Spinning is a great way to fish,especially if your wanting to cover a fair length of the beat quickly,say your only out for an hour or so. Today we have multiples of spinning lures,form the genuine French Aglia lures,( silver blade + blue spots( still the best on my neck of the woods) to rapalas,flying C’s, etc etc, but for me it’s how you fish em,I’ve seen so many young boys pull spinning lures through the water that a speedboat wouldn’t catch,you’ve GOT to turn the reel handle at a timing of “ one thousand 2 thousand 3 thousand “ you do that,and the games a bogie! Don’t turn,turn,turn. Sneaky sneaky catch a monkey,is the auld saying cause it works! Don’t just batter through a pool then walk away,you’ll see other anglers or at least hear of other men catching fish on spinners or whatever,so try that route,but undoubtedly the premier way to fish the almost unfishable parts,say it’s a great slow holding pool,but there’s branches coming out on the far side about 3 inches above the surface,branches at your back etc. ( I took 2 of ma sons and spent a full day with them learning them this) So cast your lure,now it’s GOT TO BE a floating rapala at the top of the run,DONT click over the bale arm,just let the line feed off till the lure is under all thon branches,a lot of the time it’ll go out of site,just brave it and let it run on. Now click your bale arm over and start retrieving SLOWLY,one thousand,two thousand,blah,blah blah,and I said one other time in a post,if there’s a salmon there you’ll at the very least you’ll turn it over the body,,,but most times they’ll attack it.So new season lads,new times,give that a go exactly as I’ve said and let me know if your onto a winner,but me and auld tam used this method for dunkeys and it brought home the bacon every time,but spinning can be very sore on ye,especially if your getting on a wee bit,given it pain in your sides,and it’s funny how folk always seem to hunch forward when spinning eh! . Then it’s sore sides,back broke,etc. but anyway this is mainly aimed at guys with The floaters,but just in general,SLOW spin,,and the million dollar answer is GET UP EARLY BEFORE THE REST,and hit thon water first. What do they say, fortune favors the brave

Now a DONT know what your river is like,but bjesus you want to see thon lures hanging from branches on our river,orange flying C’s,blue wans,black,yellows, floats,spinners. Nearly every single chap that comes on flings over to the far side eh! and the salmon are sneakin up 2 feet out below his feet! but naw there he goes again right over to the far far bank,only this time it’s,pull pull,pull!! ! Because he’s up yon big branches,and they always say the same thing “ awe naw them rapalas are a tenner each ! Tams killin himself laughing

. So he’s pulled that much the trebles are now stuck deep and fast to the branch, then it’s a HUGE BIG TWACK,tams by this time is rolling about the grass tears all down his face,so what does the guy do. Straight into his bag and opens a brand new packet and ties on ANOTHER ONE,sure enough there he goes,away over to the far side again! Then it’s pull pull pull,tams like “ oh here jimmy we are away on here I canny take any more of this,that’s bad for yer heart

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