Baits of Yesteryear

[Peter Hayes]

Cotswold Baits, now you are talking….

Cotwold Baits started up again last year and are slowly building up their product range. Metabait is available and they are bringing out a milk protein/birdfood bait soon.

 

[Joe Winstanley]

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

Didn't another Macc Lad Howard Maddocks have that then record breaking beast from the Severn on a Campbell's meatball?

 

[Alan Palmer]

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

 

[Neil Sanger]

This thread made me think of the Waka boilie ... ... from BFW way back anyone else buy them ?
Neil

 

[Stephen Goderski]

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.....

 

[Julian Griffiths]

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.

Darren McCann does a dedicated tench base mix, under the name tincaberry.

Good for other species too!

 

[Julian Griffiths]

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]

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!

 

[Bob Watson]

Darren McCann does a dedicated tench base mix, under the name tincaberry.

Good for other species too!

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.

 

[Terry Harman]

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!

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

 

[Julian Griffiths]

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.

Good call. His baits are generally good to be fair!

 

[Kevin Brown]

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

 

[Jamie Dawson]

Assassin 8 quality bait,obviously not forgetting BFW Elips

 

[Paul Matthews]

BFW Salips were the dog's danglies !!

 

[Mark Walker]

This thread made me think of the Waka boilie ... ... from BFW way back anyone else buy them ?
Neil

Great bait, had two of my best ever barbel captures using them and then they disappeared.

 

[Alexander Shepherd]

Richworth Ultraplex , I used it for carp but it seemed everything wanted to eat it, tench,chub,bream,roach, barbel etc. Not used a boilie before or since that was so unselective. Ended up giving up using it as a carp bait but used it for everything else. Perhaps I was lucky/unlucky using it.