I've never fished the method but I have fished a slack lines for big carp and the method, to my eyes, seems a scaled down version of a big carp rig.
It takes a leap of faith to fish a slack line as it makes no sense how the rig manages to actually hook the carp as there is no weight to set the hook, as it has to be fished running rig style. Infact I would go so far as to say that a slack line goes against the perceived widom of the weight setting the hook. However it works brillantly, the runs are simply fantastic and liners are a thing of the past. I'd be slightly worried about fishing a slack line with a quivertip unless I'd slackened the drag off.
Honestly it works, give it a go
Yes that is my problem it seems counter intuitive , also you wouldn't know whether you had been "done" by the carp spitting the bait out.
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Sam do you think that is true that fish on more naturally stocked lakes are a bit wiser than average ? Especially at the business end of fishing which is actual presentation.
Now in unntauraly stocked lakes , especially the ones I fish locating the fish is much less of a puzzle, I would have little idea how to solve that problem on a large natural lake and from reading your posts you tend to do a lot of stalking.
But I have dabbed for commercial carp quite a few times and been amazed at how quickly they can blow the bait out , it seems like almost a muscle reflex. Also I have sat most of a day on a commercial and missed every single bite till I switched to an extremely light float then I started converting bites into fish.
If you think about it if a commercial puddlle has 300 fish in and on average 10 anglers a day are catching 5 fish , then probably these fish are being caught once a week. Surely this fish would develop a reflex against the hook which is faster than a fish being caught once a decade ?
Now I am not saying catching commercial carp is more diificult , far from it , I would imagine they are much harder to locate , much more wary of noise , have many more places to escape to etc etc but how a natural fish can wise up to bait is beyond me.
An additional thought a "natural" fish would be conmsuming far more natural food so might be more wary of an artifical bait, still in the hypothetical circumstances we are talking about here both fish , natural and stocked , have already picked up the bait.
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Another additional thought , am I setting up my rig properly ?
I have hooklink , swivel , bead , feeder so the whole thing is free running anyway , should I be looking to make the feeder semi fixed ?