and vibrant fish. In this regard, for the priming of cefaletti or bogue or small chub in the mouth, if the fish are under 15 inches you can trigger right through the tip of the hook on the back just behind the dorsal fin, towards the tail, being careful not to pierce the central spine.
In this way the bait feeling the traction from behind will try to free itself by wiggling like an ox, which I guarantee you drives the bass crazy. If, on the contrary, we have at our disposal fish a little larger, it is better to trigger them by piercing them with the hook always on the back but positioning itself between the head and the dorsal fin almost under the skin, at most at half a centimeter of depth. It is essential that the bait fish is alive and pimping. A dying, almost motionless fish will not even be looked at from the sea bass. Once triggered we put it back for a few moments in the bucket to catch his breath, then with a firm movement but without tearing, we throw it where we believe possible the presence of sea bass.
You wait a few moments after the launch, then you collect all the fishing line in bando. When the bait fish begins to swim we must comply with its movements, yielding or recalling the fishing line depending on the occurrence. If all operations have been done correctly the attack will not be delayed. We first notice a higher excitement of the little fish that will begin to agitate and change direction suddenly followed by the float, then there will be the deep and decisive sinking. At that point wait 2 seconds, but exactly 2 seconds counting from 0...1....2....and he's going to fight hard.
We must give the serranide time to twist the bait in his mouth ( the bass attacks the live bait from the head) and swallow it. Now we just have to deal with the fight as we know how to do, with skillful maneuvers of the clutch and the top of the barrel.
The beauty of this technique in my opinion lies in the fact of having the scent of the true predatory nature of the sea bass, convincing it to attack even when the finer bigattinari ( no offense to anyone) remain dry mouth. And it may happen that the fish comes out in an attempt to escape comes to the surface and then we will witness the wonderful and powerful attack seeing the back of the sea bass come out of the water and launch live its deadly ambush.
Finally, something not to be overlooked, with this technique there is no limit to the insidious size of the serranide, a cephalet of 15 centimeters can be attacked by a sharp edge of 5 ECTS but also by a monster of 5/6 kg