Has anyone or does anyone fish what I call the pipe. I was first shown this by one of my old friends, He had a fishing punt on the Thames at Richmond. It consisted of a six foot length of down pipe with a 8 oz lead clipped on the bottom end and a funnel pinned and glued into the top end. This would be lowered over the side of the punt and fixed to the gunnel in between the two of us sitting broad side on to the flow. Maggots and hemp would be trickle feed down the pipe and into the flow it worked a treat. I have used it on weirs and river banks to get bait down in the water. I used it once on Aldermaston main weir on the kennet had three nice barbel until the owners son got the needle and opened up the sluice at the side of where I was fishing and washed my bed of feed down river. A rod tube makes a good bait tube the bits can be fitted with self tappers a old Idea that can pay big dividends.
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