Cheap Supermarket glugs & additives.

[Dales]

Like others I have noticed the cost of my fishing going up and up. The cost of bait, petrol etc has started to make a real dent in my pocket.

 

I have no control over the cost of petrol but I can influence how much gets spent on bait. I think we all know the cheap baits we can use bread and corn etc. However I think I spend far to much money on glugs and additives for my ground bait.

 

I do not want to cut down on using good quality hook baits, boilies, pellets etc as if you have paid all that money for tickets and petrol to go fishing using low quality hook baits would not make sense.

 

However I plan to try to make savings on ground bait and additives and have been using cheap pound shop fish meal groundbait and bread crumb spiced up with crushed boilie and pellet from my over stocked supplies. At some point these will run out and I don't want to go back to using expensive bags of groundbait.

 

So I thought it might be interesting to try to start a thread around cheap supermarket food stuffs people use or plan to try to spice up there fishing bait.

 

 

Well to try to kick start the thread, here are 2 of mine.

 

Bovril as a glug for pellets & boilies.

 

Angel Delight for groundbait

 

While in ASDA the other night I noticed they had their own brand angel delight dessert at 7p a packet. So bought 10 but have not tried it out yet.

 

We could also use this thread to post any information on supermarket special offers people come across. i.e bulk packs of sweet corn, cheap multi-packs of peperami, luncheon meat on discount you know the stuff.

[Dick Dastardly]

Strawberry Angel Delight is a very good groundbait additive.A cheap "glug" try molasses available from any animal feeds store (and some pet shops).

[Dick Dastardly]

Strawberry Angel Delight is a very good groundbait additive.A cheap "glug" try molasses available from any animal feeds store (and some pet shops).

[AddictedToScopex]

I have found the strawberry and vanilla essence have made a massive impact when used in my bream mixes. Well worth a try. Was only very cheap from asda and gives a nice kick to your groundbait. It also finds its way into the water very easily and disperses quickly as mix breaks up.

[J.K]

20kg of bird food = £8

20kg of brown crumb = £12 - £15ish or 20kg of vitalin for the samish price

 

So for £25 - £30 you can get a very good ground bait mix and 40kg should last you a good while. To the above mix add some pellets / boilies and you have got an even better ground bait for very little.

Edited April 30, 2010 by J.K

[Babelfish]

If you go to a good animal feed store and buy hemp you can cook it up yourself and this saves a huge amount of money. Another good additive is chilli paste and garlic paste from a supermarket, which can be added to hemp and maggots to good effect.

[Babelfish]

Cooking up your own hemp

[Andy Macfarlane]

Get the local corner shop to save all their out of date bread for you...regardless of the variety. Blitz it in the blender, whack it a basin and sit it on the vents at the back of your telly. It's just warm enough to dry it out without sweating.

 

I wrote this on another forum a wee while back.

 

"I had been trying Dynamite Strawberry aditive for the tench but the smell seemed very familiar to me and being a chef, I thought I could have a good crack at replicating the stuff.

 

Well lads the stuff I made was indistinguishable by any of my mates. Only one knew it wasn't right because the colour was darker.

 

1:Get a pan of water on the stove and add sugar until you have a thin syrup. Bear in mind it will thicken slightly when it cools so you just want a noticeable viscosity OK.

 

2: When you have your syrup, add as much strawberry essence or even cordial as you want. Taste as you go. Bear in mind it's not for you to drink so you want it quite strong.

 

3: Once you have the consistency and the flavour right, then add red food colouring until it's a deep red.

 

Allow to cool and then bottle.

 

BTW, I added the last of of Dynamite Strawberry and half a bottle of Dynamite Scopex to my mixture to get the Betaine and Scopex into the mixture but I don't think it was required.

 

*that has since proved to make no difference

 

There you go.....fruit flavoured additive.

 

By the way, it's so colourful, it even turns plain brown/white groundbait a nice red colour.

 

I refilled my 2 empty Dynamite bottles and I still have a huge coffee jar full of the stuff.

 

It's lovely stuff. Half of one of the Dynamite bottles (with My version) was enough to make all my day's ground-mix lovely and red and sticky. Perfect for method feeders.

 

I tell you what. At £2.75 for a bottle of Dynamite, I won't be going back when I can make pints of the stuff for next to nothing.

 

The proof's in the pudding...