Short Session Success

Also the name of a very well written book by a true legend. I was doing some thinking the other day and wanted to work on a way of getting a fair amount of attraction in to my swim but not to overfeed the fish, so I looked to Mr Cundiff for inspiration and found several comments on his use of Nash Baits Soluballs as a freebait.

While I was in Erics in Leeds the other day they had a clearance bin full of Soluballs so I grabbed several bags of the Pineapple flavoured ones which I intend to use for my winter fishing, but as I had a few hours spare the other evening I decided on trying a light baiting tactic out on a local little water, Stillingfleet.

Pineapple Soluballs For A Cheap Alternative To Feedbaits

I decided that seeing as time was limited, I had less than four hours on the bank, that I would have to sacrifice some time to locate the fish and on my second walk around a small carp poked its head out near a reed bed so I dropped the bucket and grabbed my rod bag and cradle from the car. Unfortunately my rods were still set up from the surface fishing I failed at last time I was out, so I decided that a handful of SBs along the reed bed would hold any carp in the area as I set up my rods, 1 with a solid bag set up and the other with a lead clip.

As I was finishing tying up some sticks I looked up and was shocked at the amount of fizzing and boiling that was coming from along the reed bed! I franticly got my lead clip rod sorted with a blow-back rig tied to a size 7 Fang X hook and Suffix Camoskin. To this I attached a MS Snowman using the new Nash Snowpots (love them!) threaded on a bag and flicked it to the reed bed. It wasn't long before it was away, in fact it was just as I was tying up a solid bag on the other rod, and after a spirited fight which took me all over I put the net under a cracking little common.

Little Beauty! 

On my bag rod I started off with my favourite colour wafter a Milky Malt, in a small bag loaded with DNA mini-pellets, boilie crumb, hemp oil and some crumbed Soluballs. But after a few aborted takes I decided to change from the wafter on a blowback rig to a single piece of Korda slow sinking maize on a KD rig. The bag had been on the deck for only a matter of minutes before it went with another little common. 

Unfortunately it was time to pack up by this time and it only felt like I had been on the bank for a matter of minutes. But I had two fish on the bank and it had cost me (less ticket price) a grand total of 75p to fish. 

Not a massive amount of bait but it worked! 

Even though it was such a short session I felt I learnt a lot from it, the use of very little bait is something I have always shied away from but now will be something I will use when the situation calls for it. 

Tight lines. Matt.