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Baits of Yesteryear

Simon Rolph said:
Campbells meatballs in onion gravy. Wye Barbel bait bar none in the nineties and noughties. Just ask the Macclesfield lads who fished the red lion every year ! Pork meatballs that stayed on the hook with just a bit of grass stalk as a stop. Never the same when Campbells changed the recipe to chicken meat. Found a couple of old tins recently - not risked opening them yet 🤢🤢😂😂
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Didn't another Macc Lad Howard Maddocks have that then record breaking beast from the Severn on a Campbell's meatball?
 
You can still get Expo groundbait, or at least could last time I was in local shop.
One of my favourite baits in the 90s was the Richworth hookbait paste mix that came in a small white tub (can’t remember its name….Extracts???) and you mixed it with liquid, rolled some baits and left them to cure. Blue cheese and CSL where superb chub baits, they oozed a constant trail as they slowly broke down
 
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Premier Baits original fishmeal base mix with fish feed inducing oil and peach flavour was a game changer in the mid-late 80s. I used to but it from Geoff straight out the back of his car in the car park of The Chequers. Wonderful days.....
 
Bob Watson said:
Nutrabaits cranberry nutrafruit was a good bait for me, carp and tench loved it. Not sure if you can still get it but never seen it for years.

Also the meaty marine stick mix in a tin.
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Darren McCann does a dedicated tench base mix, under the name tincaberry.

Good for other species too!😉 😊
 
Ant Baits apricot and guava boilies ripped apart my local water over a 2 day session when a mate & I tried it. 30 barbel from the St Patrick's Stream. And as they started to get the mould on them in the warmth as they sweated, they just got better & better! Best ever barbel session I ever had!
 
Dynamite meaty bites I think it was called?

Small circular tin with a ring pull, with small oily bits of squidgy meat type Pellet baits.

Caught some big barbel & chub on that bait back in the day!
 
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