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Flavours for roach

Alan Palmer

Alan Palmer

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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
 
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
 
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)
 
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Think I will get some geranium oil and aniseed and alternate those to start with….thanks all
 
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.
 
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.
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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..
 
I’ve just started fishing a canal as it’s the only type of fishing available near to where I am temporarily renting. In the beginning I had to use those multi coloured maggots from a pet shop for the same reason. A pint is mostly saw dust. I began by casting a waggler to the side of boats and then to over hanging brambles on the far bank. No bites at all so I was constantly on the move. Eventually, I decided to stay put and practise casting. By lunchtime I had no expectations and would have been happy with seeing the float dip once. After lunch, a local dog walker approached and said I was wasting my time as at this time of year the fish don’t switch on until an hour before sunset and I should fish under the rod top in front of the reeds. I took his advice and swapped to a top and bottom float. Nothing happened until 14:50 and then the canal came alive. I was over the moon catching sardines as I have not fished for over a year. Since that first time, a couple of weeks ago, the method has become a little more sophisticated. I’ve driven 25 miles to buy proper maggots and prep a bucket sized swim with a sprinkling of aniseed flavoured hemp. I don’t bother arriving before 14:00 and am catching stunning roach requiring a landing net. Surprisingly, only one perch has appeared in six sessions so I’ll target them soon.
 
Edward Adcock said:
I’ve just started fishing a canal as it’s the only type of fishing available near to where I am temporarily renting. In the beginning I had to use those multi coloured maggots from a pet shop for the same reason. A pint is mostly saw dust. I began by casting a waggler to the side of boats and then to over hanging brambles on the far bank. No bites at all so I was constantly on the move. Eventually, I decided to stay put and practise casting. By lunchtime I had no expectations and would have been happy with seeing the float dip once. After lunch, a local dog walker approached and said I was wasting my time as at this time of year the fish don’t switch on until an hour before sunset and I should fish under the rod top in front of the reeds. I took his advice and swapped to a top and bottom float. Nothing happened until 14:50 and then the canal came alive. I was over the moon catching sardines as I have not fished for over a year. Since that first time, a couple of weeks ago, the method has become a little more sophisticated. I’ve driven 25 miles to buy proper maggots and prep a bucket sized swim with a sprinkling of aniseed flavoured hemp. I don’t bother arriving before 14:00 and am catching stunning roach requiring a landing net. Surprisingly, only one perch has appeared in six sessions so I’ll target them soon.
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Sounds like you’ve re-found the magical joy we all experienced when starting fishing but lose to some extent as we battle for larger fish. Enjoy it & make the most out of it. Canal fishing can be very good at times, especially now they are largely left alone thanks to commercials. I went on my local stretch a few weeks ago with a handful of magotts intending to catch live baits and target the perch but instantly got into 8-10oz roach. I got completely side tracked and carried on until my bait was exhausted but left for home really satisfied that i had just ‘gone with it’ and enjoyed myself, the Perch would wait until next time!
 
Edward Adcock said:
I’ve just started fishing a canal as it’s the only type of fishing available near to where I am temporarily renting. In the beginning I had to use those multi coloured maggots from a pet shop for the same reason. A pint is mostly saw dust. I began by casting a waggler to the side of boats and then to over hanging brambles on the far bank. No bites at all so I was constantly on the move. Eventually, I decided to stay put and practise casting. By lunchtime I had no expectations and would have been happy with seeing the float dip once. After lunch, a local dog walker approached and said I was wasting my time as at this time of year the fish don’t switch on until an hour before sunset and I should fish under the rod top in front of the reeds. I took his advice and swapped to a top and bottom float. Nothing happened until 14:50 and then the canal came alive. I was over the moon catching sardines as I have not fished for over a year. Since that first time, a couple of weeks ago, the method has become a little more sophisticated. I’ve driven 25 miles to buy proper maggots and prep a bucket sized swim with a sprinkling of aniseed flavoured hemp. I don’t bother arriving before 14:00 and am catching stunning roach requiring a landing net. Surprisingly, only one perch has appeared in six sessions so I’ll target them soon.
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Some of Archie’s flavours were particularly good for perch in cold water. Notably the ‘hot’ ones.

The last Winter roach fishing I did was with maggots flavoured with a very sweet CC Moore flavour. Happy to look it up for you if that helps.

I’ve also had a surprising number of decent roach by accident on the Baitworks Proflow boilies. No idea what the key ingredient is, but there is something in that bait that roach really like; it might be the essential oil……
 
Tim Marks said:
Some of Archie’s flavours were particularly good for perch in cold water. Notably the ‘hot’ ones.

The last Winter roach fishing I did was with maggots flavoured with a very sweet CC Moore flavour. Happy to look it up for you if that helps.

I’ve also had a surprising number of decent roach by accident on the Baitworks Proflow boilies. No idea what the key ingredient is, but there is something in that bait that roach really like; it might be the essential oil……
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Thanks, but think I’m sorted now with some geranium oil (nutrabaits)….blimey it’s potent!
 
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