how do you use a pellet pump - Page 2 - Talk Angling fishing chat and tackle advice

leetwin · 3rd November 2007, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian G

Matt if you dont know why answer

Lee yes you need to allow the caster to breath for a couple of minutes each day, and then repump them, you should then be able to keep casters for a week.

Thanks bri thats what I thought... Actually I think it was you who told me in the first place

Ian.B · 3rd November 2007, 08:46 PM

Anyone ever frozen casters & then used them dead as loose feed or in ground bait ? & were they any good ?

MattMatchMan · 3rd November 2007, 10:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Ian.B

Anyone ever frozen casters & then used them dead as loose feed or in ground bait ? & were they any good ?

i froze casters once they were ok but not very fresh

captaincargo · 4th November 2007, 09:53 AM

At first `expanders` were only made as floaters ,so to get them to sink for feeding or hookbait you would prepare them by simply just covering them with water and leave for 10 or 15 minutes but not all pellets would sink causing fish to follow the loosefeed out of the swim as they floated off.
As they took water on they expanded a little and the air inside them was replaced by water causing them to sink.
Matchmen and carp anglers alike are impatient buggers so someone tried using a vacume pump (made for food purposes originally) and found you could prepare pellets on the bank within 5 mins, it was a good way to also force flavourings into their pellets and the main advantage is that after pumping them 3 or 4 times EVERY pellet would sink.
HOWEVER....
The pellets i use (Dynamite Baits) market a brand of expanders that sink, so just cover these with water,leave for 2 mins and drain the water off and you have good, soft, hookable, SINKING pellets every time.