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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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