What I do when I want to get that amount of bait into the peg depends on the depth and colour of the water. The pegs I am talking about are genrally quite shallow - 6 to 12ft and the water is VERY clear out in ireland. You don't risk putting it all in in one hit just in case there are a load of bream sitting in front of you as more than likely a load of balls will scare them off.
So what I do is make up the balls before the start which saves a load of time, then all you do is every time you cast the feeder you put a ball right on top of it - I don't think you need to be really accurate as your feeder is carrying most of the loosefeed and any balls dropping short or going a bit too far just serve to hold some fish in your peg later in the match. Using this method you can judge easily how the balls are affecting your catch rate and if fish are backing off the feed. If there happen to be no fish in front of you then you can step up to 3 balls per chuck and get the lot put in early in hope that when they arrive they then stop in front of you and nobody else. You have to remember that the shoals of fish in Ireland are like nothing you have ever seen - even if you emptied 10 sensas buckets out in your peg sometimes that would only last five minutes, too many people go out there and don't feed.
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