Trout Baits

[HOPPY4]

Budgie, Understood!!!

[Barbus10]

Andy - Sweetcorn is a good bait for trout (and grayling) whether they be wild or stockies. I've had them from the Ness, Calder and a couple of Spanish rivers using this bait. Strange but true!

Dave

[Andy Macfarlane]

Granted, sweetcorn is a good Grayling bait but it's not a good wild brownie bait. It may work from time to time but I can think of many baits I'd use before I used corn.

I'm surrounded by wild trout. I only have to walk 5 minutes in any direction to find wild trout and nobody uses it. It's used heavily for rainbows and roach around here and basically, nooone catches brownies on it. I hear the about the odd capture but it's definately way down my list of baits.

Would you go brownie fishing with corn quite happily or would you opt for conventional baits like maggot and worm??

'David' asked for good trout baits. I could think of plenty of baits I'd have uttered before corn came into it.

[Barbus10]

I can only speak from experience and I've found it to be an instant attractor. I freelined it in Spain, without loose feed, and the trout would appear from nowhere to grab it. I'd take it along with worm and maggot.

Cheers

Dave

[Andy Macfarlane]

I,ll bear that in mind next time I'm in Spain...lol

[ayjay]

BUDGIE:

Not rainbows though John!

I thought somone would say that, but what fishery owner is likely to allow someone to bait fish for them?

[Russell Fitzpatrick]

poach

 

i was on about rainbows mate escaped ones!

[Andy Macfarlane]

That's OK Ratty. I was having a discussion with Barbus on the merits of sweetcorn. I follow your way of thinking where escapees are concerned.

[Dick Dastardly]

John I would have thought that any fishery that allowed "any method" fishing would be stocked with rainbows.

[Russell Fitzpatrick]

oh seen!

 

yeah strange ones these trout,one guy had just put back a lovley big common (43+) when his fluro pop-up rod ripped off...trout!happens alot up there apparently.these trout are in a stow ressy.they escaped from the other ressy across the road,they get in via the culvert.so these ones are in season!

 

[ 03. December 2004, 03:04 AM: Message edited by: Ratty46 ]