Posts Tagged ‘mirror’

Wading and Bait Placement.

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

By Paul Cooper

 

There are many options for accurate baiting and bait presentation. Probably one of the most neglected is wading out your baits to give you that perfect presentation. On 90% of waters this will not be possible, due to depth, silt or wading restrictions, but if it is possible then why not give it a try.23lb 8oz mirror caught on a  20mil shelf life Rahja Spice bait, placed over 6 individual frre offering of the same.

 

On a local lake that I the depths of the waters quantify the use of chest waders. With depths of around 3 to 3 ½ feet, getting in the water in chesties is not a problem.

Prior to this I would have already have done my plumbing work with a marker float to ensure that wading is possible.

Care still has to be taken as there a some large areas of deep silt and weed. I initially take out my landing net handle to use as a prod to ensure that I am not walking into a silt hole or walking off or onto a ledge..

Now there may be some of you that are horrified that that I am disturbing the from the margins and scattering them to the far end of the lake. Most lakes, as with the one that I am talking about, are used to graze cattle etc.

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Changing Tactics

Monday, June 30th, 2008

By Roy Von Goor

About 10 years ago I started a local lake,..a lake about 8 acre’s in size.At that time the stock level was massive, lots of doubles and twenties. with the odd thirty plus .

The biggest resident at that time weighted 34 lb…a big . Everybody wanted to catch that monster. was fairly easy, days of 5 or more where standard.The loved the anglers bait and kept coming back for it. At that time I did not land the monster, but sadly lost it in of the net twice. Last year I had caught my targetfish from another lake fairly fast. With no direct other option I decided to take a ticket for the lake I fished 10 years ago. After arriving I noticed allot of anglers, but nobody catching .. All the anglers complained, they did not feed..weather was wrong..etc I just started using questbaits at that particular , and it was a good option to test quest them on these no , weathermoody . After the 1st , using fruitly trifle and smokey I blanked. (more…)