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binka
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Firstly I should say that this relates to static and not rolled baits in moving water.
Within practicality eg. the constraints of distance and strong flow does anyone think that the point on the riverbed where a bait comes to rest has a large and occasionally overbearing effect on its success rate, particularly as to how accurate the bait places itself in relation to where food items would naturally settle?
In some ways "yes" seems an obvious answer but in others it defies what we occasionally think regarding the habits of our beloved "river pigs" in that they won't necessarily just head for the food, clean up and move on.
This is prompted by my experience yesterday where, for anyone who hasn't already read about it, I freelined a meat bait on a very improvised rig and with no additional feed at all some six or seven yards away from a mate who had been chucking a loaded feeder in for several hours...There's little doubt that his accumulation of feed was within the fishes sensory range yet the result was that I enjoyed three good barbel in the space of a few minutes as opposed to his one barbel over several hours.
He wasn't doing anything obviously wrong as such, the bait I was using was identical and from his own tin and logic tells me that the fish would be on the food given such a short distance between us but clearly they weren't so what was the reason?.
The stretch of water that we fished is far from what I would consider as pressured and I can fairly safely dismiss the fish backing off the feed due to any association with danger.
So, in conclusion I can only summise that the bait resting on a more natural area of river bed outfished one that was pinned to what was maybe a less natural area in relation to settlement even though the latter was accompanied by regular amounts of additional feed.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Within practicality eg. the constraints of distance and strong flow does anyone think that the point on the riverbed where a bait comes to rest has a large and occasionally overbearing effect on its success rate, particularly as to how accurate the bait places itself in relation to where food items would naturally settle?
In some ways "yes" seems an obvious answer but in others it defies what we occasionally think regarding the habits of our beloved "river pigs" in that they won't necessarily just head for the food, clean up and move on.
This is prompted by my experience yesterday where, for anyone who hasn't already read about it, I freelined a meat bait on a very improvised rig and with no additional feed at all some six or seven yards away from a mate who had been chucking a loaded feeder in for several hours...There's little doubt that his accumulation of feed was within the fishes sensory range yet the result was that I enjoyed three good barbel in the space of a few minutes as opposed to his one barbel over several hours.
He wasn't doing anything obviously wrong as such, the bait I was using was identical and from his own tin and logic tells me that the fish would be on the food given such a short distance between us but clearly they weren't so what was the reason?.
The stretch of water that we fished is far from what I would consider as pressured and I can fairly safely dismiss the fish backing off the feed due to any association with danger.
So, in conclusion I can only summise that the bait resting on a more natural area of river bed outfished one that was pinned to what was maybe a less natural area in relation to settlement even though the latter was accompanied by regular amounts of additional feed.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?