Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Posts: 5912 Location: Somerset. UK
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2021 9:35 am Post subject:
Fryfishing wrote:
Mondays days success encouraged me to have another go on Tuesday with the same method, but the fishing was dead.
I will never understand how things change so quickly, it could not be blamed on weather or any other conditions.
Perhaps you gave them all toothache, Peter?
Top anging!
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I tried a Spincast reel today. An eBay purchase for £11, after a good strip down, clean and oil it was working well so gave it a go on the ultra-light rod.
I managed a small pike and later towards dark a good-sized perch (but to dark for the GoPro)
My thought is that the spincast reel is easier to use than a fixed spool but as the one I have is an old model it is very heavy in comparison to my modern baitcaster reels.
Took our first Pitsford lure boat out yesterday, we knew it would be tough due to strong winds. So much so that we stayed in the first half as it was far better than the main lake through the tunnel.
The first thing that worried me was the state of the boats (all of them) the bottom of the boats were covered in mud from the anchors I guess. They looked like they had not been cleaned for days/weeks.
The other worry was we were asked if we had our own life jackets because they had lost so many due to theft/non return, fortunately we did
It was another day of a thousand casts and a good sort through the lure box. I managed one pike and lost one, no perch. Some friends who were also out had a much better day with nine pike to the boat They found some fish in the shallows, we fished similar methods but did not contact the fish.
We are not sure when we will visit again as there are quite a few predator matches booked in there so it will get quite a hammering in the next few months. _________________ Floating Lines, buzzers, nymphs, stick floats, maggots and throwing lures at bitey things.
I have always thought the practice of nose hooking baits comes from tackle manufactures. It is a method that means you lose a lot of baits which is never good for the environment or the fish.
What do you think??
Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Posts: 3141 Location: Rhos, West Wales
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 9:41 pm Post subject:
You will get NO abuse from me Peter :lol
Hooking as you demonstrated (2nd) is exactly as I have done for many successful years - Done it since I started using soft plastic baits for Pike that are 4 inches and up long.
Done properly with the longer swim-baits and a long shank hook, that method brings the hook point out of the body much more centrally - and results in more fish to my net
Can see no reason for it not to be the same for your smaller grubs
Nice video by the way ..... Tony _________________ Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Hooking as you demonstrated (2nd) is exactly as I have done for many successful years - Done it since I started using soft plastic baits for Pike that are 4 inches and up long.
Done properly with the longer swim-baits and a long shank hook, that method brings the hook point out of the body much more centrally - and results in more fish to my net
Can see no reason for it not to be the same for your smaller grubs
Agreed. I use this method for all my wrasse fishing, longshank size 1/2 hook.
Or if needed weedless variations, especialy for the 6 inch soft plastics for bass like the 'senko' and 'do-live stick'.
Puts the hook right in the middle of the lure, makes it behave and fall more naturally and and you can fish it through weed!
Thanks for the positive comments.
I have been making the most of the long evenings and the open river. This year it seems to be alive with perch which can't be bad.
The great thing about dropshot is there is not much to carry and one can stay mobile. If you watch the attached video you will see I usually take some real worms as well as soft plastic baits, it illustrates how you can check that there are fish in front of you.
I keep the soft plastics fairly basic and use Crazy Fish, Big Bite and some cheap things from ebay ( brands from AGM). I use Kamasan sedge hooks with the addition of a small fluorescent floating bead on the hook. Surprisingly when the odd rouge pike turns up the six pound florocarbon holds up and they seem to get hooked in the corner of their mouths so not many bite offs.
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These have been fun to tie and try, so far the results have been small perch and a very grumpy jack pike
The best tying results are with the nylon thread which means the Mop Jig can stand the attention of predators teeth.
The mop style looks very buggy in the water and due to a very clear stretch of river I could refine the retrieve action.
I have been at it again.
The gravel pit i was fishing is part of the new club I joined this year (a no publicity rule). I spied the inlet of water and the access down a bank and it all looked very fishy so why not force my way through the undergrowth and have a go.
The video speaks for itself, unsurprisingly the pike were also there but I did not include that action, I recorded the footage yesterday.
Let me know what you think.
I have been running an experiment on my local stretch of Canal ( Hunton Bridge Grand Union)
It is a tad depressing to do as the fishing is so bad.
I have tried lure fishing with 4 inch lures and today I scaled right down to the Ultra Ultra light kit with the spincast reel very small lures and a 1.5 gram jig head.
Both outfit produced no fish and no follows.
I now consider this section of canal void of fish.
The reasons in my opinion are crayfish (eating eggs) cormorants (eating fish) but also fishing clubs no longer stocking the canals due to the lack of space for match fishing (moored boats) and it is now too dangerous for bailiffs to collect fees and enforce rules.
This is the section I practice my roll cast on, in preparation for fishing the rivers, where as it use to result in small perch and chub now it just means I improve my roll casting.
_________________ Floating Lines, buzzers, nymphs, stick floats, maggots and throwing lures at bitey things.
It certainly is, I may try with worms along that stretch just to see what happens.
Most canal pounds around here have become very difficult fishing. The other problem is lack of bank access due to moored narrow boats which are permanent homes and do not move in accordance with CRT regulations (i.e no room to match fish).
_________________ Floating Lines, buzzers, nymphs, stick floats, maggots and throwing lures at bitey things.
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