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Reader’s Query: Winter, silt and glugs question.

Monday, June 30th, 2008

is a quick exchange of emails I felt may be useful for a few other readers…

Guess which rod had action?A question to Shaun.
I am doing some winter this year and wonder what bait you would recommend and what size. I like the look of the Fruity .
Tom

Hi Tom,
Fruity is one of my winter baits. The I started using right back in the 80’s and have caught literally hundreds of on it. It is very easily digestible so the will feed again quite quickly – very important in the winter as many baits stay inside them for too long.
Size wise I always try and the sizes in my own and if the distance being fished allows I always crumble baits up for loose feed as well as offering whole ones.
Ideally I would introduce a small amount of 10mm’s, 15mm’s and 20mm’s whole and broken But if I were limiting myself to just one size of I would take the larger 20mm’s simply because there is plenty of for breaking them into smaller pieces and trimming them down etc.
Hope this helps
Best fishes
Shaun Harrison

Tom replied.
Thanks for the reply like most nowadays I read you must use 10mm in winter and so on. Just to give you the
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