Picture the scene, you’ve done the night, fished to the known spots out in the pond, maybe had a fish or two, then come the morning you need to pack up and head off to work (boooo!) so you wind each rod in, swing the lead to hand, pull the boilie off the rig, give it a quick sniff and chuck it in the edge as you turn to pack that rod away, before doing the same with the next rod. On your busy club waters, it could be fair to say that throughout the warmer months it is very common for there to be a couple of washed-out baits about a rod length out, directly in front of each swim…no free offerings or loose feed of any kind, just a washed out single six foot from the bank.
It takes a bit of a leap of faith to try and replicate this by lowering a washed out single almost directly under your rod tip, especially when there is a sexy bush just along to the left of the swim that you’d normally swing a bait to, with a couple of handfuls of freebies and the even sexier overhanging tree to the right that is screaming out for a rod and a couple of pouchfuls of pellets.
But once you’ve had a couple…. water exploding…reel in melt down and rod tip yanked down at an alarming angle as an angry carp powers out of the edge, you gain a bit more confidence in the method, positioning you rods well back, so the tips are just poking over the edge, putting no free offerings out at all (I feel sure loose feeding works against you in this tactic). I have had more than a few on a single tiger fished like this….One tiger…nothing else. Once you have confidence that the fish patrol along the edge, on the look out for discarded baits, it makes perfect sense.
What I would say, from my own experience of the method, is that, on my waters at least, fish tend to visit the very edge during daylight and are more active a bit further out during the hours of darkness. The best times seem to be mid-morning through to dusk…they’ve not got their heads down but are drifting round the edge and if they see a single, chances are they’ll suck it in as they go by. Also, it works best on busy waters where old/used singles are getting dropped regularly and become a natural occurrence.
Rods positioned back from the edge
A couple caught by this method
😎😎
It takes a bit of a leap of faith to try and replicate this by lowering a washed out single almost directly under your rod tip, especially when there is a sexy bush just along to the left of the swim that you’d normally swing a bait to, with a couple of handfuls of freebies and the even sexier overhanging tree to the right that is screaming out for a rod and a couple of pouchfuls of pellets.
But once you’ve had a couple…. water exploding…reel in melt down and rod tip yanked down at an alarming angle as an angry carp powers out of the edge, you gain a bit more confidence in the method, positioning you rods well back, so the tips are just poking over the edge, putting no free offerings out at all (I feel sure loose feeding works against you in this tactic). I have had more than a few on a single tiger fished like this….One tiger…nothing else. Once you have confidence that the fish patrol along the edge, on the look out for discarded baits, it makes perfect sense.
What I would say, from my own experience of the method, is that, on my waters at least, fish tend to visit the very edge during daylight and are more active a bit further out during the hours of darkness. The best times seem to be mid-morning through to dusk…they’ve not got their heads down but are drifting round the edge and if they see a single, chances are they’ll suck it in as they go by. Also, it works best on busy waters where old/used singles are getting dropped regularly and become a natural occurrence.
Rods positioned back from the edge
A couple caught by this method
😎😎