Hair rigs kind of make sense given it’s more about being designed for their anatomy and how they feed rather than the fact they are fussy. I got some in the post today so will give them a whirl … plastic sweetcorn too … does that count as a lure
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I started fishing in the canals around Manchester and in the ponds that Hitler made on his way home when it was too foggy to find their targets.sloth wrote: ↑Tue Oct 05, 2021 6:31 pmThat takes me back …. Haven’t heard ledger fishing for ages …. I started off on small game ponds ledgering and float fishing for rainbows. There was a series of ponds on the edge of town run by the Furness fishing association - one was a stocked game pond (called “Nigel”) which was stocked with rainbows but the other two were coarse ponds - mainly pike, perch, carp and bream (the UK “breem”, not our “brim”). As a kid, coarse was just too weird and complicated lol. Ledgering worms or putting corn under float for trout got me started and that flowed into fly fishing eventually. If we weren’t at the ponds we were night shore fishing on the coast with big 12ft fibreglass beach rods and pulling in flounders, bass and cod. We used to get up before light, strap the rods to the push bikes and pedal a couple of miles over bloody big hills to get to the dunes and ponds. At times we were out of the house before first light and didn’t return to well after dark, no mobile phones, out in the middle of nowhere - amazing that my parents let me really lol, I worry about my kids going around the corner to the park.
The second to the right are the cages i use .I,m spewing sold all my course angling rod,s 25yrs ago recently purchased a 12ft Strada 3pc float rod feels okay not to sure about the quality of guides time will tell
I used to buy that style as well, but when I was a teenager and had no coin I used to make them out of old camera film containers...worked a treat