Sea Fishing Bait/Scent Feeder, has anyone tried one?

[solaralarms4u]

Sea Fishing Bait/Scent Feeder, has anyone tried one?
Hi all, a bit new to all this Forum stuff, so thought best if I posted here as well.
I have for some time been playing around, modifying, experimenting and developing my own home made “all in one sea fishing bait/scent feeder grip leads in both Uptide and Breakaway”, with very interesting results!!!!!.
Anyone who has used or is using a swim/bait feeder in sea water or wanted to know all about it is welcome to contact me as more than happy to enlighten you with my idea’s.
Will try and post some pics soon, Looking forward to your comments as may make a few more and flog them.
Russ

 

[john1977]

Ive often wondered if it would be worth a try,never tried it personaly though.Have you had much success?I suppose its like anything,youll never know unless you give it a try,just like the lad off here who float fishes for cod in the dark.

 

[magpies]

Would be very interested to try that mate, how do you make them ?

 

[solaralarms4u]

For some time now I have used my own design swim feeder pod attached to my trace filled with my own recipes of a paste like mix with specific ingredients i.e. Squid, Worm, Herring, Cat Food, Carp Boilies, Mackerel, Crushed and mashed Crab, Mussels and also a foam filled pod that I inject with various flavours of fish oils to attract a specific species that I am targeting, primarily as a slow scent discharge attractant method flowing over my hook bait, not to feed, but to attract the fish.
Even if you have or have not heard of, or used a feeder maybe its time to think seriously about it, the theory is simple, when fishing tidal flowing sea water from boat, pier or beach most species if not all will highly depend on a scent trail to feed and to locate your baited hook, even a heavy cocktail baited hook will only give of a small, short scent trail for a short amount of time; when I use my all in one, grip lead, bait / scent feeder, I do at minimum quadruple the volume of scent and achieve a much more effective, slower and larger scent discharge trail for much longer than from my hook bait alone.
As I say I will try and post some pics as they will show all.
Regards Russ

 

[Beara Angler]

feeders

feeders

been messing around with them myself for the last few years and have not found any that work to my satisfaction. One problem I had was fish actually taking the feeder, mainly LSD's were the biggest culprits but a few larger fish were involved as well so no question that they work in attracting fish, sometimes to well!.

 

[Thunderpants]

I used them for a while too, I caught fish but may have caught them anyway without it. I was stuffing the feeder with sprats/sardines/mackerel. One session at Jarrow my gear started moving up river at great speed against the flow and tide as though a large fish had taken my bait and after a fight it let go, my bait came back untouched so it looks like the fish had taken the feeder instead of the bait and had spat it out.

 

[solaralarms4u]

When I first starting using this method I had the same problem, however it only showed me that the method actually worked, that's why I now use the mushy pre made by myself paste and the oil soaked foam filled pod so it acts as an attractant scent discharge rather than a feeding Pod, the other thing is if the pod is on the trace it will register as a bites if the fish is playing around with the pod and that's why I designed an all in one lead, the pod is not connected to the trace anymore but part of the sinker now. The other thing is the size of the pod is important, to small and yes it could be gobbled up and then spat out, to large and you may as well attach a rubby dubby bag but try casting that! I have found the size pod I use is big enough but not to small and that they do work very well in any flowing tidal water and especially when up-tiding from the boat.
I think a photo would explain my design a lot better so when I get back to work on Monday I will take a couple of pics and upload for you all to see.
In the mean time thanks for all your comments and keep them coming as most interesting and appreciated.