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Not for the traditionalists amongst us.

David Craine said:
Maybe its just me ,but I would think that using a bait dropper at range in a River like the Trent would not be a very accurate way of baiting up,sureley the flow and "paddle" shape of a dropper would mean your bait ending up elsewhere than where you intended ,that is if it released at all,maybe you hardened Trenters have a view,or indeed use a feeder....aside from that a bait sausage coupled with a largish lead may probably be a way to go though.....not for me though,I will stick to feeders I think,depending on circumstances.

Dave
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A bait dropper works fine on the Lower Severn, so I fail to see why it wouldn't work on the Trent, similar ranges involved, similar depth of water etc
In fact I think it'd be a far more accurate method and its a heck of a lot cheaper (unless you're sponsored by a tackle company that markets PVA), also should you fluff a cast, at least you can abort it without leaving a bait trail all over the river.

My weapons of choice, which I have in all three sizes:
http://www.matchmansupplies.co.uk/seymo_teardrop_bait_droppers.html

The biggest one is only ever used in conjunction with a spod rod and the medium version is alright to underarm with a barbel rod but to overarm cast, its back to the spod rod.
 
Good tactics. I always use a very much smaller version for the Loddon. Pull your hook length back through it and you have a guaranteed untangled rig out in the river with a little bit of food round it. Perfect.
 
Oh I am so dissappointed - I thought from the thread title it would be about which baitrunner to use on which split cane rod!
 
I have used a bait dropper on the Trent lots, its no problem at all.

Bait sausage is old hat, seen it years ago, just another way to introduce bait.
 
Makes what I do now seem a little..........well, light I suppose:)

When Mike Wilson and I used to fish the Thames we would introduce up to a gallon of Hemp with bait droppers into a very confined area two thirds of the way across (30-40yards).
It is amazing how accurate you can be with an underarm cast at that sort of distance.

Accuracy made all the difference, even so we never clipped up, just sort of got used to casting where we wanted it to go, as with everything practice makes perfect.
 
If you do stuff a lot it gets much easier!

Recently someone asked me to show them a Wallis cast, trouble is I never did get the hang of it, I just sort of cast and it goes where I want!

I fish with line from the top of the pin and I spin the reel with my thumb as I cast, then I stop it when it drops in the water and mend the line at the same time.
Sounds awkward but I have been doing it for 40 years now, as I said practice makes perfect.

The same could be said about under arm casting, just give it a go!

Recently you would have seen me sideways casting in the park behind my house with a No 4 light weight fly rod, trying to see just what distance I could make, after an hour or so I was doing well enough to be able to get to the difficult Trout I have spotted on my local river Ver, its not a particularly big Trout, but I just want to catch it!
Just to prove it is possible.

Tight Lines
 
Adrian Williams said:
Being serious for a moment whenever I see that sort of article in a mag, or as this one was, in the Angling Times, I always ask myself which bait company is this guy sponsored by?
The first person I ever saw using the long pva sausage was Steve Hitch, the owner of Teme Severn Bait, fishing the lower Severn at Pixham. That must have been 5 years ago. He caught nothing that day but I did, fishing over his bait a couple of swims downstream.
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That poaching Ade ? :)
 
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