On wide venues, it adds a vital string to your bow
LAST week I looked at catching skimmers from big, deep and slow moving rivers on the pole.
That’s all well and good when there’s not a lot of pull on the water, but when the river’s pace picks up it’s time to get the feeder rod out of the holdall.
I would always rather fish the pole than the feeder, not least because presentation is better and more of the swim can be explored. However, when the river is running through a bit and the skimmers are sitting right on top of the feed and not drifting about the peg, the feeder can become the better option.
This story is from the February 28,2017 edition of Angling Times.
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