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Another question, does anyone have any links to articles about groundbait mixing or any idea of some books which are good?

 

Archie Braddock's Magic Book has an excellent section on making your own groundbait, plus a wealth of information on flavouring various types of baits. I expect you can order it via Archie's web site at http://www.braddocksbaits.co.uk/

 

My own groundbaits are based on "carriers", plus food items, plus flavourings. I don't buy ready-mixed groundbaits as they're very much more expensive than homemade ones, plus with the latter I can get exactly the effect I want.

 

The carriers are brown crumb (or red crumb that's usually just brown crumb dyed red), white crumb and sausage rusk. The proportions depend on such things as whether I'm on running water and the depth. For instance, white crumb breaks up slower than brown crumb and I rarely use it on stillwaters. Sausage rusk (obtainable from most butchers) can give a lovely explosive effect, especially useful in feeders.

 

Food items are usually the same as hookbaits, although I'll often use different sizes so that the fish don't get used to how much suck is needed to eat the freebies and so wise up to the hookbait. If I'm wanting to put a lot of food out I like Vitalin Original, which is a dried dog food containing lots of different items including sweetcorn.

 

For liquid additives I use Archie Braddocks' flavourings and I've found these outstanding. I'd add that I have no financial connection with Archie other than I field test many of his products. However as a writer I could probably get free bait from lots of other companies, and indeed have in the past done so.

 

In general I use sweet flavours most in the summer, spicy favours in the winter. Also the colder the water the higher the flavour level I've found effective. It's vital to realise though that too much flavour can actually put the fish off! I find flavourings so important that I haven't used unflavoured maggots or corn for many years!

 

I also add powdered flavourings to groundbait, again from Archie's range or homemade mixes following Archie's advice. These depend on the species I'm after, but are mainly spicy, and again are stronger in winter. Liquid flavours leach off relatively quickly (and thus may need topping up depending on the length of the session), whilst powders work for a lot longer.

 

In fact, I doubt that there's anyone in the country who knows more about flavourings for species other than carp than Archie!

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If you want to get past the rudd, then Vitalin is ideal. You can mix it straight from the bag, but mix fairly small quantities at first, until you get a feel for the amount of water to put in. For bream, you could add ewe nuts, which are ridiculously cheap if you buy a sack full. It's not a good idea to buy it off the internet, because you will pay a silly amount for postage.

You can buy Vitalin from most branches of Morrisons, although some of them only stock the smaller bags of a couple of kilos. You can get the larger bags from pet food shops, but Morrisons is much cheaper if they have them in stock.

Ewe nuts can be bought from anywhere that sells animal feed for farmers. I hate to say it, but fishing tackle shops are the last places to go for groundbait, as the mark up can be horrific. A bag of "carp pellets" (ewe nuts) in a tckle shop might cost you £2.50, whereas the same amount from an animal feedstuffs merchant would cost you about 20p.

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I've just bought 20kg of ewe nuts for £4.45 from Central Wool Growers (CWG). Those would have cost me around £25 from a fishing tackle shop.

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You can buy Pollard (chickens) or similar at some feed stores. You'll find that once you buy the same material that is in the good ground baits you'll be pretty much up round the same cost. As said before try watering it down with plain.

 

The issue with buying bulk is keeping large amounts safe from mice attack.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now, only much, much better!

 

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You can buy Pollard (chickens) or similar at some feed stores. You'll find that once you buy the same material that is in the good ground baits you'll be pretty much up round the same cost. As said before try watering it down with plain.

 

The issue with buying bulk is keeping large amounts safe from mice attack.

 

Mine got rat-attacked this year! :(

 

I now only keep what I can fit in the two plastic bins that I have.

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I bought some large plastic stackable bins with lids from the Factory Shop that all my bait ingredients now live in inside the shed. I did this after noticing knaw marks in some of my small plastic tubs!

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I had sacks of the stuff at a unit I rent up the road. I had to kill dozens of rats and they destroyed everything in their path.

 

I've had mice in the garage before, too. Never underestimate the destructiveness of a rodent attack - they can destry fishing tackle in a flash :(

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