A day at Bázis — the particle ban and the carbohydrate boilie
Location: Bázis horgásztó
A one-day session at Bázis, at their favourite spot, in the usual arrangement: one short rod and one long. They started at six in the morning; rods were in by eight.
The tactical spine of this video is a local rule. At the time of filming, feeding seeds and particles is banned at Bázis — corn, tiger nut, particle mixes. So the feeding had to be boilie-based, and that constraint produced the day's finding.
He worked with three bags, deliberately kept apart: 16 mm C1 on the further baited area, 8 mm Halibut slightly closer, and 20 mm C2 nearer in, usually halved. The logic is to keep the carbohydrate and the fishmeal from blurring together — C1 further out, C2 closer.
The result was not what he expected: every fish came on the carbohydrate C1, the tiger nut, butter and caramel flavour. The C2, which usually fishes well for him here, drew almost nothing. He says it outright: had he relied on C2 alone, he would have had no fish.
Fish: a mirror carp around eight kilos, then one just under eight, a nine, a ten, a twelve, and the day's best at 16.5 kilos — also on C1. The target was five fish each; it finished 4–1.
Distances are short: fifty to sixty metres on the long rod, six to eight close in, later eight to ten as the water dropped. One rod sat at five metres in almost knee-deep water.
Tackle: 360 cm Super Slim rods, with the strongest 150 g casting weight version on the close-in rod — because a bigger fish has to be fought at short range here. A self-hooking flat method feeder, a hooklink of about 10 cm, a size 6 barbless hook.
Bait was Strawberry Ice Cream Airwafters, 8 and 10 mm mixed, with Feedermania's coating in the same flavour. How the coating is used: two measures of water onto the pellet, shake, and after ten minutes pour the coating over. The mango and butyric acid versions worked too.
One warning that goes with barbless hooks: play the fish carefully, because the hook turns out easily. A twenty-kilo fish once ran nearly a hundred metres, almost to the conservation area.