Fast retreives

[saltydog]

Read about a bloke on another website who was fishing down at east perth and had no action using the slow, pause, slow retrieve. he had cast a fair way out when he saw a boil fairly close in to him so he gunned the lure in quick to get there and bang he was on!
Using same erratic, cranking retrieve he landed another7 in 30 mins!
Any one else tried using a flat out retrieve with results?
If so on what type of lure?
It would seem that sucess favours those who think (intentionally or not!) outside the square.
Cheers
Saltydog

[chris_lemess]

The retrieve I use is relatively erratic, and fast compared to the slow wind many people use. It seems to score me fish and although a faster retrieve may mean less time in th strike zone, I prefer to be able to lob more casts into the snags etc in an alloted period of time. It's quite an aggressive way to fish, and seems to work the fish up so that when you get a strike after a fish has already hit the lure, it's generally decisive.

I use a slower retrieve on colder days and early mornings - faster when the sun's up and I'm fishing the shadows.

[MATTY]

g'day saltydog,
just from my little experience most of my bream come from a fairly fast retreive.unless i use sneakys which are designed for stop/start all my other lures are used with a fairly fast retrieve with a couple of changes of direction with rod tip & a few slow cranks of the handle thrown in.i,ve tried a lot of different retrieves as mentioned in the threads here but have found this the most successful.just my own preference though and a lot of other people have their own way of doing things.one problem though with a fast retrieve if you get hooked up to a snag it stays there!

[blackwater]

The only time i use a fast retrieve is to get the bream a bit more agro when following lures but not hitting them. A fast retrieve through the bream followed up with a fairly standard slow retrieve usually see's them nailing the lure second time around. I have very rarely taken bream on a fast retrieve alone apart from a couple of small fella's. Probably depends on the lures you are using as well. I know that some of the lures i use don't handle a fast retrieve very well at all.

[Richo]

Both retrieves obviously work, you just have to willing to mix it up a bit, one might get more interest than the other on one day and the other way around the next.

I changed to a lot more jerky retrieve during our comp after it went quiet for about 2 hrs on the slow retrieve, and it was like turning a switch on. I didin`t land oodles of fish, but the action started again which was the main thing.

Cheers

richo