| Author | Comment | ||
|---|---|---|---|
 Ian Grant |
|||
|
Posts: 301 (20/05/08 19:44) |
If you need to use a torch to cast at night, you shouldn't be going night fishing at all.
It's probably going to be a very very long time before i read anything as stupid as that again 
ATB Ian |
||
|
Pete Sharpe |
|||
|
Posts: 538 (20/05/08 20:00) |
Perhaps should amend that to say "If you need a torch to cast at night when there is anybody else on the water who will see it flashing about, then you
shouldn't be going night fishing at all"
Is that better?
English as tuppence, changeless as canal water, nestling in green nowhere, armoured and effete, bold flag-bearer, lotus-fed Miss
Havishambling, hermit-crab, tight-fist, eremite, feudal still, reactionary Rawlinson End.
|
||
|
Mr Chubbly Warner |
|||
|
Posts: 50 (20/05/08 20:22) |
re-arrange these words......:-
carrots of should eaten your |
||
|
Pete Sharpe |
|||
|
Posts: 540 (20/05/08 21:03) |
Or even "carrots have should eaten your"
There are a couple of points worth mentioning. Firstly, it is unwise to attempt to fish a swim at night that you haven't already fished in daylight. If you have previously fished it, you should have acquired a "memory" of the amount of force used in the cast and the amount of time it takes for the lead to hit the water. With a bit of practice you will know when it just feels right. Secondly, there isn't usually any requirement to cast anywhere near as close to snags such as overhanging bushes as the fish will usually have left their daytime hideaways to go foraging. The near margin is often very effective at night, especially in waters that are fished regularly, that is where people tend to tip their left over bait. When you could still buy the Kevin Nash hair beads, it was extremely easy to bait up with corn or boilies without using a light at all, but a soft light that is directed away from the water does no harm. Unless you are fishing a fairly small river, I doubt if the presence of a soft light puts the fish off very much at all, but it can ruin the atmosphere for anybody fishing close by. If they happen to be opposite you it is selfish beyond belief. If there is nobody else in sight, then you could decorate your pitch with flashing fairy lights for all I care.
English as tuppence, changeless as canal water, nestling in green nowhere, armoured and effete, bold flag-bearer, lotus-fed Miss
Havishambling, hermit-crab, tight-fist, eremite, feudal still, reactionary Rawlinson End.
|
||
|
dik30 |
|||
|
Posts: 187 (20/05/08 21:31) |
@ pete sharpe, although i think i understood your first 2 posts well enough i still have to say that your 3rd is absolutely spot on hugh great post
|
||
|
dougalz |
|||
|
Posts: 648 (20/05/08 21:36) |
Its funny how, no matter what the light level, more often than not, your average barbel angler wants, for some strange reason, to cast to the far bank?
I like just a teeny swing and PLOP. The torch comes on if that big fish comes along. It is amazing how, if you avoid the torch altogether, you can start to see- and it seems to take me an hour to get tuned- as it were. As for spooking fish- as Uncle Ade mentioned- carp in clear canals are completely "Am I bovered? Am I" when you flash 'em out with 10 million candles. I might start using a maglite as a lead- so they can really see my special little ball of fishmeal, bird seed n egg'n shell and stuff8o |
||
|
Donkey Choker |
Torches | ||
|
Posts: 68 (20/05/08 21:39) |
If you`re going to use a torch to cast after dark, something I don`t think is neccessary personally as once your eyes have adjusted to the lack of light your night vision should be sufficient, the key is keep the light source as low to the water as possible. Parrallel to the waters surface being best as the light penetrates the least and shouldn`t spook the fish, definately pee off anyone on the opposite bank though! Mic |
||
|
Pete Sharpe |
|||
|
Posts: 541 (20/05/08 22:26) |
dik30 wrote: KIP
English as tuppence, changeless as canal water, nestling in green nowhere, armoured and effete, bold flag-bearer, lotus-fed Miss
Havishambling, hermit-crab, tight-fist, eremite, feudal still, reactionary Rawlinson End.
|
||
|
Ian Grant |
|||
|
Posts: 302 (21/05/08 01:23) |
I'd guess 95% of my fishing at night is done without the need to use my headtorch, there are times though when i feel the need to risk it. You'll never
find me fishing anywhere close to another angler on the opposite bank, and if one moves in ( impossible in many of the areas i fish anyway ) i'll up
sticks, and move. Considering in the areas i fish there are firework displays every week that would have to come close to the noise and illumination of a WW1
battlefield, these carry on all year, and in summer can drive you mad, then there is traffic, no where i fish is very far from roads and one venue has a road
bridge going over the river, the lights from cars coming around a bend toward the bridge, often with full beam on hit you right in the face, you would have to
move 150 yds upstream before trees block them out, but i honestly couldn't count the number of double figure barbel i've caught in those 150 yds. Then
there are riverside residences, the mill house on the venue i've just described, and the odd riverside cottage on others security lights going on and off,
lights in rooms etc, one venue on my ticket the whole of the opposite bank is up market residences with all of that, plus summertime parties, disco's and
the obligatory fireworks, even hot air balloons landing in the garden of one every summer, and being such a prolific venue dozens of anglers even in winter,
all it seems switching their head torches on and off regularly, i mostly avoid that one, but every year a lot of big doubles come out despite all that.
So if it's okay with you Mr sharpe i'll continue to risk the odd occasion when i feel the need to turn on one led as i do, feeling that i don't spoil too many other anglers fishing  Trouble is carrots don't agree
with me 
Of course i'm probably nowhere near as skillfull as you casting at night, and thanks for the tip on trying the nearside bank i just would never have thought of that  i don't see the point of using Hair beads
though cos me woolly hat would cover em' up anyway, but thanks for the tip
Tight lines Ian. |
||
 harry chubb |
|||
|
Posts: 253 (21/05/08 07:39) |
Intresting thoughts there-I,d never dream of shining lights on rivers while there,s anglers on opposite bank. Some hotspots as we all know are often tight
casts between trees or close to far bank reeds where a beam on the river would be an obvious advantage but as I said not happy with lighting up river at any
angle. I suppose I was looking for an answer that light had no effect on barbel at night. I expect it,s a confidence thing, i.e. once you,v caught doing it, no
problem. As for fishing away from far bank after dark, lovely when it works or suits but there,s always going to be far bank swims holding fish that are more
productive on certain stretches.ATB Harry.
|
||
