Fishing up in the water.. first idiot question.

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Hi all, well I did warn you in my intorductory post that I'd probably ask alot of idiot questions with maybe obvious answers.

I don't know if anyone knows Bank End near Doncaster but it's absolutely snided with fish, I hear one match was won with 170lb of small carp and mixed silver. I've heard though alot of these fish are caught quite high up in the water perhaps in 2 or 3 ft the 3 lakes all going to around 10-12 ft in depth. What I'm wondering is when setting up shallow where is it best to position my shot for the waggler or on the pole. Would it be better all up near the float giving the bait a natural drop throught the water or spread out more evenly. Maybe it's trial and error but my time on the bank is limited due to kids returning home from school, I'm a lone parent dad so I need to be home.

Any other advice or information for fishing up in the water will be very much appreciated.

Jay

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Ok same question as above but with pretty please on the end

[fishypaul]

sorry about the lack of replies to this mate,there are a couple on here who are very good waggler anglers,they will be along very soon to help

[barbelblanker]

If the fish are up in the water you need to keep a constant stream of bait going in to keep their heads up. Don't dump tons in or it'll sink. Feed then cast on top of it with very little shot down the line. There are a whole range of ways of doing this but the main thing is that you bait is dropping through the water. it's no good just setting the float to a foot deep casting it and leaving it. Most of the shot, I would say , needs to be near the float. Avoid self cocking floats with too much weight as they sink on the cast then rise to the top. I'd use a very fine tip waggler and shot it so it only takes a couple of very small shot to settle the tip to a dot. Cast it out with NO BAIT and watch it settle. Then bait. Anything abnormal is a bite.

That's my penny worth anyway.

Keep the bait going in , little and very often. Feed THEN cast. Try to land the bait in a line so the hook length is tight to the float and watch the float. Anything "odd" then strike.

Of course I could be talking rubbish (not unkown) and someone might add to this.

All the best mate, I'm lucky that I am not a lone parent so I can only guess how pressured your time is.

Cheers.

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Brilliant guys thanks for the replies. Quite informative there Barbelblanker and very much appreciated hoping to put it to good use. :)