Roach Reflections
- Mark99
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River Hiz. I think I located the area the big Hiz roach came from - by simple elimination and clues as to who owned the private land.
- Mark99
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Incomplete ref River Hiz but interesting to people like me who love chalk streams.
https://www.hertsmemories.org.uk/conten ... hiz-part-1
https://www.hertsmemories.org.uk/conten ... hiz-part-1
- DaceAce
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Apart from a good walk in the cold I stayed in today but have put together a video for Roach Reflections which is about maggots for roach:
- Mark99
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If you throw a few maggot in the water they sink longways...... so if you can get the roach in a frenzy taking on the drop, sidehooking maggots (like your young mate) can actually help.
- Mark99
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Re flavours. My pal way getting a goer roach up to 12-14 oz every cast on the Thames in a reliable roach area swim on ledgered bread.
For some reason he decided to flavour his bread with Strawberry flavour 1/2 way into the session. That was it - no bites at all after adding flavour! Flavours can do real damage.
For some reason he decided to flavour his bread with Strawberry flavour 1/2 way into the session. That was it - no bites at all after adding flavour! Flavours can do real damage.
- Tonytoned
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Thanks as always Mark. It's taught me a lot so far. I don't do a lot of river fishing, but I'm finding these videos very inspirational.
- DaceAce
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My mate wasn't so much side-hooking the maggots as skewering them. I've done vast amounts of on-the-drop fishing over the years and always hook the maggot conventionally but have no problems catching on the drop as I use very small, light hooks with minimal shotting down the line, and done well the maggot stays horizontal.
- Mark
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Loving this series Mark, keep them coming.
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The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
- Mark99
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Some people hook double maggot with one bait hooked fat end first and the other thin end first...... attempt to reduce the "spin" on retrieve.
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I remember Ivan Marks saying about hooking a maggot the right way. Means the hook would stick up so you a chance of foul hooking in a match on a stillwater. Not something that applies to most of us. Debatable anyway