Hi all,
I fished a match today on Wood Lake at Colemans Cottage. I did OK on the day with 89lb of mostly decent sized carp. The problem was I must have lost at least as much again from fish that were probably foul hooked!
I was fishing at 14.5 metres to a small sedge type tuft and I had about 2' 6" of water close to this. I fished a 6mm expander straight on the hook, hard on the bottom as I was maybe 1" overdepth. I constantly had indications on the float and lots of sail away bites but far too many of them were foul hookers which eventually came off. One of my team mates suggested that I should have hair-rigged the pellet and this wouldn't have happened but it seems to me that I would be more likely to accidentally hook a fish if the hook was exposed on a hair rig!
If I could have turned even half the foul hookers into a landed fish i would have won the match as it was won with 121lb. Any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong, or what I could change next time.
Graham
I fished a match today on Wood Lake at Colemans Cottage. I did OK on the day with 89lb of mostly decent sized carp. The problem was I must have lost at least as much again from fish that were probably foul hooked!
I was fishing at 14.5 metres to a small sedge type tuft and I had about 2' 6" of water close to this. I fished a 6mm expander straight on the hook, hard on the bottom as I was maybe 1" overdepth. I constantly had indications on the float and lots of sail away bites but far too many of them were foul hookers which eventually came off. One of my team mates suggested that I should have hair-rigged the pellet and this wouldn't have happened but it seems to me that I would be more likely to accidentally hook a fish if the hook was exposed on a hair rig!
If I could have turned even half the foul hookers into a landed fish i would have won the match as it was won with 121lb. Any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong, or what I could change next time.
Graham

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