Fishing in Bolentino: advice on materials and techniques

Bolentino fishing is an extremely popular fishing technique in Italy. It is a dynamic technique that can be practiced at sea from a boat or even from the coast. This technique involves the use of artificial or natural bait and different materials to build our lines. In this article we will see which materials are most suitable for practicing this technique and which are the most used techniques. Furthermore, we will also see which are the best places to practice this technique.

Materials to use

For fishing in Bolentino it is necessary to have some specific materials. First of all, you need a good supply of leads of different weights such as the Kolpo Pear Extra Phosphorescent Fishing Leads, they will be the most important thing of all and will need to be changed depending on the current and the depth that we will find in the point where we have decided to fish, an errata choosing the weight of the lead will not allow us to remain attached to the bottom and therefore will consequently make our fishing action less effective if not almost non-existent. In the reel we will mount a monofilament with a diameter between 0.25 and 0.30, going to larger diameters is not necessary, a braided line with a diameter of 0.12/0.16 is also fine, the latter will allow us, thanks to its rigidity, to better perceive the fish's bites I could recommend the Kolpo K Braid Equally important is having a good selection of hooks, an eyeled and fairly sturdy hook is always an excellent choice, having different sizes available is necessary, from 4 to 12 are fine. The rods used for this fishing have variable lengths, they can be used rods from 2.10 m up to 5 m rods, given that the line is made up of a setup with multiple flag hooks and the final lead I recommend a rod of at least 3 m, the characteristics of the latter must be a rigid blank and a very sensitive tip (usually made of fibreglass) and can be either telescopic or multi-section. The most used baits are undoubtedly live baits such as koreans, Americans or bibi, but baits such as shrimp, stripes also give excellent results of squid or small pieces of sardine.

Fishing techniques in Bolentino

The most used fishing technique is undoubtedly leeway fishing, i.e. with the boat with the engine off and you let yourself be carried away by the current. The line will be made up of a beam of variable length (depending on how many armrests you want to use) from which we will start one or more armrests, the first is usually placed a few cm above the lead (which will be found at the end of the beam), you can also have a generous length, 1/1.5 m, while the other armrests can be positioned as desired on the beam, the important thing is to maintain the right distances from each other to avoid unpleasant tangles. Once the line has been lowered and the reel bow has been closed, the line will become tensioned and we will begin to perceive all the movements of the line on the bottom. If the lead is not heavy enough to remain resting on the sand we will feel it jumping, in this case we will have to change it and increase the weight. A useful accessory to always keep on the boat is the floating anchor which works like a sort of parachute and will slow down the drift of the boat allowing us to fish more easily in case of strong currents or strong winds. Another technique that can be put into practice is anchored fishing, which is very profitable near wrecks or near rocks where fishing from the lee we will encounter continuous strandings. The setup remains the same, but when fishing from a standstill you can use specific boat feeders to get the groundbait directly to the bottom and attract the fish. Another alternative could be fishing with sabiki, they are ready-made beams with usually 4/5 hooks mounted such as iSabiki Shrimp Japan Style from Kolpo Boat Fishing, in this case we do not need to use bait as the feathers mounted on the hooks will attract the fish, they are widely used for fish such as mackerel or horse mackerel.

Where to practice it best

To best practice fishing in Bolentino it is necessary to choose the right places. Depending on the species we would like to target, it will be necessary to choose a different bathymetric, usually the majority of fishermen stick to the band that goes from 15 to 35 meters of depth on a sandy bottom, this is the area where we will most frequently find sea bream, red mullet , sole, gurnards and many other species of fish of excellent quality for the table, while going to rocky seabeds we will find groupers, snappers, tanutes and other predators, at greater depths you can find fish such as seabream, sandstone fish and other fish of considerable size , but in this case the fishing and the equipment changes radically, an electric reel and rods of at least 40 lbs are often used