Pellet Slider – with Andy Neal

We all know how fruitful the pellet waggler can be. As most of us can attest, though, the days of turning up, lashing in pellets and catching boatloads with this method are long gone. As the carp at many venues get wise, it’s becoming ever harder to get a brown envelope from this method alone. That’s certainly the case at most of the venues I go, anyway.

Now, before you turn the page, thinking: ‘I’ve heard it all before’, let me share my thoughts on a development that I’m sure will put more fish in your net. This is no miracle or anything new, just a little secret that will probably get me into a lot of trouble with the boys in the know!

Before I get on to that, we need to understand why this method is becoming harder and Darren Cox hit the nail on the head in his column some months ago. He explained how smaller pellets and floats were now being used to maximise the potential of the swim, as the fish were shying away from the bigger pellets and the large splashes of big, buoyant wagglers.

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Article originally appeared in Match Fishing Magazine – July 2011.