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Instant attraction very often means quick bites!
02 Thread a short piece of anti-tangle tubing onto your line
04 Push the anti-tangle tubing into the feeders tail rubber
05 Using a Grinner Knot tie on a size 8 ring swivel next
06 Finally attach a short rig like this one to the ring swivel
The new Korda Bait-Up feeders are perfect for the job
Bright and buoyant - for me these Toppers form the ideal Method feeder fishing hookbait
02 Start by tipping some groundbait into a round bucket or bowl
03 Additional baits can now be added suck as Sweetcorn plus liquid
04 Response Pellets will also add texture breaking down in the mix
05 Crushed boilies add some larger food items to attract the carp
06 Mix all the dry ingredients together and begin to add the liquids
07 The mix will be quite dry at first as you slowly build up the mix
08 Grind the mix between your hands like this for an even texture
09 Add liquid until the mix will bind but then easily revert to crumb
Spombing a similar mix to that around your feeder can work too
01 Begin by pushing the weighted side the feeder into a handful of mix
02 Squeeze and compress the mix around this part of the feeder next
03 Take the rig over the empty side of the feeder and add a layer of mix
METHOD FEEDER CARPING! Posted by John Kneebone
Mainline's John Kneebone explains why this quick and simple method needs to be part of your approach...
INSTANT ATRACTION!

HOW TO SET-UP THE METHOD FEEDER






QUICK AND SIMPLE!


HOW TO MAKE YOUR METHOD MIX









TOP TIP - MIX YOUR LIQUIDS FIRST

RIGS AND TACKLE


HOW TO LOAD THE METHOD FEEDER




TACTICS

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- Section 1. INSTANT ATRACTION!
- Section 2. HOW TO SET-UP THE METHOD FEEDER
- Section 3. QUICK AND SIMPLE!
- Section 4. HOW TO MAKE YOUR METHOD MIX
- Section 5. TOP TIP - MIX YOUR LIQUIDS FIRST
- Section 6. RIGS AND TACKLE
- Section 7. HOW TO LOAD THE METHOD FEEDER
- Section 8. TACTICS
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John Kneebone
Angling Consultant, Writer, Photographer & Videographer
A family holiday to the Lake District is where I first found my inspiration to fish, after watching a match angler catch a mixed bag of silver fish and what seemed to me at the time an enormous beast of a perch.
From then on I was fishing whenever I could, which being surrounded by th... Find out more
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