Fishing in weed?

[Errrm]

Yeah, I think I get what you are trying to achieve. I think the method would work well in silk weed and your should be able to find those spots with the marker float but canadian pondweed always makes me nervous I like fishing close to beds of it, but worry about putting a bait in to thick beds of it..

 

I would have thought that once the ball settled on the deck, if the canadian weed was deep it would just re-settle around the feeder covering it up and so hide it from the fish. I tend to favour a visual bait that the fish can see, more a confidence thing for me then maybe it making much difference when you consider fish find baits in muddy waters. My worry with a short hook length is that it would end up tangled in the bottom of the weeds. But that's guess work and not based on experience as I use long hook lengths in weed.

 

Hopefully some one who uses method feeders in weed may be able to shed some light on it.

Yeah I agree about the Canadian pond weed, it was half in m mind regarding these questions but more so about the silk weed. The idea with the method feeder would be that the hook stays in the ball of ground bait until a fish starts attacking it and then it hopefully will get eaten before it gets tangled.... I'm not sure this will work as I expect though....

[John S]

Yeah I agree about the Canadian pond weed, it was half in m mind regarding these questions but more so about the silk weed. The idea with the method feeder would be that the hook stays in the ball of ground bait until a fish starts attacking it and then it hopefully will get eaten before it gets tangled.... I'm not sure this will work as I expect though....

 

That is one of the recommended ways of fishing in weed (or out of it). The PVA bag with the baited hook buried inside it (as you queried in your original post) is another tried and trusted method.