In reply to Post #15
You are soooo right. I just chuckled to myself when I read that, as there's a group of anglers, old school, been round the block on one of my waters. If you ever catch them off guard with a wet net or sling. They'll always tell you they've had a tench. They must have the greatest tench bait known to man. Lol.
You are soooo right. I just chuckled to myself when I read that, as there's a group of anglers, old school, been round the block on one of my waters. If you ever catch them off guard with a wet net or sling. They'll always tell you they've had a tench. They must have the greatest tench bait known to man. Lol.
Those who can, keep mum. Those who never did, blab away. 
In reply to Post #10
He lives just outside Lowestoft and his baits are £7 a kilo
He lives just outside Lowestoft and his baits are £7 a kilo
In reply to Post #16
They will be well versed, in feeling into the landing net, while five anglers are standing behind them chatting away, after landing a big fish. They will have their head turned towards the anglers chatting away, whilst at the same time, feeling the carps mouth under the water... Removing the hook bait, with a finger and thumb. Ping, gone.
"Oh look, I have two smallish holes in my net look, funny that". "The hook bait has come off during the fight to, crazy"
That's what they will be up to. And more power to their elbow to.
They will be well versed, in feeling into the landing net, while five anglers are standing behind them chatting away, after landing a big fish. They will have their head turned towards the anglers chatting away, whilst at the same time, feeling the carps mouth under the water... Removing the hook bait, with a finger and thumb. Ping, gone.
"Oh look, I have two smallish holes in my net look, funny that". "The hook bait has come off during the fight to, crazy"
That's what they will be up to. And more power to their elbow to.
In reply to Post #19
I'm beginning to think you might be in this group I'm talking about.
I'm beginning to think you might be in this group I'm talking about.
In reply to Post #18
Is he still doing it ready rolled?
Is he still doing it ready rolled?
In reply to Post #21
Yes mate
Yes mate
In reply to Post #10
His meat bait was based on ground up cat biscuits
Very under rated nowadays - old Skool cat biscuits.
Another great bait on the same lines was Alan Smiths ( RIP ) Sensible baits - Savoury mix
A great bait mind.
His meat bait was based on ground up cat biscuits
Very under rated nowadays - old Skool cat biscuits.
Another great bait on the same lines was Alan Smiths ( RIP ) Sensible baits - Savoury mix
A great bait mind.
In reply to Post #23
That's the one mate
That's the one mate
In reply to Post #24
In reply to Post #20
Not me guv, honest.
Not me guv, honest.
In reply to Post #23
I remember talking to Pete a fair few years ago. He lives in Oulton Broad which is just outside Lowestoft as stated previously. I live in Lowestoft so bait pick up would have easy for me but in the end I didn't go with his bait for some reason. Apparently the ground up cat biscuits according to Pete are not just normal cat biscuits but are in fact made to a specific recipe know only to him.
Rod Hutchinsons Seafood Blend base mix also used ground up cat biscuits (Purina Salmon if I recall correctly).
I remember talking to Pete a fair few years ago. He lives in Oulton Broad which is just outside Lowestoft as stated previously. I live in Lowestoft so bait pick up would have easy for me but in the end I didn't go with his bait for some reason. Apparently the ground up cat biscuits according to Pete are not just normal cat biscuits but are in fact made to a specific recipe know only to him.
Rod Hutchinsons Seafood Blend base mix also used ground up cat biscuits (Purina Salmon if I recall correctly).
In reply to Post #23
Very under rated nowadays - old Skool cat biscuits.
One of my best baits ever and would still use it today if I could.
8oz of ground Go-Cat (Herring)
2oz Wheat Gluten
1 Tsp of MSG
5ml of Rod Hutchinson Sea Food flavour
5ml of Cod liver oil.
For a winter bait, I would drop the seafood flavour and add a teaspoon full of Curry powder. Now that was a good bait in winter but never tried it in summer.
Not only did it do well for carp but tench loved it to. Probably the cod liver oil. Capelin oil was better than cod liver oil when I could get it. I had a friend in a fish oil factory who worked in the labs testing it and he got me loads of good stuff to try but Capelin came out tops.
Sadly, Go Cat is no longer just fish based but they stick vegetables and rabbit etc in it. Maybe it still works, maybe not.
I keep promising myself to try it, maybe this year.
Very under rated nowadays - old Skool cat biscuits.
One of my best baits ever and would still use it today if I could.
8oz of ground Go-Cat (Herring)
2oz Wheat Gluten
1 Tsp of MSG
5ml of Rod Hutchinson Sea Food flavour
5ml of Cod liver oil.
For a winter bait, I would drop the seafood flavour and add a teaspoon full of Curry powder. Now that was a good bait in winter but never tried it in summer.
Not only did it do well for carp but tench loved it to. Probably the cod liver oil. Capelin oil was better than cod liver oil when I could get it. I had a friend in a fish oil factory who worked in the labs testing it and he got me loads of good stuff to try but Capelin came out tops.
Sadly, Go Cat is no longer just fish based but they stick vegetables and rabbit etc in it. Maybe it still works, maybe not.
I keep promising myself to try it, maybe this year.
In reply to Post #28
Liver munchies for me, red coloured, they were the nuts.. Pet biscuits are formulated specifically so it should come as no surprise how effective they can be. Ground up and mixed with a thick liquid would make a great paste wrap.
Liver munchies for me, red coloured, they were the nuts.. Pet biscuits are formulated specifically so it should come as no surprise how effective they can be. Ground up and mixed with a thick liquid would make a great paste wrap.
The link between cat nutrition and carp baits is well established by those in the know. Keith Sykes told me that if the cat would eat it, so would a carp. When Trigga first came out the original Trigga powder and Trigga Liquid were sourced from a major producer of cat foods. I don't think these are currently available but I am no longer associated with Nutrabaits so cannot be sure.
Groats soaking in the original Trigga Liquid in about 1993/4.
Groats soaking in the original Trigga Liquid in about 1993/4.