Number of rods and hooks

[cap'nhaddock]

When pleasure fishing, how many rods do you use and how many hooks?

Do you stick to the common match ruling of two rods and three hooks maximum ?

 

[Topwater]

2 rods, each with a maximum of 2 hooks on each, usually pennels or occasionally a loop rig, for me. I can't effectively fish more whilst still relaxing and enjoying it

 

[Wolf]

I usually use 2 rods ,3 hooks,

 

[Mr Fish]

When pleasure fishing, how many rods do you use and how many hooks?

Do you stick to the common match ruling of two rods and three hooks maximum ?

I do, yes, because that’s our club rules for any eligible fish we want to submit for trophies etc.
(Which is photo and release btw)

Not that anyone would know if I used six rods but I’d know and I wouldn’t cheat my mates (or anyone else) anyway.

Plus frankly I find two rods optimum. On the rare occasion I’ve used three (in the knowledge that anything caught wouldn’t ‘count’), I’ve found it too distracting and don’t find I fish as effectively.

 

[Mr Fish]

I did once watch a prize plum fishing on Battery Point who had five or six rods propped upright in cracks in the rocks.
None of them suitable for Battery’s strong tides where you need a fairly stout beachcaster and 6-8oz of lead.

For the entire time I was there, he would pick up a rod, find it snagged, break off, retackle it, cast out again, move to the next rod in the line and repeat.
He was using mackerel (!) and I think had a couple of small whiting, but the entire process looked so soul destroying and pointless I think I would have chucked myself in before I even managed one cycle

 

[chesilpete]

Two rods and usually two hooks either pennel or on seperate snoods.

 

[glandyman]

Two rods, one with 2 hooks the other with a one hook streamlined rig for a bit more distance. Except for flat beaches like Pendine where I use one rod due to the speed of the incoming tide.

 

[Cwab]

only one rod as fish rough ground and kelp mostly over low and can be on the move , x2 rods a liability at times.
Hooks either one sometimes two.

 

[crablante]

Always 2 rods and at least 1 hook per rod HOWEVER if it's busy I'll pack the second rod away so I can relax OR ELSE I'll spend the entire time running around bating up

 

[welshtroutfisher]

If I am chasing the tide on low water I will use 1 rod until low and then use 2 rods, normally a pulley rig with pennels in late winter, or a pulley hair rig single hook (dongle/dangle whatever others call it) any other time

If I'm on a mark where I'm in the same position throughout the session then I may use a scratching rig on 1 of the rods with 2 hooks/3 hook flapper.

West Wales I do enjoy a 3rd rod for feathers, spinning, float setup.

 

[flappy]

Only two rods.. otherwise I start to get annoyed…. bloody leads never seem to stay where I want them to..

 

[Just one last cast]

At this time of year often at chesil when not busy used to stick out a third rod with a whole sardine or mackerel half on a pulley rig for chance of a big eel. Usually fish a single hook pulley or dropper with squid then a 2 or 3 hook flapper with various baits. More recently have struggled to keep 2 rods on the go due to poor preparation ie lack of rigs, experimental rigs such as flappers using braid traces which seem good at home but tangle if you look at them on site. Have even tried taking a single rod on occasion for short sessions holding it to feel for bites on a free running ledger rig. Think the above is due to a lack of faith in my bait &. Set up due to poor results seem to be catching less each year plus then there’s lure fishing do I go down that route hasn’t gone well either the mind boggles. Apologies for deviating from the point.

 

[Thrasher]

Mostly two rods and a max of four hooks. Like others have said, maybe a two hook flapper on one and a pennel set up on the other.

 

[Trampster]

2 beach Rods, usually 2 or 3 hooks on each depending on what rigs/bait I'm using.
Depending on venue, usually take a Lure or Bass rod with an SG Seeker or similar too, in case the Mackerel show up.
Not long fitted an extra 'V' & cup to my Shakey tripod so that I can put the Lure rod in it when not casting with it.

 

[Angrybear]

Mostly two rods and a max of four hooks. Like others have said, maybe a two hook flapper on one and a pennel set up on the other.

Yep, I'm much the same, I used to carry a 3rd outfit in case of a major issue with one, but don't bother with that now.

 

[Shirleycodlin]

How long is a piece of string?
So many variations.
I adapt to the conditions and fish accordingly

 

[fishing hobbit]

Two rod's and between 4/6 hooks, what I'm fishing for.

 

[Wolf]

How long is a piece of string?
So many variations.
I adapt to the conditions and fish accordingly

The bit of string ,is double it's length from the middle to one of its ends

 

[J Richards]

2 rods with 2 pennels.

 

[nearly70ty]

Two rods two hooks each, otherwise you go through bait like hot knife through butter.