Andy M
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A quick question for the more experienced: Is a banded pellet sitting next to the hook as effective as a hair rigged pellet. Grateful for your thoughts.
Philip,is that for 'nuisance' species avoidance,or do you feel a benefit of hook ups
A quick question for the more experienced: Is a banded pellet sitting next to the hook as effective as a hair rigged pellet. Grateful for your thoughts.
Tell me about it. I’m going though a spell at present of the buggers expertly leaving me baitless. I wound it after two hours the other night, baitless and wondering if I’d been “fishing” this way for 15 minutes or an hour a a half... hard Boilies, pellet stops, nothing stops the buggers.Not with a pellet stop though Steve,soft boilies however are chub heaven,their rubber gobs tighten on the boilie so when you strike at the ensuing wrap round often result in the stop being ripped out,buggers,lol....
Tell me about it. I’m going though a spell at present of the buggers expertly leaving me baitless. I wound it after two hours the other night, baitless and wondering if I’d been “fishing” this way for 15 minutes or an hour a a half... hard Boilies, pellet stops, nothing stops the buggers.
You leave your bait out for two hours!!
Yeah, not unusual. These are specific things for the H.Avon, I would not approach the Wye for example in this way. I’m typically fishing for 3-5 hours around the turn of evening. I will if I can bare it sit on the one cast for a full five hours. The Barbel are not prolific by any stretch so I do not want to spook a fish casting or retrieving unnecessarily I also find that too many freebies just creates preoccupation and lessens a hook up.
Recasting a feeder every 15 minutes seems to be a recipe for a blank added with the inaccuracies and issues with back lead placement with marginal foliage in the dark, especially as limit head torch activity to next to null.
I did not have the bait robbing issue last year, either the rod exploded into life or the original hook bait came back.