Whats Your best Pike dead bait?

[chezz]

What is your best pike dead bait?

 

Mine at the momemnt is sprats.

Well it's not technically a dead bait but I had an 11 on a boiled egg.

[Dales]

Well it's not technically a dead bait but I had an 11 on a boiled egg.

 

Care to share the story?

[Anderoo]

Chezz makes a good point, in terms of captures over the last few years my most productive 'deadbait' has been a single bit of fake corn

[langcaster]

What is your best pike dead bait?

 

Mine at the momemnt is sprats.

u carnt beet goldfish dipt in pigs blood try it mate

[Phone]

Dales,

 

Chezz makes no distinction at to the source of the egg (chicken?). Salmon eggs are often boiled in any number of different oils (cod liver oil).

 

A simple paste is a mixture of bread, flour, tuna and (chicken) egg yoke - etc.

 

In Japan they try to see who can catch the "smallest" carp. I forget what it is but they have a special name. (They are not common carp) They use boiled egg yoke (chicken) crumbles.

 

Phone

Edit: Gozzer probably knows the name of the Japanese dinks.

Edited December 5, 2012 by Phone

[Dales]

Dales,

 

Chezz makes no distinction at to the source of the egg (chicken?). Salmon eggs are often boiled in any number of different oils (cod liver oil).

 

Phone

 

I thought it might have been an amusing picnic anecdote. The old fish eggs do seem to be very popular overseas. One spring I had a go at adding tapioca mashed with fish roe to my ground bait in the hope it might mimic fish eggs. Was never sure if it made any difference or not but had 2 very good sessions with big bags of Tench and Bream that hinted that there might be something in it but also had some poor results.

 

If I lived and fished abroad I think I would use fish, fish eggs and chicken for most of my fishing needs and oh yeah bread for the dinks

Edited December 5, 2012 by Dales

[chezz]

Care to share the story?

Well had just seen my last sprat spiraling into orbit due to not opening my bail arm. So perchance a boiled egg loving wrapped in clingfilm by the mem sahib residing in my stalking bag was sliced in two and dunked in some van den red and cast, (this time with said bale arm) open and with a slow sink and draw and hey presto. I make note of halving the egg as to using a whole as one unducked would just be silly.

[Steve Burke]

I've never found a "best" deadbait any more than I have a best bait for any species. It often varies from water to water and day to day.

 

Having said that, in recent years on the Carp Lake at Wingham the most successful bait of those I've tried has been lamprey. Bluey has also worked well, mackerel less so. Others are also rans.

 

On the Coarse Lake it's been similar, but there smelt has often scored. In fact on some days smelt has been the best bait, although lamprey has been my most successful overall.

 

Neither lake is fished more than a few times a year, and then by only 1 or 2 of us at a time. So it's not a case of the pike wising up.

Edited December 10, 2012 by Steve Burke