When it shines
Commercial carp fisheries and natural stillwaters in warmer months. The method delivers a tight parcel of feed exactly where the hookbait sits — fish find the bait first, eat the hook second. Devastating on F1s, mid-size carp, big bream and big tench.
How to fish it
- Cast to the same spot every time — clip up to a marker on your line. The feeder works by repetition; each cast adds a small parcel of feed.
- Re-cast every 5–10 minutes regardless of bites. The feed gets the fish patrolling; no feed in, no fish.
- Don't strike at small taps. A method bite is the rod arching round — the fish has already hooked itself on the bolt effect.
- Heavier feeders for distance, lighter for short range. A 40 g feeder is the all-round commercial size.
What goes wrong
- Hookbait buried inside the mix → fish find it last. Always tuck the hookbait into the side, not the centre.
- Mix too wet → it doesn't break down on the bed and the hookbait sits on top of a wet lump. Drier mix, broken down within 3 minutes.
- Casting to different spots → no concentrated feed, no fish concentration. Pick one spot, hammer it.