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One of the most important tools and possible the cheapest . But massively helped me a hook sharpener . Casting jigs out especially a single hook it can get blunt and you could miss the fish you been waiting for all day because of a weak hook hold.

Hi what snap do you use to connect your lures ? Thanks

Great video 🎣🎣

Another great instructional video. Thanks for sharing. It is very much appreciated 🎣🎣

hi mate any chance you can do one of these for the month of october/november for perch and small pike pleeeease??? really appreciate your feedback mate :)

make a video on how to rig stinger hooks: wide, connections, hook sizes.

Hi , im just wondering if I can use a small swivel to connect the braid with the leader. I've always done this for bigger lure fishing (sea trout). Or is it the bloody knot thats a sod to tie. Cheers.

Thanks Thom brilliant explanation of the rods and reels needed. Just purchased a westin w3 finesse 7 foot 1'' 2g-10g rod, took it out for a test drive so to speak at the weekend. I'm using a small reel with 8 pound braid then a 6 pound floracarbon leader tied to a small snap swivel so i could change between small jig and spinners. I had 2 deasent perch and a small pike on but sadly lost all three. Where am i going wrong?

I bought 20lb 0.16mm braid. Is this too overkill for perch fishing? or will it do fine.

Hello, I am currently looking for a new rod and perhaps you can recommend one to me. Since you seem to have a bazillion of Westin products. I fish predominantly from boats (jerk/twitch, trolling) for pikes, zander and perch. The lures are such as O.S.P Rudra, Asura, Durga(from 90 mm to 130 mm). Do you have some rod in mind for it (fast/extra fast, around of 2 meters)? I am also open to suggestions.

The best explanation of the topic on YT. Thanks

Hi Tom! I’m a bank fisherman. who fish in shallow, very dirty water with lots of weeds, and i’ve been struggling with the Autumn Perch, i thought i found the solution with the ned worm 7cm in different colours into my tackle box, but i think the fish have caught unto me, or atleast they stopped biting 🥲 so i humbly request some tips from the Perch master himself 💪

Dunno. I'm on my de-diversify path at the moment. Svartzonker 17-23cm, ShadTeez 12-16cm and Miuras mouse. 3-4 colors. Period.

Never thought of hook wire thickness vs rod power. Makes sense why japanese minnow twichbait wobbers have fine wire hooks: those are cast with 7-28g rods usually. You do go light in comparison, I pikefish 50-150g baitcaster and 15-60g spinning setup, which I want to swap for baitcaster setup. Westing 16cm shadteez in Bass Orange is my goto in the brown waters of my area. I have tried 12cm now as well. ShadTeez are good lure, but they do disintegrate literally after one 70-80cm pike. Will try bullteez for more meaty build.

Should have started at the busniess end of the tackle mate.

Hi Thom! Hope you and the family are doing well! Just a quick suggestion for video content. Is it possible to do a master class/guide or tips and tricks video on dropshotting? I did a quick search of your channel and there doesnt seem to be a lot on it or maybe you've covered it in other videos or videos that arent on this channel? Thanks any how!

Uk fly angler only use 100lb Fluro trace , never had a bite off and it last 10times longer than wire.

Jaw spreader for pike

Damn Thom, what a great video, I loved the first fight, since you where using a spinning set up and smaller lures the fight became insane, kinda like Salmon, meanwhile in other videos they use huge bait casters with big soft bates etc, even if its a huge fish the fight is just a couple of seconds, max a min.

I don’t know if it’s Uk vs us English, what is a y trace?

Great video, im from Sweden, and here we use mostly Fluo, I would say 90% of the times, the other 10% is when fishing jerkbaits or hairdbaits without a spoon/lip, there we use Ti wires. Me myself was using Fluo for more then 10 years but have recently changed, today I fish TI 60lbs wire for my Jerkbaits (or "pure hardhats without spoon") and for everything else I use a stainless steel wire 60lbs, I only use Fluo today when I want to throw a lure that maximize my recommended casting weight on the rod. Why not Fluo for me? well after 25+ years of fishing I have changed leader materials countless of times and just as a fly line and their leaders, tapering and diameter is an important factor. Casting a 1-1,5mm Fluo leader, or even thicker if you go Mono is to stiff and thick for it being comfortable, and you don't feel the rod loading as it should, when going with a SS wire or TI wire I like the thickness and flexibility more and I can feel my rod loading better meaning better connection with my bait/lure, Fluo being thick and being able to stretch is the total opposite. Another downside with fluo is simply that if it gets damaged it starts to peel off and you need to change leaders, for me I went through a spool of 50m 1,2mm Fluo during the summer, and following summer I used a total of 3 SS wires and 1 TI wire. In the end it comes to preference, this is what I discovered after all my tears fishing, the important aspect is that you choose what you like the most, one thing to note is do not always think of what "looks better for the fish" and thing of ergonomics some times as well.

