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Love fishing here,when they're on they're on.all caught on bread and using a slider float in 16ft of water.
I keep it simple vole.firstly I'm not shy with the feed.i start with 3 tennis sized balls of ground bait,sensas noir being my favourite.i squeeze them very tight and wet my hands and smooth them.that makes them sink quicker and keeps them solid for a bit of time.i normally use maggots to start and 2-3 full catas go in and a couple of catas of hemp.that gets the foundations down.usually on this particular water the perch move in first and they can be a pain.catching them doesn't bother me but unhooking them does.usually the poor wee things are deep hooked no matter how fast a strike I make and I hate that.sometimes the roach come in fast and chase the perch away and I can continue using maggots.i just keep putting a half cata of maggots in every 10 minutes and half cata of hemp every half hour.putting little and often only brings the roach up and that's not what we want.basically you are trying to put in enough that more gets to the bottom than what gets intercepted on the way down.thats the main part.now here's a trick when using bread.take out half a loaf and dip it under the water for no more than 3 seconds then squeeze as much water out as you can then mash it up til its like a really thick soup,make sure you get all the bits that don't break down out.once you have done that add ground bait to it and mix.keep adding the ground bait til it starts to hold together and it can be balled in and gets to the bottom.you shouldn't be able to recognise that there's bread in it.once those roach start grubbing about on the bottom they will kick up the ground bait and it makes some cloud.the best bit about this is the cloud comes up from the bottom instead of dropping from the surface.that really helps to keep them down.again you can put a few balls in because the bread has been thinned down to basically nothing.try it in a basin.put a bit in and wait a couple of minutes then flick your finger through it.magic.Vole wrote:Great stuff! I've loved the slider since I saw Ian Heaps' video on it.
My big weakness is feeding - may I ask how and what you fed to pull them in and still keep them deep?
Excellent write up Ian, I found that quite interesting and informativeIan wrote:I keep it simple vole.firstly I'm not shy with the feed.i start with 3 tennis sized balls of ground bait,sensas noir being my favourite.i squeeze them very tight and wet my hands and smooth them.that makes them sink quicker and keeps them solid for a bit of time.i normally use maggots to start and 2-3 full catas go in and a couple of catas of hemp.that gets the foundations down.usually on this particular water the perch move in first and they can be a pain.catching them doesn't bother me but unhooking them does.usually the poor wee things are deep hooked no matter how fast a strike I make and I hate that.sometimes the roach come in fast and chase the perch away and I can continue using maggots.i just keep putting a half cata of maggots in every 10 minutes and half cata of hemp every half hour.putting little and often only brings the roach up and that's not what we want.basically you are trying to put in enough that more gets to the bottom than what gets intercepted on the way down.thats the main part.now here's a trick when using bread.take out half a loaf and dip it under the water for no more than 3 seconds then squeeze as much water out as you can then mash it up til its like a really thick soup,make sure you get all the bits that don't break down out.once you have done that add ground bait to it and mix.keep adding the ground bait til it starts to hold together and it can be balled in and gets to the bottom.you shouldn't be able to recognise that there's bread in it.once those roach start grubbing about on the bottom they will kick up the ground bait and it makes some cloud.the best bit about this is the cloud comes up from the bottom instead of dropping from the surface.that really helps to keep them down.again you can put a few balls in because the bread has been thinned down to basically nothing.try it in a basin.put a bit in and wait a couple of minutes then flick your finger through it.magic.Vole wrote:Great stuff! I've loved the slider since I saw Ian Heaps' video on it.
My big weakness is feeding - may I ask how and what you fed to pull them in and still keep them deep?