LIVE MATCH - Can I master the slow sinker (Finally)??

I join an Open match at Albans lakes trying to perfect the method that divides opinion........the slow sinker!
It's a high class field including an England match fishing legend and a Feedermasters finalist in my section!!
How will I get on??
#matchfishing #coarsefishing #slowsinker

[@peterthornton8520]

Good match.Unlucky with lost fish. Happens to all of us. I personally would have used either 9 or 10ft Feeders matched to .20 main line and .18 trace to12 hook. I would have also tried a pellet waggler since you were getting bites within 20 seconds of casting. I also agree with other comment regarding keeping your rod as close to surface of the water when playing the fish, it tends to confuse them and makes for easier playing of the fish. Well done thought.

[@ABCwildflowers]

Nice if you did a video showing to fish sinker, feeding? How long left before reeling in? Hardly any videos on this Style of fishing!

[@MatchfishingTVUK]

Hi John, was a live match so not instructional as such but fair point and I'll see what I can do! Feeding wise 4 or 5 8mm Pellets catapulted to the area and then quickly cast straight over, much like pellet waggler. Sink wise, when it reaches the bottom reel in, go again so probably 20 seconds or so. It's a busy method!!! But once you start catching you'll know when you've missed the target depth and may reel in even sooner.

[@davidsmith2663]

l was instrumental in inventing this method some 45 years ago. Of course the new materials used are different now but l still make mine out of a moulding resin. I never use water to make the floats sink l use the adjustable brass loading to vary the sinking speed. We used small ones in the early days for roach with maggot and casters. I enlarged the bubble later for carp and my floats outcast the plastic water filled models fly truer and are much smaller . I can cast in excess of 35 metres with a 6g bubble and being light they create less of a disturbance when cast . I fish them exactly the same way as you firing three or four loose offerings per cast . It was a devastating method 45 years ago and still produce great weights today. I'm very proud of my floats and really pleased they are still in use today. They were so effective all those years ago that local fisheries banned the method. thankfully this is no longer the case and are very effective at my local fishery .

[@user-kx8rw3ci3y]

Hi David, do you sell your slowsinking feeders please Regards Dave Shipman

[@davidsmith2663]

@@user-kx8rw3ci3y l don't have any for sale at the moment l've concentrated on the floating ones for pellet waggler fishing but l can make you a couple next week. l'm just waiting for the brass weights to arrive.

[@davidsmith2663]

@@user-kx8rw3ci3y I do but haven't any at the moment l'm waiting for weights to arrive. How many do you require?

[@davidsmith2663]

@@user-kx8rw3ci3y l can make some if you want a few.

[@bencoss4116]

Good effort mate. It’s a method you must practice and practice. All about the feeding and the casting and getting into a rhythm Also don’t worry about line and hook. Size 12. 0.22. No messing.

[@MatchfishingTVUK]

Yeah, started off 14 and .19, finished 12 and .22 👍

[@johnbloor4376]

Well done! It’s good to try something new because you never know until you try. Don’t beat yourself up about what might have been over the ones you lost as I bet the guy who won the section lost one or two also. Your time will come. Trust me on that. 😉👍

[@MatchfishingTVUK]

Thanks John! I'll always keep trying to improve. 👍

[@newyoupersonaldevelopment3497]

We’re these caught on the drop through the water ie within 30 seconds of casting in or were they on the bottom 👍

[@MatchfishingTVUK]

Mostly within 5-10 secs of hitting water.

[@newyoupersonaldevelopment3497]

Great effort I’ve cut down some Angling Direct dumpy pellet wagglers and ‘overshotted’ them with solder wire to match the sink rate of an 8mm pellet. Looking forward to using them on this weekends match. Im not sure whether to use them fixed on the line as an over shorted pellet waggler, or free running like a semi buoyant bomb. Shouldn’t really be an issue but we have some proper cry babies in our club that will kick off at anything 😂 especially if you catch more than them. Keep the vids coming they are a great inspiration 👍

[@bouch1uk267]

@@newyoupersonaldevelopment3497 That's an issue in angling in general. Don't be jealous of others developing new methods (as long as they are safe). Learn them and improve on them instead.

[@adamn9660]

Hi mate do you fish it on a wag rod or feeder rod?

[@MatchfishingTVUK]

Pellet Waggler rod

[@markthurston601]

Come up north blackpool to Whitmore get double figure fish all day on the colasium

[@Northstar-Media]

Where's that in Blackpool near Blackpool zoo.

[@alanmeasures8337]

Love the action of the rod Mate what rod is it please Thanks

[@MatchfishingTVUK]

13ft Daiwa D Carp Pellet Waggler 👍

[@alanmeasures8337]

@@MatchfishingTVUK Thank you

[@royboy4743]

Acolytes are the best I have 11ft fab rod ,or try the shimano x5 I’m sure you will like

[@alanmeasures8337]

@@royboy4743 Thank you for the recommendations mate Cheers.

[@royboy4743]

@@alanmeasures8337 I use my 11 ft acolyte with 6lb 018 horizon chuck my homemade waggler 40 meters easily Alan and I also use my 10ft x5 for the same job but about 30 m the action on both has to be seen to believe mate ,I use 6 and 4gram floats they work perfectly I’m sure you will like mate best wishes and as ever really tight lines

[@julien1]

Pole peg

[@MatchfishingTVUK]

Hi Julien, fair comment as I know you know the water well but 1) no pole and 2) would have been impossible to set up a roller anyway and ship back as the box was 4 ft below the bank and platform, just too high. Crazy low levels.

[@julien1]

lol I dont know shit lmao but thanks for the generous reply, if i keep pretending I might even convince myself one day.

[@hopingowen]

Nice video thanks. Can you tell me what a "slow sinker" is please?