In reply to Post #15
Yes the breakaway style lead has been a gamechanger for me too since i started using one last year.
I routinely use it now after it feels like i have found a suitable spot with a normal lead, i then clip up and change to the breakaway lead to check the spot.
Very useful!
Yes the breakaway style lead has been a gamechanger for me too since i started using one last year.
I routinely use it now after it feels like i have found a suitable spot with a normal lead, i then clip up and change to the breakaway lead to check the spot.
Very useful!
In reply to Post #15
I can relate to that. A bed of zebra mussels feels the same a lumpy gravel. Unless you bring one in clamped to the line, you won't know until you get cut off.
I can relate to that. A bed of zebra mussels feels the same a lumpy gravel. Unless you bring one in clamped to the line, you won't know until you get cut off.
My syndicate lake on one side is very clean, sand and gravel, then you get to the stream bed, which is thick and silty, it is then pretty much silt all the way over to within a metre of the far bank, sand.
On other lakes I have been out over 'gravel' spots, it is a layer of silt on top of the gravel. As fish feed it gets thinner and thinner until the gravel shines through.
Yet some gravel bars are continually clean.
Another lake you could bring a lead back along the margins, around 6feet deep, it feels like gravel, bump, bump, bump, yet the whole mere is silt. The margins are filled with big swan mussels.
On other lakes I have been out over 'gravel' spots, it is a layer of silt on top of the gravel. As fish feed it gets thinner and thinner until the gravel shines through.
Yet some gravel bars are continually clean.
Another lake you could bring a lead back along the margins, around 6feet deep, it feels like gravel, bump, bump, bump, yet the whole mere is silt. The margins are filled with big swan mussels.
In reply to Post #6
And think of the hammer a lot of these day tickets get, filled in beyond belief
I know some match lads and they have told me stories of 6inch of scum on the lake beds when drained, I think this is why a lot of places banned cat meat etc. Wasn't degrading
Got to make the fishing harder and longer term, let's not go there but there has to be environmental consequences for all these millions of tonnes of bait that going in!
Again, I blame a lot on pre-programmed sheep who just spod a bucket a day out without never thinking about it, madness
And think of the hammer a lot of these day tickets get, filled in beyond belief
I know some match lads and they have told me stories of 6inch of scum on the lake beds when drained, I think this is why a lot of places banned cat meat etc. Wasn't degrading
Got to make the fishing harder and longer term, let's not go there but there has to be environmental consequences for all these millions of tonnes of bait that going in!
Again, I blame a lot on pre-programmed sheep who just spod a bucket a day out without never thinking about it, madness
In reply to Post #17
When fishing on a canal in holland a Dutch guy came along with a stainless steel small scoop thing that he cast out, well lobbed in the margin and if he found zebras ( usually only in africa) he would set up and fish, Dutch and Belgium carp anglers are clever
When fishing on a canal in holland a Dutch guy came along with a stainless steel small scoop thing that he cast out, well lobbed in the margin and if he found zebras ( usually only in africa) he would set up and fish, Dutch and Belgium carp anglers are clever
In reply to Post #13
Someone told me similar when he was fishing on Longfield, bit of an eyeopener for sure.
Someone told me similar when he was fishing on Longfield, bit of an eyeopener for sure.
In reply to Post #21
Someone told me similar when he was fishing on Longfield
The old Longfield near Wraysbury? Yes indeed - extremely silty. I used to fish it in the late 70's in to the 80's. Swine of a water.
Someone told me similar when he was fishing on Longfield
The old Longfield near Wraysbury? Yes indeed - extremely silty. I used to fish it in the late 70's in to the 80's. Swine of a water.
In reply to Post #22
Yes that's the one, he said the silt was about 3 to 4 feet deep with a consistency of soup.
Yes that's the one, he said the silt was about 3 to 4 feet deep with a consistency of soup.
In reply to Post #1
Depends on the water, how long is a piece of string
Depends on the water, how long is a piece of string
In reply to Post #15
Been using a breakaway lead for years now, brilliant for clearing weedy areas, i always put a couple of plastic bag ties around the middle of the lead securing the prongs in place so it doesnt open.
Been using a breakaway lead for years now, brilliant for clearing weedy areas, i always put a couple of plastic bag ties around the middle of the lead securing the prongs in place so it doesnt open.