Myth Busters! CARPology’s resident diver, Rob Hughes reveals a common myth each day this week, starting…: “There’s a little bit of weed out there” “A fundamental mistake that is made by a lot of anglers, some seriously good ones as well as we have seen in the Below The Surface – Testing The Pros series which I run in CARPology, is that anglers underestimate how much weed is out there. Some weed, like candy floss algae or filamentous silkweed can be simply a covering on the bottom. You might not know it’s there, but it is certainly enough to envelope your rig and render your hooking arrangement void! Others, like light Canadian or crowfoot can rise off the bottom by quite a long way but be sparse in it’s thickness so a lead might drop though it easily and hit the deck hard giving you the impression that you’re on a clean spot but beware. If you suspect there is weed around there is a very real risk that the hook will snag or get caught up, not giving you a clean presentation. You might still catch fish, but then again you might not!” Buster “Have a good feel around with a lead or a marker float. Really concentrate when you are feeling the lead down and if you feel any element of softness that you think might be weed as opposed to clay, double or even treble the amount that you see in your mind’s eye. Weed is a little like spodding munga: what you think is out there is very different to what is actually out there.”
Posted on: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:00:01 +0000
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