Flavours for roach

[Alan Palmer]

Does anyone know of any flavours/additives that roach are particularly attracted to…liquids/spices etc. I will be using it to flavour maggots and tares. and on the river

 

[Graham Elliott]

Aniseed

 

[Jon Frisby]

Nutrabaits Geranium

 

[Mark Swaby]

I always put a couple of drops of Mainline response Pineapple into a small amount of water on casters when targeting big Roach. I remember arriving one morning and struggling for a couple of hours to get bites in a favourite swim. I then realised I had forgot to flavour my casters the night before. Two drops into the bait box with a drop of river water, a quick shake and within minutes started catching good Roach. That morning it was brought home how important two drops of flavour was to my caster fishing. One bottle will last a very long time. You could try a camera film type container pop clean maggot inside and then a drop of flavour over night for hook baits

 

[Nigel Whittingham]

Pineapple does it for me! The old (90’s)10mm solar pineapple pop ups were a killer for Tench, Bream & Roach and have stuck to it ever since (N-butric acid type)

 

[Barry Peck]

Aniseed in your hemp ... buy oil from racing pigeon suppliers . Or aniseed powder for your maggots .
Aniseed essential oil for your maggots also

 

[Barry Peck]

 

[Alan Palmer]

Nutrabaits Geranium

Of course…forgot this! If I remember geranium oil was the main ingredient in one of Archie Braddocks old roach flavours

 

[Alan Palmer]

Think I will get some geranium oil and aniseed and alternate those to start with….thanks all

 

[Dave Brooksbank]

All the flavours mentioned can be effective.Ive got loads I try out and you'll find that they'll go mad for one of them on the day,So try swapping flavours.

 

[Daniel Jeffery]

Some of this, tiny amount, like one drop for a pint of maggs. You’ll smell like Grandma’s perfume/toilet air freshener all day.

 

[Jon Frisby]

Archive Braddock got well into the flavourings for Roach and wrote a couple of books too. Met him a few times over the years. He advised me to use flavoured dead/suffocated maggots over live flavoured maggots on the hook.. His head and enthusiasm is like a teenager, but his age is telling him something different... lovely bloke..