Pike bait
- MaggotDrowner
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Re: Pike bait
I've been pike fishing for years, Santiago. Like you I rarely use more than one treble. I also favour the float for good bite detection.
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Re: Pike bait
My club has a ban on using eel, caught from the water or purchased from the shop.Michael wrote:I`d say forget specialists supplied baits from a tackle shops, most are very expensive as you found out. Buy from a specialist fish monger in bulk and freeze. As for preferences, mackerel, sardine, sprats, smelt, trout, roach, bream, zander, I have used gudgeon and years ago lamprey & eel, but due to diminished stocks I have stopped....
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Re: Pike bait
My friend gave me this to try in the pub last night. Anyone use it? I tended to think it was a bit of a gimick.
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Re: Pike bait
Well they supposedly have real fish in the brew, so I suppose it makes a change or is easier than injecting fish oils etc, as an attractant ....
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I prefer to use natural oils rather than synthetic flavours. Mackerel, smelt, pilchard (very cheap), lamprey, etc
Most, if not all the lamprey, are not from the UK but Canada where they are an invasive species in the Great Lakes and are being eradicated. So I have no problem using them. When 'bloody' a very successful bait.
Most, if not all the lamprey, are not from the UK but Canada where they are an invasive species in the Great Lakes and are being eradicated. So I have no problem using them. When 'bloody' a very successful bait.
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Re: Pike bait
I made something similar to smear on lures. Vaseline with boiled up juice from less than 1/2 price reduced languistine. Worked a treat and I gave a jar to my brother-in-law. And on a hot summers day he arrived home after a 5h motor way drive to find the lid had come off and the contents had melted and spilled all over his boot. Surprised he didn't smell it whilst driving!!
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Re: Pike bait
I prefer to float fish and my favourite baits are Smelt, Lamprey and if I aloud Roach and Eel.
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Only if they've run out of red wine.My friend gave me this to try in the pub last night. Anyone use it?
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Re: Pike bait
I'm down the river now. Cannot believe how busy it is for such a cold mid week day in January. Hard to find a swim amongst the other anglers and this weed that refuses to die. It was really bad in the summers but I thought it would be gone by now!
Going to look upstream some more.
Going to look upstream some more.
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Re: Pike bait
Well that's good to know, I`ll check the country of origin when I find it on sale....cheers Olly....Olly wrote:Most, if not all the lamprey, are not from the UK but Canada where they are an invasive species in the Great Lakes and are being eradicated. So I have no problem using them. When 'bloody' a very successful bait.