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Cheers Mike and Paul. I fish the canals during the river close season and that's fine stuff on the tip as I love that type of fishing. You do miss the odd one as the roach and bream are so used to being caught during matches. However the run of hook pulls so far this river season is one I'm not...
No hook pulls on the size 4. Only used that size once for a huge lump of meat. Usually use any size between 14 and 8 depending on bait size. Biggest test curve I use with the conditions at the moment are 1.75tc. I don't use braid for barbel.
Thanks Graham, when using meat I don't hair rig but never had an issue before with obtaining a decent hook hold. I'm narrowing it down to a bad batch of hooks and/or how the hooks are angled with a palomar knot.
Thanks Richard for the comprehensive reply. So many things to consider. I've recently moved to the palomar knot and wondering if I need to go back to my hooks and see how the different hook patterns are sitting. Always previously used the knotless/snell method. I changed as prefer the line...
Thanks, I've been following. I've now got some cryogens in the large size patterns for meat. Already used the bank tackle ones but starting to favour these over the hit and miss Korums which had been okay until the last lot I used.
Had 3 hook pulls on one session out of 5, so only landed 2. Poor ratio. Same hooks as last two seasons so just wonder if it's a bad batch. Think there's a lot of weed around at the moment, more so than I remember in previous summers.
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