Just getting in to spinning and have managed to get a W6 T&C, so what kind of breaking strain trace do I need? thanks! I should probably add that I've got 13lb braid and 8lb mono and I can't locate and lighter knottable wire trace.

What is the difference between the normal westin w3 finesse t&c and the 2nd generation version?

Hi Thom, do you think these are worth a go now for pike in Scotland? Or what do you recommend? Thanks 👍

Hi Thom, very informative video, would you still use a stinger on the 12cm Shadteez? If so, what size trebles would you use? I’m new to pike lure fishing so sorry if the questions are a bit silly

Try 5 days skunked.... stocked area, dead every morning and evening (people wise fish jump and are active just not my lure) Every lure i have every bait i have and every method i know net result i saw 3 trout over 5 days all looking but not biting.... im at a loss

Brilliant video Thom, one thing I’d like to ask though. I once had a nasty incident with wire and a very large trout that took a pike lure, it span on the wire and cut so deep it bled profusely so I had to dispatch the fish. The water I fish is a crystal clear chalk stream no deeper than 3 foot, with swathes of streamer weed to about 5-10 inches under the surface. So my preferred lures are shallow runners. Would this be a situation fluro would be preferred? Got a 50m spool of 55kg coming in the post already. Thanks

very informative video for a novice lure fisherman like myself looking to pick up some much needed tips, tricks and knowledge of experienced lure anglers. thanks a lot mate! i feel like i have a much broader understanding of the styles and techniques of fishing with different types of lures. Much appreciated Thom, keep up the videos i really enjoy your content.

Ok, You are very knowledgeable about lure fishing. And I enjoy your videos . But You are a salesman for Westin, And with the greatest respect I could purchase All the gear you recommended for a beginner at a third of the price , And the Quality would not suffer. Not an Insult, Just an observation.

As a newbie lure fisherman, it would be great if you could include the hook sizes you'd use for each of the soft baits you recommend. Great video though!

Thank you!

Very informative thank you! I really needed this

awesome stuff do you use blue fox spinners much?

great vid! ive just got a w4 streetstick 2-10 are these as good as t&c because ive heard everyone raving about them

First time buy a 10 pound pack rod reel keep rod bin tje rest buy a good small reel 2 ib line shot stick float gold hooks with line and worms and maggots set float weight to find bottom remove weight and fix hook worm maggot shot between float and hook and throw out maggots do this every 30 seconds 3 handfuls the cast a light rod worms work well no beginner should be allowed to spin fish they all lose tackle and kills fish think before you buy for every lure you lose thats a fish suffering or a bird tangeld up thease rubber lures the fish swallow them like food and they cant pass they swell up and die slow they should be organic with a 4 h underwater they desolve the hook and worm will get snaged inside fish the hook will devolve over time and will alow fish to eat and live and beginners will lose lots so yea fish till you master a cast and knowledge gained .

Is this applicable for bass fishing? Cheers!

Brilliant Thom Ty.... It's awesome to have someone like you to do almost all of the thinking for me when I'm going through various scenarios I encounter...I instantly think Thom Hunt will have covered this somewhere and to your channel I go lol. And then once I have watched the video that covers the circumstances a couple of times everything makes perfect sense and then off I go to put it into practice. You have given me many "Oh Yeah" moments whilst watching.

what do you mean "Li ion is *very expensive* "? A 20Ah is ~200$. For the money we spend on reels, rods, lures, technology itself + the FUEL, it sounds fair.

Wheres the best places to buy westin gear in the UK?

Wha wire trace material would you recommend to use on a zander set up on UK rivers where pike are present like the lower Severn and Warwickshire Avon? Fishing with soft plastics up to 14cm

Very nive video! What is the difference between this rod and the streetstick? You can have the streetstick with the same specs as the finesse T&C

9:50 Mostly I do that except I use split shot so I can change the sink rate quicker

Hi Thom Great vid, thanks. Autumn to late October, what do you go for if you don’t use cranks at that time of year? Soft plastics? Jigs (Apologies if I missed you mention it)

My Perch setup: Westin W2 T&C 5-15g 7,1 , Daiwa TW 80 and Shimano SLX 70, Braid Daiwa X8 8 pound with Daiwa 4 pound Fluoro leader. I have some spinning gear also Ultra light and light, but thats my favourite hardware setup.

I really enjoyed watching this Thom . Out of curiosity what leader material are you using with the braid?

Hiya mate, how do I know which size jighead/hook to use for my soft baits? Thanks in advance.

Are you allowed to fish Pike in the Canals in May? I thought it was closed season.

Great information ❤

I have a question for dropshoting what hook size to use to catch any size perch because I am new to it?