More Than a Coincidence?

[peterjg]

Dependant on the venue I sometimes use two rods at the same time, usually both set up for roach. The baits (sometimes two different) can be many yards apart yet all too often I get bites on both rods at the same time, this happens just too frequently to be coincidence. I then recast, sit there perhaps for ages and then get two bites again at the same time - too weird?

I appreciate roach are shoul fish but I can be float fishing in the edge and legering 40 yards out and still get two bites at the same time? Other anglers must experience this?

 

[arthur2sheds]

They do it on purpose... it's a plot to make you lose fish

 

[dorsetandchub]

Found a place in Hereford that had more carp than water, couldn't ever use two rods.

Mind, nothing bigger than about 6lbs.

Fun though.

 

[john step]

Its Murphys law. They will do it when you raise the cup to drink coffee BUT if you are not drinking coffee they have to pick a time when they CAN bu**er you about don't they???

 

[no-one in particular]

Only one explanation, your just weird Peter-anyone ever had a fish pick up both baits when fishing two rods. I haven't, just wondered if anyone had.

 

[mike47]

My preferred lake only allows one rod to be used at a time. This suits me fine as I remember when using a float rod and feeder rod at the same time, I looked up from filling my feeder to watch my float rod take a dive off the bank and sail across to the reeds on the far side. As I only pleasure fish, one rod is more relaxing and I miss far fewer fish. Managed to get my rod back thankfully, but the fish had long gone.

 

[peter crabtree]

Crabtree bad angling award for Mikemg:

 

[thecrow]

Have had it happen with Barbel but never with Roach, this despite fishing a large reservoir for them for a number of years, mind getting one bite in a session was something to brag about

The only thing I can think of is it is a passing shoal that fed on what is there and move on.

 

[robtherake]

Only one explanation, your just weird Peter-anyone ever had a fish pick up both baits when fishing two rods. I haven't, just wondered if anyone had.

Yep, happened a few weeks ago - rods went off 5 seconds apart (one 30yds out, the other at my feet) - lumpy carp on each rod, just wondering which one to put down when the left-hand one woke up and smashed me in an eye-blink. The "small" one that was still attached went 16lb. Some you win...

 

[Alan Tyler]

Last week, on a very slow day, both I and a chap separated from me by a small promontory caught a bream at the same moment.

I'm not sure that my Quantum Biology-based suggestion of entangled electron pairs linking their brains was treated with quite the seriousness it merited.

 

[peter crabtree]

Yep, happened a few weeks ago - rods went off 5 seconds apart (one 30yds out, the other at my feet) - lumpy carp on each rod, just wondering which one to put down when the left-hand one woke up and smashed me in an eye-blink...

CBAA Award number two Rob..

 

[103841]

I'm convinced certain waters switch off and on like a light switch, getting bites simultaneously happens to me quite often, only last week had a Crucian on one rod whilst playing a 12lb Sturgeon on another rod, different baits over 25 metres apart, successfully landing both was entertaining to say the least. On the same venue yesterday I fished with two other anglers present, all three of us on different parts of the lake, a quiet few hours all round followed by all three of us landing fish within a ten minute period.

 

[smudger172]

Only one explanation, your just weird Peter-anyone ever had a fish pick up both baits when fishing two rods. I haven't, just wondered if anyone had.

Did that happen to chris tarrant and john wilson on one of his shows

 

[robtherake]

CBAA Award number two Rob..

I was just gonna bring the long one in, honest guv