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Ground bait

J

Jonathan Edwards

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New to barbel fishing and looking to putting a ground bait together for feeder fishing and wandering if there any off the shelf or should i put my own together. Will be fishing the trent around Newark and the upper witham . Been carp fishing 35 years and fancy a change. Have a few bags of trent baits freshwater shrimp and wandered whether they would be worth a go.Thanks Jon
 
Layers mash from a feed store as a base plus whatever you fancy.

I usually use cod liver oil / salmon oil plus ground or mashed pellet. Also throw in the oil/brine from tinned tuna. Does the job brilliantly and costs virtually nothing.
 
Hi and welcome to BFW.

Barbel are greedy creatures and will feed on most offerings. But bearing in mind you are fishing fast deep rivers you might consider using feed in your feeder that will at least get to the bottom without dispersing before it reaches the bottom of the river.

Try plugging a sandwich of small pellet with what ever ground bait you have to hand, I use a heavy mix for this as the release is slow as possible, having some feed left in the feeder would be ideal when you retrieve to top up.

I fish the Lower Severn so similar to the Trent, big feeders are the order of the day in the summer, but of course in the winter you might want to cut down on the feed altogether, where a single bait (flavoured meat) will often fish better.

Best of luck with the Barbel, you certainly have at your disposal a great River in the Trent, certainly I reckon that it will beat hands down the Carp scene.:)
 
Layers mash is superb. Dynamites glm groundbait. Dont forget hemp as a must. No better attractant imo. If its an unfished stretch or within 5mins prebait.
 
Fishmeal based ground baits work well and as Jon says, hemp is a great attractor for Barbel. For an off the shelf mix you could do far worse than Sonu's Hemp n Hali crush.
 
Lots of off the shelf groundbaits that are very good, Mainline, hinders, ETC, not cheap to say the least.
 
Dynamite xl range hemp and halibut is my prefered groundbait. The boilies also work very wel ;)
 
Trent baits freshwater shrimp (presume you mean the base mix) makes a great groundbait, but you'd be better off mixing it into another base groundbait. (unless your minted!)
I've had good results adding it into crushed red halibut pellet groundbait, with a bit of hemp for good measure.
make a few boiled baits from the same mix for hookbaits ;-)
 
i make my own specifically for the trent, works out much cheaper than shop bought which is now knocking up 5 quid a kilo :eek:

i dont use layers mash for this but do for some others, i bulk it out with some maize meal instead.

add crushed pellet/salmon fry crumb and crushed hemp plus crushed csl pellet (which if you look around is very cheap for 25 kilo;) )

i then add a couple of secret special additives ;)
 
1kg of mixed pellets (2-6mm with a few bigger ones thrown in), add boiling water to cover and leave overnight (sealed Bucket). Add another 1kg of Pellets and mix well, seal bucket and leave overnight........ Mix well again, sorted !!!
Jam it into the feeder, works fine. Cheapest option I know......
 
Colin Bridger said:
Vitalin.
Riddle out the big flakes and add hemp and mini pellets
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Vitalin works pretty well through a blender too to reduce the size. I usually stick in a big bucket and attack with a hand blender for a great method mix consistency...also good for deeper flowing water.
 
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