MY First Day Out fishing With Feeder

[Twist]

Good evening all. Had my first time feeder fishing yesterday with quiver tip. At Goldsworth park lake in Woking. Unofortunatly I caught 0 fish and only had two decent bites the rest were very little nudges. I know somedays you will catch nothing but I feel like as it was my first time I would like to describe what I did and get any hints tips pointers from you guys on here that could improve my prospects

Set up with my new 12ft feeder rod and reel with 6LB line. My hooklength was about 8 inches and I had a block end feeder. Basically what I did for a practice setup recenty picture here:



I did have a bigger feeder on.

For bait I had some basic groundbait I bought from the local tackle shop its named Silver X (I did not add anything to this basic groundbait maybe I shoulf off?) and I also had mixed maggots. I mixed the groundbait up in a bowl with some maggots and then a chucked a couple of balls out to where I was planning to fish for the day. I then filled my feeder up and cast out to the spot, I waited a few minutes then brang it back in everything was still intact and groundbait had gone. I did this about five more times to make sure there was a good amount of groundbait out there. Then I filled up the feeder again with the mix of groundbait and maggots and put one red and one white maggot on the end of my hook and cast out perfectly to the spot and put the rod down on the rests and waited patiently for about 15 minutes then I brang it in and repeat this throughout most of the day. Now during the day doing this the quiver had a few quick nudges to it but it did not seem enough to strike? Maybe I am wrong as I am new to this? But also during the day twice the quiver tip bent round loads! and twice I must of missed the bite as I striked and no luck

I still had an enjoyable day and I think I learnt a fair bit but like I say above is there anything in this description I am doing wrong or anything that can make things better

Thanks for taking your time to read this everyone

[t.j.addzz]

the little nocks on your quivertip could of been some bream, a bigger hook (14?) with a bunch of maggots on might tempted something. everything else looked ok

good luck

could of been any fish knocking the tip not just bream ... what t.j.addzz said a bigger hook or maybe a different bait corn worm ??

what fish are in the lake ??

[Darren]

Hey Twist,

Just a few questions, what size hook were you using and is your hook length line a differant strength to your main line? its hard to tell from the picture but they look the same to me. You should have a lighter hooklength than main line. This way if you get caught on the bottom you wont lose your feeder and you will tend to get more bites on a light line as they are less detectable to fish.

Darren.

[Carpychris]

put a shot where u want it as in below it and dont tie on or put a shot on top then when a fish takes or bite the line will go and the feeder will just stay on bottom till u reel in and the shot just stops it from goin to hook i had same problem did that it works

[Twist]

Originally Posted by Darren

Hey Twist,

Just a few questions, what size hook were you using and is your hook length line a differant strength to your main line? its hard to tell from the picture but they look the same to me. You should have a lighter hooklength than main line. This way if you get caught on the bottom you wont lose your feeder and you will tend to get more bites on a light line as they are less detectable to fish.

Darren.

Hello Darren,

I was using a size 12 hook and hook length was the same as the mainline which is 8lb.

hi twist,
last sunday exact same thing happened to me. was also my first attempt feeder fishing and sounds like i had a similar set up and had a few huge whips round but missed them all. i couldn't help thinking i was doing something wrong, but i was talking to a guy in the neighbouring swim and he just said to keep practising, and getting more accurate with the casting, quicker responses with the striking etc. wouldnt worry about it, these things happen in fishing i spose