Hotdog sausages

[Olly]

Beads will hold a paste bait - 1: 2; 3; even 4 on a hair for a big lumps of paste.

A cork ball used instead of a bead creates a very lightweight bait or even a paste popup, deadly for chub & barbel wavering in the current!

[Kingfisher]

Beads will hold a paste bait - 1: 2; 3; even 4 on a hair for a big lumps of paste.

A cork ball used instead of a bead creates a very lightweight bait or even a paste popup, deadly for chub & barbel wavering in the current!

Also. Bumbles' "Old Faithful" does the same thing....A grain of fake sweetcorn is buoyant and will do much the same thing. I was fishing for Wildies the other day with lumps of luncheon meat but the meat was soft as it was a last minute decission to go fishing. I went through my tackle box to see what I could use to hold the meat on and found a pack of fake sweetcorn. It worked wonders.

[Bjp]

There are a few guys on my local pond that are using and doing very well with cocktail sausages

regards

bjp

[Michael]

This is the product I'm talking about.



You screw the meat onto the metal spiral and it's fixed on and will not move. I find a normal hair sometimes cuts through the meat a bit.

After the rig is finished with I keep the spirals and tie my own. That way I can make some for longer hairs for bigger baits.

Amongst a big box of fishing odds and sods I acquired , I found several meat coils that would hold half a tin of meat if not a whole one, I take a photo when I dig them out.....

[Santiago]

One can quite easily make meat coils using enamelled copper wire and you can make them to whatever size required! You can buy it relatively cheap from any good electrical store or obtain for nothing from old motors (washing machines etc.)

I fancy using cocktail sausages for barbel this year. The ready cooked ones.

[RBTraditional]

Those old barbel on the Kennet love a Herta frankfurter, sold in vacuum sealed packets in Sainsburys or Waitrose...............they are perfect for direct hooking, not too soft or too hard and no need for complicated rigs or hooks. The cheaper ones from Morrisons or Tesco and the other budget supermarkets are awful and I wouldn't even eat them myself!

[Michael]

Other flavoured hot dogs Herta make are the Chicken hot dog and the Chilli hotdog.... I`ve had some success with the Chilli hot dog the chub found them to their liking.. ..... I haven't bothered with the chicken.....

[Mr B]

Excellent bait but with a few drawbacks. They are very soft which makes them attractive to fish but a bugger to cast. I get around it my leaving them in a bag with a bit of groundbait or similar which draws the moisture from their skins and toughens them a bit and pass the hook through them and put a bit of grass stem under the bend to cushion the force of the cast.

Some brands are very buoyant and may even float, not very useful so find a good brand and stick to it.

I have found that where luncheon meat has been over used they make a great change of bait for barbel and chub but I recently used some on a commercial carp water and didn't get a touch whereas everything else was grabbed in an instant. Go figure.

I do enjoy reading the older post..
"Totally inspired!"

I have just prepared these king size hotdogs..(I don't buy the small ones, and you are supposed to use them in three days once opened, I know they would last much longer) for bait to try this winter... at the moment they are floating, but that could be useful/ interesting in the right situation.


I cut them up in chunks but can always "fine tune" them.
I boiled the water they come with and added a little more water.
2 tea spoons of smoked paprika, 3 tea spoons of sugar and a big double squirt of Mrs B BBQ sauce.
I then popped the chunks into the jar and slowly pored in 'Love potion number nine' in a couple of goes so not to crack the jar. (Might well have been ok)
Its now cooling down with a little shake every ten minutes..
I'll be popping them in the fridge for a few days to ripen, then put them in a three small bags in the freezer to use.
All a bit of fun and who knows what might turn up.... All comments welcome, good, bad and ugly.

Mr B.
Ps... hot dogs as they say" get a bad rap" but I love em... a couple of times a month and allways when I take Mrs B out to "The Pictures"
Frenchi's mustard and tomato sause and onions

[Mike Crompton]

Pepperoni for me, with a back up of luncheon meat. I sometimes make a sandwich with bread.
Sometimes I eat it myself.

[Olly]

Some - if not many - are made from chicken - they seem to dissolve very quickly! The pork version stays together longer.