All about PVA

One of my favourite methods of carp fishing is using PVA bags. I have found it to be an absolutely deadly method of catching carp. Could you apply this to an other applications of angling? PVA Film is made into bags to create custom Water Soluble Bags, the idea behind it is you can pack it with dry bait put your hook in with it cast it out and you have a perfect presentation of bait with you hook in the middle. I use them a lot would any one other than English anglers consider them.



PVA Bag fishing is a brilliant was to get some runs on short sessions. The great thing about them for those that don’t know PVA polyvinyl alcohol is a Water-soluble polymer. So this makes it a great way to present a pile of bait in an area next to your hook bait.


The method can take a bit of practise and effort (bad casts bags exploding on casting) but when you get it right is pay day.


The best way I have found is to use an inline lead with a short hook link and place this inside the bag then fill with pellet and a few crumbed boilies to matching you hook bait. Then it’s just a case of a small bit of spit on your fingers and twists the top up you spit if not to much will be enough to glue to top down by twisting it you make it very compact and can get the bulk of the air out of it.


There are several types and sizes the most important and frequent mistake made when first using them in not packing them tight enough and having air in them. There is nothing worse than casting out and getting it spot on only to watch you back float down to the next swim than fart and deposits your bait in some one else’s swim. I have been using the Perforated ones but a stab or to with the baiting needle will also help.


The other nice thing about them being water soluble a lot of the attractors and glugs we use in fishing are oil based so can be tipped into the bag this can give you an advantage as we head to the colder months.


They can be as big as your rods can handle but a shock leader might be required to stop crack offs or in winter months I like to crumb 2 boilies up put them into a pva netting twist tight and simply hook on the hook.

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I also use the stick a lot this is great is stops hook links from tangling and gives a nice presentation of freebees round your hook bait

Nice post Paul. I use micro bags with the 3mm or 4mm pellets in this time of year (no point over feeding when it's cold)

great post
i love pva bagging you can just about put any thing in them

regards
kevin

tackle tart wrote:great post
i love pva bagging you can just about put any thing in them

regards
kevin

I 2nd that some of my best fish have come from bags cast at them

The stuff im trying out just now is more of the mesh type i tried the bags before with the results you mentioned before thought i might have better luck with mesh.

billy barbel wrote:The stuff im trying out just now is more of the mesh type i tried the bags before with the results you mentioned before thought i might have better luck with mesh.

mesh is good for making sticks up.



I have showed Dan how good the quick change links are so you can have them in a box and just change them over when you require them

Thanks for that info stotty im going to try that stick job on one rod on the other im going to fish worm over pineapple sweetcorn and i have some some soft hooker pellets to try out from carp vader shnitzlewurst and polar ice, im going for an afternoon till dusk session today and again tomorrow with my daughter she is six and loves her whip for the roach.

billy barbel wrote:Thanks for that info stotty im going to try that stick job on one rod on the other im going to fish worm over pineapple sweetcorn and i have some some soft hooker pellets to try out from carp vader shnitzlewurst and polar ice, im going for an afternoon till dusk session today and again tomorrow with my daughter she is six and loves her whip for the roach.

It great as you know your bait is sitting in a pile of feed and your hook link should not tangle I use this with a single grain of fake corn and it works very well.

My son is 12 now and still loves Roach fishing he had a 2lb one when he was 8

I was reading my CARP-TRADE monthly and saw katch karp pva bags are now doing a massive pva bag its 400mmx 250mm also they are in the process of making a larger bag, they will be 60cms x 30cms the largest pupose made bags on the market, thats 2 feet x 1 feet, now thats a big bag,
and heres a bigger one 400cm x 700 cm now thats a big bag but apparently it has an important role to play in modern catfish fishing.

www.pvabags-katchkarp.co.uk

kevin

2'X1' , you are going to need a beachcaster to throw that out!

Badger wrote:2'X1' , you are going to need a beachcaster to throw that out!

i knew you would have a delivery system for a bag that size stotty but i,m dissappointed its not in real tree,s though

regards
kevin

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