On the website www.floatingbones.co.uk is a DVD called 'Bankside Madness', containing the Loxley bubble method. This is not the bubble you can buy in the tackle shops, it is made from the little bubbles you used to get from machines outside newsagents and off-licences that contained a childrens toy.
The video explains how the bubbles are made and fished, and the chub love 'em.
The DVD also contains footage and fishery information on West End Fishery ( KJS Killamarsh) and Clattercote reservoir as well as Loxley.
Made using a mix of pleasure and match anglers, Angling Stars 'Mark Wragg features on West End Fishery, Its an entertaing hour and half.
Worth a look.

I saw someone using the 'bubble' method for the first time about 3 years ago. "What the heck (or words to that effect;)) is this lunatic doing" i thought!.
Before too long he was bagging up with small chub and large roach and we were left with the odd skimmer:(.

If i ever start fishing again, the bubble will definitely be in my tackle box!

Here's more to the 'bubble' story that deserves inclusion.

The original bubble man was a Lancastrian called Eddie Outram. He came to live in Sheffield and started fishing Damflask with methods unseen at the time and one of them was this little oval (Kinder egg type) capsule converted into a feeder. Eddie won two Damflask Championships in the mid-Sixties but died a few years later. The bubble method was brought back to life by Tony Wills. Tony was fortunate in that he worked with Eddie and he listened well. In the mid-Eighties (!) Tony turned up at one of my midweek matches at Damflask, having 'recently taken up fishing again' and he was to embark on a great success run with guess what - the bubble feeder. He went on to set the three-hour and five-hour match records and became known as the 'bubble man'.

Sent to me from Jim Baxter.
Editor of
The Angling Star