Does anyone agree with me that there are too many holes in swim feeders?
Sounds daft I know but when I fill one up with maggots, wind the line to
casting length, swing back the rod and cast, by the time it hits the water
anything up to half the maggots have escaped - some don't even reach the
water - they drop out onto the bank. The first time I decided to do
something about this, all I had to hand was some superglue. So I superglued
split-shot over all of the holes on the bottom half. One or two maggots
still escaped but otherwise it worked fine. Now, when I buy a swimfeeder
the first thing I do is block off half of the holes with strong plastic
sticky tape. I've looked in tackle shops for swimfeeders with less holes
but haven't seen any so far. Are such things made at all or do I have to
keep doing it myself? Anyway, it gets more bait to the swim and the feeder
always comes back empty so the maggots are getting out ok.