bechalan

[Mithrandir]

I have had some success recently fishing for carp with pellet smeared with a bit of bechalan ( that shrimp paste they use in chinese restaurants to make prawn crackers).

This has boosted my carp fishing, I think mainly due to its very salty taste.

Do Barbel have the same passion for salt that carp have, I was thinking of trying halibut pellets smeared with bechalan for some river barbel this weekend and wondered if anyone had any ideas?

 

[njb51]

Make some bechalan pellets?

Surely, adding bechalan paste to halibut pellets would just detract from the halibut attraction...............so what would be the point?

 

[Rob Southwell]

Belachan is excellent when grated and made up into a paste with crushed pellets. I had many barbel from the river wye early on in the season using the 'fresh fish' boilies from dynamite coated in a golf ball sized lump of belachan paste.

Very smelly stuff, 'er in doors will not be best pleased if you put it in the fridge!!