How To Find Features In Your Swim

TRANSCRIPT - HOW TO FIND FEATURES IN YOUR SWIM

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Feature finding is one of the most important factors when beginning a session.

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So in this video, I'm going to demonstrate how easy it is to set up a Marker Float and

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find spots.

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Firstly, I'm going to tie a large figure of eight loop knot into my braid, followed

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by a much smaller loop knot.

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The reason you want a loop in the line is it makes it a lot easier to change

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from a Marker Float system to a bare lead to a Spomb or adding just a stem

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onto your Marker Float system to aid in combating weed.

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Once you're happy your Marker Float system is set up correctly, now it's time to cast

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it out into the lake and find some features.

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So very simply, cast out generally straight out in front of you, taking note on the

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direction where you've made your initial cast, then you can work left and right

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of that initial cast.

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Otherwise, you're going over the same ground and finding the same spot.

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So cast it out there, dragging the lead across the bottom until you find something

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that you want to sort of investigate more.

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Say it's very, very silty out there and all of a sudden you're getting some tap, tap,

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taps on the rod, that could quite easily indicate that you're fishing over gravel

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and then you want to find, you know, how deep it is in that area and it also gives

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you a visual aid of whereabouts the spot is.

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So once you've found that bit of gravel, for instance, we can then undo the drag

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on the bail arm and pull off at a foot at a time until our Marker Float hits

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the surface.

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Once we do that, you know we've maybe got six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11 foot.

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We can then draw the Marker Float back down to the lead and investigate again.

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Maybe doing it in four or five foot increments, dragging it back four or five

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foot, popping the Marker Float up.

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If it came back at six foot the first time, then seven foot the second time,

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you know that you're going deeper.

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If you come up first five foot the first time and then four foot,

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you know it's getting shallower.

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So carry on this sort of procedure until you're sort of happy that you're

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fishing on top of a bar, the bottom of a shelf, maybe you're butting up

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to a weed bed.

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It's a great way of sort of finding spots and giving you a visual aid to

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bait over as well.

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If you find yourself in the position where your float is not making it to

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the surface, i.e. it's getting caught in some weed, all you want to do is add

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the Marker Stem to your existing Marker Float system and that will help

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the Marker Float sit above the weed, therefore hitting the surface

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every single time.