God's way of telling you to do those pending diy tasks around the house so you can go fishing later in the year.
The only fishery in my local area that I could legally travel to looks like this.
Makes fly presentation a little difficult although when you are on the dries, they sure wont sink.
Haha. My Rudd story was similar. It was in Belturbet and we'd been hammering bream all week. I don't know why but I ended up moving a peg or two downstream and just trotting maggots off the rod tip. Just the same, it was a quality rudd every cast, stunningly beautiful golden fish around a pound.
It's like nothing I've ever fished before. A bouyant piece of worm-like rubber on a special mushroom-shaped jig head. It stands up off the bottom. You inch it along and then stop it, so it kind of wriggles like a worm, but vertical. It was developed by American bass anglers but is being used by those "in the know" perch anglers here in cold water. Even newer is something called the "Cheb Rig" which I've just ordered the component parts from on ebay today.
Thats really interesting. How big is it. I wonder if you could cast that with a HiD fly line. In early season, Trout often sit right on the loch bed and the only way to get at them is to fish a fly within a couple of inches of the bottom.
The ones I'm using are 5 - 7.5cm and I use a jig head which is as light as I can get away with so it sinks slowly and shimmers/flutters after a twitch. Yesterday on the canal I used 2g but I've got some smaller which will be even better. Because of the weight distribution and the streamlined shape of the lure (ZMan Finesse TRD) it cast like a dream. You could be onto some pioneering stuff here. The American bass anglers are miles ahead of us and we can learn a lot. Here is the rubber. You'd never think you could catch on it: Z-Man Finesse TRD (anglingdirect.co.uk) and her are the jig heads which are crucial to get the right vertical shape on the bottom Z-Man Finesse Shroomz (anglingdirect.co.uk)
ive been using them and catching on them, just twitch them along the bottom, they actually look like feeding fry/bait fish, i say ive been using them ,ive been using squirmz which are very similar
Yeah, Squirmz are the same. As you say, just tickled along the bottom with long pauses.
Am I reading this right. That little bit of plastic and a single weighted hook costs £15 each @#@#@#!!!!!!
No, it isn't anything like that cost. The TRD/Squirmz (pieces of rubber) are about £3-4 for a pack of five, and the jig heads are priced similarly.