Bait,s

[flossy]

What has been your bait that has given you most confidence over the last few season,s ,when i say that ,a bait that has worked through the months for you,my two favourites for barbel have been krill,and trigger ice .

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What has been your bait that has given you most confidence over the last few season,s ,when i say that ,a bait that has worked through the months for you,my two favourites for barbel have been krill,and trigger ice .

Just too add to that ,i sometimes use as many as 6 halfs of boilie fished back too back on the hair ,my reason for this is it looks very similar too the body segments of a crayfish ,chubb can go mad for it fished that way swell.

 

[Lord Paul of Sheffield]

For barbel meat

 

[flossy]

For barbel meat

Do you do well on it throughout the year ,and how do you fish it on a hair, or not.

 

[Lord Paul of Sheffield]

Hair rigged
Trouble is that on thr Rother the chub get there first

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Meat is one of my go to baits for any fish

 

[flossy]

Trouble i have with meat ,is blimey crayfish ,they even try too catch it when it,s rolling,during summer months they are on it within seconds.,its a shame really cos do like as a hook bait.

 

[Alan Tyler]

Bread, hemp, mussels (supermarket) and wheat.

Try banding mussels to stop chublets nicking them, but you might want to then feed the odd few, or bits thereof, to replece the strike-offs as freebies.

Thanks for the half-boilie-string trick! Segmentation may be a big visual attractor, Dame Juliana suggested a segmented cheese bait for barbel, a bit before my time, though.