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[flightliner]

A good thread this. I found the john bailly plays mr crabtree on tv yesterday fishing for tench with "peter" , all the fish played on cp were done by the angler with the check "0n".
Anyone else do it this way ??.

 

[mikench]

Do you mean with the ratchet on?

 

[flightliner]

Yes mike, sorry, always refer to it as the check.

 

[Alan Tyler]

I think Bailey and the "Peters" were told to keep the checks on by the director. He didn't look very happy about it some of the time.

 

[robtherake]

I love the sound, but it attracts every Herbert for miles. Nice to get a bit of attention, but a full gallery doesn't do much for the fishing.

TBH, Mick, it worried me that the check mechanism would wear out in no time - it really screams when a margin-caught lump heads for the middle.

 

[psmith]

Yes, I don't think the ratchet would wear out, fly reels often have them fixed to "on" and the old Dingleys etc still make a racket.

 

[flightliner]

They do have their uses for sure but can be annoying on occasions, I once sat beside a chap on a stillwater who never had it off all day, I dont know which is worse, the rachet or some guy three or four hundred yards up or downstream on the trent with audible alarms on full whack!.

 

[binka]

all the fish played on cp were done by the angler with the check "0n".
Anyone else do it this way ??.

Only if I think no one's seen me and I have to attract their attention

 

[nhs service]

I use the ratchet on bearing reels when tackling up.
The spoked aerial type have a brake to slow the reel down, useful for close in fishng as it's perfectly silent.
I've read barbel anglers legering with pins like the wide drum Speedia with three ratchet strengths for variable flows, and that they use it as a bite alarm. Must be tremendously exciting to hear the reel sizzle when a fish runs. I've got to try it.
Not for playing fish though, nothing says Noddy like clutch and ratchet racket.
Difficult to say that.
All the best.

 

[tigger]

I put the ratchet on when making the rod up, carrying it round in between swims, baiting up, unhooking a fish, when i've got a fish near the net and while I pick my nose or scratch me harris.

It is good when legering with a pin and it screams off. I've used it like that for tench, barbel etc.

 

[thecrow]

nothing says Noddy like clutch and ratchet racket.

Whats a noddy?

 

[barbelboi]

I put the ratchet on when making the rod up, carrying it round in between swims, baiting up, unhooking a fish

That about sums it up for me too..................

 

[mikench]

.........and that is what I shall do!

 

[nhs service]

Whats a noddy?

I believe Des Taylor once reached across and tightened the drag on a fixed spool reel an angler was using to play a tench. I think he was fed up of hearing it and the time it was taking. The guy obviously didnt know a drag can be tightened or the finger on the spool technique.
Actually I'm wrong, nothing says Noddy more than a massive strike, more suited to shark fishing than catching gudgeon from a canal. Then shouting.
All the best.

 

[thecrow]

I believe Des Taylor once reached across and tightened the drag on a fixed spool reel an angler was using to play a tench. I think he was fed up of hearing it and the time it was taking. The guy obviously didnt know a drag can be tightened or the finger on the spool technique.
Actually I'm wrong, nothing says Noddy more than a massive strike, more suited to shark fishing than catching gudgeon from a canal. Then shouting.
All the best.

I know what the term "noddy" is and never understood why it is used as a derogatory remark about an angler that someone thinks is less able than themselves. I have never liked it and never will, everyone fishes how they want to and everyone has different levels of ability, we allare still learning but obviously you think differently its not nice.

I have fished for 60 years but have never fished with a pole, does that make me a "noddy"?

 

[S-Kippy]

I have fished for 60 years but have never fished with a pole, does that make me a "noddy"?

Certainly not....but buy one and it might !

Only teasing btw. We all have our "noddy" moments....mine is usually forgetting to lock the back legs of me chair. Never ends well and is never not funny ! I've had a few fish while lying flat on me back in the mud.

 

[thecrow]

Certainly not....but buy one and it might !

Only teasing btw. We all have our "noddy" moments....mine is usually forgetting to lock the back legs of me chair. Never ends well and is never not funny ! I've had a few fish while lying flat on me back in the mud.

I struggle with 12 ft never mind the length some of those are, I did have one once years ago an old fibre glass thing that I used for putting my bait under beds of weed on a small river, worked well but so heavy

 

[S-Kippy]

I struggle with 12 ft never mind the length some of those are, I did have one once years ago an old fibre glass thing that I used for putting my bait under beds of weed on a small river, worked well but so heavy

They've come on a bit, Graham....even I've got one now though I'm still trying to work out where the reel goes !

 

[Alan Tyler]

I'm told that fishing with a slack clutch was used by some old LAA match anglers as a weapon of psychological warfare when next to a dangerously good angler from a rival team. Distracts the stuffing out of them.

 

[Tee-Cee]

I suppose a case could be made for those just starting out (with a nice free running centre pin) that having a slack clutch on all the time might help with line control initially?
Those of us who are familiar with them have learnt (probably by trial and error over many years!) how easy it is to strip line from a reel even when threading line through the rings, or messing up batting in after a long trot or similar, so having the clutch on (although noisy to adjacent anglers!!) and lightly set, might help the novice?

Be a pity if such a lovely way of fishing was 'kicked into touch' just because a number of 'bird's nests' with the line ruined a days fishing (and put paid to yards of new line as well)..........

Just a thought...........................