Spicy or sweet

[mr chubblybarbel]

As an avid winter angler for all river species especially Chub, i am a great believer in adding flavours to my baits, It would seem that strong spicy flavours seem to have the edge in winter! Fruity sweet flavours in summer/autumn! Sometimes mixing the two gets results! Whats your views........??

 

[castapprentice]

Here is an easy flavour bait and works, its cheap too. Cube 300gsm luncheon meat to required size, put 3 tablespoons oil, olive or vegetable in pan add 3 teaspoons marmite, 2 crushed garlic cloves and heat until marmite is mixed with oil. Now put in the cubes of meat and turn off heat. I now get 2 or 3 freezer bags and put the coated meat in, pour in the liquid seal bags and freeze, then just thaw the day before you go fishing, you now have a super yeasty oily flavour oozing from the meat.

 

[Keith Butcher]

Inoticed in the angling press that oily baits are for summer and water based bait in winter.As I have never used eather,I usualy stick to red and white maggots or breead flake.How many anglers prefer oily baits in winter and how many don't.

 

[Tom (Bream Machine)]

In winter spicy additives really work...was it Archie Braddock...who had the little bottles of an additive named Winterspice....really good stuff! I use Pol-Vitamo a lot in Winter...either Dutch or Belgian in origin, it does pull bites from elusive fish oin the coldest days. I also put a little chilli in my chopped worm and caster...so definatly, spicey seems to work well. Saying that, i 've read of lots of good Roach being taken on Pineapple flavoured baits the past two winters, it could be the increased acidity...I dunno! Likewise, instead of adding a sweetener to groundbait or casters...i've added a little salt in winter instead, that seems to work very well for Roach in particular.