And there’s me finking you had backlead’s and just wanted to know how to apply them! Ok, the benefits of a backlead are for me, twofold. If I cast into the centre of a lake for instance and lets say 60 yards, by having my backlead holding my line on the bottom in the margins, then my line should be tight right across the bottom of the lake. I wouldn’t necessarily backlead if the bottom is totally uneven with features for all the obvious reasons. The other benefit for me is that when I’m playing a fish o lets say my right hand rod, and the carp starts darting hard left, then this shouldn’t upset my other lines.
A backlead is like a normal small ledger weight, except it has a large flat bottom enabling it to lay flat with the eye at the top. But instead of a normal swivel eye that you’d get on ledger, it’s a rubber one about the size of a 5 pence piece. This rubber eye will have a slit where you place the line through. Next time you’re I the tackle shop, just ask for a backlead, you’ll be able to workout exactly what goes where and what to do with all he information above. They cost around ?2 for three. Hope this helps.
Rik, do me a favour, and put a link here for Chris that shows a backlead image. – Cheers!
Questions are great Chris, keep-em coming as we're all here to help mate!