waggler fishing

In article , Johnny5
wrote:

re-ordered to convention

"Derek.Moody" wrote in message
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In article , David Lee
wrote:
Why the hell would you fish with a 1lb hooklength at distance? I am
preety
hot on the slider and big wag here on massive lochs, and I would NEVER
use a
1lb hooklength at 50yds+ and I fish at 100yds regularly. You will lose
fish

A #8 shouldn't make any noticeable difference at range - you'll probably
need more than a BB worth of float above the surface just to be visible.

Twizzling up is a problem I associate with stick/quill floats in low
water.
By the time full winter flows are established 3 or 4 lb line straight
through is usual and it resists the twist.

As you say, fishing fine at 50yds is ridiculous.

I never said I fished the waggler at 50 yards, but I have done it at 30

True - you didn't - now that the post has been re-ordered you should be able
to see the attribution. You simply said 'at distance' without specifying.
Wagglers don't work well at distance in any case, it's possible to trot a
stick or quill 50 yards at a pinch but half that is pushing waggler
technique in any but calm, stillwater conditions.

In general it's not worth fishing for small stuff at more than a couple of
rod lengths, either move closer or change swim. Bigger fish may be worth
the effort but you don't fish fine for big fish until every other option has
failed. To go back to the long-trotting example; you wouldn't trot 20+ yards
unless the fish were expected to go at least a pound each with the
occasional larger one - 3lb line is about the minimum and you might go to 6.

yards with fine tackle and managed it very well indeed apart from the line
twist, and my match results speak for themselves.

But you are match fishing - you might have said* btw. So you have scared the
decent fish out of the swim and the small-fry are hugging the far bank.
You need to look at your bait - it's unbalanced, the suggestion of hooking
one maggot of a pair the other way up is a good one, try other
orientations. Swivels address the symptom rather than the cause and such
fine lines are unlikely to be stiff enough to turn them.

Cheerio,

* because match-fishing has strange requirements completely divorced from
normal angling and it may confuse lurking beginners who have no need of such
techniques.

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