Commercial baits

[captain birdseye]

When you look at the obscene prices of the cheaply produced baits in the tackle shops its a wonder they manage to sell any.

But as long as top match anglers and tv anglers are willing to promote the baits and show big catches mr joe punter will shell out his hard earned dosh and keep buying them.

There are inough baits in the supermarkets to catch fish on and all these boilies and high protien pellets do is make the fish unaturally fatter and make the bait company's richer.

No doubt ill get some flack over this but its true.

Also im sick of seeing the tv anglers baiting up with these expensive pellets and making us believe we wont catch much unless we follow there example.

Meanwhile they get there bait for free and a nice wadge of cash for promoting it.

[ColinW]

We live in a world where people pay £100 for trainers with the right label on them. It's not compulsory though!

[Houseplant]

Agree with both the above posts. Apart from maggots and occasionally, bog standard cheap pellets, all my baits come from the supermarket.

[DavyR]

You can make an awful lot of paste out of a 1kg bag of halibut pellets, plus you can repeatedly freeze and re-use the left-overs. I'm still using the batch I made up in April. Got to be good value at £2.99!

[Tony U]

Animal feed chandlers or fish breeders sell cheap trout pellets at less than the rate you would pay from the bait specialists, some advertise on the web. So baiting up with them is not as an expensive as an option as you would think.

[Tyke]

DavyR:

You can make an awful lot of paste out of a 1kg bag of halibut pellets, plus you can repeatedly freeze and re-use the left-overs. I'm still using the batch I made up in April. Got to be good value at £2.99!

What is the best way to make paste from these pellets DavyR ?

[DavyR]

I just cover them with freshly boiled water for 20 minutes, mash them with a potato masher (don't tell the wife) and then stiffen with some groundbait or powdered pellet. If you finish off by kneading as if you making bread, you get a nice soft pliable paste that often seems more attractive to the fish than a hard pellet. Only problem then is stopping small bream and roach from snaffling it before the carp get a look-in!

[marzi]

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Originally posted by Tyke:

QUOTE]What is the best way to make paste from these pellets DavyR ? [/QB]

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Use a food processer to chop the pellets down to powder add an egg then slowly add water to the mix.

 

Please remember to clean the mixer after as trout pellet flavoured cake mix does not taste to good.

 

Marzi

 

[ 28. July 2005, 01:16 PM: Message edited by: marzi ]

[Tyke]

I reckon ill gve that a bash now seeing as its raining and not much else to do.

I have a 24 hour session at Blyton ponds tomorrow and ill use it there.

Thanks very much DavyR and marzi.

 

[ 28. July 2005, 01:18 PM: Message edited by: Tyke ]

[captain birdseye]

Marzipan is a good off the shelf paste especially if the carp your fishing for like a sweetbait.

Seeing Marzi on here reminded me of it