Flavour

[birdy29]

Morning.

I make up my own groundbait using breadcrumb etc and add different flavours, tuna brine from cans etc. if you do the same what flavourings do you use and what has been most successful?

[devondave]

i can always remember fishing as a boy with a guy from asia.. (i think taiwan)

he used to use a type of method feeder (ive never seen one like it for sale over here)..

it had small hooks on it... maybe 10's? but the were attached direct to the feeder (thinking about it now this probably wasnt a good idea cos the fish would be carrying a cage round in his mouth if the line would of broke!) on very short hooklengths.. (no more than 4 inches i would say).. the cage had for hooklengths coming from it.. 2 at the top and 2 at the bottom and on each hook he would place a small polystyrene (i cant spell) ball..(you know when you break a polystyrene box or something up you get the tiny beads of poly well one of them!!) then he would drop the cage into a tub of breadcrumb mould it around the cage into one big ball then pull out of his bag a old hairspray bottle.. in which contained vanilla and almound essence and he would spray this onto the ball of crumb then cast it out (with a huge splash! that you would expect to scare jaws with never mind a carp!) and with this method he would be the only guy catching regular every time he visited the lake!

looking back now i guess the poly beads acted as a kind of popup and hovered above the breadcrumb .. but it was effective!

[birdy29]

like the vanilla and almond idea! not sure re hooks on a feeder, as you say of get snap off that would not be good!

[devondave]

well yea i was only a kid at the time and his english wasnt good so maybe fishing that way was regular practice in his country? i dunno.. but this particular lake where he used to bag up was a fairly easy lake providing you used biscuits on the surface .. it was never a bottom fishing lake and it still isnt really but he used to make it work!