Fishing guide, Sean Colter's Choice
The Sting is a true treat for anglers who love lures with a delicate and thin action.
It blinks deceptively like a small fish looking for its way back to the safety of the shoal. Retrieve it fast over a wide and shallow part of large river or jerk it between reeds. Send it down on a downrigger to the dark depths where salmon hunt. Relax, adjust your drag setting and wait. Sting is a safe bet, it never fails!
How to fish with a Sting
When casting in rivers and streams we cast across the current and retrieve slowly. The floating version is very useful for when allowed to float downstream to good predator holding spots before beginning the retrieve. For more lively predators such as asp or seat trout you should increase the retrieve speed, and keep the rod tip high to prevent the lure diving too deeply. The suspending Sting s will hold their depth when the retrieve is stopped without sinking, that suspending moment can provoke the most sluggish of predators; once you have the lure at the desired depth you should retrieve it with a series of soft pulls (0.5 to 1 m) and pauses, during the pauses watch the line carefully and prevent it from falling slack so you can see gentle takes and set the hooks effectively. For trolling the Sting works equally well with or without additional weights, to attain greater depth a weight should be fixed 1m in front of the lure.
