baitdroppers

How exactly do you use these?

Are they any good in still water etc

They are okay in stillwater but used more on a river with moveing water.

If you can imagine throwing a handfull of bait such as maggotts in a river, they would very soon end up way past where you are fishing, (usually quivertipping).

What you do is to load the baitdropper with bait, and make sure it is closed properly, then you lower it into the river at the spot you want your hookbait to be or just before it. When the plunger on the baitdropper touches the river bed, it automatically opens and empties the bait on the bottom where the flow is much slower, and will satay around that area for longer.

I wa sactually under arm swinging mine the other week about eight yds.

In short it is a method of getting your bait down to the bottom in a fast flow.

In stillwater you would be better off useing a catapult for any distance.
Or by hand if it is close in.

Used a lot for float fishing rivers. as baz says gets bait on the bottom. Problem on stillwaters is the lake bed if its soft the plunger on the baitdropper my not work. You would be better of using a spod.

a little diagram that shows how they work
how to use a baitdropper

for you benny

steve

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