FIRST CLASS FISHING


‘First Class Fishing’, a series of classes for beginners and improvers conducted by Dave Cooper, an all-round experienced angler with a string of good fish and good catches to his credit. The classes are aimed at those who have recently discovered the joys of fishing and need guidance on using tackle correctly and wish to improve their basic skills.

Dave will cover a specific topic at a time in this bi-weekly column. The first section will be really basic with subsequent ones building on the skills covered previously. His aim is to explain things as simply and concisely as possible and will assume that the reader knows absolutely nothing about the subject.


Bobbin indicators and electronic bite alarms
LEGERING

Part Three – Bobbin Indicators

Part two of this legering series introduced the simple quiver tip and paternoster rig as a method for general fishing on a stillwater. Now in part 3 I will look at bobbins, a set-up that is used for targeting larger stillwater fish like tench, larger bream, carp, etc.

Fishing a leger set up with bobbins (also known as ‘hangers’) is particularly useful if you are wanting to fish with two or more rods as they are set up with the rods pointing straight out in front rather than parallel to the bank as with the quivertip set-up. This method can also be coupled, though it’s by no means compulsory, with electronic bite alarms.

The Tackle

Bearing in mind that this method is targeting bigger, more powerful fish, the rods that are generally used are also stepped up in power. This method really suits an Avon style rod of 1

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