maverick 7
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Hi guys........I remember the days of the 70's and early 80's and watching my Dad constantly bagging up every time I went fishing with him. His bait was either white crumb or brown crumb and often bread paste kneaded in a clean white cloth for the hook bait.
Sometimes he would use groundbait paste for his hookbait....but it seemed all he needed to have a great days fishing.... was plain bread in some form or another.
He didn't need or want anything else really...
Surely the fish haven't changed THAT much in such a short space of time...so why are we messing around with every different colour of groundbait under the sun?....AND at £3 PLUS for a relatively small bag.
In my humble opinion...just another example of anglers being exploited for more money...for something that wasn't really needed.
I often think that we are our own worst enemies and we often make our sport unnecessarily difficult sometimes. WHY would we introduce baits that will simply make the sport A) More expensive B) Requiring more preparation.
I suppose the answer I will get for that question is...for more fish...but how long will that last before we are back to the point where we were before it was introduced?....because it WILL.
The last time I visited the Swale I fished the way I knew it best...it ALWAYS threw up great results for me on caster and hempseed. I fished this way all day until it got to around 5pm...not a bite. This bloke walks on the bank and tells me I should be fishing Halibut Pellet...so I changed over and had a 7lb fish within 30 minutes.
So now I have to drill all my hookbaits.....make up a load of hair rigs, take longer to put the bait on my rig. All I used to do was pick out 3 or 4 casters, hook them on to my size 10 hook.....and cast in...done....and the results was just as good if not better than they are on the pellet.
An example of a change of bait that was totally and utterly unnecessary in my opinion.
The same applies to flavoured groundbait.....I think it was neither neccessary nor productive for us to introduce this stuff.....
....but what do you think?
Maverick
Sometimes he would use groundbait paste for his hookbait....but it seemed all he needed to have a great days fishing.... was plain bread in some form or another.
He didn't need or want anything else really...
Surely the fish haven't changed THAT much in such a short space of time...so why are we messing around with every different colour of groundbait under the sun?....AND at £3 PLUS for a relatively small bag.
In my humble opinion...just another example of anglers being exploited for more money...for something that wasn't really needed.
I often think that we are our own worst enemies and we often make our sport unnecessarily difficult sometimes. WHY would we introduce baits that will simply make the sport A) More expensive B) Requiring more preparation.
I suppose the answer I will get for that question is...for more fish...but how long will that last before we are back to the point where we were before it was introduced?....because it WILL.
The last time I visited the Swale I fished the way I knew it best...it ALWAYS threw up great results for me on caster and hempseed. I fished this way all day until it got to around 5pm...not a bite. This bloke walks on the bank and tells me I should be fishing Halibut Pellet...so I changed over and had a 7lb fish within 30 minutes.
So now I have to drill all my hookbaits.....make up a load of hair rigs, take longer to put the bait on my rig. All I used to do was pick out 3 or 4 casters, hook them on to my size 10 hook.....and cast in...done....and the results was just as good if not better than they are on the pellet.
An example of a change of bait that was totally and utterly unnecessary in my opinion.
The same applies to flavoured groundbait.....I think it was neither neccessary nor productive for us to introduce this stuff.....
....but what do you think?
Maverick
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