Boilie vs feeder at Bázis — the feeder brought numbers, the boilie size

A one-day session at Bázis where two anglers run two methods against each other: one on boilie, one on feeder. The answer is not which is better, but what each is for.

The lesson is stated in a single line: if you want numbers at Bázis, fish the feeder; if you want size, fish boilie. Count went to the feeder, size to the boilie.

Fish ranged between eight and sixteen kilos: 4.5 – 6.5 – 7.5 – 8.5 – 10.4 – 10.7 – 11.7 – 13.1 kg, with the day topped by a carp over sixteen.

The biggest fish did not come from eighty metres but from close in: on a C1 boilie with a piece of pink artificial corn. That is the video's other lesson — the fish moved inwards over the day, nothing happened at eighty metres for an hour and a half, while sixty, then forty, and finally the close-in rod produced.

The repeat producer was an M1 boilie wafter with an M1 pop-up, several fish in a row on the same made-up bait. A small 8 mm Feedermania BCN pop-up also caught. Bait was deliberately small here, because the following week's Tribalj trip was being prepared with the same ones.

On rods, the note is that the 360 cm version reaches further than the shorter one, and eighty metres can be fed with a throwing stick using an 18 mm boilie.

A rule comes up here too: barbless hooks are required at Bázis, and the video's observation is that the hook usually falls out of the fish's mouth by itself as it reaches the bank.

Conditions: a weekday, a strong wind that made even holding position near the marker float difficult, and rain forecast for the afternoon. The sun swinging over to the far side of the lake was a stated hope — and the close-in bites did start then.