Birmingham Anglers Association

Mick,,, casters will always bring you better roach if you can get them feeding on them.. as you say it seems that at late the tiny roach have been showing but has you know them tiny roach have been bred in the canal within the last 12 months,, meaning the parent (bigger) fish are still in there . now when you say stop fishing the pinkies and switch to casters, then YES its the thing to do to target bigger roach maybe less of them but defiantly better quality.. especially in the winter months.
I had a few decent roach last week on the bham/ wor cut , 6 to 8oz. but that was on the punch bread..
what iv found in the past is i have to force myself to fish one bait by simply only take 1 bait with me so I'm not tempted to switch and casters is a great example of that .. you'll be surprised that the fish will feed if there is nothing else for them to be tempted with...
I'm fishing with a couple of the danglers on Saturday and i intend to fish the caster on 1 line to see if it does that very thing..
ill let you know if I'm successful or not..

BIN