What Winter Bait

[Elton]

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what is the best bait to use this time of year? im goin to a fishery in frant quite a small lake maybe a couple of acres with lots of snags in the middle with a few trees and lillies around the edge? i heard that something like a pineapple wafter would be good? maybe a plastic sweetcorn?

[RobStubbs]

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Er - instead of plastic sweetcorn, use the real thing. If nuisance fish are an issue then you could use maize or plastic corn. But at this time of year corn is well worth a try...

 

Rob.

[sandra1234]

Er - instead of plastic sweetcorn, use the real thing. If nuisance fish are an issue then you could use maize or plastic corn. But at this time of year corn is well worth a try...

 

Rob.

Hi to all

 

I put a bed of hemp, sweetcorn and ringers pelets (4mm) down then fish hallabut pellet with sweet corn or hust sweetcorn, it seems to work on my local pool's

 

Simon Cooper

[Alnath]

Now the cold weather is here limit feeding to about 10 boilies a cast and go for sweet flavours with Pineapple being a perennial winter classic. Ethyl alcohol flavours work best.

[FaTzy]

Big H

 

Was fishing frant the other day and found to be cathing nothing on tutti fruti boilies (i am gonna give it another go and see what happens will let u know!!!). On the other hand i went with a few of my mates and they were catching on fake maze and fake pellets. But it was very slow and very cold!

 

Martin

[poledark]

Bunch of maggots on the hook and a small pva bag of maggots hooked on..

 

Den

[Cranfield]

Bunch of maggots on the hook and a small pva bag of maggots hooked on..

 

Den

 

Blanched ones in the pva bag, can work better on very silty waters.

[flyfish]

Blanched ones in the pva bag, can work better on very silty waters.

 

Sandra, some places ban sweetcorn,, too much sweetcorn in any water is not good as it gives of poisinous gases if left too long in one spot,, our local lakes have put a total ban on sweetcorn for this reason.. I find strawberry boilies work well in winter with maggots as loose feed

Edited January 3, 2008 by flyfish

[RobStubbs]

Sandra, some places ban sweetcorn,, too much sweetcorn in any water is not good as it gives of poisinous gases if left too long in one spot,, our local lakes have put a total ban on sweetcorn for this reason.. I find strawberry boilies work well in winter with maggots as loose feed

 

With respect that's rubbish. Sweetcorn gives off no poisonous gases, most certainly not in an angling situation.

 

Rob.

[flyfish]

With respect that's rubbish. Sweetcorn gives off no poisonous gases, most certainly not in an angling situation.

 

Rob.

 

 

Hi Rob, i think your find it does,,,,im not talking about a few handfulls, but ive seen anglers throwing in bucket loads, this amout if not consumed by fish will start to fumigate and give of gases after a long period of time,, leave an unopened tin off sweetcorn in your fridge for a while, then take a sniff, your'll be suprised