Bally
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Just nip the skin.....
On the subject of mainlines and hooklengths, the way to go is to have a hooklink of a lighter b.s. than the mainline. That way if you get a snag the hooklink should break before the mainline.
I would recommend Drennan Float Fish as a good Mainline.
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Now thats what I call good customer care.
Have you got Leeda's tele number Alan? I've got one of thier chairs that needs new feet. Tried my local stockist but wasn't interested as I got the chair off the net.
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Ain't fished Bailrig but I would have a go with The Source boilies. They seem work just about everywhere.
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Sometimes you can work out where a group of fish are going from thier bubbles. The bubbles might start coming up to the left of your swim. A couple of minutes later there might be another cluster of bubbles 3ft to the right of the first batch. Then another load right in front of you. So obviously the fish are swimming left to right. Now is the time to intercept them by throwing in a handful of loose feed and casting maybe ten feet to the right of the last lot of bubbles you saw. Hopefully, they will swim right over your feed and stop for a munch. Then the trick is keeping em there!
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One time, I arrived at the lake and was fishing by 7am. I threw in an initial feed of a couple of handfuls of pellets, the same of hemp and a good handful of flavoured corn, with the flavoured corn as hookbait. (supposedly the 'in' bait) After an hour the bubbles started...... masses of em...... all over my feed. But could I get a bite. I tried moving the tell-tale shot up and down, adjusting the depth of the float. Nothing. Not a twitch. All the time I kept the feed going in on a regular basis, alternating between the pellets and the hemp. Still the bubbles kept coming, so I knew the fish were there. Change bait to banded pellet, nothing. Had a couple of casts with some paste I had made up with some ground pellets, nothing. Opened a tin of Green Giant and BANG! A bite straight away. (well......4 and a half hours after I had started!) That first fish was a 3lb Cruie. Well chuffed. From then on it was a bite a chuck for the rest of the day, Tench and Bream to 6lb plus a couple of other big Cruies. They were still feeding when I had to pack up at sunset.
Does this help with your problem? Probably not. All I can suggest is that you keep ringing the changes. Try different baits and keep making rig adjustments until you start getting bites.
Also, you wanna get em bubbling away over your feed. So keep either the loose feed going in or filling your feeder on a regular basis. Now that the temperatures a rising I think we can start upping the feed a little.
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I think there is another day-ticket water above Barton Court. Its just before you get to Hungerford, Denford I think its called. I haven't fished there but heard there are more grayling than at Barton Court. I've fished Barton Court a few times and yet to see a grayling. Good for other species though.
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Am I right in thinking that Yorkshire, along with Cornwall, didn't have a close season in the olden days.
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You could try a No.1 shot about six inches from the hook. Make sure this shot is on the bottom. This should hold the float in position.
You could also put a No.6 shot about 8 inches above the float. This will help you sink your line after you have cast out.
A windbeater is a bit like a bodied waggler, but it has a very slim stem and a sight bob on top. Sorry no pic.
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Still a nice fish Odd. I would have loved to have caught it. Well done.
Last I heard the Silver Bream record was open to claims over 1lb 8oz. (I think) Highly unlikely it was a true Silver. Some of these commercials do have very lightly coloured Bream and Tench, probably due to the water being very murky, as Bad says.
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Cray,
This is a good tactic for tench fishing. I wouldn't bother with the prebaiting, but have your tackle set up and ready to cast in as soon as you've finished dragging. The tench will be in there like a shot milling around in the disturbed lake bed.
Also, when you start don't throw the drag the whole way out. Start close in and work your way out with each chuck. A drag full of wet weed is mighty heavy!
'One thing I will stress is to throw the weed you have pulled out back in to the waters edge or you might get a few grumbles about killing all the insect life in it.' I think this is most important as well.
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You forgot one for his knob!!!!!!
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Natural juices, thats what you want.........
Rub your fore-finger and thumb behind your ear, or on your nose, and then run your line through finger and thumb.
Works a treat...... honest!
