A recent post from flightliner got me thinking. Over the years one reads of and assumes it is correct that the boats on canals disturb the fish and push them to the far shelf etc. That seems the accepted rule? (PC will know a lot about this on the GU?)
Flight said the boat on a canal muddied the water and the bites started. I have had 3 sessions on a canal recently and that has been my experience. Bites down the centre track where the boat had passed.
I also had barbel on the Tidal by casting directly into the wake of those huge gravel barges that must surely go over the heads of the barbel by only a few feet.
Come to think of it, I recall an article in one of the defunct angling mags by The Countryman(may not be accurate name) about lorries going over a ford and causing disturbance etc on one of the Yorkshire rivers and the barbel loving it and drifting back quickly.
Now I know those boats and canoeists are a pain but apart from spawning beds do you think they actually put fish off?
Any thoughts?
Flight said the boat on a canal muddied the water and the bites started. I have had 3 sessions on a canal recently and that has been my experience. Bites down the centre track where the boat had passed.
I also had barbel on the Tidal by casting directly into the wake of those huge gravel barges that must surely go over the heads of the barbel by only a few feet.
Come to think of it, I recall an article in one of the defunct angling mags by The Countryman(may not be accurate name) about lorries going over a ford and causing disturbance etc on one of the Yorkshire rivers and the barbel loving it and drifting back quickly.
Now I know those boats and canoeists are a pain but apart from spawning beds do you think they actually put fish off?
Any thoughts?