Up-Tiding

Further to my post on Up-tiding, I was really delighted to get some feedback regarding Up-tiding in the UK , as below.

This, in my opinion is the beauty of this kind of site. People can add to posts and improve the quality of the information held here at the fishing blog.

The reply below was posted from A Sea Angler’s Noted Book

I Agree with most of what you say but, as a born and bred uptider from the East Coast, I think you missed one very important point about uptiding - it gives the angler the ability to use lighter, more sporting tackle than could be otherwise used. As long as the water isn’t too deep you can generally use 8 oz of lead where a downtider would need 1 lb or more - the emphasis with this technique is definately on presenting a bait hard on the bottom for species such as Cod and Ray. Once you hit depths of 50 - 60 foot of water though uptiding becomes very difficult.

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I’d have to disagree with two minor points. Firstly, the choice of rig is important, particularly when trying to fish a bait hard on the bottom in a strong tide. In these conditions the running ledger reigns supreme as the bow in the line required to hold bottom generally means a paternoster will be fishing baits off the bottom. Finally, a proper uptiding rod is in no way ’stubby looking’. A proper uptiding rod will have a fine soft-actioned tip (to absorb the wave action and drag from the tide on the line) along with a fairly stiff middle and powerful butt. Bob Cox (one of a number of skippers from this part of the country generally credited with developing the method) helped design a range of Kevlar blanks for North Western which are by far and away the best uptider I have ever used. They are also very versatile and I have used mine for everything from spinning (thanks to the fine tip) to beach and peir fishing. A friend of mine (who is an accomplished caster) has also managed to cast a distance of 150 yards on the field with one - not bad for a 9ft 6in rod!

I enjoyed the article and other than that I’d agree with with everything written - nice one.

EDIT: That is a great and very valuable up-date to the content.. Please everyone join in as this member did, to improve the quality of this site.

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