Catch Reports
River whacker for Lee
Posted in Catch Reports on 14th August 2011This report slipped through the net and should have gone up last month, but big UK river fish are a rare event and a thirty from the river has got to hold a similar credibilty rating than any fifty pound lake fish in our book.
After a short baiting campaign using the B5 Lee Willmott took advantage of some nice falling air pressure and fished a short afternoon/evening session to open up his river account this season with this gorgeous 32lb 8oz mirror. The big river mirror was one of Lee's target fish this year so he was obviously well pleased to have put the fish on the bank considering he can only fish about one night a month at the moment. Well in mate!
Backlead use
Back leads can be very advantageous in certain circumstances, particularly on venues that receive lots of pressure from anglers and you need to pin your line down to the lake bed. On such venues, any fish that bump into your lines, can often mean the kiss of death. To avoid this, it's best to pin your lines down. Yes, this can be acheived by using slack lines, but the big disadvantage there is that you will also lose vital bite indication. By dropping on a back lead, you can pin your lines down, yet still keep them semi-tight to register bites. They also minimise the chances of you catching your other lines whilst playing fish back to the bank.
The problem with most back leads however is that in the event of hooking a fish, they don't slide down the line very well, but we can assure you there's no chance of that happening with these!
