Hi all,
I'm an experienced fly angler and have dabbled with lures on-and-off. I've just started to give dropshot a go for perch on the local canal and expected it to be relatively straight forward to pick up small perch.
However, the perch have not read the script and I've had two outings with the dropshot that were fishless! Which I probably deserve for underestimating the quarry.
I've fished the trent-mersey canal and the caldon and had two very different sets of conditions. On the trent-Mersey the water was crystal clear and on the Caldon section that I fished it was chocolate.
Let's say you have a standard, overcast day; what level of water clarity would you say was ideal?
From river fly fishing my water craft is reasonable i.e. I stayed back from the edges I fished, tried to present the lures delicately, but not a sniff.
Might try to search the water with micro jigs next time, casting with bump it along the bottom and slow retrieves until I connect with a perch, then try the dropshot.
Any advice to help get into a few fish would be greatly appreciated,
Gary.
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I'm an experienced fly angler and have dabbled with lures on-and-off. I've just started to give dropshot a go for perch on the local canal and expected it to be relatively straight forward to pick up small perch.
However, the perch have not read the script and I've had two outings with the dropshot that were fishless! Which I probably deserve for underestimating the quarry.
I've fished the trent-mersey canal and the caldon and had two very different sets of conditions. On the trent-Mersey the water was crystal clear and on the Caldon section that I fished it was chocolate.
Let's say you have a standard, overcast day; what level of water clarity would you say was ideal?
From river fly fishing my water craft is reasonable i.e. I stayed back from the edges I fished, tried to present the lures delicately, but not a sniff.
Might try to search the water with micro jigs next time, casting with bump it along the bottom and slow retrieves until I connect with a perch, then try the dropshot.
Any advice to help get into a few fish would be greatly appreciated,
Gary.
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