Pole rigs on winders are the only way to fly,but that is attaching not to line,but to adaptors and elastic,nylon to nylon isnt quite as forgiving,as I said much earlier and Kev has repeated its a personal choice,as is how many feeders people carry,incredible to me,one guy carried three boxes similar in size to very large boxes of chocolates,htf much do they way,how much room do they take up and more importantly imo,is it necessary to have five or six different types of feeder,plus surely a good angler would know which were liable to be effective on the venue anyway...
You were rubbish Alan ... be honestMust have been a terrible match angler not using winders,funny though my record wouldnt have said so,angling has changed,a lot,anglers carry so much gear they cant walk a field,when i was matching on rivers you often walked three ploughed ones lol,that was with a basket/seat box,todays match anglers turn up with two or three poles,a couple of whips,feeder rods and maybe a float rod,plus the paraphernalia to set all of those up,thats why match fishing on rivers has died off,there arent that many venues with close enough walks,or flat banks for trolleys,jack of all trades,master of none in the main,in my area I know of four top river match anglers,all between 55 and 68,one great angler in his mid twenties,taught by his dad,but still drawn to too many methods....
Just realised I’ve had my stick floats on winders for a couple of years but got fixated with using them for Wagglers. mg: This is one for grayling on the Welsh Dee where you generally set depth for around 6ft so the rig is 9ft long. The bulk is an olivette that’s around 0.2g lighter than the specified loading so I can put a couple of other shot on to fine-tune it.
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Stick float!!!!!??????
You were rubbish Alan ... be honest
I guess that you’re referring to baby Drak?
Feeding is venue,swim related,plus target species,most anglers know what their framing weight will be,give or take,so on venues you know,you would know the best way to achieve that out of any given peg,Des told me how he fished a knock up which was run as a rover to stop lucky drawers,Des had won the previous one,so the guy(cant remember who it was,but you would know him)who drew first off went into Des's previous winning peg,Des drew last away,looked for a peg with slackish water inside,though boily,everyone said why did he opt for it,anyway he won with 7lbs odd of small fish,more than a chub away from anyone else,they called him lucky,nah,its not luck to target a winning weight and achieve it,especially with small fish,if anglers sit on steak or cheese for 5hrs hoping for 2,maybe 3 chub,thats a real gamble,because all bites need hooking...
....This is one for grayling on the Welsh Dee where you generally set depth for around 6ft so the rig is 9ft long. The bulk is an olivette that’s around 0.2g lighter than the specified loading so I can put a couple of other shot on to fine-tune it.
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