xenon
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The roach thread got me thinking about this-there are some species I do well with and others I am useless at. Do you have a species you seem to more intuitively tuned into?
I’ve always caught them hard on the bottom feeder fishing with corn on the great Ouse. So nice landing a big roach as we all know they don’t have the best of times hiding from the predatorsRoach: they absolutely fascinate, big ones are just so contrary, so rare. Certainly harder than big carp. It seems that every time they prefer a different bait and presentation. Sometimes bread or wheat, corn, pellets, etc, etc, sometimes long or short hooklinks, the permutations are endless! The other major problem is to single out the roach, too often tench, bream, chub, barbel pinch their bait.
F1 fishing is an interesting way to fish I think in its way it’s similar to roach fishing.F1's on commercials,
On some of the commercials I fish apart from silvers,sturgeon etc, there are some good sized margin carp.F1 fishing is an interesting way to fish I think in its way it’s similar to roach fishing.
On one of our local council run venues there are some big 4 pound plus f1 which give a good account of themselves.....it also has a good balance of silver’s and f1 so good mixed bags can be had it makes for a great days sport without being silly.
On one of our local council run venues there are some big 4 pound plus f1 which give a good account of themselves.....it also has a good balance of silver’s and f1 so good mixed bags can be had it makes for a great days sport without being silly.
True, F1's can be tricky, I have found that you have to constantly change depth to keep in touch with them, even a couple of inches can make a lot of difference,I believe F1s are trickier to catch than the roach, they are like quick lightning at ejecting a hook bait.
Roach for me in smaller sizes say to 8oz are easy as. Even small F1s are ninja fish. The only effective way of catching numbers of F1s to my old brain is self hooking rigs, some fisheries like Lindholme insist on a 6" lash which makes them trickier than if you're allowed a 3" lash.
One way to overcome the longer lash is to overshot the rig, some fisheries outlaw that.
I hate F1s they are too quick for me, without help from rigs I'm dumbfounded by them.
The jigger is my only help with the little sods. Give me roach anytime.
some fisheries like Lindholme insist on a 6" lash which makes them trickier than if you're allowed a 3" lash.
One way to overcome the longer lash is to overshot the rig, some fisheries outlaw that.