cg74
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I'd been planning on heading to one of my local small rivers all week, patiently waiting for the level to drop and hit the optimum point (about 18" above normal and still carrying colour).
My plan of attack was going to be bread, bread and more bread. Feeding mashed stale bread via a cage feeder, with fresh flake on the hook. The target species being chub and big roach if I could locate them.
I'd been saving and drying bread for a week plus, but thanks to Jamie (bleedin') Oliver and his bread pudding recipe, the missus took it upon herself to make one.....
.....There's my loose feed gone and with it the opportunity of drawing fish into my swim.
Thinking and rethinking my options, I tried mixing some plain flour, chilli powder with a little water, in the hope I could some how make a fluffy that could be used to bung a feeder, so clouding the water and allowing me to get small pinches of flake to where the were.
Checked said flour mix minutes before I left home, convinced myself it was going to work like a dream. Needless to say it was a complete failure, either being to dry or to clumped up into balls of dough, that'd overfeed the swim. So I kept adding a little more water until the mix was about the consistency of thick soup. Not quite the best thing for bunging a feeder!
Rooting about in my bag I found a black cap feeder, so I thought it worth a go..... Eureka!!
It was working.
I fished from about 3.00p.m til 7.30p.m, in which time I used 40p worth of flour, 20p worth of chilli powder and about 40p worth of fresh bread. Taking 14 chub from a tad over 4lb to 6lb 6oz; all for about a pound!
I don't think I could've bettered my result no matter what approach I had used. Maggots might of equalled it, but would've cost four times more. Boilies and/or pellets, I think would have caught me 6 or 7, maybe at best 8, as to provide a similar level of stimulus, I'd have landed up overfeeding the swim.
Big hi-attract hook baits might have got me 4 or 5, if I rested the swim and returned once dark, I may have got 6 or 7 in total.
My plan of attack was going to be bread, bread and more bread. Feeding mashed stale bread via a cage feeder, with fresh flake on the hook. The target species being chub and big roach if I could locate them.
I'd been saving and drying bread for a week plus, but thanks to Jamie (bleedin') Oliver and his bread pudding recipe, the missus took it upon herself to make one.....
.....There's my loose feed gone and with it the opportunity of drawing fish into my swim.
Thinking and rethinking my options, I tried mixing some plain flour, chilli powder with a little water, in the hope I could some how make a fluffy that could be used to bung a feeder, so clouding the water and allowing me to get small pinches of flake to where the were.
Checked said flour mix minutes before I left home, convinced myself it was going to work like a dream. Needless to say it was a complete failure, either being to dry or to clumped up into balls of dough, that'd overfeed the swim. So I kept adding a little more water until the mix was about the consistency of thick soup. Not quite the best thing for bunging a feeder!
Rooting about in my bag I found a black cap feeder, so I thought it worth a go..... Eureka!!
It was working.
I fished from about 3.00p.m til 7.30p.m, in which time I used 40p worth of flour, 20p worth of chilli powder and about 40p worth of fresh bread. Taking 14 chub from a tad over 4lb to 6lb 6oz; all for about a pound!
I don't think I could've bettered my result no matter what approach I had used. Maggots might of equalled it, but would've cost four times more. Boilies and/or pellets, I think would have caught me 6 or 7, maybe at best 8, as to provide a similar level of stimulus, I'd have landed up overfeeding the swim.
Big hi-attract hook baits might have got me 4 or 5, if I rested the swim and returned once dark, I may have got 6 or 7 in total.
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