meatballs as bait........

[Jonah13]

anyone ever used them?

[Alan Stubbs]

Yes.... both the Swedish meatballs - then liberally doused with turmeric, and also I've tried tinned meatballs in tomato sauce.

 

The meatballs in turmeric were OK, but I got hammered by small carp of around 3lbs, the meatballs in tomato were useless... I had taken it as food for me on a session. The fish obviously thought the same about them as I did.

[Jonah13]

thats why i asked alan, i tried the meatballs in onion gravy as i never fancied them myself, alas neither did the fish a few 3lb carp would be nice at this time of year each water i try seems dead no movement no action

[ridgeacre]

Use them quite often in the summer found the best the ones in gravy.

[ellis88]

i never had any look of meatballs either. and trying to get them to survive the cast was well hard....

[awaaar]

I use them regularly - the ones in gravy, I hair rig them, a twig rather than a boilie stop ensures they survive the cast.....

 

had my biggest barbel, and chub on these Jonah

[JMCLincoln]

Campbells Meatballs in Gravy on offer in Morrisons, buy one get one free.

[lyn]

I caught my pb barbel, 14lb 2oz, on a Campbells meatball, tinned. You can get small spirel wires things in the tackle shop for meat. They are great, just tie them onto to a hair and screw your meat/meatball on and they won't come off.

 

Great bait.

 

lyn

[rob.i]

ellis88:

i never had any look of meatballs either. and trying to get them to survive the cast was well hard....

try freezing them and drill them boilie style

[Ken L]

If you guy's fancy some nice tough meatballs and don't mind quite a big bait, check out the chilld food counter in Aldi where they're sold as Mini Friedekind or something that looks vaguley like that.

I often keep a pack in the fridge because with some pasta and a jar of dolmio, they make for a quick and tasty meal - which is more than can be said for the nasty tinned version.