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Welcome in Tom 1 no limit only limits are your baiting ability 2 depends on time of year 15 mins or so at a start but also depends on method of fishing 3 don’t see why not 4 this time of year ? fish the warmest side, they will most likely be there somewhere anyway.

I think that the original ball pellets were hard compressed with no liquids, where trout pellet shaped fast breakdown pellets get extruded through a machine (gun or rolling table) so must have liquids added. Eggs definitely slow the breakdown time compared to water as water totally evaporates and doesn't bind like eggs.

Is there anywhere on it you could use a clamp of some description ?

Didn't think of that mate, yeah maybe like a leather belt or something to strap over it will pin it down enough to stop it moving. It's a pvc stand that I can screw into the bench, but the extruder just sits ontop freely, so yeah a strap is probably the way to go 🤦‍♂️🤣 The chest freezer is slowly filling up, cooked up 5kg of hemp the other night, doing 5kg of tigers this morning 🤙

Can you not bolt it, clamp it or strap it down somehow ? Seems weird that would be designed so that it was free moving. Good luck though

Might be interesting to try making some fast breakdown baits, especially as I only get to do overnighters usually. Could be a good way of getting them on the feed quicker. That being said I could just buy some fast breakdown pellets and save the faffing about.

I'm yet to try it but I've got a pellet attachment for my extruder and the company recommend using water instead of eggs, adding liquids are fine, then left to dry by air. This is their recommendation though so I can't comment on breakdown times or how effective it is lol. I believe you can use eggs if you want but using water will break down a lot quicker 👍

I've been having a look at pellet makers, basically a mincer I think. So if you wanted to make a fast breakdown pellet would you just not use egg with your base mix/powders etc and just use water and possibly other liquids then just air dry?

Yep I can manage a brilliant pre baiting campaign in my head proper project management level, I do weed raking and all sorts, the reality is often much different. I even look for particles that don't need soaking and boiling these days, even cool box friendly particles seem a hassle 😳

3 night blank on Swan Lake last week - Weds to Sat - arrived at about 10am Was at the right end (back of the wind - wide end) and in a swim that had done fish off the surface days before so felt super confident. Whilst setting up the fish were in front of me right up in the water, felt quite warm and sunny. Didn't bring floater rod (utter noddy) so 2 on adjustable zigs - different depths different colours - no takes, lots of adjustments. 1st night I moved the 2 adjustables right out into the middle following the shows and brought the depths down as the temp dropped. The 3rd rod was a bottom presentation - a lightly baited trap to the left of the swim which is nearest to the shallower water - causeway bank but still in 15 feet. I also baited the middle rod with the mindset that I may change to a bottom presentation at some point if it looked on. 11pm a take on the middle rod (zig) - bend into a fish and seconds later it's off - I reel in another zig - so it was a trailer - got the heart going. 2nd morning - it looked as though I had a fish on both baited patches - though it's hard to tell exactly at distance, but I felt confident all the same. Lad next to me (left) in the causeway swim had a 20 common (only fish out) from his right rod at 08:45 off the bottom - which would be his deepest rod - so that gave me more confidence for my left rod. I gave it right until about 2pm before the rods came in and I walked the dog, had lunch etc. 2nd evening the middle rod was changed to the bottom with a different presentation and both spots were topped up a little. Right rod still on the adjustable but lower overnight than the night before as it had been cold all day, I'd seen much less activity but still felt that I was at the right end of the lake and in a good swim - although it was now freezing. 3rd morning- no activity on the spots its freezing cold all day, lad to my left has a mid 30 common on his left rod at about 9:30 whilst packing up - his shallowest rod by far from a reed bed along the causeway. This now puts me in a panic for the last night, I've got nothing shallower than 15 feet and feel like I won't catch off the bottom - furthermore they don't seem interested in any depth or colour of zig. I decide to stay put for the last night - knowing it looks like a blank, reel in and walk the dog mid afternoon. Passing an empty swim on the causeway of Sandmartin Lake I go for a look, it's absolutely freezing facing the wind, just wanted to see the swim. To my amazement I see about 15 shows about 20 yards out in front of me in this empty swim - doing the total opposite to the Swan lake fish!!! I watch for a while - some nice low 20's - dark looking cracking fish. But then just as I'm about to leave I spot a huge common roll in the margin to my left - is it the 50? The swim to my left has been closed and I stand in there and there is a lovely looking clear strip in the margin just 8 yards from where I saw the common. So now I'm running back to get a bucket 🤣 so much for staying up. The last night was spent on Sandmartin - a margin rod left and right and the adjustable 20 yards out - sadly I don't think the fish came back and when a new arrival started crashing leads into my water that spelt the end of the session and time for home. Last trip till winter onto pastures new - can't wait. What have I learnt: Floater rod from March onwards just in case you hit a freak warn spell Going from a week of warm to a week of freezing it has taken 5-6 days for the fish to adjust and start feeding again - the main targets have both just been out in the 50lb bracket the following week, so I was days out with the timing of the session again. So hard when you just have to book weeks in advance and hope. So the more settled the weather the better in April it seems. Hate April