dezza
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It's incredible how many times you read in certain angling publications that a method of fishing, or bait, is now "revealed".
Or a sensational new rig appears that gets called some bloody weird name, eg: "Chod Rig"
It happened the other day and it concerned the use of beefsteak for chub.
Now I have caught a fair few chub in my life on lumps of meat. But since I have retired, I have to use beefsteak to feed myself, not the fizzing chub. And since there are just as effective chub baits as beefsteak around, I'll stick to them, rather than worry my bank manager.
But for goodness sake, anglers were catching chub on rivers like the Trent and the Ouse on such baits way back in Victorian times.
New?
Such baits are as old as Methuselah, as is the short link paternoster which was being described by Dame Juliana Berners in the 15th century.
And the fact that simple paternoster rigs with a few added links and swivels can be claimed by some as being innovative, doesn't impress me. I was using such rigs in 1968!
It's time that the children who write today's angling newspapers read up a little of angling history.
Don't you think?
Or a sensational new rig appears that gets called some bloody weird name, eg: "Chod Rig"
It happened the other day and it concerned the use of beefsteak for chub.
Now I have caught a fair few chub in my life on lumps of meat. But since I have retired, I have to use beefsteak to feed myself, not the fizzing chub. And since there are just as effective chub baits as beefsteak around, I'll stick to them, rather than worry my bank manager.
But for goodness sake, anglers were catching chub on rivers like the Trent and the Ouse on such baits way back in Victorian times.
New?
Such baits are as old as Methuselah, as is the short link paternoster which was being described by Dame Juliana Berners in the 15th century.
And the fact that simple paternoster rigs with a few added links and swivels can be claimed by some as being innovative, doesn't impress me. I was using such rigs in 1968!
It's time that the children who write today's angling newspapers read up a little of angling history.
Don't you think?
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