Coarse Fishing
coarse fishing the basics?
ive given up the sea fishing and am interested in coarse fishing but don't know much about the basics. is it similar to sea angling? how long should you leave your bait in the water, with sea fishing you keep it fresh by changing it every 20 Min's or so. and what does the test curve mean? ive bought a rod an avon quiver tip that's 1 lb test curve? what's this? and why have i got 3 different tips?
Nice rod.The quiver tip quivers like the name says. Watch the tip when you're ledgering and watch the float when you're float fishing.
You get three tips for different sensitivity. ...light medium and heavy rigs.
They are extension pieces for the rod...bite indicators for ledgering....using a weighted line on the river or lake bed.
If you are float fishing you don't need the quiver tip so take it off. Then you've got a normal rod for float fishing.
Here are the most basic basics of course fishing which are basically pretty basic actually.
Start from...Bait the hook. You'll know how to fix a reel to a rod.
Honest...people do ask, as you'll see.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjmW8bG4rGRnWobISVFmcR4hBgx.;_ylv=3?qid=20100928124127AAnXjlI&show=7#profile-info-drVBpJkbaa . . . . .
After that you get serious like fishing for a particular species.
Then you've got about three years getting all the conflicting advice sorted before you outgrow all of it and fish the way you want anyway or what works on the river or lake you normally fish at.
Avon rod
http://www.tackle2u.com/prods/12ft-drennan-series-7-specialist-avonquiver-rod.html . . .
Test curves....Hang a weight off the end of the rod. If the rod bends through 60 degrees add some more weight. When it bends 90 degrees that's the test curve weight.
Basically it's a load of old cobblers. It means sod all except that the rod bends that much with that much weight dangling off the end of it.
That means if you have a 1lb test curve rod and you hold it vertically while reeling in a massive minnow and the rod end goes horizontal pointing staight down the river or across the lake the masssive minnow is pulling against the rod or you are pulling against the massive minnow with the equivalent of a one pound force at the tip of the rod.
Very interesting. What about when the rod bends 95 degrees or 82 degrees?
Errr.....errrr....dunno.
Didn't test that bit. Not on the fact sheet.
Very big data eh, a test curve? Don't bother with it.
http://www.barbel.co.uk/site/articles/testcurves/test_curves.htm . . .
Ledgering...saves the cost of buying or the trouble of making floats and gets bottom feeding fish like pike.
Scroll down for how to set up the quiver tip.
http://coarsefish.net/ledger.htm . . . . . .
Here is a course fishing primer for experts. Well, sort of.
http://www.coarsefish.net/index1.htm . . . . . . .
Here is one for the northern hemisphere which is exactly the same actually, just different fish.
http://www.ukrivers.net/fishing.html . . . .
Chatty one....
http://www.fishingmagic.com/features/beginners/13749.html . . . . .
Tight lines. Have fun.