Fishing on the Tweed with David Solano
I COULDN’T believe it, but I got the flu last week, I was so bad I couldn’t get out of bed let alone write anything, so I do apologise for my absence last week.
Everyone I’ve been speaking to about fishing has all asked me about jacks! Have I caught any? How do you fish for them? Where to find them? Too many questions.
First, I’m yet to get a jack this season. Jacks take a variety of presentations from live and dead bait to soft plastics and hard-bodied lures.
You can spend a lot of money on gear but all you need is decent line and a workable reel, ask my brother, Anthony, as he has caught two monsters under Boyd’s Bay Bridge using an old cane rod with an Alvey reel spooled throughout with 15lb mono, not my weapon of choice but, hey, he did get two red devils.
You can catch jacks off any rock wall on the Tweed, you’ll catch more at night than daylight hours and the early mornings are good too.
Hang on to your rod if you hook up as these fish will put the hurt on you, good luck. Cheers.
