Float fishing

[Rob M]

Ok then, I take on my first freshwater fishing session tomorrow with my brother-in-law. I've bought gear today, a 13' waggler rod, Shimano reel, floats, shot, net, line etc. Any tips for catching certain species?

Rob

[Norfolkboy]

What's in the lake mate?

For carp, tench, bream etc.. I'd firstly plumb the depth Freshwater Fishing - knowing your depth

Then fish just on bottom, or an inch above.

Fish using little bits of meat, maggots, worm and you should catch a great variety of species.

I'd fish it to features, islands, overhanging trees, weedbeds, lilypads(my favourites) and while doing that chuck in a bit of loosefeed (corn, maggots, chopped worm etc..) and also bait up a margin swim, as you get a lot of fish in close..

Good luck mate, don't get too many species points

[Old Smoothound]

Originally Posted by Rob M

Ok then, I take on my first freshwater fishing session tomorrow with my brother-in-law. I've bought gear today, a 13' waggler rod, Shimano reel, floats, shot, net, line etc. Any tips for catching certain species?

Rob

Welcome to the "Dark Side" Rob ............and good luck tomorrow, I may be going out on Sunday but if then no i'm not!

[pingu]

good luck mate cant add anymore to dans post
mine was more luck

[Rob M]

Cheers Smoothy . We'll be fishing Old Bury Hill lake (75 pegs). It contains carp, tench, bream, roach, rudd, perch, crucian carp, chub, pike and zander. Thanks for the advice Dan, I'm looking forward to it, it's like a whole new world to me!

Rob

[Norfolkboy]

Try a bit of spinning too mate, will pick up chub, perch, zander and pike

Sounds a cracking venue

[Old Smoothound]

I can feel some points in that there water mate...

Originally Posted by Rob M

Cheers Smoothy . We'll be fishing Old Bury Hill lake (75 pegs). It contains carp, tench, bream, roach, rudd, perch, crucian carp, chub, pike and zander. Thanks for the advice Dan, I'm looking forward to it, it's like a whole new world to me!

Rob

[Rob M]

Originally Posted by Norfolkboy

What's in the lake mate?

For carp, tench, bream etc.. I'd firstly plumb the depth Freshwater Fishing - knowing your depth

Then fish just on bottom, or an inch above.

Fish using little bits of meat, maggots, worm and you should catch a great variety of species.

I'd fish it to features, islands, overhanging trees, weedbeds, lilypads(my favourites) and while doing that chuck in a bit of loosefeed (corn, maggots, chopped worm etc..) and also bait up a margin swim, as you get a lot of fish in close..

Good luck mate, don't get too many species points

When you say chuck in, is that literally? I don't have a catapult or owt like that. I know I'm supposed to feed the swim. The baits you recommended were the ones I was going to use, good guess (on my part)!

Cheers
Rob

[Norfolkboy]

They seem to be the standard baits these days

Originally Posted by Rob M

When you say chuck in, is that literally?

Depends on whether you're fishing close in or not, if you are then yes, do it, and you can chuck in loosefeed when feeding the margin swim too.

If you can't reach with the loosefeed, then you could always use a swimfeeder instead of float fishing?

But when I'm carp fishing, I very rarely have any loosefeed by my hookbait, just that on it's own.

[Rob M]

Originally Posted by Norfolkboy

If you can't reach with the loosefeed, then you could always use a swimfeeder instead of float fishing?

Yikes, getting complicated now! Seriously, fishing the margins was my aim, so it looks like I should catch a few (fingers crossed)

Rob