bed or no bed of bait

[GRAND_BQ]

is it better on a 75 acre water with no features to create a large bed of bait or keep it small and tight???

[Norfolkboy]

That's a tough question for me as I don't fish waters even nearly that big, the biggest I fish is 22 acres.

If I was fishing it though, I'd probaly spod in quite a lot of bait but keep it within a tight are of say 6ft, you can then position baits on top of it without too many worries.

What is the stocking level like?

[GRAND_BQ]

its stocked well with bream and carp it has its good and bad days tho my best out of it is 17.3lb but they run to 32

[PlanktonBoy]

Go for a big method feeder and i reckon you will find out, if you start to get em attacking the feeder ball it in lol

[Fishing Forum Admin]

Must admit I do not fish waters that big but what I do is - target baiting ( just made that name up )


Basics are think of a target and it rings

Outer ring very light baiting and then increase as you go to the center. As dan say the 6/8 foot is were the main bait is loaded

The idea is that if a fish is swimming 30 foot away then I want it to notice the bait and then track inwards

I do this because I have seen carp change there swim pattern if they find a free bit of food

Does it work well think so but you can never tell

[carp109]

Bed, always.