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found myself to adopt a
mobile approach in autumn,
fishing for bites into patches
o f b u b b l i n g, o r s h o w i n g f i s h .
If you can eventually pin them
d o w n i n a r e a w i t h l o n g e v i t y,
t h a t ’s w h e n I ’ l l b e g i n t o
apply more bait (usually bits
and pieces and naturals) but
only when I’m sure the area
is right. Until then, I’m happy
to keep mobile and hunt
them down, fishing simple
‘one bite’ tactics, in which
golf-ball sized mesh bags are
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perfect for this.
An attractive hookbait, a
few crumbed boilies and a
palmful of white maggots is a
f i r m f a v o u r i t e o f m i n e. O n c e
the bag melts, the maggots
w i l l d i s p e r s e s l i g h t l y, c r e a t i n g
an eye-catching patch of food
t h a t o f t e n c a r p c a n ’t r e s i s t .
Given the choice between
fishing with single hookbaits
o r s m a l l b a g s , I ’d c h o o s e
the bags every day of the
week, you just have to be
m i n d f u l o f w h e r e y o u ’r e
