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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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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!
 
Julian Griffiths said:
Darren McCann does a dedicated tench base mix, under the name tincaberry.

Good for other species too!😉 😊
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Bought the big cheese base mix from him/there a year or two back, just browsing the tincaberry range now, the tench should be waking up on my syndi', I usually go down the maggot feeder route but last season didn't produce as good as previous seasons for one reason or a suspected other. I'll split the rods going forward.
 
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Andrew Jackson said:
Rod Hutchinson's Seafood blend! I believe Rod could no longer get the crab meal it contained so production ceased. That was one of the first ready made mixes you could buy ( around 1980 ish). Only used it for Carp but it was rated as a great Tench catcher and would definitely have been a winner for Barbel.
He also did an 'Extract blend' containing meat and bone meals. There was a fruit one ( Mingle fruit) and a sweet one ( Sucre blend). The Sucre made a very good floater cake! 🙂
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I used the black juice all you had to do was add water to make a paste then make the boilies with a springum bait press and boil
 
Bob Watson said:
Bought the big cheese base mix from him/there a year or two back, just browsing the tincaberry range now, the tench should be waking up on my syndi', I usually go down the maggot feeder route but last season didn't produce as good as previous seasons for one reason or a suspected other. I'll split the rods going forward.
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Good call. His baits are generally good to be fair!
 
Hutchies Minglefruit and Seafood blend both good baits but terrible to roll
Best one I used was Duncan Kaye’s Red Karpi
Caught everywhere on that
Used at Redmire in 1986 but it failed me that occasion
 
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