A retractable leash is widely used by anglers when catching passive perch, as well as pike perch, both medium-sized and trophy specimens. Using a retractable leash to catch inactive fish increases the angler’s chances at times. The result depends on many factors, such as: the type of silicone bait, the choice of fishing location, the length and thickness of the leash, as well as the selection of the hook, the manner of wiring, and the type of tackle.
Gear Selection Criteria
The basis for the installation of a retractable leash is the correct selection of not only the bait, but also the shape, weight and size of the load. The choice of the form of cargo depends on the relief and the condition of the bottom of the reservoir. But it should be noted that the installation of a diversion leash is good because it can be made from improvised materials that the angler always has, despite his priorities in the fishing method, be it a jig head, feeder or twitching. For installation you will need: fishing line, weight, offset hook, silicone bait, swivel.
Rod
Tackle or rod, is it not the main tool of the angler, and therefore attention to the correct selection of it should be in the first place.
In the case of fishing from the surface of the reservoir using a boat, you can use a rod no more than two meters long. When fishing for perch from the shore, it is necessary to give preference to a rod with a length of more than two meters, which will allow you to cast equipment over long distances to the location of the fish, as a rule, for perch these are shell plateaus, various bottom irregularities, edges, rifts, grass line. When choosing a rod with a long blank, one should also take into account the remoteness of the vegetation on the shore, the presence of which will be an obstacle when casting the equipment.
The main criterion for choosing a rod is also a lively and informative tip, which will allow not only to track the careful bites of fish, but also to cast a light weight of the bait with a load. The test of the rod used should not be less than the weight of the rig, otherwise this may lead to breakage of the butt of the rod. For spinning, the action of the rod is important, it must be fast, which will allow you to animate more realistically and correctly lay the bait.
Coil
It is also worth taking the time to select an inertialess coil. The coil is selected with a friction brake of the average capacity of the spool 2000-2500, which will accommodate up to 120 meters of braided cord with a diameter of 0,14 mm. The choice of a braided cord, unlike a monofilament, is due to its ability to maintain its original parameters under various conditions, such as: physical impact, temperature conditions, as well as its unique conductivity of oscillations and vibrations, which will allow you to study the topography, bottom structure and feel the most careful attempts perch to attack the bait.
Mounting gear
The rigging of the perch leash has several options for attaching the leash to the main fishing line, cargo.
1 option
For the manufacture of the first option for mounting the equipment, we need to take a piece of fluorocarbon fishing line up to one meter long. Thread the fluorocarbon through the eye of the swivel, which will slide freely over it. To the end of the fishing line with the “improved clinch” knot, we tie another exactly the same swivel, which will be a stopper for the first swivel. At the next stage, we tie a leash from 10 to 25 cm long to the first swivel, and on the other side of the leash we tie a load with a “simple clinch” knot, which will allow us to keep the bait and, in general, the entire equipment when the load is hooked.
A leash is knitted to a tightly tied swivel with an offset hook attached to it, the length of the leash depends on the condition of the bottom surface, the higher the layer of silt, the longer the leash, the length of which varies from 0,5 m to 2 m, and the diameter is from 0,15 to 0,25 mm .
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2 option
For the manufacture of the second version of the equipment, we need a T-shaped swivel with three fishing line attachment points. The main braided cord is knitted to the middle ear, to the second leash with a load, and to the third leash with an offset hook.
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The use of a swivel in the installation of equipment allows you to avoid twisting the leash and the main cord.
3 option
The third option for mounting the equipment is the simplest and most economical, it provides for the lack of swivels for the angler, and allows you to reduce the installation time spent on knitting knots. How to make a rig without a swivel and keep it effective is very simple. We retreat 25-35 cm from the edge of the fluorocarbon segment, we knit a knot called the “d-shaped loop”, as a result of which we get a load attachment point.
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An offset hook is knitted to the first end of the segment, and a main braided cord to the second. The length of the fluorocarbon segment should not exceed the length of the rod, otherwise casting the bait will not be possible, usually this is a segment from 0,5 m to 1 m long. This type of mounting allows you to instantly re-equip the rod from a retractable leash to a wobbler or jig head. The disadvantage of the third option is that the rig gets entangled during the cast, but this can be avoided by hard stopping the rig at the moment it splashes down.
After mounting the equipment, it is necessary to study the bottom topography. To do this, you need to perform several test casts without an offset hook, but with only one load. If there are flooded trees and roots at the bottom, a cylindrical sinker should be preferred, which will avoid the loss of bait and equipment as a whole.
The installation of the tackle has been completed, the bottom relief has been studied, the question naturally arises, how to catch, what kind of bait to use, what wiring to give preference to?
Technique of fishing
For use as bait, small-sized floating wobblers, silicone baits, spinners, spinners, spoons are used from 2 cm to 5 cm. Color selection depends on weather conditions and water clarity.
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The wiring technique includes three basic types.
- The first type implies a uniform tightening of the bait, in other words, this wiring can be called dragging. It is often recommended to pull up at different speeds of the retrieve, this is due to the topography of the bottom, as well as the activity of the perch, this type of retrieve is often called search. Condition, bottom topography is monitored by the tip of the rod. When biting, a slowdown in movement is allowed and a drag stop is not allowed.
- With the least activity of the perch, the second type of wiring is used, wiring with pauses (stepped), the less activity of the fish, the greater the pauses in the wiring. The segments of dragging the load with this type of wiring are two times less than with the first option and last from two to five seconds.
- The third type of wiring is suitable for more experienced anglers, those who have experienced twitching, as it is necessary to have basic knowledge of lure animation. With such wiring, baits with a thinning body (flat) or rounded shape are used. The strength of jerks, the speed of wiring are selected experimentally depending on the length of the leash, the bottom topography.