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Clive Evans
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Robin,
sorry about that, I didn't make it very clear did I. If the roll is small enough to go in the mouth then you have some two feet+ of line to unravel before you have a straight line to set the hook against.
Depending on how long it has been in the water, ie. how soft the bread has become, this will give the fish ample time to blow it out. So, unless the hook happens to snag, which I dont like because it can be very deep at times, then you dont catch the fish. And the rig is toast,so to speak.
This happened many times in the early days till I caught on and upped the size.
Also small rigs suffer much more from the attention of small fish when Mr.Carp is a bit slow finding it. They can very quickly reduce it to a tangled mess of line and bread.And of course being small and much lighter you simply cant cast it any thing like as far.
Large and well wrapped up, this doesn't happen. But if you bait the hook, then you will get the little blighters beating the carp to the punch.
Actually, a couple of the lakes I fish have some decent-sized roach and rudd, and I often down-size rig and hook, extend the line a little, pop on a bit of crust, and enjoy some good catches.
By the way, I dont use carp rods because you cant cast the bread very far, so I'm sometimes glad that I dont fish lakes that have many 20s or 30s in there. My best at 19lb was a heart in the mouth job, believe me.
Hope this makes clear the points you raised.
If you have any more, just ask.
Clive.
sorry about that, I didn't make it very clear did I. If the roll is small enough to go in the mouth then you have some two feet+ of line to unravel before you have a straight line to set the hook against.
Depending on how long it has been in the water, ie. how soft the bread has become, this will give the fish ample time to blow it out. So, unless the hook happens to snag, which I dont like because it can be very deep at times, then you dont catch the fish. And the rig is toast,so to speak.
This happened many times in the early days till I caught on and upped the size.
Also small rigs suffer much more from the attention of small fish when Mr.Carp is a bit slow finding it. They can very quickly reduce it to a tangled mess of line and bread.And of course being small and much lighter you simply cant cast it any thing like as far.
Large and well wrapped up, this doesn't happen. But if you bait the hook, then you will get the little blighters beating the carp to the punch.
Actually, a couple of the lakes I fish have some decent-sized roach and rudd, and I often down-size rig and hook, extend the line a little, pop on a bit of crust, and enjoy some good catches.
By the way, I dont use carp rods because you cant cast the bread very far, so I'm sometimes glad that I dont fish lakes that have many 20s or 30s in there. My best at 19lb was a heart in the mouth job, believe me.
Hope this makes clear the points you raised.
If you have any more, just ask.
Clive.