The Great Sea Fishing Lure Rationalise

I have lots of Pike lures, but that's OK, as I'm targeting just that one species so need lots of choice, plus I'm not exactly trudging down cliffs to get to them.
On the other hand, I have a lot of Bass and sea lures, but DO need to climb down cliffs...
So I decided to pare down my collection to the essentials.
Here's how I got on.
Incidentally, Mike has been going through pretty much the same process, and we've come to startlingly similar conclusions and decisions.

My Bass Lures started out like this.


After a sift through, I got it down to this.


A long hard think about weight and how many lures Id actually use on any trip, meant I went through them again. This time, deciding I only really needed 1 plus 1 spare of each type, and a few of the two key lures - Subsurface minnows, and rubber eels. The subsurface Minnows are of the Saltega / Maxrap / Susuke variety. The eels are Slug-gos in a couple sizes.


So that's surface, subsurface, midwater, and weedless bottom baits all covered, in Half the size and weight I was carrying.

I ended up with a lot of lures going back into the cupbaord and a collection I wont use, so they will go up for sale.

Shore Trip

I was sat late on Sat night, wandering whether to go online and play world of tanks, or grab my new spinning rod and go down to Saltash pontoon and test it in the dark, at low / incoming tide.
Odds stacked against me, but what if I catch? Could lure fishing at night at low tide be the way to do it at this mark? Am I just being daft?
I’ve got the go ahead from the boss that I can go out and play....
Decisions Decisions....

Well I braved it. Got there and fished from 9:30pm to 1am.
Tried all sorts of surface plugs, fished slowly just sub surface, and some rubber jigs, slowly twithced along bottom.
Also tried my bass rod under the tip with some small shiny hockeye things, with the bottom two baited with berklely gulp maddies, and the third painted with 'lug juice', top two left as shiny feathers.

The wind was blowing well downstream, and the tide moving up.

Nothing. Not a sausage. Met antoher chap down there who was trying all sorts of baits and he only had a few small pout.

oh well, worth a try.