It all centres on punch fishing on the cut
Spose I’m old school and always took it as gospel and believed in the adage that on the cuts (well at least round this neck of the woods) that once you ‘corrupt’ a punch swim/line by introducing other baits - squatt/pinkie or mag (but not hemp or caster) when the punch line died, that was it as far as the punch went for the rest of the match.
Now over all the years, once I’ve tried to kick start a ‘dead’ punch line with other baits, I’ve never later tried to resurrect it later on with more punch, or ever put punch on back on the hook.(Although I will have a gander with an alternative hookbait on a dying line, before deciding to introduce any samples of that hook bait.)
Having said that I have in the past on occasions tried to establish a new punch line elsewhere in the swim
The suggestion today was that you could ‘restart’ tha punch line later in the match despite feeding other things .
Calling all you cut cracks
What’s your thoughts on the subject?
Have any forumites tried or succeeded in re-establishing a punch after other baits have been introduced?
Even taking this one further, has anybody started a punch line from scratch over ‘another bait line’ half way through a match?
Have I been missing a trick or two over the last half century?
Ta in anticipation of your views and thoughts
