mikench
Well-known member
We all know about floats, tips etc but how often when float fishing does it happen that it isn't the float dipping/moving or rising up that tells you of a bite but the rod tip moving either to left or right or towards the water.
Is the emergence of the elastic from a pole a similar aid? I watched a chap pole fishing for carp spending a fair amount of time plumbing the depth and lowering a pole float into the margin water. The bite was signified not by the float but by the ejection of several feet of red elastic. The float was superfluous.
I am tempted to freeline and just watch either the rod or some slack line.
Is the emergence of the elastic from a pole a similar aid? I watched a chap pole fishing for carp spending a fair amount of time plumbing the depth and lowering a pole float into the margin water. The bite was signified not by the float but by the ejection of several feet of red elastic. The float was superfluous.
I am tempted to freeline and just watch either the rod or some slack line.