lifting fish

[g-force]

I only lift fish if shocker is on the reel just when i have tried to hand ball its been cold winters night and .40 line feels about .0001 lol

Yeah, forgot to mention that - I'll always put a much longer leader on when fishing any height, or be fishing 40lb-plus straight through....lifting any fish when the leader's not on the reel always feels dodgy!

Gary

[big phil 123]

Yeah, forgot to mention that - I'll always put a much longer leader on when fishing any height, or be fishing 40lb-plus straight through....lifting any fish when the leader's not on the reel always feels dodgy!

Gary

Hahaha yea i dont trust my knot enought if i am fishing walkway normal leader 4 arm spans on a cliff 5 arm spans then a few turns lol normaly cast about 30 yds before i hear my leader knot rattle my eye lol

[g-force]

Yeah - the real ball-ache though is if there's a raft of weed on your knot & it won't come through the rings...bad enough on a rock edge where you have to scramble backwards just to get the fish out the water, worse still when up a height! (Guess that's when it's time to hand-ball again!).

Gary

[big phil 123]

I know nightmare might just get a huge reel and put huge eyes on and winch everything round the reel lol guess i am a lazy fisherman when i am cod fishing i want my rod to be like a bar not move and a big winch and who says there is no sport in cod fishing lol

[jamiebrennan]

I tried handballing a big cod on North Row Ends for a guy, it was easily a double and rod was bent double, his line was under massive tension and then his leader knot got stuck on his tip ring...bye bye fish! It was an open comp too and he would have cleared up.

[marksworld]

I used to fish Cambois Pier at the lighthouse and it was a nightmare trying to get fish up the side both by hand and reel, there is just no space to maneuver so a drop net was the thing to use.

[Pete from shields]

Makes me wonder why people on a pier would laugh at a guy walking on with a drop net, I've seen a few fish lost on the pier because of hook or line snapping. A 20ft drop and a net would be the best way getting your fish, I don't have 1 yet myself (I get laughed enough for not catching lol) but thinking hard about getting 1.

I can see me 1 day with my light spinning gear hooking a monster, I can dream.

[lambengland]

Makes me wonder why people on a pier would laugh at a guy walking on with a drop net, I've seen a few fish lost on the pier because of hook or line snapping. A 20ft drop and a net would be the best way getting your fish, I don't have 1 yet myself (I get laughed enough for not catching lol) but thinking hard about getting 1.

I can see me 1 day with my light spinning gear hooking a monster, I can dream.

I remember fishing next to a guy early in the year on the end of shields.. Line snapped on the lift of a estimated 6+lb cod.. He kept swearing lots and shouting about "THE F*#KING DROP NET IS IN THE B*ST#*D VAN ANARL!!"