Hook baits

[Beaker]

Hello, I am after more advice. What hookbaits would you use on a water that bans boilies, and where maggots only catch tiny roach and perch.
The lake contains , bream, tench, carp ,crucians and perch and roach.
Ifished there this morning and apart from small roach I had 2 tench on corn and a skimmer. Any advice on baits and feed would be apreciated.

 

[Gav Barbus]

Could try luncheon meat ,breadflake ,sweetcorn,paste or pellets and even a big fat juicy worm ,try them one should work if not all of them.

 

[mol]

If you're after the carp then tigers of peanuts are good. Just be careful with the amounts used, a small handful with a pint of hemp is IMO the best way of fishing either.

 

[waggy]

1"x 2" square of spam on the hair and a bloody great lob on the size 8 barbless, held on with a piece of elastic band. Hook it twice by the thirds to foil the little end suckers. Twitch 6" every 3-4 mins for best results.

 

[peterjg]

Try using wheat - it's brilliant. Can be used as a mass particle for carp or tench, or can be used for laying on for roach. It's cheap at £7.20 per 20kg sack, can be frozen, coloured and flavoured! Why it's not more popular - don't know!

 

[Beaker]

Thanks chaps, I am going to try the paste, meat and pellet route. I thought about nuts but, you cant use them I have found.

 

[caesarson]

hair rigged 10mm plus pellets. Corn, meat. It really depends on what distance you are fishing. If you are feeder or bomb fishing at a distance. You will need to look at hard baits that can take a cast. If this is the case, I would look in the carp magazines, websites for inspiration on hook baits.

 

[smallbreamboy]

Pigeon conditioner about £14 for 20kg, bream/tench/carp love it.
Sweetcorn, for feed buy the 1kg frozen bags, about £1
Hemp (say no more)

If you are getting smaller fish taking the hook bait, try a plastic, more robust and the other species like them as well.

 

[Beaker]

Pigeon conditioner about £14 for 20kg, bream/tench/carp love it.
Sweetcorn, for feed buy the 1kg frozen bags, about £1
Hemp (say no more)

If you are getting smaller fish taking the hook bait, try a plastic, more robust and the other species like them as well.

I am interested in this pigeon conditioner, how do you prepare it and where did you buy yours, I cant find it cheaper than £17.

I am also going to try using Arma mesh for distance fishing softer baits.

 

[agamemnon]

if tench and carp are your target fish i would go for a cage or method feeder and corn or maize on the hook. or get some pva stocking/ bag and fill out with small pellets then use either a large pellet or bit of maize on a hair if you want to go for the larger fish