Voerkol

[PI]

Hi There

I have a couple of questions.

1. How do you know when the fish starts moving into your kol? Is it when the bite tempo moves up or is it when they start turning and breaking the water?

2. How do you ensure that you have enough feed in that kol? I threw 5-8 bols every 2hrs. Is this enough seeing that it is winter?

3. I had a great time at Boschkop over the weekend, however experienced some difficulty with the bite tempo and combo's. I couldnt get a dip that worked for most of the day as I ended up with 5 - 6 combo's? Is this normal or is there another way to get it right?

4. I also experienced times that I would catch 3 - 4 fish within 80 minutes and then dead silence? What could this be? Am I off my kol?

5. Another question is that I caught the smaller fish whilst my brother (with no voerko)l caught 4 nice size fish. Why?? 

Hope you guys can help.

 

[Vleipadda]

PI wrote:

2. How do you ensure that you have enough feed in that kol? I threw 5-8 bols every 2hrs. Is this enough seeing that it is winter? 


5. Another question is that I caught the smaller fish whilst my brother (with no voerko)l caught 4 nice size fish. Why?? 

 

With reference to nr 2 - 5-8 bols are a bit much since winter time the fish metabolism reduces and they are less active i would personally go with 3-4 bols

nr 5 - Ive found previously that by casting 10 or even 5m away from the next person could be the difference between a blank / smaller fish and nice sizes . Shllow areas versus depressions or holes You might have been casting on a grass bed - there are so many scenarios that You need to experiment cast a bit shallower etc Just my 2c and what ive experienced

 

 

[PI]

Thanks,
I will look at the options mentioned. I think I will try the 5 - 10 mtrs off the voerkol.

 

[Skuimkop]

1) I would say your bite tempo increases. BUT they can also move into your kol because of what you have on your bomb but won't necessarily take what you have on your hook baits, and then it would be detected by the fish activity at your kol.

2) Difficult to say. Aslong as you keep the tempo going your doing the feeding thing right. When they go off the bite you can either try a shocker/caller first and then go for the more feed in your spot.

3) Trail & error. What I do is I bring my other rod into my spot aswell and experiment with the combo's with this rod untill I get it right. I will use what the fish is biting on and trying different dips on the other hook to see if I can increase my tempo but I keep going with what worked first on my first rod. Don't fiddle with what works (first rod) untill you found something that works better (second rod).

4) Can be a number of things. No feed left in your spot for one. They could have move to shallower/deeper water after the warmer water (read water temp and wheather change). Your off your spot. Or they simply just went of the bite. Again try a shocker/caller or cast 10 meter or so behind/infront of your spot.

5) The specie guys put down lots & lots of prefeed but catch alot of times 3 - 5 meters outside there kol and the reason for this is becuase the bigger fish don't want to get involved in the scuffle happening at the kol between the smaller fish. So they are basically targeting the bigger fish. This I think you can interpret into conventional angling aswell and thus explaining your instance.

Just my zim $.

 

[Skuimkop]

Just read somewhere else that you form a spot with 5 - 6 balls. With this you fish on top of your spot. If you feed more than that you fish next to or past/short of your spot.

Ps: This comes from a Protea angler.

 

[Vleipadda]

Skuimkop ek stem 100% saam met jou , maar ekt al vele kere gesien dat baie voer in die winter tot jou nadeel kan wees .

 

[Bottie]

Vleipadda wrote:

Skuimkop ek stem 100% saam met jou , maar ekt al vele kere gesien dat baie voer in die winter tot jou nadeel kan wees .

Vlei, ja, ek wil saam met jou stem, die manne wat kan in my klub se dieselfde. En hulle het ook daai Groen en Goud t-shirt,maar kyk wat maak die karphengelaars en die paalmanne. Baie voer.

 

[Skuimkop]

Nee daai is feite. Dit gaan maar weer soos met baie dinge in die lewe: Om balans te handhaaf. Dis ook hoekom ek sê probeer eers shockers ens voor jy ekstra voer gooi. Ek persoonlik gebruik weer meer wildbird seed en chick-chick in my voer as ek skrikkerig is dat ek teveel voer gaan afgooi. Dit maak die vis nie vol nie maar hou hulle gëintreseerd in jou kol. 

 

[carpoholic20]

try making 2 feeding spots at diffrent distances 1 further and one closer if the tempo is higher on the one closer bring your other rod to that one if the tempo goes queit send one rod out to the further spot if the tempo is better the do the same! Works for me alot!