wetthrough
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I haven't the faintest idea what I'm doing when it comes to groundbait on stillwaters. General approach is chuck some loose in then some solid balls to get to the bottom, hopefully breaking up shortly before hitting the bottom. The idea to get some of the smell/taste to get carried by any surface tow, some to get carried by the undertow, hopefully in opposite directions.
Because I don't know what I'm doing I tend to hedge my bets when it comes to the mix, it's a mish mash of everything. Roughly 1:3:1 of Sensas red lake:Black crumb:white crumb. Handful of crushed and chopped corn. Handful of cooked and crushed hemp. Some whole corn, whole hemp, micro pellets, porridge and dead pinkies. Mixed up at home using the water from boiling the hemp plus some from the kettle once it's cold.
The only logic applied being to keep it fairly dark. It seems reasonable the fish would avoid going over anything that might make them more visible from above.
The mix is one thing but it's more about how much and when, time of year etc. Bream apparently don't like having balls of bait raining down on top of them. So what do you do? Chuck it all in at once? I think the hardest part for me is measuring the effectiveness. It's easy with hook bait. Put one bait on catch fish. Put a different bait on, don't catch fish, simple. With GB you can't take it out and try something else.
What do you do and why?
Because I don't know what I'm doing I tend to hedge my bets when it comes to the mix, it's a mish mash of everything. Roughly 1:3:1 of Sensas red lake:Black crumb:white crumb. Handful of crushed and chopped corn. Handful of cooked and crushed hemp. Some whole corn, whole hemp, micro pellets, porridge and dead pinkies. Mixed up at home using the water from boiling the hemp plus some from the kettle once it's cold.
The only logic applied being to keep it fairly dark. It seems reasonable the fish would avoid going over anything that might make them more visible from above.
The mix is one thing but it's more about how much and when, time of year etc. Bream apparently don't like having balls of bait raining down on top of them. So what do you do? Chuck it all in at once? I think the hardest part for me is measuring the effectiveness. It's easy with hook bait. Put one bait on catch fish. Put a different bait on, don't catch fish, simple. With GB you can't take it out and try something else.
What do you do and why?