Graham Braithwaite
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Hello again all,
I was fishing at my local lake yesterday, and feel that I might be having a bit of a problem with pop-ups.
Sweetcorn is a very popular and succesful bait there, so I duly mixed a little bit into my groundbait (I wasusing a Method feeder), and had one piece of pop-up sweetcorn on the hook along with a single kernel of the real stuff.
The problem that I was having was that I was getting a few good 'takes' but didn't manage to actually land a fish because I lost every single one. Now, here's the question; Ive pretty much got it into my head that it's the pop-up that's preventing the hook from being 'set' in the fish's mouth - I feel that the fish might be taking the bait, but that the pop-up is 'bumping it' away - and that's the reason why I didn't get to make a catch.
Sadly, being a bit of a slow-headed sort, this only dawned on me at the end - there'd been a big match for disabled anglers the day before, and I just assumed that the fish were (literally!) fed up, and that's what I thought had been the reason up until then.
Maybe I'm right, and maybe I'm wrong and, in any case, I'm swithching to a hair rig tomorrow morning, but I just wondered what any of the rest of you thought, so I'll throw it open for your comments from here.
I was fishing at my local lake yesterday, and feel that I might be having a bit of a problem with pop-ups.
Sweetcorn is a very popular and succesful bait there, so I duly mixed a little bit into my groundbait (I wasusing a Method feeder), and had one piece of pop-up sweetcorn on the hook along with a single kernel of the real stuff.
The problem that I was having was that I was getting a few good 'takes' but didn't manage to actually land a fish because I lost every single one. Now, here's the question; Ive pretty much got it into my head that it's the pop-up that's preventing the hook from being 'set' in the fish's mouth - I feel that the fish might be taking the bait, but that the pop-up is 'bumping it' away - and that's the reason why I didn't get to make a catch.
Sadly, being a bit of a slow-headed sort, this only dawned on me at the end - there'd been a big match for disabled anglers the day before, and I just assumed that the fish were (literally!) fed up, and that's what I thought had been the reason up until then.
Maybe I'm right, and maybe I'm wrong and, in any case, I'm swithching to a hair rig tomorrow morning, but I just wondered what any of the rest of you thought, so I'll throw it open for your comments from here.