brownmike
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Got to agree with the Doctor.
WTF am I doing wrong??
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Got to agree with the Doctor.
Juliogeordio
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Nice 1 Geordie haha.
Don't seem to struggle with them either but not to your standard!
Don't seem to struggle with them either but not to your standard!
The Doctor
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To quote Sherlock Homes "Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth"
Would be interested to find out the results of your experiment.
Juliogeordio
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Hook size has a much bigger effect on what and how much I catch than anything else I've found. Fish with 2/0s or 3/0s at the minute and most of what I'm catching is sized. Very few smaller fish. I'm happy with that though.... On my scratching rod I tend to use size 1 Aberdeenshire and catch everything. Often both with pully rigs!! Never had any issue with them tangling either.
brownmike
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Good idea. Pint bitter please doctor.
paulthespark
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fished the steetly jetty [rip] one night with my,mate lads fishing both sides of the pier we picked the south side every one was pulling up whiting and cod not me and my mate, one and a half hours later not a single knock between us and every body around us kept landing fish after fish we were using clipped down pennel rigs 2 0 top hook 3 0 bottom, blacks,rag and squid was the bait yet no fish, changed our position to the north side fish a cast,you tell me what i was doing wrong on the south side and not wrong on the north side same bait, same rig, same ground
The Doctor
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Here's two mate (_) (_) and here is a couple for smallfry (_) (_) and his two rod experiment.
Stewart 1971
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Well I was on there last night and managed a couple of Whiting and a Flounder. Was using a simple paternster rig with 4/0 pennel hooks and lugworm for bait.
Had plenty of bites once the ebb kicked in but they will have been Whiting hitting the bait and running. If I'd switched to a 2 hook clipdown rig with 1/0 or smaller hooks I'm certain I'd have had plenty more fish.
There were a few other rods on the pier last night but I only saw two codling come in on the drum and heard of a couple off the hard ground around the 70 mark
Had plenty of bites once the ebb kicked in but they will have been Whiting hitting the bait and running. If I'd switched to a 2 hook clipdown rig with 1/0 or smaller hooks I'm certain I'd have had plenty more fish.
There were a few other rods on the pier last night but I only saw two codling come in on the drum and heard of a couple off the hard ground around the 70 mark
Hmm.. interesting Stewy. I think we'll be between 35 & 45 tomorrow night. Say hi if your'e around eh?
Codqueen
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The Doctor
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Aye see wot today brings smallfry. If Geordies 'orrible piggin' pennel rig comes out on top then I think I'll start using them strite away marra ;-)
Geordie! Are you there? Were you the gadgey in the owld blue smock that I saw at the Sunderland Open weigh in?
GEORDIE H
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No Doc I duffed Sunday mate getting ower old for conditions like that pal I had a rare sunday lunch for a change
brownmike
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Please don't use pully rigs again doctor you and I know there Sh--.
The Doctor
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I know they are. I'm only kiddin'. I'll never use them. For a single hook rig a running ledger is better (if the lead is stationary on the bottom, no tanglyuppies). But most of the time I use a simple simple single hook (size 6.0) paternoster / flapper styley rig with an 18" (500mm) trace when I'm codding. I have got a trick but it's not the way I tell 'em, it's the way I tie them Paddy ;O)
