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About the Sidewinder Super Solid Sandeel, Blue & White

The Sidewinder Super Solid Blue and White has a blue back over a white belly, with a deep paddle tail and a small blue fin along the back. The solid colour gives a strong profile in the water, a clear sandeel shape for bass, pollack and cod. Other Super Solid colours include Ghost White, Hot Pink, Candy Red, Midnight Black and Rhubarb Custard.

Fish it by situation. From the shore, use a slow retrieve along reef edges and through surf for bass. From a boat over wrecks and reefs, work it up and down above the bottom for pollack and cod. Drift slowly over sandbanks for turbot and brill, or use a slow twitch-and-pause in estuaries.

Sandeels are mainly a summer bait inshore: they move into estuaries around late April or May and leave in late autumn, so that's when Sidewinder sandeel lures shine close to shore. For colour, dark lures give the best silhouette in low light; white and pale ones suit bright, shallow water.

Like the other Sidewinder sandeels, it comes weighted and rigged in the packet, so a blue and white sandeel lure can go straight on the line when you get to the mark.

With three to a pack, you can fish one and keep two in reserve for rough ground, where snags take their share of lures.