Hi all,

Looking for some quality prepared chick peas from a good particle supplier that could also add a flavour for me - but can't find them. Surrey and Kent don't do them.

Any ideas?

In reply to Post #1
Find yourself a Asian wholesaler that sell catering size tins. They take on flavour quite well so easy to do..

In reply to Post #2
Was thinking the same

In reply to Post #2
Thank you. Might be over thinking it, but I'm assuming they'll use tap water.

In reply to Post #4
Nothing wrong with using tap water

In reply to Post #4
And you think the particle suppliers aren't using tap water? Or you boilies are boiled in tap water?

Yes, overthinking it!

In reply to Post #6
Apparently some suppliers don't use mains water in there particle prep. Unique selling point or something..

Don't think these suppliers of tinned pulses and beans are channeling water direct from the foothills of the himalayas ether. I'm reckoning a mains water supply in a canning factory somewhere in Ealing.

Thanks all for the posts.

When I prep my particles I've always used rain or lake water from the lake I'm on.

Tap water has too much stuff in it that I wouldn't put in bait.

In reply to Post #8
It won't hurt will it...Fair play..





Still think your over thinking it..

If you're that concerned like others have said get some from an Asian shop and buy some bottled water and do it that way,I found some tins a while back that do black and white chick peas and apparently the lake I'm fishing next week respond well to chick peas

In reply to Post #8
>Tap water has too much stuff in it
And lake water doesn't? When did you last see a water purity test of tap water and lake water? I have seen tap water details, it's not great reading, BUT lake water is almost certainly worse unless you live in the outer Hebrides.

Rain water, fair play to you if you collect it but then your bait is being thrown in that muddy old lake water anyway so does it really make that much difference?

In reply to Post #8
And yet you drink it, wash in it, cook food in it....

In reply to Post #11
Yes, but they are used to their own lake water...

Tap water is tap water, and its full of purifying ****.

In reply to Post #12
I'm not eating the chick peas, the carp are...

In reply to Post #13
Away from fishing for a moment.
I'm not telling anyone what to do but I have no problem with tap water.
If people want to buy bottled water then that's up to them but you can't rely on that stuff being better than tap water,
I don't bother myself but a Brita filter seems a good idea.
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In reply to Post #16
I suspect the only issue people have with tap water is chlorine. You can knock a lot of chlorine out with high tap pressure or from a height into a pan/bucket Another way is to leave it overnight. You could also use a dechlorinator from a pet shop ( a lot cheaper than Brita type filters). If you don't do anything the boil should drive all the chlorine off anyway, I wouldn't be at all surprised it it even rids it fully from the soaked chick peas.

If you do make regularly and are bothered full cartridge filters or reverse osmosis units are the way to go, plumbed into a cold water tap, been there done that (making beer).

Edit, and if some Chlorine bothers you what about mismatched water mineral profiles, or the buffering effects of high mineral waters, too much info and too little proof the fish care

In reply to Post #7
Ealing? No, I believe it's Peckham...Peckham Spring

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In reply to Post #18
Not only Delboy