feed to acompany paste

[TF_budangler14Participant]

whats the best thing to feed when you are fishing paste – is it micros 4mm pellets, hemp or just the paste – help

[TF_andy cranes mateParticipant]

I always use softened 4mm pellets.

[TF_baitchefParticipant]

Depends on the venue really but i have had success in the past with balling in soaked micros (lots) and fishing over the top, or loose feeding 8mm’s and fishing paste over them.

[Anonymous]

most times it’s better to start off not feeding anything but the paste, if not a lot is happening you may have to feed either micros or 4mm or hemp, whatever your most confident with but normally that means you must continue feeding, if you can get away with it it’s much easier and a LOT less liners if you can feed just the paste i.e. striking it off the hook every couple minutes

[Anonymous]

Lots of different ways of feeding when targeting fish on paste. The feeding depends on the type and size of fish your targeting. There are also, some tricks on some venues where the fish have seen everything. Well almost everything! Main feed baits are 4ml, 6ml, or 8ml pellets, paste or ground bait. Hemp is great but i believe its best to wash the hemp several time under a running tap to rermove lots of the oils and any loose white pith. The carp still love the hemp but reduces line bites and foul hookers on many venues. Corn is a very good feed when using paste on the hook. Also had very good result by feeding cat food on venues where its allowed but been hammered. Paste over the top can be devistating but is often over looked. I never feed micro,s as its like looking for trouble from line bites and foul hookers on many of the venues i fish.

[TF_JohnH]

My local lake has fish like you describe TB. They have seen everything but can be suckers for lumps of soft paste. They love hemp but its a real struggle to catch over it on the deck, uptop is fine! As for paste, I fish it as long as I can and feed lumps of paste identical to my hookbait. I never cup in bait, its best in my opinion to spread it around by throwing the odd little nugget in. I tend to feed short of my line and to both sides. I think piles of bait on a plate is seen as dangerous but random small offerings tend to be accepted.
I think the carp drift out into the lake as bankside disturbance kicks in setting boxes etc. Once peace and quiet returns they seem to drift back onto feed but very quickly spook. I think they can sense line. Anything on the deck I think they see as maybe having a hook in so if conditions allow pellet shallow will outscore paste. This time of year they can be less than 12 inches deep, think about it, who generally fishes there? Carp will feed if they sense little risk and safe bait, what I mean by that is bait they often eat without then spending hours in keepnets!!.

[TF_JohnH]

I should qualify the above post, this is how I would approach a lake with big wise old fish. The best approach for heavily stocked commercials with smaller fish in my view is to use the same tactics as Neil Machin he demonstated in his DVD. I think he was on Heronbrook and fished a paste line down the track. He fed with soaked pellets by hand or catty but not when his rig was in. He made his paste from a mixture of his feed pellets and halibut pellets. He fed about 20 pellets then dropped his rig over and waited for a fish, once hooked he would feed again, land the fish, then rebait and drop his rig in. Basically he was trying to avoid liners from fish taking pellets mid depth whilst his rig was in.
I have used exactly the same tactics on similar lakes and it works.
If you are foul hooking fish you are probably overdoing the feed or feeding too often. One way around this is to fish off your feed.
One final point, conditions have to be right to make paste work, namely it need to be warm, That said some use it all year round but they will scale down to tiny pieces of paste in winter.

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