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In reply to Post #1
Everyone on the lake I fish has been having the same event happening sometimes numerous times in the night past few weeks – it’s been nothing more than big Cat’s, Pike and Carp hurtling through the margins usually in the dark chasing the masses of fry and tadpoles, and catching your lines in the process, I tried back leads and it made it even worse.
You just have to learn to ignore sudden takes for a few seconds and see if it stops as quickly as it started.
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In reply to Post #17
I’ll have a chat with the baliff next time I’m on see if anyone else has had the same experience. Does make sense as it gets hammered and is an open access club lake. I’ve had experience with trailers before just never crossed my mind given how far apart it was. Mainly wanted to make sure it’s not a problem with chods
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In reply to Post #2
In somewhere like Orchid that gets heavily fished I'd go with post twos response. Exactly what will happen when a fish is trailing a line that has not ditched the lead yet. Often it's a running lead set up & the angler has cracked off. Somewhere up the line there's a birds nest & the lead cannot come off the end of the line. The lead will be being dragged across the bottom until it picks up your lines and semi tangles with it. This results in screaming takes, but when you pick up and tighten your lines it's coming free.
To happen three times it's most likely a trailer. Inform the fishery manager that you think there's a trailer in front of you. If no one hooks it up that's a dead fish if it does not lose that lead.
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Another cause I have just remembered, we had a load of small stockies escape from a small pond for float anglers into the main lake, they were just big enough to get the bait between their lips and run. Occasionally you would catch one. Even small fry that has hatched in the lake itself would eventually grow big enough to be able to do it
but, even then, you would not know if it was an eel or a stockie
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In reply to Post #14
Relatively new only ever had acouple fish on them. Always something I’ve wanted to be able to use
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In reply to Post #12
I mean no offence but are you new to chods or has this just started happening?
My reason for asking is because I experienced the same when I first started using chods until I tweaked a few things.
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I’ll keep in mind about the pike there is some in the lake carp are going from single figure stockies to mid 30s. I think I’m going to drop the chods and go back to hinges loads more confidence in them. I’ll try the bigger baits next time I’m on.
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In reply to Post #5
Just a pretty standard chod rig. First time it happened was on a long length of leadcore, last night it was on a small length of leadcore pretty much fished naked similar to how Luke Stephenson sets it up on YouTube.
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I've had this in the past, went down the road of reducing the hair length until I got a hook up, in the end I caught 2lb bream. Just up bait size, and reduce small particles feed. You won't eradicate it completely, but will reduce it. At the extreme , feed big boilies spread apart and fish a hinge stiff rig. If all the fish you're angling for are under 20lb , expect to dramatically reduce the number of pick ups. You can't have it both ways.
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In reply to Post #6
I've had the odd one or two to eels too, a twitchy take then a small piece of pop up missing , especially on my fishmeal cork ball pop ups where the paste goes soft !
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In reply to Post #1
As others have said , Pike are often the cause here , especially over weed, it happened a lot to me on a weedy pit, it got to the stage I was waiting for the line to start tightening up before I lifted into it, but as always nothing there ! Happened a lot, and especially early March when they were spawning !
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In reply to Post #1
I have that problem from time to time with Grebes. They can be a right mare swimming through your lines even at night. Spring is the worst time.
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The pond I fish, you can be plagued with them, and its down to eel's on it as their is a high population of them and they just mouth the bait and take off with it, line screaming out, hit the run and nothing. Sometimes you might see teeth mark or a bit that has been bit off the bait if its soft. And everynow and then, you hook one in the mouth or sometimes down its flank
The way to avoid it is to not fish fishmeals but even then, you still get it happening with fruity baits etc
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In reply to Post #1
What's your set up at the business end?
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In reply to Post #1
If you’re fishing in the weed it could be fins picking up the line. Or pike catching the line in the margins, especially during spring.
If you’re using light leads it could be large roach/rudd/small bream or tench just picking up the pop up and not hook and running off with the bait.
Worst case your chod rigs aren’t working effectively and hooking properly.
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