For this way of fishing we can use a normal spinning rod but it’s better to use a special build rod 2,1 meter long. Put a Arlesy bomb on the line approx 40 to 60 cm from the end and make a stopper by looping your line several times true a tube. Use soft tube like you use for your bicycle vent. In cold water use smaller weights, 5 to 10 grams and thinner lines. For this type of fishing we use plain monofilament 4 to 8 pounds strength. Dynema will tangle up.

If there is a lot of plants or debris on the bottom, use a lift like a cork a 10 cm or more from the hook. If you change the length of the leader, you can change the distance your bait is presented from the bottom. Rods are soft and bend nice parabolic, are light so you can work with them all day. Rods made from a Fly rod blanks have the right action.

Slowly strip the line with figure eight and wind up the loose line now and then. Best reel for this job, see picture. If you feel a bite, let the line go en watch it running from your spool. Point your rod tip towards the direction the line is going, wait until you feel the fish pulling, and set the hook. Always fish with 2 rods and after stripping one in about 1 meter, you put him in the rod holder and strip rod number two. Again about one meter than change rod. Now you leave your bait resting on the bottom for a while and give the fish some time to come closer and have a good sniff. A bite accurse very often after starting to strip after a resting period.

Happy fishing

Bert