gentle
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So its Sunday morning. SKy is clear and the sun is just breaking above the horizon. Its cold but not freezing and I have my Cpin and trotting rod and a nice pint of maggot. I pull up with my usual suspect fishing buddy at Prebends with the Cathedral at my back. Lovely.
2 Casts later I bank a nice brown trout. I clear off my hook and rebait with 2 white maggot.
5 minutes later the rod hoops round to another smallish trout. I disgorge the trout and find... 3 maggots on the hook 2 white and 1 red. Confused I tell my mate who laughs at me and asks what I put in my coffee.
So with significant bait still present on the hook I decide to re cast with the bait intact. 2 whites and 1 red.
5 minutes later another similar stamp trout is banked and I disgorge it to find.... 4 maggots on the hook 2 white 1 red and one bluish.
So I tell my buddy who goes into fits of laughter and says "pull the other one mate.... why dont you just cast an empty hook and see how much bait you can catch"
Has anyone else ever encountered the increasing bait phenomenon? Ive been fishing for years and have to say this is the first and second time its ever happened to me.
I have my suspicions as to how it could happen but thought Id throw it open to you lot for humourous commentary
2 Casts later I bank a nice brown trout. I clear off my hook and rebait with 2 white maggot.
5 minutes later the rod hoops round to another smallish trout. I disgorge the trout and find... 3 maggots on the hook 2 white and 1 red. Confused I tell my mate who laughs at me and asks what I put in my coffee.
So with significant bait still present on the hook I decide to re cast with the bait intact. 2 whites and 1 red.
5 minutes later another similar stamp trout is banked and I disgorge it to find.... 4 maggots on the hook 2 white 1 red and one bluish.
So I tell my buddy who goes into fits of laughter and says "pull the other one mate.... why dont you just cast an empty hook and see how much bait you can catch"
Has anyone else ever encountered the increasing bait phenomenon? Ive been fishing for years and have to say this is the first and second time its ever happened to me.
I have my suspicions as to how it could happen but thought Id throw it open to you lot for humourous commentary