Picture this, a gorgeous sunny day, not a breath of wind, you're in a wooded valley on the inside of a sweeping bend of a river. From the top of the bank you can see that the river is STUFFED full of chub and barbel as the water is only 3 feet deep.
I'M IN HEAVEN I hear you cry ! the only thing missing from the picture is your stick float gently working its way through the swim.
30 mins later you've set up, introduced a few handfulls of hemp and corn and your mate is telling you that the fish are feeding over your baited area, OH JOY !!
Right then, here goes. A small handful of maggots hits the water, you've got your polarised sunglasses on and you see fish going crazy to get to them first.
A shaking hand releases your stick float and it glides out and lands on the water in a perfect line, another pinch of maggots lands around the float as it makes its way downstream, THANK YOU LORD you want to shout, but you can't, your mouth is dry, the tension is unbearable as the float moves into the "danger zone" and then......
you watch as the fish part like the Red sea did for Moses and let your float through the swim TOTALLY IGNORING your hookbait.
Over the next 6 hours I tried EVERYTHING I could think of including..
crystal floats
12oz hooklegnths (crazy I know!)
24 hooks
ledger
freelined baits
feeding more
not feeding anything
Talk about fed up!!! I was pulling, what little hair I have left, out by the end of the day. Apart from dynamite, any suggestions ??
Nige, Wishin I was Fishin
I'M IN HEAVEN I hear you cry ! the only thing missing from the picture is your stick float gently working its way through the swim.
30 mins later you've set up, introduced a few handfulls of hemp and corn and your mate is telling you that the fish are feeding over your baited area, OH JOY !!
Right then, here goes. A small handful of maggots hits the water, you've got your polarised sunglasses on and you see fish going crazy to get to them first.
A shaking hand releases your stick float and it glides out and lands on the water in a perfect line, another pinch of maggots lands around the float as it makes its way downstream, THANK YOU LORD you want to shout, but you can't, your mouth is dry, the tension is unbearable as the float moves into the "danger zone" and then......
you watch as the fish part like the Red sea did for Moses and let your float through the swim TOTALLY IGNORING your hookbait.
Over the next 6 hours I tried EVERYTHING I could think of including..
crystal floats
12oz hooklegnths (crazy I know!)
24 hooks
ledger
freelined baits
feeding more
not feeding anything
Talk about fed up!!! I was pulling, what little hair I have left, out by the end of the day. Apart from dynamite, any suggestions ??
Nige, Wishin I was Fishin