Saturday, 11 August 2012

As if the diversity of chalkstreams was ever in doubt, my fishing buddy sloped of for a spot of trotting further down the river on a tidal stretch. Not fly fishing, perhaps, by what beautiful fish caught trotting with a centrepin:



A super result!

~Dave
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3 comments:

Unknown said...

I'm not understanding your rod/reel setup. It appears you have no backing/fly line on your reel and it looks like a spincast rod. Please, enlighten me, magician fisherman.

12 August 2012 at 11:46
Unknown said...

It's not fly fishing, it's fishing with bait.

The reel is a modern take on a centrpin that stores line (nylon) and is take off the reel as you 'trot' the bait downsteam.

It's a very nice and skillful way of fishing if you know how. Carp on that tackle would fight very hard.

12 August 2012 at 13:52
Unknown said...

Ok. That makes more sense especially with carp. Now that you told me, I have seen this setup a lot on the Great Lakes. Thank you for enlightening me.

13 August 2012 at 05:52

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