NASH E-ZINE SUMMER 2016
Q&A am sure softened Q Ipellet around a feeder
will work on my syndicate but everyone tells me this is a small fish tactic? DAVE BARMBY, EAST HORSLEY Maggots catch a lot of roach and bream but does that make them a small fish tactic?? Many of the biggest carp in this country fall to maggots all year round. Softened pellet is considered by some a small fish tactic because in its earliest years it was developed and used by
match anglers on prolific waters. Carp anglers eventually cottoned on and lo and behold it caught small, medium and huge carp! The first time I ever used the tactic was in 1998 at Catch 22 in Norfolk when the ONLY way to catch those carp was a lump of pellet paste moulded around a lead and hurled somewhere out there. It genuinely amazed me but the carp loved it - ALL the carp. Frank Warwick has used it to amazing effect on big fish waters home and abroad and if it’s good enough for Frank it’s good enough for me... and you? If your water responds to pellets then it’s
almost certain the approach will work. At Horseshoe Lake it was incredible because of the huge amount of spodding of pellets that went on and if it’s a water as prolific as Chestnut, Drayton or Brasenose for the carp will compete for food and there’s nothing more obvious and exciting than a ball of softened pellet if you are a hungry carp. But what if your water doesn’t fall into this category? The only way to find out how well it might work is to try it, like fishing Zigs and Floaters where they ‘don’t work’.
Pellet paste bagged up on Catch 22 – a throwback picture with the late and much missed Kevin Green
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Julian Cundiff
" The first time I ever used the tactic was in 1998 at Catch 22 in Norfolk when the ONLY way to catch those carp was a lump of pellet paste moulded around a lead and hurled somewhere out there."