Although the River Soar has a few barbel in it (to 14lb) I have not set my heart on catching one so I will not be too disappointed. This experiment is really aimed at the chub as there are a few more of these about but if a barbel does decide to turn up it will be more than welcomed. I have caught a good few barbel from the River Teme back in the 90's but never one from the River Soar, to be honest I don't think they were any in the Soar in the 90's. So if this experiment produces my first Soar barbel and/or first five pound chub I will be a very very content man.
Step 1.
I purchased four flavourings in powder format, cumin, coriander, turmeric and chilli and mixed these in equal parts (three tea spoons of each) into a small tub and then gave it a good shake, it does smell rather nice chaps. The wife spotted me doing this and duly pulled a madras power out of the food cupboard and pointed out that everything that I had purchased was already in there, don't you just love them bless her. I might use the madras powder on its own in week or so.
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Step 2.
I normally cut my luncheon meat into cubes of various sizes but again wanting to be a little different I purchased two of these Seymo Lunch Punches which seem to be very hard to get hold of but I found two in 16mm and 20mm sizes, maybe I should look in the food cupboard bless her. The plan is to punch a few three inch lengths of luncheon meat and break them off at various lengths, pop then in a bag and add some of mixed powder, shake it up and freeze, thaw, freeze, thaw etc. Hopefully these punches will arrive tomorrow and I can continue with step 3.
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Step 3.....