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Tomorrow I plan to fish a lake close to me for the first time. I am planning to use the pole with a selection of hookbaits.

 

However, the rules state that you are not allowed to use groundbait...

 

I was planning to liquidise some hemp, and use it in conjunction with half a pint of pellets, some whole hemp and sweetcorn to create 'slop' type mixture. I was wondering whether if I cupped this in with the pole cup, whether or not it would be classed as a 'groundbait' so to speak.

 

Cheers

 

Mitch

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Tomorrow I plan to fish a lake close to me for the first time. I am planning to use the pole with a selection of hookbaits.

 

However, the rules state that you are not allowed to use groundbait...

 

I was planning to liquidise some hemp, and use it in conjunction with half a pint of pellets, some whole hemp and sweetcorn to create 'slop' type mixture. I was wondering whether if I cupped this in with the pole cup, whether or not it would be classed as a 'groundbait' so to speak.

 

Cheers

 

Mitch

Probably open to interpretation but I use the 'if it fits on the hook it's hookbait and if it won't it's groundbait ' theory.

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Ok thanks Worms. I think I will fish with it and argue that it is purely a mix of loose feed and if I am told that I am not able to fish it, then I will try something else

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I wouldn't call it groundbait. Certainly if you grind up pellets and add it to a groundmix then it could be an ingredient certainly but on it's own then no, I don't think so. You could loosefeed particles, casters, chopped worms, 'broken' pellets (thats liquidised to you and me...hehe) and I'd certainly use liquidised corn, crushed boilies, liquidised prawn. You could also dye/flavour your ingredients. Some VDE Predator Plus or one of the Dynamite bottles of Scopex, GLM, Strawberry or whatever. You could also flavour up your baits too, so when you are loosefeeding you're still getting that groundbait sweetness into the water. What about soils from the bank? They can't be groundbaits can they? There's nothing in soil that's not already going to be there but add a few of your ingredients and then you have something that isn't strictly groundbait.

 

There must be plenty of ways to get fish in the area without actually using any bread-based ingredients.

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Depends on where your are. Strictly speaking "No Groundbait" means no bait in the swim other than the bait on your hook but what they usually mean is no bread based crumb groundbaits.

 

On super clear water at this time of year, the best groundbait need not have any food value at all.

We used to arrive before dawn on waters like this and pile in groundbait that was only used as a carrier for fine clay that would colour up the water. We did OK too.

You could do the same trick with a pole pot, using it to ladle liquuid clay plus flavours and a few freebies into the swim.

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