lee_j
Well-known member
Over the last few years I've been moving more towards river fishing and away from carp fishing due to the circus that is now carping , I always had the odd dabble on rivers but was never an out and out river angler due to living in Manchester and loving carp fishing , we had a caravan on a camp site next to the Trent near Newark about 10 yrs ago the site has 7 pegs , one evening while fishing for barbel I got a real eye opener I was fishing midweek and was the only one on till a bloke turned up and got in 2 pegs upstream from me ( the pegs are quite tight together) he started by putting balls of groundbait in up stream from him (as I would have done at the time) he wasn't shy about it though putting around a dozen good sized balls in not long after I started getting takes and ended up having a really good evening , I heard him get a few but nowhere near as many as I was getting and it was obvious he'd baited my swim for me , this has always stuck in my mind and now I'm moving more towards fishing rivers more serious this is playing on my mind a lot to the extent that I don't put bait in unless I'm putting it straight on the bottom (when fishing on the bottom)I've already touched on this on a previous thread about bait droppers , Obviously it depends a lot on how much water is running through , depths and such but my question to you is this , if you put balls of groundbait in how confident are you that some of it's getting down to your area have you got a rule of thumb i.e baiting a few feet upstream for every foot of water or anything like that? I like the thought of some bait washing down stream for the fish to follow it upstream but too much washing down just gives me an image of all the fish in the area chasing the bait downstream and out of the area. Any thoughts on this ?