I was watching an angler fishing Bolo style on my local River Dee, he was into fish yet was fishing 14ft deep through the centre of the river (20yds off the bank), his rig was standard Bolo 6grm float with an olivette approx 2ft from the hook and a couple of shot on his hook length.
When he cast out he sprayed some maggots and some hemp a couple of yards downstream of where his rig settled. There was a reasonable flow and he trotted approx 10yds downstream before either striking at a bite or reeling in and recasting.
Given the flow, swim depth and float loading I couldn’t understand how his loose fed maggots benefitted his hook bait, then I realised that it didn’t.
Whilst I’ve been analysing and perhaps critical of this anglers’ technique I realised that if that had been me fishing; I’d have probably been doing something very similar – firing loose feed upstream and probably hoping that by some miracle that I was feeding my swim.
I'd always believed that loose feeding ‘little and often’ was the way to do this, but for the first time I’ve sat back and thought – wait a minute... I can’t use a bait dropper every cast; ground bait? What mix? How much?
Here’s my question – What is the ‘best way’ / ‘most effective way’ of feeding such a swim?
Many Thanks
Mark
When he cast out he sprayed some maggots and some hemp a couple of yards downstream of where his rig settled. There was a reasonable flow and he trotted approx 10yds downstream before either striking at a bite or reeling in and recasting.
Given the flow, swim depth and float loading I couldn’t understand how his loose fed maggots benefitted his hook bait, then I realised that it didn’t.
Whilst I’ve been analysing and perhaps critical of this anglers’ technique I realised that if that had been me fishing; I’d have probably been doing something very similar – firing loose feed upstream and probably hoping that by some miracle that I was feeding my swim.
I'd always believed that loose feeding ‘little and often’ was the way to do this, but for the first time I’ve sat back and thought – wait a minute... I can’t use a bait dropper every cast; ground bait? What mix? How much?
Here’s my question – What is the ‘best way’ / ‘most effective way’ of feeding such a swim?
Many Thanks
Mark