Lidl garlic sausage

[Alan Palmer]

Disgusting stuff, can't believe the fish like it. Never mind humans.

Agree….but you have to keep eating it to convince yourself otherwise, it’s the rule!

 

[Stephen Dixon]

Honestly cannot believe you guys can sit there using this as bait without scoffing it yourself….think I would be “one for the fish, two for me”

Honestly, it's not the best. Gristle throughout, snout & arses

 

[Jon Young]

keep hearing people mentioning using 1/2 a tin as one bait!! are you REALLY using baits that big??? I usually use a 1” square piece on a hair or a 3/4” punch to cut out a (round) piece about 1” long……

I normally use the 250 gram tins and get 3 pieces out of it. Sometimes I cut it other times I’ll tear it off. With the 200 gram tins of spam I’ll more than often just spit it down the middle and have 2 pieces

 

[Bill Walford]

Honestly cannot believe you guys can sit there using this as bait without scoffing it yourself….think I would be “one for the fish, two for me”

That was certainly me with the black pepper spam Alan. I’ve not even been tempted by garlic spam

 

[Nigel Whittingham]

View attachment 31891I normally use the 250 gram tins and get 3 pieces out of it. Sometimes I cut it other times I’ll tear it off. With the 200 gram tins of spam I’ll more than often just spit it down the middle and have 2 pieces

Wow! I would never think of using such a lump! I’ll give it a go!

 

[Daniel Jeffery]

Wow! I would never think of using such a lump! I’ll give it a go!

You might find this thread interesting

Meat fishing a nearside slack

One of my preferred pegs has a nearside slack that has produced in the past on boilies, but i'm fancying putting a big lump (half a tin) of meat down there for a change. How would you recommend fishing it? Freelined and plonked in or set up properly with a lead so there is something for the...

barbel.co.uk

 

[Nigel Whittingham]

Yes, very interesting! Looks crazy (to me!) but can understand the logic and will give it a go.

 

[Neil Blood]

As I pointed out in the above linked thread, 99% of Barbel anglers will dismiss the big meat method, which suits me fine.

Having been put onto the method by a mate, and having read Lawrence’s original writings on the subject, I’ve spent a huge amount of time perfecting/tweaking it, to my own liking.

It’s my preferred method for catching Barbel on the Centrepin and it’s totally addictive!

You won’t bag up, but it does produce good sized Barbel

 

[Lawrence Breakspear]

Come to daddy...

 

[Nigel Whittingham]

I’m back on the Severn next Wednesday. Fascinated now to chuck one out down the inside….

 

[Jon Young]

As Neil says you won’t bag up as the aim is to target the bigger fish but you’d be surprised how small some of the fish are you catch. Obviously if your baits been out a while and been getting pecked away at by the small fish it will eventually become small enough for small barbel to fit in their mouth but occasionally you’ll get a bite quickly and the only explanation is that it’s bit the meat exactly where the hook is. Normally though it will be a decent fish you catch

 

[Lawrence Breakspear]

View attachment 31891I normally use the 250 gram tins and get 3 pieces out of it. Sometimes I cut it other times I’ll tear it off. With the 200 gram tins of spam I’ll more than often just spit it down the middle and have 2 pieces

View attachment 31891I normally use the 250 gram tins and get 3 pieces out of it. Sometimes I cut it other times I’ll tear it off. With the 200 gram tins of spam I’ll more than often just spit it down the middle and have 2 pieces

 

[Lawrence Breakspear]

 

[Stephen Dixon]

Always wondered why you could buy 1.8kg tins

 

[Jim Brook]

Wow! I would never think of using such a lump! I’ll give it a go!

 

[Stephen Dixon]

You might find this thread interesting

Meat fishing a nearside slack

One of my preferred pegs has a nearside slack that has produced in the past on boilies, but i'm fancying putting a big lump (half a tin) of meat down there for a change. How would you recommend fishing it? Freelined and plonked in or set up properly with a lead so there is something for the...

barbel.co.uk

Great read thanks

 

[Neil Blood]

The bit on the left is a half tin hookbait, the bit on the right, was on the hook and in the water for an hour plus.

 

[Jim Brook]

A 8lb fish scoffed the larger piece of meat after smaller samples were getting smashed by chub and not being able to have a bait in the water for sufficient time for the barbel to get to it first

 

[Stephen Dixon]

What would be the hook choice with a huge chunk like this? Would a size 2 Super Specialist be ok?

 

[Jim Brook]

What would be the hook choice with a huge chunk like this? Would a size 2 Super Specialist be ok?

I use size 2 drennan continental boilie hook with the barb crushed mate