Yikes

[Anderoo]

I may need to revisit my feeding strategy when chub time comes around, I usually go through one or two loaves! The Thames is a lot bigger down your way, mind.

 

 

 

It depends on how many swims I feed, but in good conditions I expect to feed at least a loaf's worth per swim. It sounds a lot but I reckon on 25-50% drifting off as a milky cloud and the remainder consisting of bits too small for chub to eat much of it. The big breakthgrough I had on the Thames was massively upping the amount of feed, before that for several winters I fed lightly and caught nothing. Worth a try at your end?

 

EDIT - the biggest pain is lugging that much dried bread around with you!

Edited May 13, 2013 by Anderoo

[kirisute]

speaking of bread;

has anyone made "carp bread"?

I picked up a cheapo bread maker from a charity shop for £5; picked up a plain white loaf mix from the supermarket for about 75p and then mixed it with glug and crushed halibut pellets to create a flavoured fishing bread!

went superbly well!

swap out the water for a water/glug mix or just glug; you can also crush pellets or add hemp seed or whatever during the mixing process; my mixer has a beep that tells you when to add extra stuff...

couple of hours later and you have a tasty bread for surface fishing or whatever.....it did seem to produce more bites when I tested and you can tweak it to suit your chosen species.

wouldn't recommend trying it with your wifes brand new bread maker; or cooking it in the kitchen...but if you have or can get an old bread maker and have a shed to cook it in then whipping up a flavoured fishing bread I really think can pay dividends!! (plus it plugs directly into the boyhood fantasy of creating something by throwing various things into a mixer!! )

[Steve Walker]

It depends on how many swims I feed, but in good conditions I expect to feed at least a loaf's worth per swim. It sounds a lot but I reckon on 25-50% drifting off as a milky cloud and the remainder consisting of bits too small for chub to eat much of it. The big breakthgrough I had on the Thames was massively upping the amount of feed, before that for several winters I fed lightly and caught nothing. Worth a try at your end?

 

EDIT - the biggest pain is lugging that much dried bread around with you!

Yes, definitely worth a try, I think.

[wotnobivvy]

speaking of bread;

has anyone made "carp bread"?

I picked up a cheapo bread maker from a charity shop for £5; picked up a plain white loaf mix from the supermarket for about 75p and then mixed it with glug and crushed halibut pellets to create a flavoured fishing bread!

went superbly well!

swap out the water for a water/glug mix or just glug; you can also crush pellets or add hemp seed or whatever during the mixing process; my mixer has a beep that tells you when to add extra stuff...

couple of hours later and you have a tasty bread for surface fishing or whatever.....it did seem to produce more bites when I tested and you can tweak it to suit your chosen species.

wouldn't recommend trying it with your wifes brand new bread maker; or cooking it in the kitchen...but if you have or can get an old bread maker and have a shed to cook it in then whipping up a flavoured fishing bread I really think can pay dividends!! (plus it plugs directly into the boyhood fantasy of creating something by throwing various things into a mixer!! )

 

I suppose that would be called bread mixz then

[Steve Walker]

Loavz.

Edited May 13, 2013 by Steve Walker

[AddictedToScopex]

I am about to have a yikes experience today. Off to the tackle shop to get 'a few bits' that I need for wingham. I am not expecting it to be a cheap affair! Just have to make sure the wife doesnt see me walking in with it all

[kirisute]

right you lot! sod off of that idea ive just trademarked it!!!!!

[Dick Dastardly]

Other than bait and hooks I don't suppose I shall ever need to buy another item of tackle! My bi-annual sort out the other week found unused 'must have' items that I bought several years ago. Moral of the story, buy what you really need, not what you think you may need!

 

Or should that read what they tell you you need?

[Dales]

I am rather proud of myself I managed to go in to a tacle shop last Wednesday and left with just 4 pints of maggots and 1 bag of method mix. That's the first time in years that I have managed to go in and buy just what I planed to and nothing else.

[RUDD]

RUDD,

 

APL class 125 TEU container from China to SEA has gone up roughly 18%. Inland rail 24%. (2002 - 2012). Taiwan slightly more.

 

I have no clue how many "fishing units" there would be in a 12,000 lb TEU but I'd venture a guess if transportation rates doubled it would be less than 1 or 2 cents per unit of terminal fishing kit.

 

I knew I liked you. I was a freight forwarder for 44 years. Retired and sold the business in 1992.

 

Phone

 

Been in the game 22 years and what a crazy game it is.

The corporations and super stores (markets) creating Freight Clubs have caused a problem or ten!

I bet you were glad to get out. A few new laws in the USA have made sending goods there very hard on the documentation side.