Slop Till You Drop!

Stu Redman is well known for thinking outside the box and coming up with unusual methods and tactics. Here he details his way with slop… or should that be soup?

- David Haynes

Come and see my latest method,” Stu Redman invited Pole Fishing, “I’ve gone green!”Travelling to Float Fish Farm near Peterborough we wondered what this environmentally friendly method could be. On arriving at his peg on Wagtail Lake however, one of the venue’s eight lakes (with plans for seven more in the immediate future), we discovered a whole new meaning for the phrase “going green”, as Stu was doing a passable imitation of Shrek.

On his side tray was a deep bowl of something that had the colour and consistency of pea soup, and every time he shipped out Stu filled a small pole pot with this green goop and wiped his green fingers on his now green trousers. The splash zone for this extremely sloppy slop feed was quite large too, and much of the tackle, bait and phone around it was also getting a good covering of green stuff.

The other thing we noticed though, was how devastatingly effective this approach was: Fill the pot, ship out, hold the pot about three feet above the water, turn the pole until some of the slop drops out, lower the float into the resulting cloud, swozzle the rest out on the surface, hook the fish, land the fish.

But of course, as with all of Stu’s methods and thinking, there was far more to it than that.

TARGET EVERYTHING

“This is a great method for catching everything,” Stu told us. “I don’t care what I’m catching, as a match angler at heart a fish is a fish. Roach, ide, F1s, proper carp, they all love it.

“It’s all about noise, the visual element, and loads and loads of smell.” So, what was in Stu’s green soup that didn’t just target everything but covered everything too?