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.