THE TWO-LOOP TRICK FOR BAITING UP

Use this crafty little hack to find bait up your spots in half the time. You'll also travel lighter and fish more efficiently!

INDING and baiting up a spot before fishing over it can prove to be a time-consuming affair.

FTraditionally, it involves the use of two rods - one fitted with a marker float set-up, the other with a Spomb or spod.

There’s a far quicker, more productive way of doing this, however, that requires just one rod and which allows you to take care of plumbing and baiting up at the same time!

By attaching just a lead to the line, loop-to-loop style, you can make a few casts around the swim until a suitable spot is found, then ‘clip’ the line up, make note of a far-bank marker, and wind in. Using distance sticks, you can then count out how many ‘wraps’ the ‘spot’ is from the bank. It’s then a simple case of removing the lead and replacing it with your spod or Spomb to bait up accurately.

But here comes the hack, courtesy of the hauling machine that is Tom Maker. When you’ve tied your big loop for the loop-to-loop method, tie another, much smaller loop in the end.

This makes undoing the loop an absolute doddle when you want to switch from lead to Spomb and back again. The smaller loop sits up almost like a tag and it’s easy to grab and pull to open up the larger loop.

It’s such a simple hack, yet one that slashes the amount of time spent faffing about at the start of a session... and it causes far less disturbance too!