When is a whip

"caroline" wrote in message
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"caroline" wrote

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Remembering my brother and other fishing freaks always going on about the
direction of the wind it was apparently a good thing to get this peg, so I
sat for 5 hours with the wind very firmly in my face...gusting to gale
force at times...all good fun so I'm told ;o)


Hmm ..... Imo that depends on the 'type/style' of fishing and the species
being targetted, the size/characteristics and local knowledge of the lake,
the time of year, the actual wind direction, how long it has been 'from'
that direction, if it recently changed how recently and from what direction
...... amongst a few other things like for example the temperature. Also, Ime
how all these factors impinge on a quite shallow small (1acre) lake is very
different to a larger (25acre) former quarry or gravel pit.

Richard

In article , caroline
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Remembering my brother and other fishing freaks always going on about the
direction of the wind it was apparently a good thing to get this peg, so I
sat for 5 hours with the wind very firmly in my face...gusting to gale force
at times...all good fun so I'm told ;o)

So you didn't need a pole and were able to sit well back from the edge and
fish the extreme margin..? Or the drop-off where the backflow tumbled food
washed from the margin into the depths?

So, how did I get on? Well...I didn't catch a thing....but neither did 12 of
the other 'competitors'...the winner was the only guy to land anything, and
he won with a whopping bag of 6 or so tiny rudd.

And did you notice how he did it?

Ah well. Matches are often like that ime.

Cheerio,

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