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Fish Caster
The
Paul Evans
Way
His
'outer' rig was a 4 x 10 Drennan Choppa (with the tip blacked out) and 0.12
Stroft GTM line, without a hook length. To this he attached a Preston PR24 size
16 hook. "Perfect for the caster I get from Storeys tackle. The
caster is big and this hook copes with it very well. "
Shotting, as
with the other two, was very simple. A number 3 style placed 6" away from the
hook. Two further styles and a number 12 shot were then equally spaced between
float and that tell tale style. The depth of water at his chosen spot being some
5' deep. "I fish as light as the conditions allow. On the caster
you will catch a lot of fish on the drop, as I hope you will see to-day. The
styles, I believe, allow the bait to fall through the water naturally and being
slender are not easily seen by the fish , so they take the bait with
confidence."
Plumbing the
outer line proved, as Paul predicted, totally flat. " Why have
you chosen to fish at 7 metres? " I asked.
" I feed by hand " came the reply,
" Under no circumstances will I use a pot to feed caster. The trick is
to keep the feed going in little but often. A pot does not give you the freedom,
and in any case I don't like the food to be stacked in a tight spot. I prefer
the feed to be spread naturally over an area of about three feet. If the feed is
in a neat pile you will have only one fish feeding off it at a time. You catch
him and have to wait for the next to come along. On a little wider area you may
have three or four fish feeding at a time. Therefore hopefully speeding up your
catching rate. I will fish to where I can feed by hand comfortably."
Makes sense? I think so.
The depth was
set with the tip of the bristle being dotted right down to a pimple, and being
approx 1/2" over depth. " If the fish are willing to feed, I
don't expect the float to be settled on the bottom for very long."
Evo began to
sort out his inside rigs. " The light is going to play havoc
to-day, with the sun shining and it being a bit bright. Even though the two rigs
will be near identical, there will be a blacked out tip to my left and an orange
tip to my right. " The blacked out rig consisted of
a Drennan Chop 4 x 8, again on 0.12 line with a Pr 24 16 hook. Again a number 3
style was placed 6" from the hook and two number 12 shot were equally spaced
over the 21/2' depth. Paul plumbed up. " With strung out shot it
helps with plumbing the depth. You can use the shot as a gauge for the amount to
be adjusted if you are over depth. It also lets you see the ridges and shelves
more accurately. I'm looking for the first shelf which I know is about four feet
from the bank. " I asked, "Are you
not going to plumb the top of the shelf Paul?" "No definitely not "
came the reply, " the colder weather is upon
us, so the water is cold. The carp are starting to store energy and are not
eager to search for food. They will use more energy upending to feed, so if you
feed on the edge of the shelf the fish will intercept the bait as its falling
past their nose to the bottom. The fish will swim into the shelf and then out
again. " Again makes sense.
The left rig was
completed and so was the right, which was a .1grm Drennan caster with an
identical shotting pattern. Each rig had approx 21/2' of line from pole tip to
float. Paul reasoned that, as the water was fairly clear a long line keeps the
pole from over the fish's heads; therefore they shouldn't be easily spooked.
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