Swim feeders

[Guest @Winter@]

Anyone ever used a swim feeder and what have you put in them. Does anyone find them beneficial. Anyone used them for whitings?

[Elton]

Winter,

 

I tried this one a while back:

 

http://www.anglersnet.co.uk/reviews/fatalattractor.htm

 

They work, but you have to sacrifice distance and put up with picky bites.

[shrek]

Can't say its ever occured to me for sea fishing. I would also be interested for news from anyone who has found that it works.

[Toerag]

My mate has used them with shirvy in for grey mullet, and my father-in-law broke the british record for golden-grey mullet this summer using freshwater groundbait in one.

[MJB]

Before I became obsessed with the fly rod I used to fish for Flounders with a coarse feeder rod and used block-end swimfeeders stuffed full of chopped Ragworm . Whether it helped I don't know, but I did catch plenty of fish.

[chesters1]

tried donkeys years ago with swimfeeders(the old fashioned tube ones with few holes) stuffed with sponge soaked in pilchard oil ,plenty of bites but no extra fish ,i suspect they were attracted to the swimfeeder rather than the hook ,tried putting a hook on the swimfeeder and caught mostly crabs ,they certainly cut back on distance and spray all and sundry with fish oil on a calm day you could spot the oily patch if you missed the splash ,i would think injected baits would work better but unfortunatly having to strip OUTSIDE the tent after "advice" from the wife that my "concoctions" were eye watering tends to curb my experimentation

having had squid (special small ones from local tackle shop ,rather than the 25p each ones at folkestone ) mackeral and ragworm festering in a coolbox WITHOUT electric for 4 days tends to make smell of my "concoctions" less noticable (to me) and could be discribed as "gut wrenching" rather than a slight fishy smell

Edited January 5, 2006 by chesters1

[maximo]

tried last year in a eel match and it seemed to work but could have been coincidence.i had fresh crab bait and mashed crab legs and lug in the feeder.dont know about whiting

[maidstonemike]

When fishing a tide up, If I catch fish, such as whiting, I clean them as I go and bury the head and guts in the beach a I move up. I think this attracts fish scavenging close in. I did this when I caught the big Cod.

It must present a scent trail downtide right along the beach.

[Ryford]

I can't think of a single reason why it shouldn't work. In fact, given the level of baiting up that the freshwater boys do in still water, I am inclined to think that there are even more benefits to sea angling.

 

Getting round to doing it and never going fishing without is quite different of course. I do groundbait for mullet and gars though.

 

andyR

[Salar]

Following on from the salted baits thread a few months ago I have recently been trying neat salt in a feeder, and I have definately had more bites on the salty rod than others. I used a small plastic cannister (like a film cannister), with a small hole drilled top and bottom. Fill with cheap dishwasher salt (which is pure salt) and it lasts for 20 minutes between re-baits, even in a fast tide. Blood is salty, and fish are supposed to be attracted by the higher concentration of salt in the water. The new generation of US soft baits have salt impregnation for the same reason. Unfortunately I lost the cannister last trip but one and forgot to take another one down to the boat so experiments have been curtailed.