Camouflaging your lead

Lord Paul of Sheffield · Feb 10, 2012

To what length do you go to in order to camouflage your lead?

Glue sand on it, soak in a bucket of river water and slit?

Just use a plain lead - do you think this effects your results

little oik · Feb 10, 2012

For gods sake what with having differculty finding all my other realtree'd tackle .I even have just at great expense had all my rods spray finished in Duck egg blue :wh

Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC) · Feb 10, 2012

Paul

Do you mean for barbel fishing or just normal fishing?

I did camouflage my leads once, but now I can't find them.

Graham Elliott 1 · Feb 10, 2012

At last. A post with no hidden meaning.

Lord Paul of Sheffield · Feb 10, 2012

I've fished the Rother for barbel and/or chub and caught on a plain lead - admittedly one that had had a lot of use, and never bothered with trying to mask it, but I've got some Stonze and might give them a go

mol · Feb 10, 2012

To my eyes an uncoat lead that has weathered is by far the hardest to spot.

TBH I'm not convinced that fish are put off just by a lead, a fish will be completely unaware of what a lead is or what it's actually used for. A bit of bait and patience goes further in building fishes confidence than fancy end tackle IMO

Jeff Woodhouse · Feb 10, 2012

It doesn't matter one bit. Amongst all the other leads I've lost already in a swim another one makes no difference whatsoever.

little oik · Feb 10, 2012

Didn't Bob Roberts do a bit on Barbel fishing with a bright blue plastic toy within inches of his bait and took footage of the results .Just wish he pops in to see this thread and explain the outcome of it all .

beerweasel · Feb 10, 2012

Just use a lead the same size and colour of a boilie, that will fool em.

mg:
If leads spook them what about feeders and PVA string etc.

Fishingdownthewindy · Feb 10, 2012

Here’s a few

Araldite gravel and or sand from the lake, river stream etc to your lead.

Araldite a snap swivel to a pebble or stone once dry from where you’re fishing and off you go.

Keep your leads in a tub/bucket of pellets this tones them down a little and makes them smell all lovely and pellety at least for a short while.

If you have some new shiny "camo leads" rub the paint down a little with some fine sanding paper.

Glue some of that fake weed stuff to them

Keep them in your garden pond, put yoghurt on stones etc they will soon look green enough and slimy.

Does it work....if it is a placebo effect or not, confidence is king.

Graham Elliott 1 · Feb 10, 2012

Is it true that fish have a pea sized brain?

If not, carry on with spending so much on promotional, overpriced fools Gold

Graham

little oik · Feb 10, 2012

Its a question of who has the pea sized brain surely

Peter Jacobs · Feb 11, 2012

Lord Paul of Sheffield said:
To what length do you go to in order to camouflage your lead?

To me it is a confidence 'thing' to be honest.

To what lenghts do I go to?

Well, I spend some time picking out the ones that I like the look of at the tackle shop, thats all.

Just don't have the time to do anything else really . . . . . .

Alan Tyler · Feb 11, 2012

"Its a question of who has the pea sized brain surely"

When your cheese comes back bearing the imprint of a chub's lips; when your carefully shotted float rig fails to register a fish taking your maggot back to its throat teeth and skinning it; when a roach drops twenty yards downstream, holding station an inch from your trotted bread and not being tempted; at times like these, a bit of humility is called for, and we can only take refuge in the old saw about "It's not the size, it's what you do with it".
If one is too proud to cope with the prospect of being out-thunk by a fish, there's always golf, or rambling, or sitting in McDonald's, mumbling.

Ian Scarfe · Feb 22, 2012

I wondered why I spent so much time in Macdonalds.

Derek Gibson · Feb 23, 2012

There was a lot of camouflaging fishing gear back to the early sixties. Most of the speci types of my aquaintance did it. Leads, rods, clothing, no doubt inspired by Walker and co.

Did it make any difference? Well with hindsight probably not, but there is a case to be made for ''none flash rods''. Especially if you are inclined to stalk fish.

Lord Paul of Sheffield · Feb 23, 2012

I always wonder at those with the camo bivvy, bait bucket, realtree outfit and 3 rods sitting on a silver rod pod

little oik · Feb 23, 2012

Its a case of How good is the eye sight of fish ? Camo this and camo that and you are casting out 75yds plus .

Graham Elliott 1 · Feb 23, 2012

Often with a white Cap/hat....

Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC) · Feb 23, 2012

Lord Paul of Sheffield said:
I always wonder at those with the camo bivvy, bait bucket, realtree outfit and 3 rods sitting on a silver rod pod

With a barrel of Stella sat next to the pod, radio on, regular shouting down the bank to mates, etc, etc.

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