So what is the X-Factor?
Have you ever wondered what effect one single detail can have on our results when fishing?
For example, the choice of a groundbait, the pattern of hook, elastic selection or whether you use a cup or not? The point of the X-Factor is to try and prove whether changing one factor in our fishing has an effect on our results. The key to a good test is to try, as far as possible, to keep all other elements constant… rigs, floats, groundbaits etc., so that the only difference is that one key factor we are testing at the time. The results are often startling and sometimes unexpected! However fishing is a magical sport and no two days are ever the same! In the X-Factor we can never prove categorically that one thing is better than another all the time. What we can try and prove is that changing a detail in the way we fished made a difference on a certain venue, at a certain time of year, in certain weather conditions.
Let's face it, if we always knew the answers in fishing, it would soon get boring!
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