Surface Fishing

[Paul Bickley]

As anyone got an alternative bait to bread and chum mixers for the surface fishing.

[greg long]

Cat food (dry) Kellogs Corn Pops, Floating boilies but none better than crust, Try flavour additives to the chum mixer.

[Keith Finn]

Why not try floater cake?.

Just use a boilie mix but instead of making a stiff paste make a runny mix.

Add flavours and additives as normal the bake at gas mark 5 until firm.

Delia Finn

[Paul Bickley]

greg long:

Cat food (dry) Kellogs Corn Pops, Floating boilies but none better than crust, Try flavour additives to the chum mixer.

How do you hook the corn pops, is it by a hair rig? and what size hook

[chip]

Sugar puffs are a good floater as well either on a hair or straight on a hook

 

Tight lines

[poledark]

I had great success with FEBO dog biscuits, drilled and hair rigged they can be brilliant.

 

They are almost round, about 18mm diameter, cast well and slowly swell up and soften.

I must admit that the several hundred fish I caught on them took almost instantly while they were still hard.

Den

[The Diamond Geezer]

Sugar Puffs, mate!

They're the bolls!

The :cool: Geezer

[Newt]

I've had great luck with the Kellogs brand going on a hook without breaking up. Poor luck with some others that are cooked harder and tend to shatter.

 

If you check the articles section here for pack bait (a US & SA [they call it a mielie bom]) you will find lots of ideas for a sugar pop on the hook and a packed handful around it that will break up within a couple minutes on the bottom leaving the sugar pop on top of the ground bait. Not a surface bait but a good one.

 

No hair needed over here even on pay lake fish which probably see more hooks than even UK carp on a busy day ticket water.

 

[ 17. August 2002, 07:08 PM: Message edited by: Newt ]

[Gaffer]

A Hair-rigged Cork Ball, simple, never comes off, easy to see and the Carp can't tell the difference.

 

Either on it's own, or as I do, fire some 'Mixers' around the cork ball and away you go!

[greg long]

Paul Bickley:

Paul Bickley:

Cat food (dry) Kellogs Corn Pops, Floating boilies but none better than crust, Try flavour additives to the chum mixer.

How do you hook the corn pops, is it by a hair rig? and what size hook

I use size 4 or2 and just hook the bait lightly as they swell, cast them dry, the drawback with them is you have to fish close..By the way when I feed the corn pops to the fish in my pond it clears the algae blooms!!!!!!!!!!!! good tip for you pond keepers out there.