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<blockquote data-quote="Silverfisher" data-source="post: 2913057" data-attributes="member: 23842"><p>It’s virtually impossible to avoid bleak on the Thames whilst the water temperatures are still in the teens. Best way is obviously to feed and fish hemp/tares etc as whilst you’ll still get the odd in bleak on it literally is like a couple to a handful of them a session so bearable. With baits like maggot and caster it’s about damage limitation you simply aren’t avoiding many unless you get incredibly lucky which might happen like once a season. Damage limitation methods are things like just balling groundbait and bait droppering with tops the occasional pouch of loose feed (hemp not maggots or casters!) if float fishing or if feeder fishing using a multi maggot or caster hookbait on a short hook length or big baits like worm or bread to a packed that won’t deposit any feed on the drop. Feeding them off certainly won’t work maybe unless you have a mega budget although if employing one of the damage limitation methods you can sort of feed another spot to keep them away a bit.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes exactly that. There’s no way here I could feed the amount of bait you do as whilst a trott might be half the distance for me as you it’ll probably take twice the time so even if feeding every trot you can’t physically feed as much. Plus if you put more in the catapult to feed more as there’s not much flow or depth to move the bait on you tend to just end up messing up the peg by either feeding off the fish or bringing them too high up in the water column or too far upstream. The key is finding the sweet spot by feeding to the bites to get them regularly and in the right part of the peg and the amount to feed often fluctuates through a session let alone session to session. Sometimes you’ll have to feed a little more to keep the fish coming other times you have to cut it down. I’ve said before many times I’ve had near identical nearly back to back sessions in the same place maybe times and fed like a pint and a half on one and well over a couple pints on the other for pretty similar results. Plus I might feed uniformly on one and in peaks and troughs on the other or say more in one half of the session than the other or any other fraction.</p><p></p><p>By comparison on quicker rivers it seems to be a case of just keep chucking it in as a lot of the bait is in the next county before you know so have to get a lot in just to put some in front of the fish <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😂" title="Face with tears of joy :joy:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f602.png" data-shortname=":joy:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silverfisher, post: 2913057, member: 23842"] It’s virtually impossible to avoid bleak on the Thames whilst the water temperatures are still in the teens. Best way is obviously to feed and fish hemp/tares etc as whilst you’ll still get the odd in bleak on it literally is like a couple to a handful of them a session so bearable. With baits like maggot and caster it’s about damage limitation you simply aren’t avoiding many unless you get incredibly lucky which might happen like once a season. Damage limitation methods are things like just balling groundbait and bait droppering with tops the occasional pouch of loose feed (hemp not maggots or casters!) if float fishing or if feeder fishing using a multi maggot or caster hookbait on a short hook length or big baits like worm or bread to a packed that won’t deposit any feed on the drop. Feeding them off certainly won’t work maybe unless you have a mega budget although if employing one of the damage limitation methods you can sort of feed another spot to keep them away a bit. Yes exactly that. There’s no way here I could feed the amount of bait you do as whilst a trott might be half the distance for me as you it’ll probably take twice the time so even if feeding every trot you can’t physically feed as much. Plus if you put more in the catapult to feed more as there’s not much flow or depth to move the bait on you tend to just end up messing up the peg by either feeding off the fish or bringing them too high up in the water column or too far upstream. The key is finding the sweet spot by feeding to the bites to get them regularly and in the right part of the peg and the amount to feed often fluctuates through a session let alone session to session. Sometimes you’ll have to feed a little more to keep the fish coming other times you have to cut it down. I’ve said before many times I’ve had near identical nearly back to back sessions in the same place maybe times and fed like a pint and a half on one and well over a couple pints on the other for pretty similar results. Plus I might feed uniformly on one and in peaks and troughs on the other or say more in one half of the session than the other or any other fraction. By comparison on quicker rivers it seems to be a case of just keep chucking it in as a lot of the bait is in the next county before you know so have to get a lot in just to put some in front of the fish 😂 [/QUOTE]
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