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i really only fish a small local day ticket place and in fairness whilst learning the ropes with all the boilies and different rigs when starting out i just felt i couldn't get anything right. strangely i have found on this water using random stuff like hotdogs or spam covered in siracha works an absolute treat when most people are lucking out using a boilie only approach. i do find that using solid bags filled with a mix of maggots, sweetcorn and a bit of groundbait also help and have just started trying maggot clips as a hair stop and that actually worked which surprised me

I used to fish for barbel with a quarter of a tin of spam! (The photo is only a sixth of a tin) The first time you cast it out, you feel like a complete noddy and can't believe it's going to work. I also caught plenty of chub as well. The photo is a genuine dropped run - you normally fish the bail arm open and allow a few seconds for the fish to get the bait into it's gob properly.