Pva Bags

[Uncle Fester]

I want to use large hair rigged pellets on my local river and I think its high time I used a more modern approach to loose feeding instead of spraying the area with pellets sprayed from a catapult.

I wanted to fill some pva bags with smaller pellets for loose feed and attach to my reel line, but I'm unsure as to how to do it.

I expect this has been asked before, so can any of you fine folk post me a link please???

The search won't allow me to put pva as the search word!

Cheers,

Unc F

[ayjay]

I only ever use the mesh stuff and just stick it on the hook.

 

 

Search result for "PVA bags"

[Andrew Burgess]

PVA bag is solely for carp fishing but I susspose you can used it on the river.

 

Here a link to it but please bear in mind the the pictures was designed for carp fishing and not river fishing you can adapt the method around a bit.

 

http://fjames.proboards6.com/index.cgi?boa...read=1130011880

Edited November 20, 2005 by Andrew Burgess

[Uncle Fester]

thanks for the replies, chaps. I'll give it a go.

Unc F

[Guest rabbit]

PVA bag is solely for carp fishing but I susspose you can used it on the river.

 

Why would you think that? Carp anglers I dunno

[Brian Carragher]

Of course if youre using a running leger of any sort you could just put a handful of feed into a loose weave pva bag( to let out the air so the bag sinks) ,put your hook length and leger in and tie the whole bag tight with pva string above the weight.

 

The whole lot is then ready for casting,the string and bag will dissolve and your hook bait will be in the middle of your pellets.

 

Makes a bit of a splash but then youre not casting every two minutes as you're putting a big bag of bait down and then waiting for the fish to find it

[Guest rabbit]

Uncle F

 

What I do for my barbel fishing is use a small pva bag, tie off with pva string, secure hook 'thru string and lob out. Simple easy and effective, but don't tell the carpers

 

Have you tried the stringer method? Drilled boilies or pellets thread on to pva string tie to hair rig hook

[Uncle Fester]

Rabbit,

The stringer method sounds ace for the winter when you don't want to overfeed. I just wanted to use up some of the Iams cat food pellets that get otherwise thrown away by the missus when she refills their food bowls. Theory being that they will be smaller and not as fresh as the 6" diameter halibut pellets I will be using on the hair (only joking, I NEVER use more than the 5" ones).

I take it the PVA bags come in a range of sizes? Is the PVA string strong enough to drag through a boilie with a needle, or must you drill them?

Thanks,

Unc F

[zenith10]

pva is not solely for carp fishing its for all fishing its for getting bait around your hookbait

[Guest josh]

I have started putting a small hook (10-14) on a ring and sliding that onto the lead clip with the lead and all I have to do then is tie up the bag and hook it on and cover the hook point with somthing!, its really good! it saves puting the whole rig in the bag, which can be fiddly in freezing conditions! It could be used with small bags aswell. What do you lot think of the idea? Be honest!

 

Ive used pva for roach! its not solely for carp

Edited November 21, 2005 by josh