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Fishing
Baits
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The Maggot
care of your maggot
fishing with maggots
The Pinkie
care of your pinkies
fishing with Pinkies
The Squat
care of your squats
fishing with squats
The Gozzer Maggot
fishing the gozzer
The Caster
care of your caster
fishing with casters
hooking casters
Bread Baits
Paste
Flake
Crust
Punch
Liquidised
Mashed
Paste Baits
making paste baits
using paste baits
Luncheon
Meat
fishing with luncheon meat
Cheese
fishing with cheese
Particle Baits
preparation
fishing with particles
Sweetcorn
feeding sweetcorn
colouring and
flavouring
imitation sweetcorn
Hemp
preparation
fishing with hemp
Tares
preparation
fishing with tares
Maple Peas
preparation
fishing with maple peas
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Descriptions
of various fishing baits used by anglers
Read how to
use a certain fishing bait
Find out
when to use a certain fishing bait
Learn how to
look after your fishing bait
Use the
links on the left for information on individual Fishing baits
What is a fishing bait?
Fishing bait is a man made or natural food eaten by fish that anglers
use on their hook to catch fish.
Why use fishing bait? To catch a fish you need to get the hook into the fishes mouth.
Fishing bait is used to tempt and lure the fish into doing this.
What bait to use? This is where the problem could arise! There is a vast range of baits
both natural such as, berries that fall into the water from
overhanging braches and worms, flies, beetles, snails, slugs, spiders
and grubs that live or fall into the water and man made baits such as bread,
bread flake, bread paste, boilies, pellets etc.
The traditional baits are the garden worm and the maggot and these are
still the most favoured baits today. Over the years anglers have
experimented and used different food stuffs as a fishing bait such as
bread, cheese, sweet corn, spam luncheon meat and even sausage meat.
The bait to use to catch a fish depends on numerous factors, the main
one being what fish species you are fishing for. It would be no use
fishing for Gudgeon using a 20mm boilie. There are also baits that can
induce a fish to bite almost immediately; a hook baited with bread
punch fished along with a sloppy mix of cloud groundbait can often
bring bites instantly from silver fish when the weather is cold.
On this page you will find descriptions of the fishing baits used by
anglers and notes on how to use and look after the baits.
Remember though - You can bag up catching fish on a certain bait one
day and next day not even get a bite on the same bait.
Matching the Bait Size to the Hook.
It is important that whatever bait you use the hook should be of the
correct size. Its no good trying to use a single squat on a size 1/0
sea hook; apart from being just about impossible it would look
ridiculous and unnatural. The idea is to present a bait as natural as
possible to fool the fish.
Flavouring Your Baits.
Taking maggots as an example:
When you buy your maggots from a fishing tackle shop they will be in
sawdust, maize flour or other such medium. Some tackle shops sell them
cleaned but not all do. In either case it is best if you clean them
yourself, to do this see
'care of your maggots', When you have cleaned your maggots
you can add your chosen flavourings.
Vanilla.
I find Vanilla to be a good flavour when fishing for roach or bream in
the summer. Vanilla flavouring can be bought in small bottles from
most supermarkets. You could also try using other liquid flavours such
as Almond, Liquid Brasem
etc. Add a few drops of liquid flavouring to your cleaned maggots half
an hour before using them (ONLY a few drops or you will find your
maggots doing the great escape up and over the side of your bait box).
Curry powder.
Curry powder can be added to your cleaned maggots and is a good
flavouring for use when fishing in winter.
Turmeric.
Turmeric is a deep orange-yellow powder commonly used as a spice in
curries. As with most flavourings used in fishing turmeric is
available from most supermarkets. Turmeric when added to your cleaned
maggots will add colour to them and as with curry powder is a good
flavouring for use when fishing in winter.
To find a
fishing bait supplier in your area check out
Local Fishing Tackle and Bait Shops
or check out
Online Fishing Tackle and Bait Shops
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