Been fishing a local club lake recently with Chods because of the weed but I have had these one noting takes but when I hit them there is nothing on the end. This has happened twice anyone have an idea what could be happening.

In reply to Post #1
A fish trailing a rig?

In reply to Post #2
That's what I first thought but these have both happened months apart and haven't heard of it happening to anyone else

In reply to Post #1
If you're fishing in the weed it could be fins picking up the line. Or pike catching the line in the margins, especially during spring.
If you're using light leads it could be large roach/rudd/small bream or tench just picking up the pop up and not hook and running off with the bait.

Worst case your chod rigs aren't working effectively and hooking properly.

In reply to Post #1
What's your set up at the business end?

The pond I fish, you can be plagued with them, and its down to eel's on it as their is a high population of them and they just mouth the bait and take off with it, line screaming out, hit the run and nothing. Sometimes you might see teeth mark or a bit that has been bit off the bait if its soft. And everynow and then, you hook one in the mouth or sometimes down its flank

The way to avoid it is to not fish fishmeals but even then, you still get it happening with fruity baits etc

In reply to Post #1
I have that problem from time to time with Grebes. They can be a right mare swimming through your lines even at night. Spring is the worst time.

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As others have said , Pike are often the cause here , especially over weed, it happened a lot to me on a weedy pit, it got to the stage I was waiting for the line to start tightening up before I lifted into it, but as always nothing there ! Happened a lot, and especially early March when they were spawning !

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I've had the odd one or two to eels too, a twitchy take then a small piece of pop up missing , especially on my fishmeal cork ball pop ups where the paste goes soft !

I've had this in the past, went down the road of reducing the hair length until I got a hook up, in the end I caught 2lb bream. Just up bait size, and reduce small particles feed. You won't eradicate it completely, but will reduce it. At the extreme , feed big boilies spread apart and fish a hinge stiff rig. If all the fish you're angling for are under 20lb , expect to dramatically reduce the number of pick ups. You can't have it both ways.

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Just a pretty standard chod rig. First time it happened was on a long length of leadcore, last night it was on a small length of leadcore pretty much fished naked similar to how Luke Stephenson sets it up on YouTube.

I'll keep in mind about the pike there is some in the lake carp are going from single figure stockies to mid 30s. I think I'm going to drop the chods and go back to hinges loads more confidence in them. I'll try the bigger baits next time I'm on.

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I mean no offence but are you new to chods or has this just started happening?

My reason for asking is because I experienced the same when I first started using chods until I tweaked a few things.

In reply to Post #14
Relatively new only ever had acouple fish on them. Always something I've wanted to be able to use

Another cause I have just remembered, we had a load of small stockies escape from a small pond for float anglers into the main lake, they were just big enough to get the bait between their lips and run. Occasionally you would catch one. Even small fry that has hatched in the lake itself would eventually grow big enough to be able to do it

but, even then, you would not know if it was an eel or a stockie