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Irish cream (like baileys).

A very very good bait glug for winter carp.

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Wrote this recently for a chap taking up tench and perch fishing and remembered unusual groundbaits. It's got that and some other useful info. you might like a gander at.

 

 

 

For Tench, Trout, Perch & Big Roach

By Andy Macfarlane

 

 

Go digging for lobs and collect as many worms of ANY kind as you can find. Save the best of the lobworms for hook-baits and keep them aside, preferably in a lid-tight, breathable tub, containing neutral soil, sharp-sand and moss for scrubbing. Keep the rest of the worms you find IE: the redworms, the horrible green ones, brandlings, dendrobes and the ones too small to be of any real use and mince them up into about 2-3lbs of the soil you dug them from. You could even add chopped Minnows to your mix for added attraction. You can bulk out your soil with liquidised brown breadcrumb, if you wish to make it go further for longer sessions or attract other species like Roach and Rudd. Useful if the Tench aren't playing ball.

 

Make up your minced-worm, soil-blend, the day before you intend to use it, if you possibly can. Get the stink of worm right through the soil, which will also contain little bugs, microbes, worm-casts, amino-acids and all-sorts of little goodies. Rub it through with your hands. Riddle your mix if you're that fussy. Add some frozen red maggots. Frozen maggots will not break up groundbait balls.

 

At the bank-side, make up some nice tennis-ball sized balls of soil, with your minced worm/frozen red maggots blended in and mark exactly where it went in. Then fish over the top of your wormy/maggoty/fishy soil balls.

 

Firstly, I'd suggest a simple semi-fixed or running leger-rig. A bomb, drilled-bullet or a cage-feeder, good 4-6lb line to a size 10-8 hook and a good lob on for bait. You may also apply hair-rigged baits where applicable.

 

Secondly a simple float rig (maybe a lift-method rig) with an adjustable float. A Loafer/Chubber/Waggler for the lift, is ideal. Same 4lb line and same hook size.


As an idea....for your tackle requirements


Rods & Reels X 2

Alarms & Butt-rests X 2

Banksticks X 4

Selection of feeders (method, cage, open-end, weed-beater, floating), swivels and snaps.

Selection of hooks - (Size 8-10-12 semi-barbed or barbless hooks, perhaps Korum S3s, Kamasan Animals, Drennan Specialist Corn Hooks or similar)

Selection of Wagglers, Loafers or Chubber floats or Grayling floats.

Some BB split-shot or equivalent sizes and a selection of Arlesey Bombs and/or drilled bullets.

2lb hooklength and size 20 hooks if Roach/Rudd/Bream/Hybrids etc. appear.

Tub of prepared Lobworms & Tub of live red Maggots (1-2 pints), Casters if available & frozen Prawns, Bag of Bread, Tin Of M&S Corn

Freshly dug soil (the soil you got your worms from) with your minced worms and frozen red maggots.

2mm Fishmeal Pellets

Bottle of Robinson's for mixing your groundbait (optional).

Unhooking and Weighing assortments (disgorger, forceps, mat, sling, camera)

Edited by Andy Macfarlane
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For Tench, Trout, Perch & Big Roach

By Andy Macfarlane

 

Yep, the only embellishment I can think of is that if you find any molehills, add the soil to your groundbait mixture. Ideally, find the molehills on the banks of your tench lake, that saves a lot of carrying - molehill soil bulks the groundbait out, creates a nice cloud, adds plenty of flavour, and gives the fish something to rummage through without feeding them.

 

For roach, I have found using milk to mix the groundbait is effective, again, a way of creating a flavoured cloud without feeding the fish.

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I have been using john west black lumpfish caviar in my groundbait recently, thought is that most fish will readily consume the eggs of fish and at this time of year activly seek them out. my idea is that once they are switched onto this the caviar will seem like a bouns and keep them interested. 1 jar in a kilo mix seems about right , The results have been good, with tench actively grubing about after 20 mins or so and the stamp of fish seem larger than normal. If my theory is correct this should stop being so effective as the season goes on and the fish forget about the eggs of others till next years spawing. then its time to come up with another idea.

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Hi Mike, nice to see you posting again.

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hi steve,

 

its nice to be back , i think.

 

Have just spent a day with 2 juniors on there first comp, and they got 2nd and 4th and I think I have 2 boys who are going to be good anglers. Hopefully they will learn the same way I did, and have as much fun on the way.

 

 

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Phone,

 

bet the people who want to beat you use all sorts of suspect things in there boilies and pastes not to mention groundbait. Roe is the most natural source of cheap (in terms of effort) protein for fish and is available at a time when they need it most. so why not use nature to help us.

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i think it depends on the pudding, real black pudding is hard to come by, the stuff from supermarkets and more preservitives than blood. I have used blood from slaughterhouse before and it is brilliant, The problem is now is that you cant get it easily.

 

There is a company that does kits for making your own black pudding online (I get my bacon cures from them), I was wondering if the dried blood would make a good additive. Might have to go and try it now

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