I was just one rod length from the bank in almost four feet of water, so a gentle flick of the float was all I needed.
As I’ve been doing for a while on these venues where small pike are in abundance, I’ve been tricking loose maggots in the swim.
That’s been bad enough but I found that brown crumb was worse, as far as drawing predators in was concerned.
It was as if they became tuned in to the splash and the cloud of crumb in the water. The