alex laurie
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Before the pellet revolution in barbelling, I would have used cage feeders with corn or meat and blockends for maggots or caster with hemp.
I have had 4 days on the Ribble recently.
Caught on 3 out of the 4 so I can't be doing anything drastically wrong.
I have used PVA mesh on 3 out of the 4 days and on one day cage feeders with 2mm dry pellet and also pellet sludge.
I felt that while the pellet sludge was acting as a scent trail effectively, it was not putting a carpet of loose pellets down, which is what I would prefer to do.
With the dry pellets, I think but couldn't be certain, that the dry pellets were coming out as the feeder hit the surface. I tried to remedy this by introducing more white crumb to my groundbait to plug the feeder more effectively.
The feeding in this instance was not critical as the swim was relatively slow and only around 4 feet deep, so the pellets were not going to be swept downstream to any degree. But it would be a different situation in a fast swim.
I thought of damping the pellets and squeezing them around a method feeder, but never got round to trying it, as I was catching fish anyway. It also occurred to me that I could widen the holes considerably on a big blockend to lay down a thinly spread carpet.
What do you guys do when you are on feeders?
I have had 4 days on the Ribble recently.
Caught on 3 out of the 4 so I can't be doing anything drastically wrong.
I have used PVA mesh on 3 out of the 4 days and on one day cage feeders with 2mm dry pellet and also pellet sludge.
I felt that while the pellet sludge was acting as a scent trail effectively, it was not putting a carpet of loose pellets down, which is what I would prefer to do.
With the dry pellets, I think but couldn't be certain, that the dry pellets were coming out as the feeder hit the surface. I tried to remedy this by introducing more white crumb to my groundbait to plug the feeder more effectively.
The feeding in this instance was not critical as the swim was relatively slow and only around 4 feet deep, so the pellets were not going to be swept downstream to any degree. But it would be a different situation in a fast swim.
I thought of damping the pellets and squeezing them around a method feeder, but never got round to trying it, as I was catching fish anyway. It also occurred to me that I could widen the holes considerably on a big blockend to lay down a thinly spread carpet.
What do you guys do when you are on feeders?