sherlockofsheff2010
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Hi
Have been having some fairly good success with chub recently with meat, bread and cheese paste on straight lead and swan shot link.
A lot of the bites are unmissable with the chub hooking themselves against the rod top but I've also had almost as many which are similar good pulls and knocks which have left me striking into thin air.
I've messed around with rigs and materials, trying hair rigging which was a waste of time, balancing the paste with crust and lengthening and shortening the hooklink. At present I've settled on a 24 - 30 inch combi rig using amnesia and Dacron to a size 6 kirim power hook.
This seems to have given the best degree of success so far but was wondering if anyone had any hints to improve the conversion rate.
Does anyone think that putting shrink tube on the shank to kick the rig would help as dragging the hook over my palm perhaps only catches once in ten times.
Also just to say I am using the least amount of lead required to hold and fishing with the flow just registering on the quivertip.
Cheers
Steve
Have been having some fairly good success with chub recently with meat, bread and cheese paste on straight lead and swan shot link.
A lot of the bites are unmissable with the chub hooking themselves against the rod top but I've also had almost as many which are similar good pulls and knocks which have left me striking into thin air.
I've messed around with rigs and materials, trying hair rigging which was a waste of time, balancing the paste with crust and lengthening and shortening the hooklink. At present I've settled on a 24 - 30 inch combi rig using amnesia and Dacron to a size 6 kirim power hook.
This seems to have given the best degree of success so far but was wondering if anyone had any hints to improve the conversion rate.
Does anyone think that putting shrink tube on the shank to kick the rig would help as dragging the hook over my palm perhaps only catches once in ten times.
Also just to say I am using the least amount of lead required to hold and fishing with the flow just registering on the quivertip.
Cheers
Steve