whitty
Well-known member
I've fished water up to 35' deep,though rarely caught many fish there,27' is the deepest i've had a good day from,these days I often fish over 10/11' with a slider,just a lot easier imo...
Semi-loaded every time. Otherwise it'll cast no distance at all and like a bag of spanners as the unloaded float is pushed back up the line by the air causing massive resistance !!
Same here Rich, like Whitty I’ve been casting unloaded sliders on and off since the 1970s and try as I might I can’t remember ever having many (if any at all) problems with the float sliding up the line during the cast, and I wouldn't expect to unless I was fishing into a very awkward headwind; which is quite rare for me anyway.Really Rich,my slider never lands like a bag of spanners,must be doing something wrong then...
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Or casting then,I get the occasional split of float to shot on either float,it is all down to how you cast,unless casting into the wind,or an awkward side wind,generally i'm unlucky to get two minor tangles in a day(not retackle jobbies),similar with what you are talking about,sadly i'm so long in the tooth and i've fished the slider since the seventies,using loaded and unloaded floats,for the last fifteen years mostly unloaded....