Sweetcorn ,Grayling a thanks

[Guest bbamboo]

Just like to say thanks for all those what recommended sweet corn for grayling.

I fished a combo of loose feed sweetcorn and maggots.

The corn as a hook bait produced more fish than the maggots.

In fact at one time it was a fish a cast. I finished up just over 30.

The largest fish was an out of season trout of just over 2 ½ lbs

 

So thank Guys

[Andy Macfarlane]

That's a right good session that is. Well in.

[dapper64]

Just like to say thanks for all those what recommended sweet corn for grayling.

I fished a combo of loose feed sweetcorn and maggots.

The corn as a hook bait produced more fish than the maggots.

In fact at one time it was a fish a cast. I finished up just over 30.

The largest fish was an out of season trout of just over 2 ½ lbs

 

So thank Guys

trout on sweetcorn?

[Andy Macfarlane]

Aye they will. Wild brownies will take bread, corn, mackerel chunk and lots of stuff I probably haven't tried yet. Stocked trout even more so.

 

It's thought grayling eat corn because it looks like fish eggs. There isn't much that eats fish eggs like a wild brown trout, so why not?

 

They have pretty varied tastes. I'm going to try frozen prawn for them. It's banked just about everything else and I reckon trout would scoff it no problem.

 

Not as daft as it sounds.

 

....Andy....

[Chris Plumb]

trout on sweetcorn?

 

 

Absolutely - I've had to STOP using corn when grayling fishing on numerous occasions as the trout were nailing it before the grayling got a look-in. On my trip to the Itchen last month I caught 20 brownies - mostly on corn - my mate Paul - who didn't fish corn at all, all day nly had 3 troot!

 

 

C.

[Guest bbamboo]

I had 3 trout that day and lost maybe another 2 all on corn.

[Janet]

Aye they will. Wild brownies will take bread, corn, mackerel chunk and lots of stuff I probably haven't tried yet.

 

I have to agree with that. Wild brownies will take just about anything that you put in front of them, particularly when you don't want them to! I've had them on bread, corn, maggots, worm, sweetcorn, pellets, cheese paste, peperami and even a bare hook! They are not the sharpest knives in the drawer....great sport though, particularly on light tackle.

 

I can't find the link, but I had to post some time ago asking for information about how to NOT catch brownies!

 

Still, I have a soft spot for sweetcorn....I caught my first ever rod caught fish that way a couple of years ago. Yes, it was a wild brownie. It's been a downhill slope and a veritable addiction ever since....!

 

Janet

[Andy Macfarlane]

That's the thing with brownies though. Up until they're about 10" they'll eat just about anything at and that's their downfall. Once they start developing individual tastes, whether it's flies, minnows, fish, larvae...whatever, they tend to stick to their choice and they become increasingly more difficult to tempt.

 

Catching wee brownies isn't difficult. It's catching big brownies that's difficult and there are far less of them.

[Worms]

I'm working on a 'special' grayling bait, it's taken a while to get the right materials (!?) but, it may prove to be a very special winter grayling bait!

 

I'll let you know as soon as the bloody river fines down a bit. Let's just hope for a little less rain!

[Jeffwill]

I'm working on a 'special' grayling bait, it's taken a while to get the right materials (!?) but, it may prove to be a very special winter grayling bait!

 

I'll let you know as soon as the bloody river fines down a bit. Let's just hope for a little less rain!

 

Would that involve a bit of canary feather then