True Story

Due to my commitments in my role as Coach Development Manager for the National Federation of Anglers I find very little time to actually go fishing myself, but last weekend I decided to visit the Chesterfield Canal in Worksop which is a day ticket water leased by the Grafton Angling Association, who are affiliated to Worksop & District Anglers Association.

Armed with just a half pint of fluro pinkies and two containers of soft hook pellets plus some 3mm sinking feed pellets I just wanted to use this activity as a 'chilling out' session.

So, I opted to fish the Canal Road section in Worksop, basically because I know it is under-fished and that it holds a good selection of fish species, but more importantly you can park your car immediately behind your peg which saves having to carry the tackle too far.

I started off on pole fished fluro pinkie on the near side shelf and was immediately into small roach, perch and skimmers.

Whilst I was catching regularly on this line I had also been continually cupping the 3mm feed pellets towards the bottom of the far shelf ready for trying this line later in the session.

Two hours in to the session and having caught a considerable number of small fish on the inside line i.e perch, roach, skimmers and the occasional chublet, I decided to try the pinkie over the pellet line, but only managed to continue catching small to slightly bigger fish than those on the inside line.

I then opened my two containers of 'soft hook' pellets, one of which was a 4mm sized pellet supplied by an unknown company and the other was a container of 10mm diameter Dynamite-Baits, which I had never used before.

I regret to say that due to my inactivity on the bankside I had actually stored these two containers in my shed for over 3 months, so I did not know what to expect on opening the containers .

When I opened the 4mm pellets it was immediately obvious that their ability to stay on the hook was seriously reduced due to their long storage - so I ended up cupping these out as feed pellets.

I was then in a quandary - having only the larger 10mm pellets available to use on the hook, which I am pleased to report had retained their firmness to stay on the hook despite their long storage.

Obviously 10mm diameter was just a little too large for the initial period, so I decided to:

1) Cut the pellets in half with a small pair of line scissors

2) Then I cut one half of these two segments into four smaller 'triangular' pieces about 3mm in size.

I then placed one of these small pieces on to a size 16 hook and my first put in resulted in a bream of about 1.5lb.


For the next hour - the fish went rampant and I even caught three carp ranging between 2.5 to 5lb plus bream up to 3lb

It was obvious that the big fish had moved in and driven the smaller fish away from the layer of feed pellets, so I decided to up my gear and started using a hair-rig with a full sized 10mm pellet held on the rig using small lengths of spaghetti pieces to hold the bait on the hair.

The response was unbelievable, as my first put in with the hair rigged pellet resulted in a magnificent chub that must have been in the 4.5 to 5lb region, which certainly stretched my size 16 elastic.

I just could not believe the success rate of this particular pellet which culminated in a double figure bag of mixed species


I cannot wait to have another session on this section of the Chesterfield Canal, the next time though I will also be trying Dynamite-Baits new paste formula which I am led to believe that they have just launched.


In my capacity as the NFA Coach Development Manager I know that I have to be seen to be highlighting the success of different manufactured products across the board, but from personal experience I can vouch for the credibility of these pellets and will be recommending it to our regional coaches for their future training sessions.


Well done Dynamite Baits.

Yours in sport

Glyn Williams