Trotting/Wading

[Neil Smart]

If its warm speedos and pumps?

 

[Joe Winstanley]

If its warm speedos and pumps?

Well that's one way of reducing the number of canoeists on the Wye I guess Neil

 

[Ben Marr]

Nic is a great watch and has a field day on this session!!

He is good to watch but I wish he would stop using that bloody abu closed face and get a proper reel for trotting

 

[Mark Harridence]

He is good to watch but I wish he would stop using that bloody abu closed face and get a proper reel for trotting

Glad it's not just me then!

 

[Neil Smart]

Glad it's not just me then!

Haven't seen the whole video, but what bait was he using on the hook? He had that Fujitsu (sp) stuff in his tray, surely he wasn't catching on that was he?

 

[Paul Bullinger]

Haven't seen the whole video, but what bait was he using on the hook? He had that Fujitsu (sp) stuff in his tray, surely he wasn't catching on that was he?

I think he was using cubed meat?

 

[Neil Smart]

But he seemed to just hook it without fiddling which is not the way of meat. I didn't see any close ups etc, and he didn't mention the hook bait, did he? IF it was the small pellet it would be ground-breaking because they really seem to catch punters not fish .

 

[Paul Bullinger]

But he seemed to just hook it without fiddling which is not the way of meat. I didn't see any close ups etc, and he didn't mention the hook bait, did he? IF it was the small pellet it would be ground-breaking because they really seem to catch punters not fish .

I'm going to watch it again. Forensically this time!!

 

[Paul Bullinger]

But he seemed to just hook it without fiddling which is not the way of meat. I didn't see any close ups etc, and he didn't mention the hook bait, did he? IF it was the small pellet it would be ground-breaking because they really seem to catch punters not fish .

Neil, 3mins 25secs into the video Nic says he will be using cubes of meat as hookbait for the session! Mystery solved and obviously he has found a quick way of putting it on the hook!

 

[Mark Harridence]

Neil, 3mins 25secs into the video Nic says he will be using cubes of meat as hookbait for the session! Mystery solved and obviously he has found a quick way of putting it on the hook!

Definitely small cubes of meat
Push the point through the meat twist and push back in.

 

[Cliff Turner]

I float fish 8mm cubed meat all the time and I just hook it through the side like a grain of corn, nothing fancy, it casts well but nearly always comes off on the strike and retrieve which is fine.

 

[Richard Isaacs]

I was doing the same on the middle Trent yesterday as a guest trotting small cubes of meat and it was seconds to put a bait on if the shank of the hook exceeds the thickness of the bait.

Had 10 cracking barbel through the late afternoon into the evening.

Trotting from the bank mid river

 

[Paul Bullinger]

After years of saying I would do it, I finally got round to trotting the Wye. I used a 4g Korum flat top speci-float (good for those with dodgy eyesight!) an olivette and cubes of luncheon meat. No barbel but lots of chub/chublets. But the best thing about it was its FUN! I loved it. Don't get me wrong, fishing is my passion but watching a rod tip isn't quite as interesting as seeing a red tipped float dip under!
I managed to find some fairly fast water just as it approached some rapids and all the fish were taken in a small area, halfway across.