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scaley&dark

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#7 10 Jun 2026 at 3.12pm

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Ignore it. Do you own thing. Simply Social Sheep mentality ..

that's the method mate, small baits, everyone get's on it, consequently that/those BIG fish will 99% of time get caught on the approach because 99% of the anglers are using it.
If it is a big fish without a deformed/parrot/unusually small mouth it will eat any size bait it wants to pick up.

Think of giant two tone in conningbrook, rich in naturals, didn't need bait ... yes it liked it's sweetcorn and maize, but it also came out on boilies. Same again with 'the Mere'.

mark1009

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#6 10 Jun 2026 at 11.20am

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I've caught 8 0z rudd on a snowman rig with size 4 hook, I've lost count of how many roach I've caught on size 6 hooks. Don't mention the B word, you know they will find you.

JamieWest

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#5 10 Jun 2026 at 11.13am

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These things are self fulfilling. Syndicate syndrome, everyone starts using the same thing then all the fish come out to those methods. 13mm pop ups on spinner rigs are probably used by 90% of anglers now.

Andy__C

Posts: 1853

#4 10 Jun 2026 at 11.01am

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I think its a juggle with matching size to what the carp might mostly eat from naturals, which tend for the main to be smaller (not many 20mm + natural food sources around!) - and larger/older carp may have learnt that this is a safer food...

vs...

Small baits being able to be picked up by eeeeeevery other thing that swims and you getting battered by bream, roach etc.

Mad how many roach can hang themselves on a size 4 hook nowadays!

OatcakeFred

Posts: 1446

#3 10 Jun 2026 at 10.43am

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I've always preferred smaller hookbaits and freebies really. I just think they mimic what they naturally eat, small natural items. So, small pop ups and wafters, and if I'm fishing margins or using the bushwacker, I tend to feed chops instead of full boilies. Don't use particles very often as it's a bit too much like hard work, preparing, boiling, having the wife moaning at the smell, spodding, .....

Greekskii

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#2 10 Jun 2026 at 9.58am

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Probably something to do with the feed being used and the smaller baits being used on top of it.

Smashing_It

Posts: 1069

#1 10 Jun 2026 at 9.14am

Started on a new syndicate back in January, and I was speaking to a couple of members who have been on a while and one of them said one of the 'named' fish doesn't come out to 'big baits', I asked him what he meant and he said the last 5 or 6 publicised captures of said fish had been caught on either single fake corn/maize or 13 millers.

I've heard of fish picking and choosing what they eat, I think a few notable anglers have mentioned it before on their videos/podcasts, but to only be caught on 'small baits' seems a stretch to me.

Is this just coincidence or is there more to it?

Can they honestly tell the difference of a few mm? Surely not!

The guys may well have just been relaying information they've been told, I've no reason to doubt them, but to me it sounds like one of them things that has just stuck within the syndicate and no one has questioned it, and likelihood is the more it stuck the more people are using these 'small baits' and therefore increase the chances of picking said fish up on them anyway!


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