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STEVE RINGER’S ULTIMATE FEEDER GUIDE
FISH THE
METHOD
FEEDER
Go positive for a big net of carp
ANGLERS who fish commercial
waters for carp will be familiar with
the Method feeder, a very positive
way of catching carp and F1s
throughout the year but one which
I believe works best in warmer
weather when fish are at their most
active – and hungry!
In fact, the Method was the first style of
feeder that I used for carp way back in the day
on places such as Castle Ashby Lakes, fishing
with massive Emstat and Kobra models that
featured a central brass stem as the weight and
which were all elasticated.
This was the set-up I used to win the Fish
O’Mania final in 1998 at Hayfield Lakes.
Today, though, we now have the pick of inline
or elasticated feeders and a range of sizes and
weights to suit the water we’re fishing, but one
thing remains the same.
The Method is very positive and very
attacking, letting you get plenty of feed into
the swim over a session, making it ideal for
catching lots of hungry carp.
W H E N T O U S E I T
For catching big weights of carp in
warmer weather when lots of feed is
needed to hold the fish in the swim.
W H Y U S E I T ?
The Method feeder allows you to
place the hookbait in among the feed
at long range so that when a carp
breaks open the ball of goodies, it
finds your hookbait immediately.
H O W T O T I E I T
1 Thread feeder on to the mainline.
2 Take the line and create a 6ins
twizzled loop that the feeder can
slide down with ease.
3 Within this twizzled length tie in a
Guru Speed Bead, trapping it at the
end of the twizzled loop.
4 Run the feeder down the line so that
it sits against the bead.
5 Now attach your hooklink and hook
on to the crook of the bead.
Hook
That’s a Guru QM1
every time – it’s the
perfect hair-rigging
hook for carp, in sizes
14 or 16.
Hooklink
Most fisheries insist
of a minimum of a
4ins hooklink and I
fish with 0.17mm Guru
N-Gauge.
Speed Bead
This acts as a buffer
and lets me change
hooklinks (and so use
different hookbaits) in
a matter of seconds.
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