New Roach Bait.

[Tee-Cee]

Such a beautiful fish....A moment to treasure....stil good to see the metric system in use-in the UK!!!

 

[strut5a]

the deacon...who's prawns were you using for the roach??
-I know a roach can take big baits such as a whole lobworm but on my lake,although every other species take prawn(they are the large canadian variety which are 2.5cm long approx)the roach,which grow to a good size don't want to know-even if I cut them down!!

Perhaps you are using a small variety??

Hi Tee- Cee,
The prawns I was using were cooked ones from Tesco who sell three sizes which are Cocktail ie small, standard which I was using and king prawn which are very big.
The standard one seemed to fit nicely onto a size 10 without completely covering the hook. I was only fishing about two rod lengths out so no real casting was involved.
I'm going to give them another go this weekend and I'll let you knowthe results.

 

[Noel80]

Had sweetcorn and prawns with me yesterday and was catching roach "on the drop" close in on sweetcorn. As I was playing (what turned out to be the largest fish of the day at just under a pound) I saw he was being chased by a perch.

I swtiched to prawn and got nothing. Switched back to sweetcorn and got a few more roach but the swim was dying (my speciality!). Soon the swim was dead. I tried legering prawn for the rest of the day over a bed of liquidised bread, hemp, corn and cut up prawns and got nothing else. Not blaming the prawn, I think the fish just weren't there but it didn't do anything for my confidence.

 

[Andrew Macfarlane]

We had roach to 10oz, small pasties, commons to 6lb and tench to 4lb yesterday....all on whole prawn. It's a cracking bait.

We normally fish them with loaded carp pellet wagglers or whole on a hair-rig with method feeders.