It was a meeting with Billy Lane when I learned about sliders. He showed me and I had to have my dealer buy a card full of Billy's sliders, which I paid for and shared with my two mates. Brilliant floats with a nice body at the bottom and a fine hole, probably 1mm Ø, so it stopped at the knot. I needed it for the 16ft end of a dam we fished with 12ft rods.
Really enjoy fishing a slider. Have always found a sideways strike with the rod parallel to the water, rather than up, much, much more effective at connecting with delicate bites
Used a heavy slider by DJK floats at Alton water a few weeks back casting into 12ft deep water. Set right in bad windy conditions it was a joy to use and resulted in Bream over 4lb,several smaller Bream,skimmers and Roach using a 15ft rod not my usual 13ft Normark Titan.
Nice & interesting video Mark 🎣👍. My problem is. I fish inbetween two Dame , 70 to 85ft deep. How do I feed my spot 🤔. As in , how fare up . Do I have to thow my balls of bait 🤔. FYI I live in B.C 🇨🇦
The deepest water I encounter and actually try to fish is around 15ft and that's still water rather than moving. Moving water maximum is around 13ft. I guess you have to work out how fast the flow is and then how quickly the bait gets down. At that sort of depth we would probably use a swimfeeder in the UK.
They don't have many really deep waters, just Spinnaker. If possible I do prefer to use fixed floats but it's a personal thing. 50 odd years ago there were two camps on sliding floats; Billy Lane was a great fan of them but Ivan Marks preferred fixed floats.
I covered it in the previous video. The only difference with plumbing the depth with a slider is that you move the slider knot not the locking shot. It is probably best to use a weighty plummet with sliders rather than a BB or AAA shot. See th-cam.com/video/qX0reVQjkKI/w-d-xo.html
It was a meeting with Billy Lane when I learned about sliders. He showed me and I had to have my dealer buy a card full of Billy's sliders, which I paid for and shared with my two mates. Brilliant floats with a nice body at the bottom and a fine hole, probably 1mm Ø, so it stopped at the knot. I needed it for the 16ft end of a dam we fished with 12ft rods.
In Billy's books he states the hole should be 15 thou which I make about 0.38mm.
Really enjoy fishing a slider. Have always found a sideways strike with the rod parallel to the water, rather than up, much, much more effective at connecting with delicate bites
Used a heavy slider by DJK floats at Alton water a few weeks back casting into 12ft deep water. Set right in bad windy conditions it was a joy to use and resulted in Bream over 4lb,several smaller Bream,skimmers and Roach using a 15ft rod not my usual 13ft Normark Titan.
Nice & interesting video Mark 🎣👍. My problem is. I fish inbetween two Dame , 70 to 85ft deep. How do I feed my spot 🤔. As in , how fare up . Do I have to thow my balls of bait 🤔. FYI I live in B.C 🇨🇦
The deepest water I encounter and actually try to fish is around 15ft and that's still water rather than moving. Moving water maximum is around 13ft. I guess you have to work out how fast the flow is and then how quickly the bait gets down. At that sort of depth we would probably use a swimfeeder in the UK.
Cheers, Mark!
Nice one Mark.
Tell me has christchurch and waters that would suit a slider
They don't have many really deep waters, just Spinnaker. If possible I do prefer to use fixed floats but it's a personal thing. 50 odd years ago there were two camps on sliding floats; Billy Lane was a great fan of them but Ivan Marks preferred fixed floats.
Why not showing us how to plumb the depth...?
I covered it in the previous video. The only difference with plumbing the depth with a slider is that you move the slider knot not the locking shot. It is probably best to use a weighty plummet with sliders rather than a BB or AAA shot. See th-cam.com/video/qX0reVQjkKI/w-d-xo.html