Twiddler
Well-known member
Hello,
Firstly please excuse my ignorance as I am a very late comer to pole fishing, anyways I am finding choosing elastics like a mine field. I fish 3 places and have acquired enough top kits to cover my needs (I hope). So, here is a run down of my sort of fishing venues.
1) Commercial with a lot of heavy lumps in
2) A really small old mill type pond with delicate Crucians, a lot of silvers but also Tench and Carp up to around 4/5lb.
3) Canal
So will one company cover all 3 types of venues, is it best to use one company or do some manufacturers do better with elastic for a certain type of venue. Then it’s what sort, solid, hollow, hybrid and there’s probably others that I haven’t mentioned or come across yet.
My pole is quite old, around 12 yrs and didn’t have any pullers in it so I have had puller bungs fitted to 4 of the top kits and instantly stopped losing fish, now I know this was more to do with lack of experience but having the pullers fitted has helped tremendously.
All advice and views greatly appreciated.
Cheers and thanks for looking.
Firstly please excuse my ignorance as I am a very late comer to pole fishing, anyways I am finding choosing elastics like a mine field. I fish 3 places and have acquired enough top kits to cover my needs (I hope). So, here is a run down of my sort of fishing venues.
1) Commercial with a lot of heavy lumps in
2) A really small old mill type pond with delicate Crucians, a lot of silvers but also Tench and Carp up to around 4/5lb.
3) Canal
So will one company cover all 3 types of venues, is it best to use one company or do some manufacturers do better with elastic for a certain type of venue. Then it’s what sort, solid, hollow, hybrid and there’s probably others that I haven’t mentioned or come across yet.
My pole is quite old, around 12 yrs and didn’t have any pullers in it so I have had puller bungs fitted to 4 of the top kits and instantly stopped losing fish, now I know this was more to do with lack of experience but having the pullers fitted has helped tremendously.
All advice and views greatly appreciated.
Cheers and thanks for looking.