rod rests

[St.John]

Well, I'm a stout believer in using what nature provides and when stalking and general mooching looking for fish to chuck a bait at I will often use the schoolboys favorite as a rod rest....
Gentlemen I give you....
the stick!
A nice little tail involving sticks...
I was up early last summer (5 o'clockish) fishing the little bit of wye I bailiff. As i moved from peg to peg I would cut a new rest from all the flood wood on the bank, leaving a Y shaped stick in most of the pegs as i moved on. At around 8 I returned home for breakfast and then went back out. After a few casts and stops I was at the top of the stretch and bumped into a nice chap that fishes this bit pretty often. Anyway, after checking his ticket we got chatting about the wye and the recent spate of poaching. He asked if I had a problem with poaching on my stretch and said he was convinced that we where getting regular visits.
Of course I asked him why he was so sure.
His reply was
'well, there were a lot of sticks in the pegs that had been used as rod rests in the swims this morning and any proper angler would use a rod rest!'
I was in fits of giggles as i explained that I was probably the culprit, to which he turned pink and stuttered something along the lines of.... 'oh....erm..gosh...I didn't mean..I mean... Well..erm..I hope no offence was taken...erm.....!'
I assured him not and went back to one of my sticks and fished.

[J.T]

Nice one st.john. :thumb:

[Snape]

Excellent! :hahaha:
I generally use a regular rod rest but occasionally resort to one of nature's.

[Deaf Cat]

A lovely story

And of course you save on setup time while enhancing the facilities for others.

[Mark]

Nice one st, I am a great believer in sticks. :thumb:

[Tony1964]

Nice one St.
I love grass too. I always use a tiny piece of dried grass as a bait stop. Can't be doing with those little plastic things.

[St.John]

Nice one St.
I love grass too. I always use a tiny piece of dried grass as a bait stop. Can't be doing with those little plastic things.

I use grass as a stop often, tho usually cos I forgot half my kit!

[Snape]

Nice one St.
I love grass too. I always use a tiny piece of dried grass as a bait stop. Can't be doing with those little plastic things.

I've always used grass when fishing luncheon meat. It is ideal.

[Tony1964]

It's strange isn't it that we seem to use grass and other items that nature provides and yet my friends all laugh at me for doing so.

[Richard C]

I have very recently started using grass as bait stops. As I spent most of my baiting hook time rummaging in the grass looking for the little plastic types it seemed the obvious decision! :chuckle: