davemacsween
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Step by step instructions:
- Get a Kinder Egg or similar shaped container. I use plastic containers that gloves come in in hair dye kits
- Throw away the smaller half and then using a sharp knife or junior hacksaw cut nearly all the bottom off the other half just leaving about 5mm of the rounded end on. This is your mould
- On the bank you'll need the following:
> Baiting needle such as a stringer needle. You don't need a fancy doolali with a little thing on to hold the line, just a piece of fine wire with a small hook on the end
> Your main line needs to have an Arlsey Bomb type weight approx 3/4oz running freely
> Stop this with an American style snap swivel, the type that is a swivel and a clip. Tie the swivel to the mainline, the clip is what is going to take your hooklength
> 2 Hooklengths - 6inches long with a hair rigged bait band (I use 3mm Garbolino ones) at one end, hook choice for me Guru QM1 size 12, and a large 1inch loop on the other end
- Bait for the feederless feeder is up to you but I prefer to use 4mm Skrettings Pellets soaked until they've just started to go squeezably soft
- Bait for the hair, again up to you but I use a 6mm Skrettings Pellet. What ever your choice the lighter the bait the better as when the fish hover over the Feederless Feeder's offerings and suck up you want your bait to go upwards and into their mouths not sit firmly stuck to the deck [🙂]
- Tactics
... Stuff your mould with soft pellets and compress firmly
... Push your hooked wire through from the end without the rounded edges
... Hook the loop on one of your hooklength and pull through so the hook sits in at the end and the hair just shows
... remove wire hook and clip the hooklength to your main line
... Important bit - push compressed pellets out of your mould
At this stage if you've done it right you'll have a plug of pellets with your baited book dangling from your mainline waiting to be cast [😉]
Cast gently, take up slack line, sit and wait.
Whilst your waiting prepare the second hooklength with a plug of pellets but keep the mould in place until you've connected it to your mainline.
Bites are unmissable - you'll get a series of knocks and then a wrap-round as the fish is hooked, it's virtually self hooking, even more so if you get your hair length right - approximately the length of hook shank
Rebaiting is simple, wind in, unclip hooklength, clip pre=prepared hooklength, remove Feederless Feeder and recast.
Again, whilst you're waiting re-plug the hooklength you removed and have it ready for when you wind in.
Cast to the same place initially and the fish will soon realise the splosh of the plug hitting the water means food [^]
When fish and bites dry up move around a few metres away and start again [:T]
Rewinding and casting should be no more than 10minutes between casts. If you leave it too long the smaller fish will have moved in and taken the soft freebies or there's no Carp near by.
If you get a series of knocks then nothing, chances are it was small fish and your hookbait has either been snaffled or pushed into the silt
Simple, cost effective, no nonsense, and very effective for greedy Carp and Bream
- Get a Kinder Egg or similar shaped container. I use plastic containers that gloves come in in hair dye kits
- Throw away the smaller half and then using a sharp knife or junior hacksaw cut nearly all the bottom off the other half just leaving about 5mm of the rounded end on. This is your mould
- On the bank you'll need the following:
> Baiting needle such as a stringer needle. You don't need a fancy doolali with a little thing on to hold the line, just a piece of fine wire with a small hook on the end
> Your main line needs to have an Arlsey Bomb type weight approx 3/4oz running freely
> Stop this with an American style snap swivel, the type that is a swivel and a clip. Tie the swivel to the mainline, the clip is what is going to take your hooklength
> 2 Hooklengths - 6inches long with a hair rigged bait band (I use 3mm Garbolino ones) at one end, hook choice for me Guru QM1 size 12, and a large 1inch loop on the other end
- Bait for the feederless feeder is up to you but I prefer to use 4mm Skrettings Pellets soaked until they've just started to go squeezably soft
- Bait for the hair, again up to you but I use a 6mm Skrettings Pellet. What ever your choice the lighter the bait the better as when the fish hover over the Feederless Feeder's offerings and suck up you want your bait to go upwards and into their mouths not sit firmly stuck to the deck [🙂]
- Tactics
... Stuff your mould with soft pellets and compress firmly
... Push your hooked wire through from the end without the rounded edges
... Hook the loop on one of your hooklength and pull through so the hook sits in at the end and the hair just shows
... remove wire hook and clip the hooklength to your main line
... Important bit - push compressed pellets out of your mould
At this stage if you've done it right you'll have a plug of pellets with your baited book dangling from your mainline waiting to be cast [😉]
Cast gently, take up slack line, sit and wait.
Whilst your waiting prepare the second hooklength with a plug of pellets but keep the mould in place until you've connected it to your mainline.
Bites are unmissable - you'll get a series of knocks and then a wrap-round as the fish is hooked, it's virtually self hooking, even more so if you get your hair length right - approximately the length of hook shank
Rebaiting is simple, wind in, unclip hooklength, clip pre=prepared hooklength, remove Feederless Feeder and recast.
Again, whilst you're waiting re-plug the hooklength you removed and have it ready for when you wind in.
Cast to the same place initially and the fish will soon realise the splosh of the plug hitting the water means food [^]
When fish and bites dry up move around a few metres away and start again [:T]
Rewinding and casting should be no more than 10minutes between casts. If you leave it too long the smaller fish will have moved in and taken the soft freebies or there's no Carp near by.
If you get a series of knocks then nothing, chances are it was small fish and your hookbait has either been snaffled or pushed into the silt
Simple, cost effective, no nonsense, and very effective for greedy Carp and Bream