Making the most of meat

confidently, so you need to ‘prime the swim’ first,” he said. “I will generally fish another line with pellets for the first hour or so, until the fish are lined up. After that it’s as easy as shooting fish in a barrel,” he joked. And so it was. Within the first hour of fishing on the meat line, Aiden had a highly impressive 50lb of fish in the net. This trend continued for the next couple of hours, before we brought a halt to the proceedings, just in case he emptied the pool! Fishing meat on the drop on a very light rig - so that the hookbait perfectly mimics the loosefeed - may not be rocket science, but it is surprising how many anglers never give it a second thought. “Fish aren’t stupid,” Aiden said. “They know what’s safe and what’s not, so the more we can narrow that knowledge gap by thinking about how we are fishing and presenting a bait, the more we’ll catch.”

Another Moorlands Farm heavyweight falls to Aiden’s carefully-considered meat approach In just an hour of fishing the meat line, Aiden put together a 50lb net of big carp!