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Improve your skills with coarsefish
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Plumbing The Depth
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Before you start fishing it's important to know how deep the water
is in your swim. The most accurate way to do this is to 'plumb' it.
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 Once you have attached your hook, place a plumb bomb on the end
You can buy these from your tackle shop, and in the main you will find
two types
Type 1.
Simply closes over your hook and is spring loaded.
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 Type
2.
Has a strip of cork across the bottom,
thread the hook through the eye on the top and secure
the point of the hook in the cork.
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Make sure that your float isn't weighted with the
correct amount of shot. It should be less for this exercise. Set the
depth at what you think it might be.
Swing the line out in front of you, and check the area
all around your swim, this will give you a mental picture of what it's
like down there.
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If your float vanishes from sight, then obviously you
haven't set the line deep enough.
If however the float lies on the top, then you are too
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As you get
closer to the exact depth, your float will gradually settle
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 Once you find
the depth, your float will sit as it would when loaded with the correct
amount of shot.
Repeat this around your swim looking for shelves or deep
pools. It really is worth the time and effort
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