Feeder Fishing

Brian Knights · #1 (**permalink**) 16-10-2009, 10:17

My newly-found retirement status will enable me to fish through the winter whereas my only previous experience of fishing has been surface fishing in the summer months, mainly during the long summer evenings.

A guy I was talking to at one of our local lakes recommended I started off by fishing with a feeder and he kindly gave me an open-ended cage feeder that he had spare. Can someone kindly point to me to a link which will show me in simple terms how I set this up e.g. bait to put in, line to use, hooklengths, knots etc. The lake I'll be fishing in is all-purpose but is reknowned for its enormous head of carp, mainly in the four to nine pounds range.

Thanks in anticipation.

Graham Marsden · #2 (**permalink**) 16-10-2009, 10:25

The two methods below will be good starting points:

Simple Running Leger

The Method

Poshpaul (Angling Trust and PaSC) · #3 (**permalink**) 16-10-2009, 10:28

Hi Brian,

Welcome to the Club. You'll find lots of help and information on this site. I would suggest that your first port of call would be to click on the "Rigs" link on the toolbar at the top of the mainpage. Look at the general, carp and float section...all good stuff. If you look through these you'll find lots of information..there are a number of tips on using feeders and an excellent article on Knots by Uncle Dave who runs Kryston.

Welcome again

Poshers

---------- Post added at 09:28 ---------- Previous post was at 09:27 ----------

As usual the boss beat me to it!!

Stealph Viper · #4 (**permalink**) 16-10-2009, 11:21

Hello brian,

Welcome to the Marvels of Fishing Magic.

Muffin · #5 (**permalink**) 16-10-2009, 13:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stealph Viper

Hello brian,

Welcome to the Marcels of Fishing Magic.

What's a Marcel SV?

Stealph Viper · #6 (**permalink**) 16-10-2009, 13:06

A slip of the fat sausage fingers oh eagle eye

Peter Jacobs · #7 (**permalink**) 16-10-2009, 13:27

Quote:

Originally Posted by Muffin

What's a Marcel SV?

The christian name of the groundbait manufacturer, van den Eynde?

noknot · #8 (**permalink**) 16-10-2009, 13:54

Hi Brian, and welcome to the forum, If you are going for the Carp, then why not try a method feeder as it is a very succesful set up on those type of waters and is simple to set up and fish

Muffin · #9 (**permalink**) 16-10-2009, 15:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stealph Viper

A slip of the fat sausage fingers oh eagle eye

I was not actually trying to be annoying, but wondered if my vocabulary did not stretch to the terms used by people from up north! :P

Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC) · #10 (**permalink**) 16-10-2009, 15:23

That's waggin mate