Hello .
Took up fishing a few months ago float fishing to be precise . All has gone well so far . Decided to try ledger fishing and well I'm so confused.
I got myself a quiver tip rod , a 3oz weight and rigged up . I felt like the weight was too much considering I'm fishing quite a small river but any tips on this kind of fishing ? Or useful setups ? I'm feeling really out of my depth with this ledgering but really want to crack it . My rig was basic with the weight on mainline , stopped with a shot and then a hook link attached to a swivel . Bait I tried a few things from bread to corn to spam to maggots and had nothing . I understand I'm probably doing something wrong .
Secondly I've never had an issue float fishing but today just wasn't happening. I changed depths , shouting pattern anything I could think of and nothing helped . I could see the fish taking the couple of feeder maggots but they would look at the ones on my hook and avoid . I've never had this before and wondered if anybody else had ? It seemed really odd . I did catch a couple of fish but I felt there should of been more the swim was active enough. I figured it's probably something I'm doing wrong. The conditions were pretty poor today quite windy and dull. Bites just seemed hard to come by .
Any help/ advice is greatly appreciated.
Took up fishing a few months ago float fishing to be precise . All has gone well so far . Decided to try ledger fishing and well I'm so confused.
I got myself a quiver tip rod , a 3oz weight and rigged up . I felt like the weight was too much considering I'm fishing quite a small river but any tips on this kind of fishing ? Or useful setups ? I'm feeling really out of my depth with this ledgering but really want to crack it . My rig was basic with the weight on mainline , stopped with a shot and then a hook link attached to a swivel . Bait I tried a few things from bread to corn to spam to maggots and had nothing . I understand I'm probably doing something wrong .
Secondly I've never had an issue float fishing but today just wasn't happening. I changed depths , shouting pattern anything I could think of and nothing helped . I could see the fish taking the couple of feeder maggots but they would look at the ones on my hook and avoid . I've never had this before and wondered if anybody else had ? It seemed really odd . I did catch a couple of fish but I felt there should of been more the swim was active enough. I figured it's probably something I'm doing wrong. The conditions were pretty poor today quite windy and dull. Bites just seemed hard to come by .
Any help/ advice is greatly appreciated.