Chub (or barbel) on nut-flavoured boilies?

[nige_LS7]

So as I've mentioned, I only started fishing again properly last August.

We started with a long weekend in Boroughbridge aiming for chub/barbel ... but only catching perch  and ruffe instead!

That weekend we had a few delays in starting out and made it to Boroughbridge just after the tackle shop had closed on the Saturday, but I pleaded through the door using the international sign language for "we've come all the way from Leeds and we'll have no fishing this weekend if you don't take pity on us for a bit of end tackle, bait, day tickets & advice"  (I'm good at sign language).

So anyway as I was about to pay I asked what baits were working best for barbel in his favourite peg that he'd recommended me, and he pointed to some boilies .... these pallatrax squabs

www.barbelfishing-uk.com/?product=pallatrax-crave-shelf-life-squabs

it was me last item of  about 15 things I got off him, and was a bit rushed, so it was only after I realised they were really hard, and the baiting tools I had weren't right for them (they just need a nice sharp needle). Anyway, cos it said "Carp" on the packet I just put them aside and forgot about them. Maybe a good thing 'cos if we hadn't been mainly on worm for the next 3 days we might have blanked with the many perch we caught.

Just found the £5  packet of squabs now at the back of me bait fridge  and they still look and smell like the day I bought them.... and I look at the packet and realise I spent a fiver there so I want to use them somehow.

I suppose it could have been a mistake and  I could have picked up different ones from the ones the shop owner pointed to, as I was in a rush and so was he ... it does say 'carp' on the packet  and doesn't seem like a very barbelly flavour to me ...  when I googled them just now they do come up on "barbelfishing-uk.com" ... but on this promotional clip they are definitely all about carp  www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTRfeVQzVi0

So I just wanted to ask if anyone's ever tried and had success with tiger nut / peanut flavour baits for chub or barbel ?? I might even cook them down and re-constitute them to make a softer bait  with other added ingredients.

I'm not a native Yorkshireman but I'm as tight as Jimmy's lines in a Thai pond and £5 is a lot of money to me these days (redundancy  was quite good for the first year or two but after that it has its drawbacks)!

[nige_LS7]

Finally found a thread from a few years back on a barbel forum discussing tiger nuts (I don't even know what they are) and tiger nut flavour boilies

barbelfishingworld.yuku.com/topic/14548#.VMzelC4lors

Seems like very mixed views there. But at least it's convinced me I probably didn't pick up the wrong packet - the tackle shop fella in Boroughbridge was very helpful and he surely would have noticed if I had the wrong ones.

And that thread's also convinced me to try chick peas for chub as well.  Might even be a new use for Claire's famous chick pea curry!

[ronny]

If your worried just glug them up with a nice fruity liquid, problem solved

Chub will eat anything, barbel can be more picky but I'm confident they would take nutty ones no problem

[rushy]

If Jim recommended them you can be fairly sure he's caught on them as he's a genuine guy and I've always found him very helpful.

Instead of sticking a baiting needle through them , tie a hair rig with no loop, just a straight piece of line. Break the squab in two and superglue it back together over the straigh hair then nip off the excess line

[nige_LS7]

Nice one Dave, thanks for all the advice, will try some glug and the superglue approach to hair rigging fairly soon definitely.

Yes Jim was v. helpful and recommended me a nearby peg he'd cleared himself and which had been producing good fish (though as it was a fierce flow and a _very_ steep climb I didn't actually try it). Just thought I could have grabbed the wrong pack by mistake but no I'm now sure they're the 'right' ones.

[johnboy66]

Feb 1, 2015 9:50:00 GMT rushy said:

If Jim recommended them you can be fairly sure he's caught on them as he's a genuine guy and I've always found him very helpful.

Instead of sticking a baiting needle through them , tie a hair rig with no loop, just a straight piece of line. Break the squab in two and superglue it back together over the straigh hair then nip off the excess line

Haha Rushy giving your secrets away on the forum not like you !!!