Please explain your theories?
Myself I have often dropped a hook size before bites have been forthcoming. Surely that is a weight issue and the caster/maggot/worm or whatever not behaving quite the same as the loose bait?
Please explain your theories?
Interesting comment Vole - I've often fished for fish taking baits "on the drop" and they have been very big fish - roach, rudd and perch. I've had the same experience of more bites by dropping the hook size also more bites by going finer on the line and even placing the hook inside the maggot.They still make few mistakes.Vole wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2019 1:53 pm I was taught a lesson by a mixed shoal of small fish about fifty years back.
They were taking loose maggots and studiously ignoring the one on the hook. The more I reduced the hook size, the nearer they seemed to get to slipping up, but although a size twenty, the smallest I had, didn't speed the bait's fall up too much (every larger size might just has well have been anchor; even I wouldn't have fallen for it!), something still wasn't right.
I get what you mean troydog,a fisherman’s brain needs fed haha.
I never said you don’t have to think about it Shaun,I’m talking about myself.theory explained.Shaun Harrison wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2019 1:10 pmPlease explain your theories?
Myself I have often dropped a hook size before bites have been forthcoming. Surely that is a weight issue and the caster/maggot/worm or whatever not behaving quite the same as the loose bait?
I'm interested in why pike and perch are more affected?Ian wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2019 7:37 amI never said you don’t have to think about it Shaun,I’m talking about myself.theory explained.Shaun Harrison wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2019 1:10 pmPlease explain your theories?
Myself I have often dropped a hook size before bites have been forthcoming. Surely that is a weight issue and the caster/maggot/worm or whatever not behaving quite the same as the loose bait?