Swim Goes Dead

[wootton]

On a number of occasions I have been fishing well, bites on every cast, lots of fish landed, for quite a while, then suddenly swim is dead. No more bites ???

 

Why does this happen ?? I'm sure I didn't catch them all..

[Zinky]

No Stinko

[Paul_D]

Esox has arrived.......

[phil dean]

Here are my usual reasonings:

 

1. Big fish (eg Esox as above) has arrived in swim.

 

2. The fish have eaten all the bait I put down originally and I've not been feeding properly so they've gone elsewhere

 

3. The Sun's come out

 

4. It's too late in the morning and the water's warmed up..the fish have moved to cooler deeper water (particularly tench)

 

5. Someone's just thrown a stick into my swim for their dopg to fetch whe the rest of the pond is completely deserted

 

6. I'm a useless angler.

 

I usually deel with it by putting in a few small balls of groundbait trying to draw a few stragglers back in and /or scare off the bigger fish. If I'm confident it's a pike/ carp I'll target that particular fish.

 

Doesn't always work.

 

Phil

[John S]

Advertising again dragonbat?

 

Wootton - when I go fishing for roach/perch/etc, I tend to feed 2 or 3 seperate areas in my swim, and fish just one at a time. As I'm setting up I will chuck in some loosefeed (just a little) and groundbait, then when fishing one area I will also be throwing in a little loosefeed into the other two areas. The amount of feed I use is very small compared to some other anglers - just 6 or so maggots or a lump of groundbait less than the size of a golfball. Maybe a little bigger if it is going into the swim I am fishing/about to fish.

 

As has already been pointed out though, if Esox has arrived then all you can do is wait for it to move on, or move elsewhere yourself.

 

Tight lines