Zoltan Kovacs

Competition Angler and CEO of SBS

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I promised you that the emphasis of this presentation would be on the choice of the spot, on the buoying and feeding techniques, to show how to make the feeding mixture and how to retract the end rig. I have completed three items from this list and here comes the next two: I will show you how to make the feeding mixture and how to retract the end rig. In the short movie linked to this article I present both in detail and make them unambiguous and clear for beginners with spectacular underwater pictures. One thing is sure: this unique article and movie will be a memorable experience for you if you join me again!

As we could only start bringing in the end rig rather late on the first day of the trip, I will show this technique on the second day’s retraction.

As the days were getting shorter it was dusk sooner than we have expected.

Before I detail the retraction of the end rig let us see which ingredients I have used to create my feeding mixture, that is deemed expressly optimal for fish in this late autumn period:

0.5 kg Squid & Octopus boilies;
0.5 kg CSL pellets 5 mm (Corn steep liqueur-based pellets);
1 dl Corn Steep liqueur (Corn steep liqueur);
0.5 kg Attract Betaine Low Oil Carp Pellet Strawberry Jam 6 mm (carp pellet with low oil content soaked in appetite stimulators in strawberry cream flavour);
1 kg mixture of seeds which was composed of:
1 kg boiled corn;
1 kg boiled hempseeds;
0.5 kg boiled tigernuts;
3 kg scalded oilseed rape

I left the boiled seeds in the boiling water and then, after they cooled down, I added 1 bottle of Attractamino, and 6 spoonfuls of The Edge extract.

The scent of the ready feeding mixture was really exceptional.

It was very important to choose the correct feeding mixture and bait, because the weather proved to be rather extreme.

We could work in a T-shirt during the day …

… but as the sun went down the air cooled down rather rapidly…

… until dawn when the fog started to lift …

… and where it could condense it froze

It was ice for sure which made the stage dangerously slippery at dawn.

But as the sun rose the traces of the morning frost disappeared.

Under such extreme temperature changes, each fishing skill had to be used to catch fish successfully.

The balanced bait proved to be the most effective bait; the balance bait means that the bait was so light that it almost floated.

If the bait’s balance was not within this narrow range, due to the weight of the hook, I helped to balance it with a Fluro pop up boilie.

With this lightened bait I could attract some cautiously eating Carp on the hook despite the extreme weather conditions.

This wonderful Common Carp fell “victim” to the balanced bait; I managed to catch it on an extremely light bait.

Here is the detailed presentation of the end rig’s retraction illustrated with pictures, but you will see a detailed presentation in my short movie, shot for this article with spectacular underwater pictures, so let the short movie talk for itself instead of letters and pictures; watch my short movie at:

We wish you rich fishing in similar adventures and we hope that, in the future, you can put some of these tips and tactics into practice that we have given you based on our practical experience and presented in the series “Big fish tactics”.

Pictures: Péter Takács
Video: Péter Takács, Octopussy Scuba Diving Centre