BAITS I USE |
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CHEAP CHEESE PASTE 4 slices of bread enough butter to cover one side of each slice 3 dairylea cheese triangles method: divide equally the three dairylea cheese triangles, take one piece of buttered bread spread 1.5 dairylea cheese triangles on the buttered side of the bread and repeat on another piece of bread again on the buttered side. cover each of the dairylea spread pieces of bread with each of the remaining two pieces of bread making sure the buttered side makes full contact with the dairylead spread. Gently press together, cut off the crusts and place in a polythene sandwich bag. You should now have two dairylea cheese paste sandwiches with the crusts cut off, if you are going fishing straight away place them in your tackle bag you will find that they fit inside a two pint maggot bait box. If you are not going fishing straight away place them in the fridge where they will keep quite well for a day. At the water side - venue, remove one and thoroughly mold it into a ball pull a piece off and mold it around the hook (I usually leave the hook point just showing out of one side. Cast out and you are away. I use this to trot for chub and have found it at least equal to many more elaborate and exotic methods. I often throw in a few torn off pieces always roughly the same size as the hook bait.
CHEAP CHEESE and
MAGGOT PASTE 4 slices of bread enough butter to cover one side of each slice 3 dairylea cheese triangles ¼ (a quarter) of a pint of maggots method: Crush the maggots up (I use my personal liquidiser not the family one) before I had a liquidiser I used a bowl and a fork, then in a bowl add three dairylea cheese triangles and mix into a paste and spread onto two slices of buttered bread, cover mix with more slices of buttered bread to make sandwiches. Gently press together, cut off the crusts and place in a polythene sandwich bag marked clearly FISH.
You should now have two paste sandwiches with the crusts cut off, if you are going fishing straight away place them in your tackle bag you will find that they fit inside a two pint maggot bait box. If you are not going fishing straight away place them in the fridge where they will keep quite well for a day.
At the water side - venue, remove one and thoroughly mold it into a ball pull a piece off and mold it around the hook (I usually leave the hook point just showing out of one side. Cast out and you are away. I use this to trot for chub and Roach especially in Winter, having found it at least equal to many more elaborate and exotic methods. I often throw in a few torn off pieces always roughly the same size as the hook bait.
Loose feeding pieces of the same hookbait (in this case bread or paste) nipped tight on one side (so it looks like the hookbait) thrown in slightly above where your hookbait is targeting the fish so as to be around the same depth allowing for flow and sinking |
MY FAVOURITE BAITS
1. maggot - whites – bronze – gozzers – pinkies – last resort reds 2. bread - in many forms 3. worm - whole and cut 4. wasp grub 5. cheese paste - several different mixes - favourite - a Dairylea cheese spread sandwich cut off the crusts and mould it 6. sweet corn 7. spam or ham – generally canned – strip’s and rough chunks
- not squares or punched pieces 8. slug 9. grasshopper 10. cricket 11. smoked mussels 12. snails – both water and garden - remove the shells especially of garden snails 13. pigs fry - comes from pork - ask your butcher 14. chicken liver – cooked and raw 15. pigs liver and kidney – cooked and raw 16. rabbits innards 17. various bank side and water bugs, snails and whatever 18. cheese – in lumps 19. meat - various strip’s and chunks 20. fruit – many mainly indigenous 21. seeds – various – including hemp and tares 22. squid and octopus tentacles – cut 23. strip’s fish 24. shellfish meat 25. various different pastes I make from time to time 26. mice and other vermin that might fall into a river 27. Just about any natural bait I can find and it's legal to use it. 28. potatoes
PASTES You can substitute the maggots in my cheese and maggot paste for lobs or sweetcorn (but if you use sweetcorn remove the outer skin) or you can use a mix of all of them (moistened turkey can be added should you want to get rid of any spare just after Christmas but NO Hard Pieces of Meat keep everything soft. Remember unlike many cheese pastes that become hard when cold Dairylea can be spread straight from the fridge so is less effected by the cold than most peoples cheese paste mixes.---------  |
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