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In reply to Post #8
I think they wise up to it pretty quick. Bet 90% of stick mixes have gone before a carp has even seen it, leaving people single bait fishing! 
There’s lots of match waters around me, some with a few bigger carp in them, the waters get battered with groundbait feeders and they rarely come out to it. Why is that?
Just from learning I have little faith in it, non pressured fish or up to 15lb I would consider it if I were to fish these types of water 
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In reply to Post #7
Its interesting that you say you have little confidence in the method for big carp, yet people have caught big carp using a pva bag or a pva stick which once they break down is doing the same thing as a method feeder. I personal like using the method as I found it easier then doing a pva bag mainly because i am crap at casting 😂
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In reply to Post #1
The method was originally used to target match carp, aggressive feeders that would tear straight into a ball of ground bait when it went in the water, hence the short hooklength, sucking it straight in
For big carp in the UK I have little confidence in it but each to their own, I believe it worked well at Horseshoe at one point in when it was popular, ex Barnsley black angler was hammering fish out in it.
As for rules, there ain’t any, learn how the fish respond to it in the water you are fishing is the way forward for me. In 1997 I was invited to fish Drayton reservoir with some match friends and at the time this was FULL of carp averaging 3lb. Tactics at the time were a 14 gram bodied waggled cast as far as you could whilst you constantly fired ground bait balls at it, the carp take the bait and near on pull the rod in, first time I went I banked 34 carp, counted them with castors, and lost as many. I was given two bags of cats and dogs groundbait and a full sack of brown crumb and was told when that has gone you might as well go home. Certainly not my type of fishing but it was an experience. I had two fish on the drop on the method feeder with 2 inch hooklengths too, just attacked the groundbait balls
I have passed that on as one variable, and if it was match sized carp you were after for me it’s a very good tactic when the weather is right. The whole point of it, it is for competitive feeding but you can use it as a single chuck tactic or over a bed of bait etc etc etc
The only problem you may have over long periods of time with heavy lines and range is when the feeder looses weight as the bait comes off, if there’s an undertow it might pull it all over the lake, that’s why you want two groundbait mixes, the one around the feeder, super sticky and binding and then a more active mix compressed around that
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In reply to Post #1
I've said a few times on here before I think.. I had a extremely good season on a club water years ago on the method, which was a simple and effective approach.
Use scalded pellet, make balls up to bait with and put in a bright coloured bottom bait in the centre of each one. feed the swim match style like every 30 mins with a few balls and fish a rod on the method with a matching hook bait in on the same spot. It baits the swim throughout the day and your feeder will look no different to any other ball of bait. At nights i just used to rebait and recast the rod.
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In reply to Post #1
1. Do you prebait or bait up spots with balls of groundbait when fishing the Method?
It depends on what's in the lake and the method for me. I use the method as a attractor not a feeder, so nowadats it's mostly paste. I did used to use it as a feed by including pellets and boilies but haven't done that for a long time. If I want I'll add a boilie stringer to it or add some loose feed boilies.
2. Do you fish the Method over night as well? If yes how dou do that? Recast every now and then?
Yes, but I don't make a effort to get up every hour to rebait, if it goes it goes. I'll typically put extra balls of mix around it, maybe some pellet and definately some boilies and chops
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In reply to Post #3
Based.
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In reply to Post #2
Sneaky 
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In reply to Post #1
I've fished a water that had a spodding ban, I've fished the method all day with regular casting and built up the swim that way and then fished conve tonal rigs over the top at night
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Read through a lot of Method posts here and still wonder about 2 things:
1. Do you prebait or bait up spots with balls of groundbait when fishing the Method? Or what ist your baiting procedure?
2. Do you fish the Method over night as well? If yes how dou do that? Recast every now and then? Bait with balls of groundbait or loose pellets?
Thank you for your advise!
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