Ground bait for sweet corn hook bait?
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Depends on a variety of factors, what your after & where your fishing to name but two. There is also a price variable which is a variable.
I used to fish a lot (In France) using vitalin dog food as ground bait (There is a lot of maize and other cereals in it) mixed with water and a squirt of liquid flavor, If you want to spend more I think the majority of 'brand' ground bait is a much of a muchness
To my mind I always use a ground bait flavored similar to my hook bait so if using sweetcorn I would use a sweet ground bait (strawberry perhaps) I would also use the water from the sweetcorn tin to enhance it.
I have previously used sweetcorn blitzed in a food processor mixed with a binding agent (vitalin or bread) to make a ground bait.
I used to fish a lot (In France) using vitalin dog food as ground bait (There is a lot of maize and other cereals in it) mixed with water and a squirt of liquid flavor, If you want to spend more I think the majority of 'brand' ground bait is a much of a muchness
To my mind I always use a ground bait flavored similar to my hook bait so if using sweetcorn I would use a sweet ground bait (strawberry perhaps) I would also use the water from the sweetcorn tin to enhance it.
I have previously used sweetcorn blitzed in a food processor mixed with a binding agent (vitalin or bread) to make a ground bait.
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binka
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I'll second that and add that there's not much that swims which it won't attract be it on river or stillwater.
Very versatile as it's so easily available 24/7, you can make it as sloppy or as binding as you wish depending on how much water you add and I usually go pretty sloopy via a black cap feeder for both river and Stillwater.
Keep a slice or two over as a change bait if you want to try bread as an alternative.
Big bream especially like it in my experience... good luck!
I had an absolute red letter day on wednesday fishing a cage feeder filled with brown crumb, a tin of hemp and a handful of micro pellets, using sweetcorn on the hook, i was catching carp, tench and roach all day.
Laurie Harper
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Any of the standard bream groundbaits - from VDE, Sensas, Dynamite, et al - should do. Can be very effective to liquidise a tin of corn and mix it into the groundbait if you're using corn on the hook.
laguna
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As stated in sagalout's amino acid thread for groundbaits; I like to use a matching hookbait which compliments the soluble ingredients in my feed. If sweet corn was my hookbait of choice then a blitzed tin of sweetcorn would be added to my groundbait.
There's really nothing wrong with using a mismatch type of feed or an entirely different hookbait but I often wonder what sort of signal this sends out to the fish? Surrounded by a soup of amino acids is counter productive in my opinion but fortunately 99% of the time the groundbait contains macro sized particles which are far too big to contain significant amounts of active amino acids (mostly). However by adding a soluble ingredient to it, it may well send out the dinnerbell message?
There's really nothing wrong with using a mismatch type of feed or an entirely different hookbait but I often wonder what sort of signal this sends out to the fish? Surrounded by a soup of amino acids is counter productive in my opinion but fortunately 99% of the time the groundbait contains macro sized particles which are far too big to contain significant amounts of active amino acids (mostly). However by adding a soluble ingredient to it, it may well send out the dinnerbell message?