Maple peas

[Guest Chris Perch]

Im thinking of using maple peas this year as one of the waters i intend to fish for carp has a tiger nut ban.

I have never used them before but several books rate them highly.

Have you used them and how did you get on?

I would probably fish them with a bed of hemp and two or three over the top.

any tips or advice would be most welcomed.

[Emma two]

I opened up this topic after thinking that we were on about gardening again.

Edited April 7, 2012 by Emma two

[Andy_1984]

As for the peas if its a commercial fishery it will work and probably quite well. i don't really appreciate commercial carp for that matter, they seem to eat anything very readily but that's not to say i don't think a commercial carp fishery can be a lot of fun at times and a pleasant break from constant blanks

 

Emma, going by some of the threads in the fishing section recently i wouldnt have been at all surprised. theres a non fishing section for that ye know

[RUDD]

I used them on a water with a boilie ban some years ago - Caught approx 40 carp in ten short sessions.

I hair rigged three peas on a size 7 or 9 longshank hook and wrapped the peas in trout pellet paste which broke down around them for added attraction. After every session I feed an area with the remaining trout pellet paste as a binder for getting the peas across to the spot IE pull of a small ball of paste - squeeze on a handfull of maples and fire across with catty. Much quicker than spodding them.

[Guest Chris Perch]

I used them on a water with a boilie ban some years ago - Caught approx 40 carp in ten short sessions.

I hair rigged three peas on a size 7 or 9 longshank hook and wrapped the peas in trout pellet paste which broke down around them for added attraction. After every session I feed an area with the remaining trout pellet paste as a binder for getting the peas across to the spot IE pull of a small ball of paste - squeeze on a handfull of maples and fire across with catty. Much quicker than spodding them.

 

 

Hmm yes very interesting idea that and might well give it a try.

i was thinking hemp and maples for close range but that is something very different and well worth a try and would work well at longer range too.

thx

[Ken L]

I'm sure someone posted a list of particles on here a while back and rated them in terms of their effectiveness.

[Guest Chris Perch]

I'm sure someone posted a list of particles on here a while back and rated them in terms of their effectiveness.

 

That would be interesting to see any idea what the thread was called?

[Ken L]

No - and when I tried a search, it got swamped with hits.

 

Edit: Found it. It was post #11 here. It was only a top five - memory does that sometimes.

Edited April 7, 2012 by Ken L

[aaronlee]

Im thinking of using maple peas this year as one of the waters i intend to fish for carp has a tiger nut ban.

I have never used them before but several books rate them highly.

Have you used them and how did you get on?

I would probably fish them with a bed of hemp and two or three over the top.

any tips or advice would be most welcomed.

 

 

 

I have used Maple peas quite a lot in the past and caught a lot of fish on them not all big I will admit, I used to use a little hemp also, but fished them in PVA bags. I did find that by pre-baiting with them if allowed on your water is a big advantage especially if you can get to the water regular as they seem to be not used that offend these days well not on the waters i fish. I did find that by putting al ot of hemp in had two effects either the fish would shy off it if a pressured water or they preoccupied on it so would say use only a little. hence why I prebaied with them and started using pva friendly hemp in the bags. I used to fish single peas or double on a small hook. worked for me!

 

 

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