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how is it

Chris Thomson

Chris Thomson

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That we associate barbel with meaty spicy baits over friuty sweet type ones, is this another taken for gospel fact but has no credence? Just wondering
 
Hi men,

True Chris , same with me , I'm using a curry / spice/ balti type of attractor , but that probly reflects my taste in food rather than theirs :D


Hatter
 
It's because there's more protein in meat. Lol
Some quite popular baits break with that though don't they? Nutrabaits do a fruit bait that seems to do well and John Baker had a fish bait flavoured with plum.
 
I think it's just the hype pushed out by the manufacturers Chris. They push fishy/meaty/spicy base mixes and flavours more than the sweet/fruity ones. The sweeter flavours are always available, but they are outnumbered hugely by the savoury ones, which at best are usually reduced to background flavours on a fish meal base.

No doubt fish meal base mixes and additives/flavours are more easily sourced or more profitable somehow for the big companies....you can guarantee that profit is the main driver here, as in anything else. My first and most successful early carp bait was Richworth Tuties....but I was eventually won over by the massive marketing based around fish meals and so on.

Cheers, Dave.
 
Simon, if theres no big shoals of bream then a really good quality boily will shine out no matter whats the time of year mate
 
I was sat with a chap recently and he was doing rather well. He invited me to smell his boilies and I definitely detected a slight fruity note. Which is perhaps key nothing too overpowering perhaps?
 
Baker did another that was just more or less a 50/50 flavoured with a coconut type liquid. That weren't too bad.
 
A good mate of mine took a 14.08 with cell two seasons ago Chris,...it always seems to ring the dinner bell for carp when I use it though!
Barbel certainly like sweet favours, I guess it's just a question of what bait an angler feels most confident with,..usually the one he/she caught their last fish with!
 
The Cell is undoubtedly a killer carp bait on most waters, but not all, I tried it many times for Thames barbel, only catching 1 fish on it, at the same time I used my old faithful Active maple 8 and slaughtered them, I won,t be using it again!
peter
 
Back in the seventies our idea of an exotic bait was luncheon meat flavoured with Bovril and we caught loads of fish on such simple fare.
Based on the fact that many anglers (myself included) have this year been struggling to catch even though we've been using a range of truly wondrous baits incorporating some of the most outlandish gourmet flavours known to mankind, I have come up with two conclusions: barbel have either evolved into the most 'picky' eaters in the animal kingdom or they are all on hunger strike just to spite anglers!
 
Roger Carswell said:
Back in the seventies our idea of an exotic bait was luncheon meat flavoured with Bovril and we caught loads of fish on such simple fare.
Based on the fact that many anglers (myself included) have this year been struggling to catch even though we've been using a range of truly wondrous baits incorporating some of the most outlandish gourmet flavours known to mankind, I have come up with two conclusions: barbel have either evolved into the most 'picky' eaters in the animal kingdom or they are all on hunger strike just to spite anglers!
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Either that....or you forgot to try the Bovril flavoured luncheon meat Roger :D

Cheers, Dave.
 
Don't worry David - I've just loaded my gear in the car and Good old luncheon meat is on the menu today! The Severn has 1.4m on and rising - the water temp is also good. The main obstacle to snaring a few barbel will be the amount of debris that'll be coming down the river. Anyway, I'm prepared to take a gamble......after switching off my computer I estimate it'll take all of 10 minutes to get to the nearest swim on my local river Severn!
 
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