nicky
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Went fishing yesterday afternoon at a local pond which is crammed to the hilt with roach.
When fishing it in the winter it wasn't too bad and you could catch loads of your sort of average size roach with the odd descent one chucked in for good measure.
When I fished there yesterday I caught about 60 roach and sticklebacks with the roach being the same size as the stickle backs and i only caught 5 roach any bigger one of which was fairly descent size about 8 ounces
There are so many tiny fish if you throw a few maggots in the edge the sticklebacks and baby roach attack them and you can see them fighting over them.
Is there anyway to try and get less attention from the small fish as they drive you mad your float is constantly bobbing up and down with the attention of the small fish which usually haven't even got the hook in there mouth and are just nipping the end, yesterday i just kept stricking bringing the float closer and closer to the bank untill i hooked one.
there's that many small one's in there that you can lower a bunch of maggots in the margins and pull out 6 sticklebacks without eveing hooking them they just hang on like little terriers.
I was using 2lb hook length, size 18 hooks and fishing just touching bottom
When fishing it in the winter it wasn't too bad and you could catch loads of your sort of average size roach with the odd descent one chucked in for good measure.
When I fished there yesterday I caught about 60 roach and sticklebacks with the roach being the same size as the stickle backs and i only caught 5 roach any bigger one of which was fairly descent size about 8 ounces
There are so many tiny fish if you throw a few maggots in the edge the sticklebacks and baby roach attack them and you can see them fighting over them.
Is there anyway to try and get less attention from the small fish as they drive you mad your float is constantly bobbing up and down with the attention of the small fish which usually haven't even got the hook in there mouth and are just nipping the end, yesterday i just kept stricking bringing the float closer and closer to the bank untill i hooked one.
there's that many small one's in there that you can lower a bunch of maggots in the margins and pull out 6 sticklebacks without eveing hooking them they just hang on like little terriers.
I was using 2lb hook length, size 18 hooks and fishing just touching bottom