Woody,
I hadn?t thought of using a bait dropper, that will come in handy for a few of the spots I have got my eye on that are close in, but too far for pulting accurately.
Phil,
I don?t know how I missed that article, I will have to get working on it as my ultimate aim is to fish the ?big? water for the bream, and I could be looking at distances of 50 + yds.
Incidentally, I was talking to a chap with a fish finder on the big water, who showed me a photo of an 11.5 bream, caught at 25 yds.
I bumped into this same chap on another water where I spoke to the two Ians a couple of weeks ago. The contours of this smaller water are up and down like a fiddlers elbow. It?s amazing where the deeper holes are.
I have had lots of tench from this water recently, three of which were touching 5lb on other methods.
So why am I trying something that I haven?t done before? (spodding) I am trying to winkle one or two of the bigger tench out, that I believe are in there. This water must be teeming with natural food, so the potential looks good, I think.
If there are male tench averaging 3-4 lb does that give any indication on what the females might go to? Does anybody know?
Peter......
I wish I had a bait boat at times, as a couple of the lads very kindly boated some feed out for me to spots that were impossible to cast to. Even if I could have cast to these spots, I don?t think I would have done, as they looked hopeless. But a depthfinder showed differently, it was an eye opener. A person could spend some serious time on this smaller water and still be miles out with their mapping out of the lake bed. As for getting bait out anywhere, the best thing since sliced bread.