FEEDING
If you are not casting then you need to be feeding at all times. I’ll kick off the swim with several pouches of 6mm or 8mm hard pellets to create a target area to fish over. I then regularly fire in more pellets as often as possible, normally before I cast out, once the float has landed and while I am unhooking a fish in the landing net.
The amounts can be just four or five pellets at a time on hard days or a much bigger pouchful on really good days. Always carry a variety of pellet sizes so that you can tailor them to the day.
For example, if the wind gets up, a 6mm pellet won’t reach so I’ll change to an 8mm.