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Graham, so I presume you would have the bulk shot fairly close to the hook. I can see it being a bit easier than legering up to an overhanging bush, as you could gently ease the bait downstream to get right under there. I'm not very confident doing this with a leger, mainly because I'm not good at judging how far the rig has travelled after each 'twitch' down.
Chevin, I don't see how that can work, especially in deep water. If you cast out 20yds and the water is, say, 15ft deep, and your rod tip is at the surface. With the float free-running, surely the float will come towards you a fair distance before it cocks. Also, how sensitive is it, bite wise.
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Carping_mad, What is meant by 'bottom end only' is a float like a waggler that is fixed onto the line between 2 shots either side of the eye of the float. As opposed to a float like a stick or avon that is fixed to the line with float rubbers at the top and bottom.
Graham, interesting you use the method on a river with an avon. I remember trying it once on a slow flowing river many years ago. I also remember struggling, probably because I was using a waggler! Thinking about it, what you are really doing is stret-pegging.
Pangolin, so do you have your float set at the exact depth? (between float and leger) Sounds like it would be good for tench fishing.
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Not really........ as long as its fixed bottom end only. A waggler or bodied waggler would be ideal.
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What you do is...... set the float way over-depth. So when you cast in the float will lay flat on the surface. Then you reel in slack line slowly until the float cocks.
So having the float set over-depth is the key.
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Agree with Tim, loads of groundbait and a feeder rod.
Take loads of worms with you. The more the better. Also maggots, casters and corn. Obviously, if you want to take all this it will cost a fortune. If you're on a budget I would leave out the maggots and maybe the casters. But you definately need loads of groundbait (brown crumb).
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Oh yeah.......... when you use a slider, make sure the eye of the float isn't so big that the knot runs through it. Also that it isn't so small that the line doesn't run through freely.
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There's no problem using a slider float at these sort of depths. I sometimes use a slider if I don't feel too comfortable with a fixed float in about 8ft of water.
Use a stop knot above the float, with the tags left about 1 inch long. The bulk of your shot should be about 3 feet from the hook, with a couple of droppers between bulk and hook. Plummet in the usual way, moving the stop knot accordingly. If you have a rough idea of the depth you should set the stop knot a foot or so under-depth, have a plumb around and move the knot 6 inches at a time until you have the correct depth. Then you can adjust accordingly....... whether you want to fish just off bottom, or with 4 inches hard on the bottom, or whatever.
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Sorry Pete, I've just said almost exactly the same as you. I wasn't copying.... honest!
I must read the whole thread before I reply.
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Oh yeah........ before you tie on your stop knot/marker, make a couple of casts with an empty feeder until you hit the spot you want to feed. When you've hit the spot, tie your stop knot about a foot beyond the tip ring and the reel in. Make another couple of casts with an empty feeder to get the feel of the marker. Once you're confident about hitting the same spot, its all systems go with the feed.
He he he. Its easy writing down, isn't it!!!
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I don't know if its been said above but if you use a stop knot as a marker, leave the ends about 2 inches long. This way you shouldn't have any hinderance on the cast, i.e. line getting caught on the knot ant therefore not making the distance. You will also be able to hear the knot going through the rings and dab your finger on the spool to stop the feeder at the right spot.
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Chavender, (nearly called you Chav, oops) mmmmmmmm liquidised bread with Horlicks, eh? Now there is a good attractor for the canal. That should make a nice milky, malty cloud. Interesting, thanks.
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Thanks guys, so I take it that it wouldn't be any good as a 'base'. Pete, can you remember what levels of Horlicks you used with your sausage rusk? I do like the idea of a strong malty flavour.
Steve, the shrimp paste is on the shopping list along with the anchovy paste. Cheers. Have Dynamite Baits just brought out a shrimpy flavour? Maybe a squirt of that wouldn't go amiss either.
stop sucking my maggot!
in Coarse Fishing
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When I'm float fishing a stillwater I like to have the line between rod-tip and float beneath the surface. Do this by casting beyond where you are feeding, then with the tip in the water, make a couple of quick sharp turns of the reel handle. This will bring your float over your feed and the line between tip and float will stay nice and tight(ish).