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CLICK HERE TO FOLLOW THE FACEBOOK PAGE! Tackle Rod Leeda 12ft carp feeder rod Reel Garbolino challenger 5000 size feeder reel Mainline 8lb Maxima Hooklengh 8lb Preston flurocarbon  Bait Groundbait The groundbait was a simple mix of liquidised wholemeal bread with a good helping of 4mm coarse pellets. With the river running faster than usual I dampened the liquidised bread very slightly by dipping my hand in the water and giving the bread a good mix around. This gives the bait enough moister to hold in the feeder without it becoming too sticky. Hookbait  The hookbait was hair rigged bread. I punched around 5 or 6 discs of bread with a small meat punch and then thread them onto a hair rig via a quick stop needle. The quickstop is a really nice way of presenting bread for bigger species and allows you to fish longer casts with the confidence that your hookbait is still attached. The bread discs are very bouyent and tend to float at first so a BB shot a couple of inches from the h...

TO FOLLOW THE BLOG ON FACEBOOK PLEASE CLICK HERE Tackle Rod Leeda xgt 13ft feeder Reel Garbolino 5000 size feeder reel Mainline 6lb Maxima The rig On this session opted for my standard free running feeder rig. To learn how to tie the rig see the link below. Free running river feeder rig Bait Hookbait The hook bait was a tiny piece of bread flake squeezed gently around a size 10 kamasan b611. I squeeze the bread flake around the shank of the hook making sure the hook point is left exposed to hook the fish. Groundbait The groundbait is a simple combination of liquidised bread and hempseed. I drain all the water from the hempseed before adding it to the liquidised bread, This stop it from becoming too sticky and clogging in the feeder. Session With the fish now starting to shoal up for winter in numbers on the Nottingham stretch of the river Trent, I decided it was time to have my first session targeting the big roach. I chose to fish a peg I was familia...

TO FOLLOW THE BLOG ON FACEBOOK PLEASE CLICK HERE The venue In today's article I explore a small tributary of the river Trent in Nottinghamshire. This tiny brook ranges in width from as little as 4ft wide to about 20ft at its widest point and is mostly very shallow. There are a few deeper glides here and there and these are the areas where I expect to find fish. As the brook is connected to the famous river Trent less than a mile down stream it has a good range of species with the most commonplace being chub, minnow and dace. In the months of spring bigger chub up to 3lbs move up the shallow waterway to spawn. They seem to hang around in the summer months before heading back to the deeper water of the main river as it starts to cool down. With it now being early November I expect it will just be a case of seeing what the venue has to offer and any big fish would be a bonus. Tackle Rod A light 13ft match rod with a soft action tip. A shorter rod between 10 and 12ft would be sufficien...

TO FOLLOW THE BLOG ON FACEBOOK PLEASE CLICK HERE Tackle choice Rod Vintage Daiwa harrier s 13ft match rod. These old match rods are excellent for fishing the stick float and waggler on rivers having a lot of flexibility in the tip of the rod to absorbe the lunges of bigger fish when using light lines and avoid hook pulls on smaller fish. Reel Vintage Shakespeare matchwinner closed face reel. An excellent choice for River fishing allowing line to be taken freely off the spool as the float trots down exploring the swim with the advantage of the enclosed face stopped any wind present from causing tangled around the spool. Mainline 3lb monofilament. A good all-round choice for this style of fishing all year round with the option to drop down to 2.6lb in winter if fishing becomes harder. Hooklenght 2.5lb flurocarbon. This is about the heaviest hooklenght material I'd use for trotting on a river for smaller species dropping down as low as 1.6lb in the colder months. Float 5 n...

CLICK HERE TO FOLLOW THE FACEBOOK PAGE! Tackle Rod Leeda xgt 13ft power feeder fitted with a 2oz tip Reel Garbolino challenger feeder reel (designed for distance casting) Line 8lb Maxima Hooklengh Preston fluorocarbon 8lb (The stiffness and abrasion resistant qualities make this perfect for those big fish on Rivers) Hook Kamasan B911 in various size 10 Bait Groundbait Plain brown crumb. Cheap and cheerful. Bream are not choosey when it comes to what they eat. The groundbait is there to create an area for the fish to feed over and to carry the loose feed. Pellets 4 and 6mm pellets. Bream love pellets so they are al noways in my bait bag. Pellets keep for ages before going off so they are easy to keep and one of the cheapest baits out there. Sweetcorn One of my favourites both for loose feeding and hookbaits. Sweetcorn is dirt cheap and bream love it. It is usually my go to hookbait if I want a quick bite as it stands out well on the bottom with its bright yellow colour and is easily pic...

CLICK HERE TO FOLLOW THE FACEBOOK PAGE! Tackle Rod Leeda carp match 12ft feeder rod with a 1oz tip. An old rod but excellent for the job. It has a lovely soft action and ideal for casting small feeders when the river is low and not got a lot of pace in it. Reel Garbolino challenger feeder reel. The distance aspect wouldn't be needed for today's session but a lovely big reel with plenty of cranking power making it very easy to fish with and gives me the opportunity to fish longer if needed. Line 6lb Maxima. This might seem a bit over gunned to some but with constant casting I always prefer to go a bit heavier due to the durability of a thicker diameter line. Hooklengh 4lb flurocarbon Again this may seem on the heavy side but again it's more durable than lighter flurocarbons that can be prone to line twist with repeated casting. I used a hooklengh of around 2ft on this session I would usually use 3 foot but with the river having very little flow on it I wanted to keep my hook...