Silkweed

[courtone]

The thread "How many years" reminded me of our early fishing trips when we used to fish on silkweed. Any body still using it today? we used to get loads of Trent roach on it.

Cheers.

[Howard 13]

I do try it occasionally on the Stour as the old boys say how good it used to be, but to honest I don't think I've ever caught when using it.

 

HB.

[chesters1]

ah you need WEEDO only £47 a ounce

[Howard 13]

[ayjay]

Does that come in teenths as well Chesters1

[Leon Roskilly]

I used to catch mullet on silkweed, from a bridge over a creek in Woolongong, NSW.

 

The mullet would suck it in, and spit it out again like lightning. I really don't think that they were interested in the weed per se, but in the tiny creatures living amongst the filaments, sucked out in an instant, and the weed ejected.

 

From what I've heard, silkweed for roach works on the same principle, the bites are lightening fast.

 

But be careful of what you put on your hook. The filament weed that chocks the water isn't the stuff to use.

 

The silkweed that makes a decent roach bait, is a darker green and has denser, shorter filaments.

 

Look for it growing on the lip of a weir.

 

And that's where it makes a decent bait, trotted over the weir and into the stream, where the roach expect it to come pass.

 

Tight Lines - leon

[Colin Brett]

Look for it growing on the lip of a weir.

 

And that's where it makes a decent bait, trotted over the weir and into the stream, where the roach expect it to come pass.

 

Tight Lines - leon[/QB]

 

Jesus Green Footbridge, Cambridge, 1952 - 1960,

then I discovered there was more to life than fishing, or so I thought. Fish every chance I get now. Haven't used silkweed since 1960, good bait though.

 

Colin

[MarkV]

Is this the weed that the government are being told to lighten up on?