5 BIG CHANGES

It’s unlikely that you’ll be able to stick to exactly the same attack from the first to the last minute and continuously catch. If bites dry up you need to make a tweak to get the fish back on the feed. Pemb has five tricks up his sleeve to help keep the tip going round:

1.LOOSEFEED

“I always add the loosefeed to my groundbait as I go along as opposed to mixing it all in at the start. I can then experiment with what is working. If, for example, I am putting lots of casters in the feeder but bites stop, I add more chopped worm.”

2. FEEDER SIZE

“Reducing or increasing the size of the feeder will introduce different amounts of loosefeed. A tiny two square high feeder can often provide enough bait to get things going again.”

3. GROUNDBAIT

“Making your groundbait slightly wetter can have a major impact. If your groundbait is too dry it will explode out of the feeder when it hits the water which could pull fish off the deck and away from your hookbait.”

4. HOOKBAITS

“Have a variety of hookbaits and rotate between them when bites stop. Worms, maggots and casters are a top trio on big reservoirs.”

5.HOOKLENGTHS

“Changing the length of my hooklength has caught me lots of extra fish in the past. If the fish have come close to the feeder and your hooklength is 2ft then you need to shorten it to get the hookbait closer to the fish. On the flip side, extending it can help if the fish have backed off.”