nicepix
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As some of you might remember I've been experimenting with making paste baits, largely unsuccessfully. I'm wanting to make a maize paste as maize is the single most successful bait out here and the main problem has been getting the right consistency. In cook's terms the dough has been too short.
Yesterday while boiling up some ground maize for particle feeding I had a Eureka moment. I had drained the maize after boiling and instead of draining it straight into the huge steel sink we have in the basement I left the sieve on top of a plastic bucket. Don't know why, but I did. When I came back to it to bag the maize grains I discovered a light grey slime in the bucket - starch! It had been released in the cooking process.
Today I've added a 50:50 mixture of fine maize groundbait and corn flour (maize flour) to the drained starch to make a paste, and it appears at this stage to be just the job. Plenty of elasticity and as it is made purely from maize should perfect to wrap maize grains in for added attraction and leakage.
Yesterday while boiling up some ground maize for particle feeding I had a Eureka moment. I had drained the maize after boiling and instead of draining it straight into the huge steel sink we have in the basement I left the sieve on top of a plastic bucket. Don't know why, but I did. When I came back to it to bag the maize grains I discovered a light grey slime in the bucket - starch! It had been released in the cooking process.
Today I've added a 50:50 mixture of fine maize groundbait and corn flour (maize flour) to the drained starch to make a paste, and it appears at this stage to be just the job. Plenty of elasticity and as it is made purely from maize should perfect to wrap maize grains in for added attraction and leakage.