Jamie Hughes explains three of the most common pellet waggler fishing mistakes that he see's regularly on the bank. Jamie runs through waggler choice, how to feed and pellet waggler tackle that he uses to catch more fish.
Extremely helpful tips, just about the line I cannot afford scaling too much down. Pellet waggler is rather size selective on most of my Italian venues because carps are less spooky about. A short diameter line should stretch after few catches causing tangles to the tip. Where possible I switch to braid.
Great tips Jamie and i am a great fan. For you being sponsored and having your contacts you have probably not paid for a real in a long time and can have several reels with different line on them. For the average angler we have to try and find a compromise on line with having 2-3 reels at most.
What landing net is that ? I bought a Maver mvr commercial 50x40 but it’s not very deep. Those matrix nets look far better very deep. Even bream nearly jumped out when I was sliding the landing net handle back ! Thanks
Jamie uses the same line for carp of all sizes! But would possibly set up around snags. Although most commercial fisheries seems to remove most of these!
Looks like a 12ft waggler rod. Match rods tend not to have a test curve. But most companies make short 10/11ft pellet waggler rods specifically for this type of fishing. Any float rod will do for this type of fishing. I have a 10ft N gauge waggler rod and I've had carp from 1lb to 20lb+ on it. Before I had that rod, I used an 80-100g casting weight feeder rod with the stiffest tip (3oz). Casting is difficult though due to the eye spacing and the K guides. Reverse K guides on a float rod help you when casting. The shorter waggler rods aren't to be sniffed at, but some prefer a longer float rod, purely because casting a deeply plumbed hook length is easier. This type of fishing though, you shouldn't really be fishing anything over 3 foot. It's shalla fishing. Hope this helps.
