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Method Feeder
I first started using this method about 4 to 5 years ago. I was fishing on a small local syndicate water with quite a few match angles in the syndicate. At the time I was catching most of my carp on sbs pepparami pellet shaped boilies as boilies were barred and using low oil
Halibut pellets as feed, as it was summer time. The one morning I was watching a match angler casting a ball of ground bait out and thought he’s on method feeder and he was. He was also bagging some nice mid double figure carp more than me. So it was off to quality baits for some method mix that I had seen there before and then off to fosters of Birmingham to get some method feeders. The feeders I ended up with were the Fox ones as they seemed more robust and that they would hold the ground bait better on the cast.
I was back, fully armed and couldn’t wait to give it a go.
I fished the method feeder on one rod to try it, out and within a few minutes hitting the water my indicator was going mental and the rod tip was bouncing so I waited poised over the rod as the carp was rolling my method feeder around the bottom, I knew the take wasn’t far away and off it went like a steam train in the shape of an 18lb common a good fish for the water I ended up with a fish in around 4 to 5 hours not bad as 6 of them came to the method feeder.
Remember you need to keep casting to the same spot to keep the carp competing against each other. When there is a lot of fish in the swim you have to feed some method ground bait balls into the swim start of with the same size balls as you are using on the method as the carp will see your method feeder smaller or larger and class it as danger so keep them the same size. After a few sessions I fished on a shallow bar about 2ft deep the method feeder would hit the surface and I could see baw waves coming towards it this meant (carp dinner balls)
I just couldn’t fail as word got around they barred the method feeder. Me being a bit of a stroke puller decided to stiffen the mix and wrap it around my lead and carried on bagging all summer. My rigs were checked regular as I wasn’t to be trusted I had to keep it low key.
I didn’t rejoin the syndicate I went on to Broadwater and this was not method water as there was a lot of tench. I love ground bait in any shape of form but haven’t used it much since; it is well worth a try on heavily stocked waters with plenty of competitive carp.
I will be showing you the rig to use with devastating effect in my rig section. The ground bait I use will be in the ground bait section.