4mm is the max you should you use on a method. Any bigger like 6 and 8mm and the pellets won’t bind together well at all and will just fall off on the cast most of the time.

That goes for any type of feeder really i guess.

Again they just don’t stick together well at all. I would much rather use the pellet that i use now, micros with 4mm’s on the method.

You would have to leave the pellets in water for a good few hours i reckon for them to go completely soft too as they are big and hard (nobody take that the wrong way lol)

I’ve tried using 6mm expander round a method and didn’t have much luck with them sticking. I can only imagine 8mm pellet would be worse.

Try the teabag if you want to use bigger pellets.

That’s what i did with the 6mm expanders in the end, made them into a paste ~clap

Adding a few 6mm pellet should work fine but just don’t over do it. The percentages you just said would be spot on imo.

I find a mix of roughly 75% micro’s and 25% 4mm’s work very well when they are sprinkled with groundbait. I now use atomic cloud on them instead of my favoured groundbait mojo by bait-tech.

It’s just something different to what most people use. Using groundbait gives the pellet a different colour to the normal white/light brown when soaked. Atomic cloud is a fish magnet.

Adding the groundbait leaves a cloud in the water as well just like atomic cloud so potentially attracts more fish, that’s the idea anyway. And yes the groundbait does help to bind the pellets together.

As you said groundbait attracts silvers but this time of year that’s exactly what you want to do. As carp can be a bit wary of feeding confidently in the colder weather when they see silvers feeding they know it’s safe. Known fact.

That’s why when you are fishing for silvers on the pole for example after a while you usually get a lump move in because it has noticed the silvers feeding confidently so it believes it will be safe to feed too.

Even using pellets on the method feeder still won’t avoid the silver fish, you may have to look into using a bigger or harder bait so the silver won’t take it ~think

as written getting big pellet round a method don’t work…tried it,but it does work in a grip mesh feeder like the drennan ones, another thing is you can do with a feeder is plug/sandwhich the pellet with bit of g/bait to stop the pellet coming out on the cast..and either a 8/10 mm pellet or boilie for hook bait.