carp as pike bait?

[Newt]

Gareth - you really need to dry them, grind them up and mix with a few other items to make the most effective fertilizer.

 

But just look in any good gardening book for the amount of fishmeal they recommend.

 

Oh, you thought the 'fish' in fishmeal was only from other species?

[Gareth.]

But the large whole ones, make such a nice reassuring thud when dropped onto the freshly tilled patch of earth.

 

I suppose you could process the Carp based fishmeal into Trout pellets. Thus ensuring a readily available source of well fed livebaits.

[Peter Waller]

Errr, Gareth, fish meal pellets made of carp wouldn't be trout pellets mate, they would be Carp Pellets!!! A rather insensitive name don't you think?

 

Mind you, how about boilies. It is known that big pike get even bigger by eating smaller pike. Logical then that boilies should contain carp. Obviously, from a marketing perspective, as some carpers are super sensitive, this fact isn't usually highlighted. But read the very small print on a boilie packet ingredients list and you will see that they 'contains cyprinidae'. Yer average carpy thought that this was a new wonder ingredient!!

 

Oi, what was that insensitive comment about nuisance bream? No such thing :mad: .

 

Who was it that came up with the elitest carp-talk term 'nuisance fish'? Don't think it was a piker. No such thing as a nuisance fish to a piker, nor a gardener for that matter. YeeeeHAAAA, a nice fat mirror!! Six nice cuts of shoulder for deadbait and the rest for the tomatoes!!

[Peter Waller]

Newt, thought you was a moderator! Seems that you are encouraging things along !

[fenboy]

Just as (sensible) anglers all like balanced fisheries, good gardeners like balanced gardens. That means balanced fertilisers. Fishmeal alone is not enough - you need a subtle mix of dried blood, ground bone and fishmeal. Maybe carp anglers, after suitable processing, could be incorporated into the mix? I have an allotment where the application of such a concoction would be well received.

[eestibob]

When Estonians catch pike they kill them, fillet them , pickle em in cheap Vodka. then a week later get ****** on them.

Cheers, or teriviseks as they say over ere.

 

[ 01. May 2004, 11:19 PM: Message edited by: eestibob ]

[Peter Waller]

Oh dear Eestibob! Hope not to many Estonians will be bringing their eating habits to the UK if they are now in the Common Market!! Seems to be a complete waste of vodka to me

[Gareth.]

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I've since been told that digging up cairns around several noted carp water will inevitably produce some really pungeant deads! As a bonus you will often aquire a shroud in the form of a national flag that, once washed, can be used at many international sporting events.

 

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It is not only shrouds made from the National flag that can be obtained by disturbing Cairns around Carp lakes. They can also provide an excellent supply of rather lively plump maggots.

The more pungent the odour emanating from the Cairn, the better the maggots.

These maggots tend to attract plenty of the Pasty size Carp which make good, but sluggish livebaits.

[Peter Waller]

Wonderous thing, a carp! Beginning to see the attraction of them. Not many fish provide such a plentiful supply of food for humans, especially now the common market has expanded. Then the by-products such as manure for the garden, pellets for feeding young carp, deadbait cutlets for piking, and now maggots to catch crucian carp as livebaits. Seems that a hungry pike angler, who does a spot of gardening, has all he could ever ask for in just one fish, except interest! Tench anglers like carp too! Saves them having to rake a swim!

[Peter Waller]

Don't you think Gareth, that pikers have atlast gained the upper hand? Bit of a struggle at one time, some of those carp boys are quite sharp .