Margin fishing for carp

[@jonro09]

Ben your videos are some of the most informative out there mate. Thanks for sharing 😊

[@JeffOrtega33]

Thanks Ben for another great video learning the swim management is definitely the art.

[@jonro09]

Awesome Ben 🙏

[@tonyholdsworth1125]

I agree Ben. Can you do one the best expanders in a bag in the fridge or pumping them and when you should change to bantered pellets plus ground bait or pellets has feed please.stay safe.

[@bentownsendangling3486]

Thats actually on my list to do mate

[@bentownsendangling3486]

And I'm guessing you mean banded pellets?

[@geraldspillsbury7932]

great video ben very helpful keep up the good work see you soon on the next one all the best gerry

[@pawsyt259]

Thanks that really helped I will use it when I go on Friday

[@lesliefrew8402]

Great video ...learned a lot ...good advise which hopefully will be put into practise next match

[@brianwhitehead539]

Awesome mr

[@malpalm3476]

Great video Ben...when I fish micros down the edge I end up getting too many foul hooked fish

[@bentownsendangling3486]

Just need to have a think about where you are putting feed in relation to your rig mate

[@thejoker7323]

Nice one Ben, extremely helpful. Lovely fish tank as well. :-)

[@bentownsendangling3486]

Thats the small tank! And thanks mate

[@thejoker7323]

Loads bigger than mine with two goldfish in :-)

[@tonyholdsworth1125]

No Ben. there loads of not so good expander pellets out there, but has you know we can change them by adding oils and things what’s your take on it.plus do coloured ones work. I personally would like them to stay on the hook till I see the float disappear with a lump on.but??

[@bentownsendangling3486]

I'll do a little video Monday for you mate when I do my match report, end of the day you want some decent expanders in the first place though

[@geninecurtis6914]

wow, just tried out the orange slik, cant believe how quick you can land proper carp on it !

[@bentownsendangling3486]

Crazy isn't it, they just pop up!

[@geninecurtis6914]

@@bentownsendangling3486 i dismissed this elastic as i thought it was too much, but it still has a lot of stretch, amazing stuff.

[@bentownsendangling3486]

@@geninecurtis6914 I did exactly the same if I'm honest

[@richardbarrett7544]

By far the best explanation of margin fishing I've ever seen. Ben how many maggots would you feed, and are all your baits hooked (maggots clearly) on the hook, or banded or hair rigged please? Corn, meat example on a hair or on the hook direct please? Brilliant work, would you be a teacher by chance?

[@bentownsendangling3486]

Thanks Richard! Volume of bait is all dependent on venue and conditions, and the head of silvers, the margins are generally quite an attacking area of the peg so I don't like to feed too lightly, you'll soon know if your feeding enough when they arrive, as soon as bites stop its time to feed again. Always hook straight onto hook in the margins, I don't like the hook being exposed as it would be hair rigging as its asking for foulhooking fish. Definetely not a teacher mate, other than angling coaching.

[@richardbarrett7544]

@@bentownsendangling3486 Hook in the bait could solve some of my foul hooking problems, thanks Ben for taking the time to answer, big help.

[@peterleicester4701]

I obviously don’t feed enough, I feed for a fish. Im frightened of giving them to many options and want them to choose my bait as Jamie Hughes shows in some of his videos. My problem is if i have a can of corn i will probably have some left which i suppose is not enough to attract and keep them mooching about. I generally fish Monks lakes in Kent . So I will try when i next go to man up a bit. I will start as you suggested and then feed heavier as the day progresses .

[@bentownsendangling3486]

Some big fish at monks that can quickly get through your feed mate, give it a go

[@stuartdye2142]

Great vid ben

[@geninecurtis6914]

Ben, would you fish over silt at this time of year (down the middle of a snake lake)and if so what rigs, bait?

[@bentownsendangling3486]

Ideally if I was planning on fishing on deck on a snake lake in summer it would be just up near and far shelf so I had a harder bottom. That being said I've caught well beneath my shallow line in the silt before, but on a whole try and fish just out of the silt

[@mitchellmiller96]

Are you ever concerned about using elastics rated higher than your pole?

[@bentownsendangling3486]

Depends what your doing with the elastic mate, for dragging them out of snags with heavy elastic id always use a power pole, for playing them normally not so concerned, all down to experience of knowing how hard you can pull i guess