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Fishing Tips and helpful information

 

 

 

3 Tips - Common sense really but its surprising how many forget!

 

1. Make sure you have an up-to-date licence and carry it at all times!  The price of a licence is far cheaper than the fine (up to £2,500) if you get caught without one. Plus your licence fee goes towards looking after the waters and fish etc.

 

2. Before you set off on your fishing trip check that you have everything, i.e. fishing tackle, bait and your wallet if you need to pay for a day ticket. Nothing is worse than getting there, setting up and finding you've no bait to put on your hook.

 

3. Check for overhead cables.
Many are high voltage and using carbon rods near them can
KILL YOU !

 

Ok, now here's some tips that may be of help:

 

Extra's to carry in your tackle box
Tippex (typewriter correction fluid)
black marker pen
small first aid kit
scissors

 

Unhook an eel

Worm fishing

Using a stick float

Hold back when trotting

Bites dry up when trotting

Chewed maggots

Flavours & Colourings

Lack of bites

Stop your float drifting

Feeding correctly

Can't see your float

Plumb the depth

Raking for tench

Bubble float

Bubble float hook length

Discard old hooks and line

Deeply hooked fish

Missing fish, 'on the drop'

 

 

Unhook an eel
You have all caught an eel at sometime and know the hassle you have with keeping it still to unhook it!  The answer is to mark a big cross onto your unhooking mat and drop it onto it. Why?  Well this is what an old angler told me many years ago when I was a young lad just starting fishing. At first I thought he was just taking the mickey out of me for being a novice. BUT!!  I had hooked an eel.  Ok, he said, draw a cross on a flat part of the bank using a stick or the side of your bootThis I did.  Reel in the eel and drop it on the cross (on its back if you can).  I did and within seconds it stopped moving, as if it was dead!!!  Now you have time to unhook it and return it to the water. The old mans story / reason for this was: The cross represents a crucifix. The eel is the fish of the Devil and like the Devil if it is faced with a cross it is subdued. (probably a load of baloney but it has worked every time for me) TRY IT YOURSELF AND LET ME KNOW THE OUTCOME!!!    jim@fish-uk.com

Worm fishing
When fishing with worms nip off the tail end. This gets them wriggling more and also adds more flavour and smell to your swim

Using a stick float
When using a stick float always use 3 float rubbers so if one snaps you don't have to tackle up all over again

Hold back when trotting
When trotting you must fish over depth and hold your float back to let the hook sink if you want your bait to trail along the bottom. This is because the surface flow of a river is always faster than the flow near the bottom. At the end of your run through always hold back for a few seconds. You'll often find this brings a bite.

 

Bites dry up when trotting
When your trotting and catching fish and the bites dry up, try altering the depth. The fish are probably still there but higher or lower in the water


Chewed maggots
If you get chewed maggots shorten the hook length or move the bottom shot nearer to the hook. If this don't work try hooking the maggot in the middle (handlebar style)

Flavours & Colourings
When your wife or partner goes to your local supermarket surprise her and say, ' Wait a minute, I'll come and help you darling'. (hee hee). When you get there have a look round the food flavours & colouring shelves. There is loads and they are a lot cheaper than the commercial ones just for anglers. I use mainly vanilla and I've had good success. For red colour I use cochineal. Also try custard powder in with your maggots. It lumps up a bit but don't worry about this.

 

Lack of bites
If your not getting bites try twitching the bait. This sometimes makes all the difference

Stop your float drifting
When waggler fishing on a stillwater if there is a breeze or its windy, overcasting and winding back with the rod tip underwater sinks your line and stops your float being pulled out of position

Feeding correctly
When feeding, don't throw lots of bait in at the start and sit on it, little and often is best.

Can't see your float
If the light makes it hard to see the flouro tip of your float do as I do;
Carry a black marker pen and a bottle of tipex (typewriter correction fluid bought from your local stationary shop). If there is not much light or its overcast paint the tip with 2 - 3 coats (it dries quickly) and you have an easily seen white tipped float. If the light is bright, after painting the tip as I've said, colour the tip with the marker pen, you then have an easily seen black tipped float. Also it is easy to use your thumbnail to scrape off the tipex back to the original tip.

Plumb the depth
Once you've plumbed the depth of the water you're going to be fishing, put your hook onto the rod ring nearest the reel and tighten the line (reel in the loose line). Using the tipex I advised you to carry, mark on your rod where the float is. Now if you alter the depth or get snapped off all you have to do is put the hook put your hook back to the rod ring and you've got the original depth you were fishing at.

 

Missing fish, 'on the drop'

If the fish are up in the water and taking maggots 'on the drop' and your missing the bites then instead of hooking your maggots through the end as normal try hooking them in the middle.

Raking for tench
If you are going tench fishing, take a rake with you. Before you set up rake around the bottom of your swim. (ask the fishery owner if this is ok to do first!). It attracts the Tench and they seem to love searching for food in the murky water of a freshly raked swim


Bubble float
I always buy the clear ones. Fishing within seeing distance I can watch the bait for bites. Fishing further out and depending on the light I can always use the old faithful tipex to colour it white and marker pen over the tipex to colour it black

Bubble float hook length
Some agree with this some don't. A straight through line of say 10lb will give you better chance in the weed once a big fish is hooked, but if it snaps off the fish can be left with the hook in its mouth trailing the float about. I always use a hook length from the bubble float of 3/4 (75%) breaking strain of the main line. Then if it snaps off the fish isn't left trailing the float around


Discard old hooks and line
Your line and hook are the two most important items of your fishing tackle. When I finish a session I will pull off the reel 4-5 yards (4 metre) of line, wrap it round my hand, tie it up and put it in my tackle box. This line could be frayed or weakened. When I get home I always discard the line AND the hooks I've used. They WILL be blunt and for what they cost I do not want to miss the probable catch of a lifetime because of weak line or a blunt hook. Hooks used for sea fishing are a different case. These can be re-sharpened.

 

Deeply hooked fish
If the fish has obviously swallowed the bait right down and you can't get it out with your disgorger or forceps, simply cut the line off as close to the hook as possible and allow the fish to swim away. The fish will usually be able to get rid of the hook itself, especially if it has no barb, or it will be dissolved. Never pull on the line of a gut hooked fish in an attempt to recover your hook, this will severely injure the fish and will probably kill it.


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