Hemp
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quickcedo
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Soak for 24 hours, then boil/simmer till it splits open. Or, if you have one, about half an hour to 40 mins in a pressure cooker. The left over water can be used for gb or flavouring baits to good effect. Also good for re-hydrating Chickpeas, add a little black food dye and use as hookbait over the hemp.
To use hemp on the hook, use an 18, squeeze the spit grain so the split closes then push it onto the bend. Taking care not to cover the point.
To use hemp on the hook, use an 18, squeeze the spit grain so the split closes then push it onto the bend. Taking care not to cover the point.
steph mckenzie
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I soak mine for 24hours and then i transfer the seed and the water to a pan, bring to the boil and then simmer until the seeds start to split anf the white kernel inside starts to show. However, there are other ways so here is a link to them.
How To Prepare Hemp - And Not Get Kicked Out The House! | Total Fishing
How To Prepare Hemp - And Not Get Kicked Out The House! | Total Fishing
Cooking hemp has been covered here but when you get to use hemp; my tip would be stick with it - sometimes it takes a while to get fish going, hooking it can be a pig but the results, particularly in my local canal can be excellent.
Mark
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I do it the same as above and then use it quickly, if fantastic when still warm.
A few quick tips
Give it a rinse before you start to soak it
Salt seems to stop hemp from splitting, so add it once the hemp is cooked
Adding bi-carbonate of soda will make the hemp shells darker
A few quick tips
Give it a rinse before you start to soak it
Salt seems to stop hemp from splitting, so add it once the hemp is cooked
Adding bi-carbonate of soda will make the hemp shells darker
Lord Paul of Sheffield
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Also add a few chilli flakes - this can flavour the hemp
and if you get soem tares - feed hemp - fish tares on hook - prepare tares the same as hemp
and if you get soem tares - feed hemp - fish tares on hook - prepare tares the same as hemp
jollyboy
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I 3/4 fill a large flask with hemp and fill it up with boiling water out of the kettle... It stays in there for about 12 hours and comes out perfect..... I have for lager amounts done the same in a cool box and left for a little longer
peter crabtree
AKA Simon, 1953 - 2022 (RIP)
I liquidise some in the blender when it is still hot from the pan , it goes creamy and sticky , makes a nice cloudy loosefeed and fizzes away for a while.
Lord Paul of Sheffield
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Alan Tyler
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If you want really black hemp, add an iron tablet (an ordinary dietary supplement one) to the cooking water.
However, if you do this with tares, you get black cooking water, but all the colour washes out of the tares' skins.
Anyone know a fix for this?
However, if you do this with tares, you get black cooking water, but all the colour washes out of the tares' skins.
Anyone know a fix for this?
Lord Paul of Sheffield
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some black food colouring ??
dezza
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I must admit that these days I tend to use Dynamite's "Frenzied Hemp" in can or bottle. Saves all that smell and cooking.
sam vimes
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jollyboy
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Done in a flask you don't get this however...to make it all worth while you do need to buy by the sack and then storing becomes a task in a way
Lord Paul of Sheffield
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I thought that you said, repeatedly, that you were a poor pensioner?
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