Roach Reflections

[Mark99]

River Hiz. I think I located the area the big Hiz roach came from - by simple elimination and clues as to who owned the private land.

[Mark99]

Incomplete ref River Hiz but interesting to people like me who love chalk streams.

https://www.hertsmemories.org.uk/conten ... hiz-part-1

[DaceAce]

Apart from a good walk in the cold I stayed in today but have put together a video for Roach Reflections which is about maggots for roach:

[Mark99]

If you throw a few maggot in the water they sink longways...... so if you can get the roach in a frenzy taking on the drop, sidehooking maggots (like your young mate) can actually help.

[Mark99]

Re flavours. My pal way getting a goer roach up to 12-14 oz every cast on the Thames in a reliable roach area swim on ledgered bread.

For some reason he decided to flavour his bread with Strawberry flavour 1/2 way into the session. That was it - no bites at all after adding flavour! Flavours can do real damage.

[Tonytoned]

Thanks as always Mark. It's taught me a lot so far. I don't do a lot of river fishing, but I'm finding these videos very inspirational.

[DaceAce]

If you throw a few maggot in the water they sink longways...... so if you can get the roach in a frenzy taking on the drop, side-hooking maggots (like your young mate) can actually help.

My mate wasn't so much side-hooking the maggots as skewering them. I've done vast amounts of on-the-drop fishing over the years and always hook the maggot conventionally but have no problems catching on the drop as I use very small, light hooks with minimal shotting down the line, and done well the maggot stays horizontal.

[Mark]

Loving this series Mark, keep them coming.

[Mark99]

Some people hook double maggot with one bait hooked fat end first and the other thin end first...... attempt to reduce the "spin" on retrieve.

[Ally]

I remember Ivan Marks saying about hooking a maggot the right way. Means the hook would stick up so you a chance of foul hooking in a match on a stillwater. Not something that applies to most of us. Debatable anyway