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STEVE RINGER’S ULTIMATE FEEDER GUIDE
GO LONG
FOR BIG
BREAM
SUCCESS
Reach for the horizon with Steve’s
distance attack that’s seen him
break records on a favourite venue
I’VE always had something of a love
affair with Ferry Meadows Lakes near
Peterborough ever since I was a kid.
These vast gravel pits hold lots of big
bream that don’t give themselves
up easily, but they offer a handsome
reward to the angler who gets their
approach right.
Thankfully, the lakes are now holding
regular open matches, and these are among
the highlights of my fishing year. Combine
them with two-day mini festivals and big
memorial matches and it’s no surprise that
I’m a regular there throughout the spring
and summer.
One of my favourite feeder matches of all
time was when I broke the match record
for the lakes in a Steel City two-day event
in 2016, a benchmark that has since gone
again but which lives long in the memory as
a special match to treasure.
As a result, I get asked a lot both on
the bank and on social media about my
approach for fishing Ferry, where long and
accurate casting is needed but where the
bream can reach double figures.
I could spend all day talking about this, but
I reckoned it would be quicker if I boiled it
all down to the six key things that form the
bedrock of my bream attack at Ferry.
BRAID
If you’d have asked me five years ago about
using braid for bream then my answer
would have been very different – back then
I never used it, whereas now I wouldn’t fish
without it!
In case you are wondering why I rate braid
so highly there are two real benefits as far as
I can see. First, and perhaps most obviously,
bite detection is massively enhanced. With
braid having literally zero stretch, any
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