In reply to Post #29
Agree mate, I don't clip up, and I don't feel the lead down, obviouly I will have a lead around first to check out the designated area...I normally fish 100 to 130yds on a large pit (no boats allowed)...I spomb an area (not clipped up) then tend to fish all 3 rods in that area.
My catch rates are good and consistent...at the end of the day its what you have confidence in...
Agree mate, I don't clip up, and I don't feel the lead down, obviouly I will have a lead around first to check out the designated area...I normally fish 100 to 130yds on a large pit (no boats allowed)...I spomb an area (not clipped up) then tend to fish all 3 rods in that area.
My catch rates are good and consistent...at the end of the day its what you have confidence in...
In reply to Post #30
Unless you fish clipped up and hit the lead firmly or feather and stop the lead before it hits the water the lead will always land on a slack line and once the water has slowed it down it will fall vertically to the bottom. If the lead hits the water without being stopped in some way the line continues to flow off the reel after it the lead hits causing a large bow of slack line
Unless you fish clipped up and hit the lead firmly or feather and stop the lead before it hits the water the lead will always land on a slack line and once the water has slowed it down it will fall vertically to the bottom. If the lead hits the water without being stopped in some way the line continues to flow off the reel after it the lead hits causing a large bow of slack line
In reply to Post #32
OK fair enough, but does anyone do that?
I might do that in very specific situations, long running chods for example. But not if I was fishing a tight baited area.
Even with no clip I've always stopped it with my finger to straighten it all out as it hits the water, then felt the lead down.
I've never seen anyone just cast out, and leave the line slack?
OK fair enough, but does anyone do that?
I might do that in very specific situations, long running chods for example. But not if I was fishing a tight baited area.
Even with no clip I've always stopped it with my finger to straighten it all out as it hits the water, then felt the lead down.
I've never seen anyone just cast out, and leave the line slack?
In reply to Post #31
At that sort of range without clipping up I highly doubt you are fishing anywhere near your baited area, you might get lucky now and again but I really doubt it
At that sort of range without clipping up I highly doubt you are fishing anywhere near your baited area, you might get lucky now and again but I really doubt it
In reply to Post #34
Will beg to differ on that as bait up an area around tennis court size so I know my 3 rigs are well within the area...if my catch rates were poor then I would question my tactics...but.like I say they work for me...
Will beg to differ on that as bait up an area around tennis court size so I know my 3 rigs are well within the area...if my catch rates were poor then I would question my tactics...but.like I say they work for me...
In reply to Post #33
I use to in the 70,s but the worlds moved on
I use to in the 70,s but the worlds moved on
I don't know why people worry so much about getting the exact distance to the nearest inch of your fishing mark to drop your spod on top of it to bait up accurately. Because in reality, you have more control over the exact range you want to cast by clipping up, but you have no control over how far to the left or right you are casting but nobody bothers about that.
So what is the point of crying you might me casting a foot or two past your mark when you may be a yard or two to the left or right or even more at long range, which in theory if your clipped up leads to baiting up a linear shape of bait on the bottom as opposed to a circular area. Unless your capable of managing to hit the exact spot to within an inch at any range on every cast.
If I can be bothered, I usually spod from the front of my swim which makes me bait up beyond my mark, then take a step or two back and carry on spodding or variations on this method. Or, just leave my marker float out and spod to it, left, right, short and beyond. And them methods will create a circular patch of bait on the bottom and your rig in the middle of it or off to the edge of the baited area depending on how you do it.
So what is the point of crying you might me casting a foot or two past your mark when you may be a yard or two to the left or right or even more at long range, which in theory if your clipped up leads to baiting up a linear shape of bait on the bottom as opposed to a circular area. Unless your capable of managing to hit the exact spot to within an inch at any range on every cast.
If I can be bothered, I usually spod from the front of my swim which makes me bait up beyond my mark, then take a step or two back and carry on spodding or variations on this method. Or, just leave my marker float out and spod to it, left, right, short and beyond. And them methods will create a circular patch of bait on the bottom and your rig in the middle of it or off to the edge of the baited area depending on how you do it.