Backleads - The How & The When

[Elton]

Just added this by Julian - hope to add a few photos later:

 

http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/carp/backleads.htm

[lilypad]

PERSONALLY I have found the use of backleads of all types to be a hindrance rather than help.

The captive ones are the worst as I have even had them tangle round the mainline. The other types can pick up weed and debris and can stop retrieval. The list goes on. I put up with the line bites, they keep me on my toes.

A lot more to say on the subject. But I will leave it at that.

Edited December 15, 2005 by lilypad

[johnhere]

I do use back leads on my local water mainly because it helps stop the Swans and Ducks getting tangled in my lines. Also as I fish with 3 rods it helps to stop fish tangling up with my other lines when I am landing one. I use the fox ones the ones with the flat bottom.

Edited December 15, 2005 by johnhere

[Julian]

LOL – the above two posts kind of emphasise my first paragraph.

 

Each to their own, eh?

 

Tight Lines...

 

Julian

[johnhere]

LOL – the above two posts kind of emphasise my first paragraph.

 

Each to their own, eh?

 

Tight Lines...

 

Julian

 

 

lol thats why we posted them

[Andrew Burgess]

PERSONALLY I have found the use of backleads of all types to be a hindrance rather than help.

The captive ones are the worst as I have even had them tangle round the mainline.

 

Then you must be doing something wrong in the set up??

 

 

I do use back leads on my local water mainly because it helps stop the Swans and Ducks getting tangled in my lines. Also as I fish with 3 rods it helps to stop fish tangling up with my other lines when I am landing one. I use the fox ones the ones with the flat bottom.

 

I agree with you there as it's help me to stop the ducks and again it stop any fish tangling up my other lines when playing/landing one as well

[*Ant*]

Personally I very rarely use them, but I know a man that does!

 

As far as bite indication is concerned, I don't think it matters a jot if you are using bolt-rigs.

[poledark]

 

 

Andrew, I guess that the reason your BL tangled around the line is because it did not release and "flicked over" the line......serious problem with the Fox ones.

 

I designed my BL to avoid this problem and in use approx 4 days a week on 3 or 4 rods spread over 2 years, mine have never tangled..nor have the guys who have purchased them reported any probs.

 

As Jules says, different leads for different reasons...I use mine under the rod tip to allow me to safely play and land a large fish without lifting the other three out of the way...some feat in the dark I should imagine.

The second reason is to stop drifting rubbish from catching the line, stops swans etc getting caught up or simply dragging the line around, and minimises the annoying bleep bleep in a wind (I use braid)

 

When fishing real close in I use them to pin the line down to avoid spooking the fish working the marginal shelf.

They can also act as another bobbin,albeit an underwater one, but just as effective at helping to stop the fish ejecting the hook.

 

Guy I fish with never uses them, does not want to use them even for free, but he does use the flying BL as he wants to pin the line down near the rig...for the same reason that he does not use braid (mine floats up if allowed to slacken off), My tethered BL are 1.25oz and do keep the line down even with 80 yards out.

 

When fishing across a shallow margin area I don't bother with BL as they have no useful function in that situation.

 

As for bite indication, using the bolt rig or running rigs I use for carping there is plenty of indication even as little as a single bleep and only an inch or two of line movement, but that is with braid, definitely different with mono, but even so I want more than a twitch or two to make me pick up the rod

 

No one type can suit all situations but having suffered the mess of all four rods tangled in the dark and having to write off several hundred yards of expensive braid and risked losing a tethering a fish I would always use tethered BL where possible.

 

Den

[maff]

Back leads are definately a plus on most waters in the area of your bait, but the biggest mistake some people make is to use them indescriminately on weedy waters.

If weed is present between your rod and lead your line will be lifted of the bottom. No longer keeping it out of the way of patrolling carp.

[Newt]

Den - where can one acquire your backleads and what price on them?