Main line 0.16, 0.14 hooklength, something like a size 14 B560 hook.
Make them on top 5’s but leave it a bit longer so you can trim it accordingly as some sections are a bit deeper than others.
Don’t have too shorter line between elastic and float like i’ve seen some do.
3 gram floats, olivette around 3 foot from the hook, 3 no 8 droppers. Some guys fish a float length on the bottom but I don’t think it’s enough, I have 2 rigs one about 18inches on and another 3 foot on.
Elastic I use maver 1.4 dia ( think thats a 10) quite tight.
If it’s still and sunny you might catch shallow so 0.7 to 1gram rigs between 6 foot and 10 foot deep
I mix 5 kilo’s of groundbait up, ( Sensas river and superbremes or similar, doesn’t really matter, make it a bit wet so it stays down and put half a bottle of aromix in to deaden it
Put a pint of casters in and a handfull of corn and chuck most of it in at about 10.5 metres, keep a bit back for the feeder.
Then stick a section on and put a few baitdroppers of maggots on that line.
Then you have to work out whether they want to be on your stuff or past it.
Play around with baits, 3 dead maggs, caster and maggot etc.
if it’s hard keep your feed tight, I use a kinder pot and one of those sprinkle things so you can feed a couple of times. Don’t keep chucking balls of groundbait through the day cos you’ll get plagued by foulhookers.
If you are on pegs 301 to 330 it is worth feeding a 5 metre line and also on pegs 363 to 372, wouldn’t bother elsewhere.
Put a bomb rod up for fishing just past your stuff and sometimes a small maggot feeder works.
Anything else give us a shout.
Are you pleasure fishing or on the festivals in April?
glen worthington.
