BTW, what is "her favorite Gulp bait" ?
She prefers the Gulp Nemesis Prawn Curl tail for turbot, the european equivalent to fluke, while her countrymen prefer the rather stiff "sandeel" and drag it over the bottom like bait.
She
1. emphazises lure action over detailed imitation in the eyes of the human beholder, which I have learned is the way to go for flatfish
2. relates to the teachings of surf legend John Skinner who`s fluke bucktailing videos got me into the jig crafting business in the first place.
Skinner tips his bucktails with the swimming mullet and sometimes pairs it with a prawn teaser. So, when she uses a lure that is named after prawn for the sake of US/international customers but strikes the strictly piscavorous Danish turbot (which couldn`t care less for the itty-bitty shrimp we have here), as a better baitfish imitation than the actual sand eel pattern, I am impressed she knows both her local fishing and her international audience.
The concept of Slow death is virtually unknown here, I had to order hook samples from Poland. Same for the whole spinning tube tail tin business which seems to make for a bloody good sandeel imitiation, enabling me to fish a west coast head wind surf that no European bass or sea trout angler would dip a handcrafted Danish spoon or japanese high-end lure in.
Since the atlantic cod has had it, I noticed old weary harbour seatrout who have learned to ignore the procession of spoon trolling weekend warriors have taken their niche, collecting creepy-crawly crabs and worms of the bottom and going for tip up jigs all of a sudden. I don`t always bring my boat to the harbor. so casting a death jigs tipped with gulp sandworm on a street fishing session might be something, and dragging it over a sandbar for turbot with a white gulp nighcrawler as a sandeel pattern sounds interesting, too.
