rayner
Well-known member
I've said on numerous occasions I have never shown any interest in predator fishing. I asked what I deemed a simple question regarding rigs from experienced predator anglers that received virtually no response on the predator corner of the forum. Perhaps my question was a little ambiguous or even dim. For one reason or another, my question was almost ignored. It only attracted a couple of responses.
Having said that I've decided to use my own initiative drawn from nearly sixty years of angling experience. Even though predator fishing is virtually foreign to me it is after all just a different species that I'm sure I will get to grips with. I've caught the odd perch like everyone else. They are said to go to 4lb in the venue I shall be fishing, I know to encounter such a specimen would be as lucky as winning the lottery.
My first choice would be to fish a feeder rod. A jig head is sure to be used.
I already have an array of drop-shotting gear that I use to use on the canal. Now it would be too much of a stretch for me to venture on to the canal again there's too much walking. A day on the 65-acre lake may be a little bit daunting having never seen the after but it is only fishing.
My thinking of predator fishing is all to do with my daughter buying a home close to Talkin Tarn in Cumbria. A water that holds only perch and pike.
Other gear I bought was wire for incase I snag a pike, a larger landing net for the same reason, a larger pair of forceps for extracting hooks, the main thing is a gadget for holding the pikes gob open when unhooking the toothy critters. I had an idea that my son in law may be able to help with unhooking pike but he flatly refuses to sit on the banks for if I hook a pike.
I shall just bite the bullet go and start from scratch fishing as it were blind.
To say there could be more than a little trepidation, having never seen a pike bigger than about 10" that was caught from the canal on the bank that took a jelly worm by mistake I'm sure I will cope with no trouble.
Having said that I've decided to use my own initiative drawn from nearly sixty years of angling experience. Even though predator fishing is virtually foreign to me it is after all just a different species that I'm sure I will get to grips with. I've caught the odd perch like everyone else. They are said to go to 4lb in the venue I shall be fishing, I know to encounter such a specimen would be as lucky as winning the lottery.
My first choice would be to fish a feeder rod. A jig head is sure to be used.
I already have an array of drop-shotting gear that I use to use on the canal. Now it would be too much of a stretch for me to venture on to the canal again there's too much walking. A day on the 65-acre lake may be a little bit daunting having never seen the after but it is only fishing.
My thinking of predator fishing is all to do with my daughter buying a home close to Talkin Tarn in Cumbria. A water that holds only perch and pike.
Other gear I bought was wire for incase I snag a pike, a larger landing net for the same reason, a larger pair of forceps for extracting hooks, the main thing is a gadget for holding the pikes gob open when unhooking the toothy critters. I had an idea that my son in law may be able to help with unhooking pike but he flatly refuses to sit on the banks for if I hook a pike.
I shall just bite the bullet go and start from scratch fishing as it were blind.
To say there could be more than a little trepidation, having never seen a pike bigger than about 10" that was caught from the canal on the bank that took a jelly worm by mistake I'm sure I will cope with no trouble.