right let me show you the pellet rig I'm using today these are the pellets I've
got these are flat profile I don't know whether you can see that in the sunshine
they're called elips pellets now these are the old-style elips that have a
flat profile I've still got some left they don't actually make them like this
anymore they're now normal pellet shaped like
this so I've not got a lot of these elips pellets left and I'm just using
up what I have got and then once they're all gone I'll be using these now these
elips pellets lend themselves ideally to super gluing either side of a hair you
know they're dead easy to do so
line them up
like so, get some superglue
nice dab of glue, that's my hair and the other pellet will just sit on top like so
squash them together give it a minute or so, in fact they're ready now as you can see
one hook bait
now put the glue to one side the rig I'm using today I've got my superglued pellets on
either side okay that's a size 10 Drennan super specialist old as the
hills these hooks but absolutely rock-solid
okay so size 10 the line is 10lb Drennan supplex and it's roughly very
long 4 foot long and at the other end of that 4 foot is my feeder
that's a guru cage feeder 2 ounces I don't need a lot of weight to hold
bottom today errr the waters down there's been no rain so the rivers on the bones
of its backside at the moment and I don't need a big heavy feeder plus I'm
only really fishing in the margins so the feeder is just running there's a bead
on the line there feeders running and then there's a swivel and a quick link
there so it can change hook link and as well as fishing with this rig I'll have
another rig exactly the same with a pellet already glued on so I can just
wind in unclip this rig and clip a new one on and cast out again and I haven't
got to sit there making a new hook bait so that's basically it for my rig
the reason I've got it four foot long if you were wondering is because it is errr
where's the other end of it there it is really really long errr when the feeder is on
the bottom and the lines coming up from the bottom to the rod tip that's the
spook point so if there's any barbel in the swim that line coming up off the bottom
there will be what scares them so I like the bait quite away from the feeder
apart from the fact that the feeder will get washed out and the bait will get
washed downstream it keeps my hook bait quite away from
that line that lifts off the bottom to the rod tip and that's what I'm looking
for that way hopefully I won't spook any barbel that come in and start feeding
and hopefully the feeds washed out and washed downstream slightly my
hook bait will be right smack bang in the middle of it so that's my rig and my
tactics for today I've already fed my swim with about 20 feeder fulls I
unclip the rig and just just use the feeder I just kept filling it and dropping
it in and I've used up a
whole bucket, a bait box full of ground bait so I've mixed another one that's
going to be what I fish with so I'll get this feeder loaded get this bait in the
water see if I can catch a barbel
fluorocarbon pellet rig for catching river severn barbel