Fish Location

Fish will normally be scattered or will move with angling pressure, bait application or natural food sources. The important thing is finding a feature in your chosen area. This may be in the form of an undulation, weed bed, silt pocket or marginal snag, the fish normally get caught on one of these as opposed to casting into an open flat area. To find the features you can use the trusted marker rod or jump in the rowing boat with a feature finder.

Marking your spots

You can use a marker rod to find and mark your features or a H block marker from the rowing boat using an echo sounder.

Bait Application

For a standard week at the lake, I would recommend the following bait:

• 5kg boilies, bring a bait you have confidence in, of good quality, air dried hard so you can’t squeeze and break them between your fingers. The new bait for 2008, MARNE VALLEY MATRIX is set to be a winner and a valuable key to success
• 5kg pellets, the fish are fed these all year round for the last 4 years
• 5kg particle, we sell a premixed bucket of hemp, maize, sunflower seeds, wheat, peanuts and tiger nuts, all elements of this mix have caught fish. Also available is hemp or the Nuts; a mixture of different types of nut, peanuts, tigers, black tigers, giant tigers, brazils.

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Vary the quantity of bait applied per rod. If you are going to introduce a large bed of bait then be prepared to sit on it for at least 2 days before thinking of moving it. It’s always worth dribbling in a few kgs of bait on a few other spots that you are not fishing. This will give the fish confidence to move into the area and feed. Then if you want to move a rod you will be a step ahead and could drop onto feeding fish, think ahead !!