tortoise100
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Is it trully possible to roam around rivers and fish two rods ?
Would it even be worth wile when you are fishing a river totally new to you ?
I have tried this and before you know it your light weight stalking exploring set up becomes far to overloaded with quiver ,rod rests, alarms extra bait etc and the end result is that the mobility suffers and you will proberly never even find the best swims.
I have watched lots of barbel vids and most of them have two rods but then most of them are fishing in one place carp style but on a river .
I like the idea of two rods giving you an extra chance but maybe that is actually not the case because of the bank not covered through lack of mobility.
I like to fish for fish i can see and cut my teeth small brook chub fishing so thats all about stealth and hard work just to even find the fish but then all rivers are different and so are conditions .
The best I have managed was to cover about three miles with two rods and a friend with two rods leap frogging down a fen drain after zander but it was not as fun as it should have been carrying rod rests and alarms etc ,we have already decided that this season it will be one rod each to get the distance up.
I have been atempting to plan it out two rods in one hand ,landing net in the other ,small bait bag ,korum mat bag with weighing equipment alarms and a single rod rest , all my tackle stored in pockets .But what about food and drink for me that would mean a ruck sack etc and by now it's all starting to get a bit heavy and combersome !!
This is my actual pike set up when covering lots of water is esentail but minus the bait bag .
Just how minimal do you go ?
Would it even be worth wile when you are fishing a river totally new to you ?
I have tried this and before you know it your light weight stalking exploring set up becomes far to overloaded with quiver ,rod rests, alarms extra bait etc and the end result is that the mobility suffers and you will proberly never even find the best swims.
I have watched lots of barbel vids and most of them have two rods but then most of them are fishing in one place carp style but on a river .
I like the idea of two rods giving you an extra chance but maybe that is actually not the case because of the bank not covered through lack of mobility.
I like to fish for fish i can see and cut my teeth small brook chub fishing so thats all about stealth and hard work just to even find the fish but then all rivers are different and so are conditions .
The best I have managed was to cover about three miles with two rods and a friend with two rods leap frogging down a fen drain after zander but it was not as fun as it should have been carrying rod rests and alarms etc ,we have already decided that this season it will be one rod each to get the distance up.
I have been atempting to plan it out two rods in one hand ,landing net in the other ,small bait bag ,korum mat bag with weighing equipment alarms and a single rod rest , all my tackle stored in pockets .But what about food and drink for me that would mean a ruck sack etc and by now it's all starting to get a bit heavy and combersome !!
This is my actual pike set up when covering lots of water is esentail but minus the bait bag .
Just how minimal do you go ?