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Bayleaf the Gardener

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A sneaky 90 minutes fish on my local canal section. Spent the first 15 minutes loose feeding then in. Trotting braid on the centrepin, holding back a chunky loafer float was great fun, but I wasn't troubled by too many fish. As per normal, I lost more than I banked as they shook so violently to get off - I must get those micro-barb hooks, eh Chris. A couple of roach and a handful of dace (even if one was a clonker of 8 ounces or so), was scant return. But there was final cast excitement when the dace I was winding in was attacked from out of the bankside vegetation by a pike, it's long body giving me a flash of silver as it let eventually go. The dace was half the weight it could have been, it's back half had all but been torn off and the poor dace already departed for the great pikeless canal in the sky. I dangled the fishy remnant back in the water and sure enough, the pike immediately took it. The rod hooped over for  a few seconds before the hook length gave and it made off with the other half of its breakfast.

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Bayleaf the Gardener

Ah, thank you, but I had braid recommended to me by a sagely angler who knows his stuff. I was losing them on mono too, and I think the theory is that the lack of stretch means the hook is set better on the strike. It was also suggested that I swap barbless to microbarbs, which makes sense, though I haven't yet got around to it. 

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S63

I find the dace the greatest escape artists, I use micro barbed which does improve the percentages.

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