Your weirdest bait additive?

[Aknib]

Pigs blood.

Yes pigs blood in its purest form and boy is it greasy and makes you whumphf!

I was groundbaiting for eels and I never had a sniff and between you and me I really can't fault 'em.

Never again.

What's your weirdest bait additive and did it work?

 

[Alan Whitty]

Belechan, came in a butter sized block, it was so smelly that I stored it in a sealed bag, in a plastic lunch box, in another and you could still smell it, it was so bad I couldn't use it in my bait, but used it on a cars air vents after he peed on my garage door lock after blocking my access all night. Another similar was a liquid garlic carp flavouring, same security, same result, it was fluorescent green in colour and was bloody awful...

 

[peterjg]

Belechan was talked about and wispered about in the Colne Valley carp circle in the 80s as a top secret bait ingredient. It was quietly referred to just as "block"! I used to use it initially on a cheese grater and break it down to add to my boilie mix. It worked but no better than some other boilie recepies. The only place I could buy it (at the time) was in a huge Chinese supermarket in Colindale, North London. Happy days.

 

[seth49]

You can get it like this now.

Belachan Liquid Carp Food - Dynamite Baits

dynamitebaits.com

 

[Alan Whitty]

Don't get it, unless you want to piss someone off, works a dream every time for that, lol...

 

[Ray Roberts]

I may have mentioned Lo-salt before. It works great with; sweetcorn, meat and sprinkled on sliced bread prior to rolling.

 

[Aknib]

Has anyone dabbled with almond essence, the tiny bottles of flavouring you can buy in many a supermarket baking aisle?

I've found many species go bonkers for it, Tench and Roach especially but it's a delicate balance between an extremely good attractor and an off putting over kill.

Garam Masala is another favourite, especially for Perch.

Both quite mainstream I guess in the narrower context.

I will however never forget....

Hooking a swan mussel as a kid on a notoriously hard water, for whatever reason which I can't remember I placed it in my maggot bucket.

Something happened over the next thirty minutes or so and thereafter I landed half a dozen Tench and Perch when a bite or two would otherwise be considered a result.

 

[Ray Roberts]

About a month ago I bought some aniseed powder. I was intending to use it for roach in maggots and bread punch. I haven’t had the opportunity to use it yet. The rivers around my way are well out of sorts and flooded for most of the past few months. I keep an eye on match weights and they have been terrible. I’m away for a few more weeks but will have a last hurrah, flooding permitting.

 

[flightliner]

Aniseed oil for roach, Geranium oil for roach, and molehills in grounbait for Roach, Bream and Perch!

 

[flightliner]

Ps, oh, and pure silt for Chub!

 

[@Clive]

Back in the 1970's there was a Health Shop in town that sold all sorts of herbs and spices. I tried tumeric on maggots, aniseed & fennel on luncheon meat and put bran and oatmeal in groundbait. These days I find that garlic & smoked paprika are good all round bait additives with Marmite in my cheesepaste mixes. I've tried vanilla, strawbery and pineapple with little success.

P.s. I put leaf mold and compost from the wormery in groundbait too.

 

[markcw]

I used to cover sweetcorn and luncheon meat , in Knorr Marinade in Minutes granules . It's for steaks etc on BBQ. If I remember right it was mixed with water for that .
Had some brilliant sport on it on cooler days . After I had emptied my peg using corn and meat in a club match and winning it .
One of the blokes asked what I was using .showed him and he smelt it .
He said it smelt like Archie Braddocks Winter Mix.
I've not seen it in the shops for sometime now .

 

[Alan Whitty]

Just an aside, I haven't had people park in front of my garage for ages, but this week I've had two, the first was a guy 2 doors down who had been to the hospital and I had a chat, but last night someone turned up at 1.45am, I know because I'd been to A&E again and watched it on cctv on my phone, this morning I was just getting dressed to go and put some crab and krill liquid down the air vents when I saw a person coming to the car so dashed to unlock the door and back gate out I went and had an amicable chat with a lady who was pleasant and apologetic, unlike some arses I've confronted....

 

[Ray Roberts]

I used to live about a mile away from the start of the London Marathon, in a side road off of the route. A guy ran his painting and decorating business from a lock up just up the road and somebody unknown to him blocked both shutters of his lock up with a Rover car. After about an hour of not being able to get his work vans out matey mixed up a huge bucket of wallpaper paste and pasted the entire Carl. He then adorned the car with dozens of A4 sheets that had a four letter word starting with “c” and ending in ”t” (not “clot”) printed on them. Just as I passed the place an AA van turned up with the owner sitting in it and it turned out that the guy’s power steering belt had snapped and he had coasted to a halt outside mateys shutters. They had a mega row, it was hilarious. I wished I had brought popcorn, lol.

 

[Steve Arnold]

Aniseed oil for roach, Geranium oil for roach, and molehills in grounbait for Roach, Bream and Perch!

Did you once suggest HP sauce and geranium oil as a bait additive?

Being "out-of-the-loop" with coarse fishing for so many years I was not sure if that was a joke. But there was a several years out of date bottle of HP in the cupboard and I ordered some geranium oil online. I mixed to the recommended ratio and caught several barbel and chub on baits dipped in this magic mix.

Who can be sure if the fish were attracted by this scent, but at least the fish were not put off biting.

Oh, my wife now "owns" the geranium oil. If I want to mix another bottle I may have to buy it again!

 

[peterjg]

Steve Arnold, it was me. That mix, as you found, is a bit special. It works best in the colder months - I've now switched to my summer mix - probably a bit too soon.

 

[flightliner]

Steve, no, I cant say I ever did reccamend using HP sauce, but if I ever go Barbel fishing again I will try mixing it with Geranium oil.

 

[flightliner]

Well, I finally went fishing last friday, (Apologise for the delay btw)
It was the lower (much lower) tidal Trent with a an old friend.
Tbh the fishing was dire and despite our efforts all i had to show were two skinned maggots, my friend had the same result, when after waiting long enough for a bite he retrieved his rod only to find a badly skinned maggot, picking up his second rod he found he was connected to a roach of some four ounce or so.
About 4pm we called it a day and packed our kit away somewhat dejected!

 

[markcw]

6mm and 8mm cubed luncheon meat coated with coffee granules and left in a ziplock bags for a few days . Then feed 6mm and fish 8mm.
Also works if covered in cocoa powder .

 

[mikench]

I mentioned the guy who turned up at a lake and cursed the fact that he had forgotten all his bait. He blamed his wife who had insisted he use up some sausages to make butties for his lunch and distracted him. He refused all my offers of pellets, corn, meat etc but set up anyway. He caught a carp almost immediately . I asked him what he was using and he said it was a hair rigged piece of sausage butty with HP sauce. He caught at least 3 others whilst I blanked. I have some HP sauce and geranium oil ready for next time out.