Luncheon meat

[dizidave]

One way that noone has mentioned is by using the new type of bait screws(Korum i think).

 

You can hair rig the screws (which are a soft plastic) then simply screw them into the meat for a really good hold, they are also good for using with cat meat.

[Vagabond]

If the meat is a bit soft and you are using biggish chunks, it is worth using a baiting needle to pull the line through the meat BEFORE you tie the hook on. Then slide the meat down over the hook eye and shank so that it rests on the bend. That minimises the weakening effect on the meat cube of inserting the hook and then turning it.

 

You can still reinforce the hook bend with a bit of grass stem.

 

A bit more time consuming, but the meat stays on better.

[slodger]

It might be just me? but I've stopped using Luncheon meat for tench and carp on stillwaters nowadays. Apart from the fact that everything (At least on regularly fished venues) seems switched onto boilies, it also lost it's 'big fish' appeal for me a while back. All the lesser species seemed to switch onto it and I found it was too easy for them to nibble it off the hook.

 

The blade of grass method works well, but even better are the standard hair 'dumbells'. Just use a half inch strip of them under the hair or bend of the hook and you'll find most of the softer meats, which I found massively more effective, will stay in place quite well.

The Bacon Grill meat, while being popular with the fish, has gurt lumps of tough gristle throughout it, it's alright if hair rigged, but prone to masking the hook point if you bury the hook in the meat.

 

My three 'top tips' would be:

 

Princes luncheon meat, which isw soft and has a high casseinate content.

 

Cubes soaked in a jar of pure Garlic puree are truly sensational for barbel. (It also toughens the meat slightly.)

 

And for smaller hook-baits, try using the Marvic boilie punches. (The one's used for punching holes and inserting foam.) Push the punch into the meat and the cylinder that comes out, and would normally be discarded and replaced by bouyant foam, makes an excellent alternative to cube shapes.

[northern mark]

Instead of the piece of grass use a maggot, the maggot will wriggle off and you are left with just the meat.

 

No bit of grass that looks like a bit of weed

[slodger]

'Instead of the piece of grass use a maggot, the maggot will wriggle off and you are left with just the meat.'

 

What an excellent idea!!

[Nutshell]

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You can keep em in their foil wrappers without refridgeration for months, it stays on the hook forever and they are quite tasty too! [/QB]

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Tell me about it! I always end up eating mine on the bank. Far too good for the fish!