Coarse experiment

Well I went out and got myself some decent ground bait - Dynamite Baits 'Steve Ringer' carp method mix and Sonubaits 'TigerFish', and even bought some standard feeder pellets. Now Ive always stuck to either a fluffy GB mix for feeders, or a stodgy mix for method, but Ive never tried what I always see in the magazines etc, and that's dampened pellets on a flat feeder, so I thought id give it a try chasing carp again locally as I only had a few hours.
Mike couldn't make it so I was alone.

So, I fished from 4pm till 9pm, in the same place, in the same way as the previous trip, but with dampened pellets instead of method mix. The pellets proved to be wonderful to work with. Simple, clean, fast and easy. Fill bait tub, just cover them with water, wait 5 Min's, done. Fantastic. And of course you can flavour them so simply by just adding some liquid flavour to the water. Why on earth hadn't I tried this before ??? The only problem I had was the pellets not 'quite' binding to the flatbed very well, so I had to press some around the flatbed to keep it all on in a kind of ball. I reckon I just need to practice getting the wetness right, plus I was doing it by hand, as Id forgotten to bring the feeder mould I got free off Angling Times - doh !
Well, I pretty much blanked except for one snotty skimmer (on white plastic 10mm boillie).
What happened? Was it just the whimsical fishing fairy? I got a hunch its because the method mix I used last time had fish flakes and salt in it and that really turned the carp on, but tonight was just pellets, so didn't have the same kick to it.

A beautiful evening and very relaxing, but I learnt a lot. I'm thinking of combining the Method with these pellets, and find a happy medium between damp pellet feeder fishing for small stuff and stiffer method balls for carp.
I had loads of knocks and liners, so the fish were there and moving about, but just no takes.
I primarily fished plastic corn, tried a white plastic boillie, then changed to glow corn at night.
I'll definitely be using pellets again, even if used in conjunction with GB. I look forward to trying the other GBs I bought too :-)

On another note, I used the Enterprise Tackle UV light on my glow corn, and can heartily recommend it, as it made them glow like crazy and for longer then a normal torch can, and only took about 15 seconds.