Favorite deadbaits

[Rickrod]

what is your top three deadbaits mine are Mackerel ,Herring and Sardine whats yours?

 

[supgen]

sardine, roach and wee trout (for perch )

 

[darrengeorge]

An old boy once told me that Red Herrings were good, but I think he was trying to throw me off what he was really using...

 

[Paul H]

Mackerel, roach and lamprey.

Mackerel for static bait fishing and the others I use a lot paternostered in the river flow or wobbled.

I use others too but most often one of these three.

 

[Wobbly Face (As Per Ed)]

I've tried mackerel, sardine, herring, perch, roach. Caugh nowt on all, best have been by far SPRAT. Have had more on sprat deadbait suspended under a bung or wobbled than any other method and bait put together.

So for me, sprat, sprat and sprat. (Does this make a shoal?)

 

[mikeshaw1979]

Pacific saury, fresh grayling and mackerel.

 

[r1paul]

Sprats , two or three per treble , float fished a foot off bottom , great bait and soft enough to strike , have had a load of pike this way .
Macky tail , good bait , herrings ,a bit hit or miss depending on the water .

 

[geoffmaynard]

I think mackerel heads are much better than the tails. All that blood...

 

[richiekelly]

lamprey, mackerel and half a kipper but it has to be a proper kipper not just a dyed herring, had my best pike on a kipper

 

[Beaker]

favourite deadbaits

Smelts roach and herrings the first two floatfished or wobbled,the herring as a static deadbait

 

[noodle]

any that is still twitching

but sardines mackeral herring are staples

 

[Chris Hammond ( RSPB ACA PAC}]

Sardines Herrings and smelt for me.

I'd put mackerel up there with the best of baits in terms of its attraction to pike, however I find it an impractically tough bait to use in many situations. I've lost count of the pike I've dropped off on the way to the net on Mackerel baits.

... even so I rarely travel to the water without a couple of mackerel. Along with those mentioned above and lamprey it makes up my 'big five' dead-bait choices. I generally have all five options with me.

 

[Rickrod]

Im surprised that nobodys mention pollen

 

[Coxy]

My first choice for still waters at range is a half mac, not to thick though.
Smelt is a fantastic fish anywere bait, bigger the better.
Skimmer bream - lightly hooked will take repeated casts & my favourite bait for paternostering on rivers.

Have a couple of other faves, sardines & roach but thats more than three is'nt it.

 

[trev (100M bronze)]

my first choice will be Roach or any other freshwater fish then Sprats and Mackerel. I fish my mackerel in chunks on a one hook rig and it works fine.

 

[Sean Meeghan]

Pol......

Roach, lamprey, mackerel

 

[Cakey]

Id love to find out .....................the crays know though

 

[mogs]

Eel,sardine,mackerel works for me....

 

[Andrew Macfarlane]

Brown Trout and Lamprey for me.

 

[Nathan]

For me it has to be smelt, lamprey and the old faithful mackrel.