Favourite 'food' bait?

[Paul_D]

Pepperami, definately. As a kid I also remember endlessly munching on Sweetcorn during Summer trips pretending to Carp fish scooped blindly from tins standing next to my trusty and fondly remembered Efgeeco Cadet only to put a Wasp in my mouth. Didn't get stung though luckily...Happy days!

[Resident Carper]

fave food based bait has to be the source boilie cut up and me own homemade food based boilie

[Tog]

Some of 'em boilies smell great, but I've yet to try one!

Pepperami - oh yes I'm hard enough!!!

Of course there's cheese, but many who use it for bait don't like to eat it?

[Resident Carper]

some of em taste nice, (boilies i mean )

 

peperami, mmmmmm very tasty and superb bait, mix the red 1 with the green 1!!

[crucian1995]

What baits do you think make the best ‘snack’ whilst out and about on / at the waterside?

Obviously bread! And fresh ‘fish’ baits if you can cook them, Cockles Yum!

So what baits have you eaten? – anyone tried a bollie?

 

Suppose this could be the start of a ‘bankside cookery feature’ – one way to get angling on the telly!

i tried a dog biscut nd when i swalllowed it i retched nd threw up nd i also tatsed a strawberry boily.. ill tell you one thing.. they dont taste strawberry

[Andy Macfarlane]

Sensas Luncheon meat? Boilies? Are you lot barking mad? Who knows what goes into these things? If you're really that hungry, you could try a bit of my paste mix. At least you'd know what was going into it.

 

"Take 2 slices of day old white bread and make a sandwich with the flavouring of your choice. I've used cheese, jam, marmalade, preserves, just tried mustard and it works well, meat spreads, fish pastes, marmite, bovril, honey, golden syrup, molasses, liquidised sweetcorn etc. etc.

Put the sandwich in the blender and blitz at full speed until the sandwich has been broken down into a loose/dryish crumb.

Now add any other additives you wish to include. Not too much mind. A little squirt of 'Van Den Eynde Liquid Corn' for instance goes a long way.

Check the crumb. It should be slightly moist to the touch and it should be forming a loose dough.

Now beat an egg yolk and introduce that to you mixture a little at a time. Half a yolk should be enough. The egg simply acts as a binder.

Now add any food colouring you wish. Red and yellow seem to be pretty universal.

Take the mixture and put it in a sandwich bag. Knot it and leave it somewhere warm overnight to 'mature'.

In the morning you should have a paste resembling play-dough. Take a pinch and roll it on the palm of your hand. It should form a stiff ball without much fuss.

Stick it on a hook and cast."

 

Eating your bait indeed. Next you lot will be telling me blast frozen Lamprey tastes just like sushi. Yeeeuch!