IF the venue sees alot of pellet all year round then you can bet that the skimmers will be happy to take that as a hookbait. Have two lines going one where you feed small expander and well ground-up expander slop/soup. On the other feed either next to nothing or put in two to five balls of groundbait in a line depending on conditions.
If it’s really towing and you have some good ripple, lets say to the left, then I would put the line of g/b balls in on the left hand swim. The loose feed line then to the 2 o’clock position.
What you do is fish the right hand line with a ‘laid in to the left’ rig allow the rig to inch along in the tow holding back every few inches or feet (depends on speed of tow). Do this until you are over the g/b line and continue past it by several feet. Two different rigs are useful one that bimbles just at bottom but that wafts up when you hold back.
If you see the float hesitate you either have a holdup bite or you have caught some debris, lifting into it will tell you which. Remember where this happens to either be ready for a fish or draw your float through.
The other is double bulked with the last shot of the bottom bulk just on bottom. The bites will either go straight down or more likely the float will come up. Be prepared to hold this second rig still against the tow more than the searching rig.
If you don’t have tow or very little then you have to search the arc yourself. Keep an eye on the water if it is calm enough you may see when the fish turn up by the small fizzing ripples, fish through these as the fish will be moving in and out of it.
On more natural fed waters I would keep to more natural baits such as dead pinkies and chopped worm. Double red maggot, worm head caster….. but the technique applies.
Alex_Ray.
