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Cheese paste recipe

Wow, good going Robert, that will put the price up:rolleyes:
 
Thanks Robert, ordered 2 large tubs on the strength of that. Got a River in mind that it should do well with.
 
Ash Gould said:
At £20/kilo it had better be good!

Fools and their money!
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Bit harsh that - calling someone a fool because they would rather pay someone a pound or so to do a messy job for them than do it themselves. Am i fool for paying Mr Warburton £1.45 for a loaf? After all, making bread isn't hard is it?! I suppose when you fancy a steak sandwhich after you've set aside your dough to rise your off to butcher your own cow! :p :D

Anyway - it's no more expensive than most shop bought paste baits and it is that good! Ask Rob! ;)
 
Andrew Boyne said:
Bit harsh that - calling someone a fool because they would rather pay someone a pound or so to do a messy job for them than do it themselves. Am i fool for paying Mr Warburton £1.45 for a loaf? After all, making bread isn't hard is it?! I suppose when you fancy a steak sandwhich after you've set aside your dough to rise your off to butcher your own cow! :p :D

Anyway - it's no more expensive than most shop bought paste baits and it is that good! Ask Rob! ;)
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True enough Andrew. However, when I was younger I used to feel that the preparation before a fishing trip, the planning and scheming, the cleaning and checking of each item of tackle...and the making of the bait....all added up to an almost painful level of anticipation. I loved every second of it, and catching a fish on a bait lovingly prepared by your own hands was the icing on the cake.

Now that I am a lazy old fart, I don't bother with all that....and that MAY be why I have problems drumming up enough enthusiasm to go as often these days. Who knows? :D

Cheers, Dave.
 
David Gauntlett said:
True enough Andrew. However, when I was younger I used to feel that the preparation before a fishing trip, the planning and scheming, the cleaning and checking of each item of tackle...and the making of the bait....all added up to an almost painful level of anticipation. I loved every second of it, and catching a fish on a bait lovingly prepared by your own hands was the icing on the cake.

Now that I am a lazy old fart, I don't bother with all that....and that MAY be why I have problems drumming up enough enthusiasm to go as often these days. Who knows? :D

Cheers, Dave.
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People fish for manydifferent reasons but I am in full agreement with Dave here. I think the preparing of the bait, the day, the swim, even the sandwiches all form part of the whole package. This seems even more so when targeting big fish and I think it's the fact of having as meticulous a preparation as possible in every respect increases the chances of success. As Dave says, it certainly enhances the anticipation
 
David Gauntlett said:
True enough Andrew. However, when I was younger I used to feel that the preparation before a fishing trip, the planning and scheming, the cleaning and checking of each item of tackle...and the making of the bait....all added up to an almost painful level of anticipation. I loved every second of it, and catching a fish on a bait lovingly prepared by your own hands was the icing on the cake.

Now that I am a lazy old fart, I don't bother with all that....and that MAY be why I have problems drumming up enough enthusiasm to go as often these days. Who knows? :D

Cheers, Dave.
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Alex Gowney said:
People fish for manydifferent reasons but I am in full agreement with Dave here. I think the preparing of the bait, the day, the swim, even the sandwiches all form part of the whole package. This seems even more so when targeting big fish and I think it's the fact of having as meticulous a preparation as possible in every respect increases the chances of success. As Dave says, it certainly enhances the anticipation
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That's fair enough chaps, there was a time when i went through the meticulous preperation for every session but having spent the last 6 seasons on a north west spate river i've come to realise that preperation is nothing - timing is everything! Get it wrong and no amount of preparation will help your cause - better to be ready to go at a moments notice and if that includes instant, off the shelf, made by somebody else baits - so be it. :)
 
Andrew Boyne said:
That's fair enough chaps, there was a time when i went through the meticulous preperation for every session but having spent the last 6 seasons on a north west spate river i've come to realise that preperation is nothing - timing is everything! Get it wrong and no amount of preparation will help your cause - better to be ready to go at a moments notice and if that includes instant, off the shelf, made by somebody else baits - so be it. :)
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Again, fare enough Andrew....but I have shelf loads of small balls of cling filmed home made cheese paste (and smelly meat/fishmeal paste) in my freezer...small enough to guarantee they will thaw out on the way to the river. I don't have to dash around finding a shop to sell me some, just grab some of my own. Have paste, will travel...any time, instantly :D

Cheers, Dave.
 
Ash Gould said:
At £20/kilo it had better be good!

Fools and their money!
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Do me a favour, what with all the hassle od having to actually shop :eek: for the ingredients, and then having to prepare it, I actually think it is reasonable value, of course the proof of the pudding etc.
If it is a barbel charmer rest assured I will not broadcast it on here...miserable sods :)
 
I didn't think the price was too unreasonable either. For those who dislike bait making I'd say it was decent value. I just quite like making bait and you can always add a little extra ingredient to your own and kid yourself it makes all the difference!
 
I tend to agree that the price is not unreasonable, particularly from the domestic strife point of view. I do remember one unfortunate on here regaling the spillage of a bottle of Mosnter crab flavour and the blue cheese dip linked on this thread stinks to high heaven as I had a whiff of a similar product in a local tackle shop. I do prepare my own but tend to wait till the wife is out for a good few hours and I can clear the evidence away, mind if she disturbs the current batch fermenting in a bag in the garage she'll have my nads for cufflinks :p
 
Know the prob Stuart :D I usually add a few drops of N-Butyric acid with the blue cheese flavour, on top of the real blue cheese, mature Cheddar and pastry dough....lordy that honks :p

On the odd occasion I have added garlic essential oil...but then you need a gas mask to use it...it makes your eyes water!

Cheers, Dave.
 
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As Dave said, difficult to answer definitively. If I was using cheese paste, I would be fishing for chub in the winter. The days therefore would be short, it would most likely be cold, and the fishing fairly hard. I like using medium sized lumps on a number eight. However, if you prefer tiny pieces on a twelve...or huge lumps on a four...or if the chub population on your river is much higher, or lower than mine, then it will vary.

On an average short winters day, I guess I would use two golf ball sized lumps, unless I was feeding it in, then obviously more.

Cheers, Dave.
 
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