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Post by rodneysnapper on Feb 7, 2015 20:59:32 GMT
What about bait? I am sure I'm not the only one to be bewildered by the choices on offer, I honestly haven't a clue. If you had a tenner in your pocket what would you walk out with every time for the river?
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Post by Eddie on Feb 7, 2015 21:12:46 GMT
It depends a bit on exactly what you are wanting to catch? What's your target fish? The venue you fish can mean different opinions!
Eddie.
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Post by nige_LS7 on Feb 7, 2015 21:29:38 GMT
What about bait? I am sure I'm not the only one to be bewildered by the choices on offer, I honestly haven't a clue. If you had a tenner in your pocket what would you walk out with every time for the river? what do you want to catch and where? This time of year a pint or so of red maggots can give you a lot of good sport with grayling, say on the Wharfe, anywhere the bed is gravelly and the water is whacking along but the level is normal. But today I was on the Aire in Leeds targeting chub with nothing that came from a fishing shop: priming the swim with bread flavoured with corn/ pulses & a tiny amount of feta cheese as my attractant in with the bread mash (feta is great cos it's pretty much soluble and so-oo salty), and worm or cheesepaste on the hook. Mind you. I only caught trout (on the worm). Beautiful, fighting fit trout that didn't know I wasn't allowed to catch them for another 7 weeks ... definitely fitter than they were in the autumn though. I changed from worm to cheesepaste and had chub bites but very clever Leeds city chub with degrees in applied hook avoidance. I'm a newbie but I already know that as far as tackle shop baits go I can survive on about 2-3 pints of maggots a month, maybe 1 pint of casters a month, a few packs of pellets in the summer, a bit of hemp for the groundbait and some sort of magic attractant liquid..... But for me more bait than that will always be bought at the supermarket, made at home and dug/found in the garden. If I was forced to choose forever between only baits sold as baits or only stuff sold in the supermarket, I'd go for the supermarket all day long, as long as I could still have garden worms as my number one hook bait. Even magic attractant liquids can come from the supermarket. I've also found that since I've started using the food processor the preparation is a bit like Dr. Frankenstein creating his monster (if his monster was a bread mash mix that is). The process is even more enjoyable than the product. (says a fellow newbie)
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Post by rodneysnapper on Feb 7, 2015 21:35:57 GMT
Where I fish on the Ure, apart from game fish, it's generally chub, and the odd barbel. Is there a "go to" pellet that most folk use? Do river fish go for sweet corn? Think I've opened a can of worms with this one, ha, ha
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Post by rodneysnapper on Feb 7, 2015 21:45:06 GMT
Cheers Meanwood Some great info there, quite often have some cheese knocking around in back of fridge, don't want to spend a fortune feeding them.
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Post by nige_LS7 on Feb 7, 2015 21:57:28 GMT
Cheers Meanwood Some great info there, quite often have some cheese knocking around in back of fridge, don't want to spend a fortune feeding them. there's a cheese paste thread on here I think in the 'what bait' bit, but the essential thing is the pre-rolled pastry from the supermarket - makes it very easy. And I'm still just getting use to the idea that a BIG hook with a BIG bait will get me more decent chub bites not fewer.
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Post by Eddie on Feb 7, 2015 22:00:12 GMT
I mainly fish for barbel through the main part of the river season, I always take hemp as a loose feed, on the hook I fish casters, corn, meat, halibut pellet, boilies and maggots. All have caught fish. I think getting in the right swim is more important, but corn and meat have worked well this season, casters and corn last season and meat always a great option, 9 barbel in one session all on meat last summer!
Eddie.
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Post by johnboy66 on Feb 7, 2015 22:29:54 GMT
In other words mate stuff in supermarkets and at home are better and cheaper if fishing the rivers, the only thing I would buy from a tackle shop would be maggots or casters so most of that £10 note would go straight back in my pocket.
Yorkshire lad I am LOL
Johnboy.
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Post by rodneysnapper on Feb 7, 2015 22:41:12 GMT
So does the loose feed hemp go into the feeder when ledgering?
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Post by nige_LS7 on Feb 7, 2015 23:21:46 GMT
So does the loose feed hemp go into the feeder when ledgering? It can do. In the winter I've started putting just a bit of hemp in the blender with my bread, and putting that mashed up hemp-y crumb in my feeder with sweetcorn juice or feta cheese juice, so that the fish get lots of attractant that seems like it might be food at first... except that when they get there it isn't really food at all, and they have to find my hookbait instead... that's the theory anyway ...
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Post by av1nbarb3l on Feb 8, 2015 7:36:23 GMT
spam all day long or mattessons sausage with chillies in, pellets are not as effective in winter thats for barbel or chub liquidised bread if fishing for chub with big bread flske on the hook or paste
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Post by JIMMY SILVERFISH FULLA on Feb 8, 2015 7:44:30 GMT
What about bait? I am sure I'm not the only one to be bewildered by the choices on offer, I honestly haven't a clue. If you had a tenner in your pocket what would you walk out with every time for the river? This time a year Id buy a hat gloves and scalf set and with the change Id buy soem maggots lol and Feed Rushy the robin with them I hear it's cold at home not looking forward to coming home,,, may stay another month,,,
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Post by JIMMY SILVERFISH FULLA on Feb 8, 2015 7:46:13 GMT
Oh welcome to the forum mate Watch out for that Rushy though he's a strange one,,, Only guy I know who can fish 7 different waters in a day cut his mums lawn trim his hedges play squash and paint a skirting board all in 1 day
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