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BALANCE IS CRITICAL! Posted by John Kneebone
John Kneebone explains how and why using our ‘Balanced Wafter’ hookbaits is quite simply a no brainer…
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BALANCED WAFTERS: WHAT ARE THEY?
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SETTING-UP: THE BASIC GUIDE LINES
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RIGS, TWEAKS AND PRESENTATION
TOP FIVE FINE TUNING TWEAKS
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Another little tweak that I find works well is having a large blob of putty or a tungsten sinker near the hook on the hooklink. This creates a kind of hinge where the wafter is lifting the hook slightly, but the sinker (or putty) is just holding it back.
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If you prefer the hookbait close to the hook a good way of adding a little weight to wafter that will also add some movement is to pull the hookbait onto a micro rig swivel using bait floss. Simply trim and blob the floss to secure the wafter.
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A family holiday to the Lake District is where I first found my inspiration to fish, after watching a match angler catch a mixed bag of silver fish and what seemed to me at the time an enormous beast of a perch.
From then on I was fishing whenever I could, which being surrounded by th... Find out more
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