Paste mixes

[David Craine]

Hi all, I have been doing some searches on here re paste mixes, and it seems that there are a multitude of differing views as to how to get the best out of them, most seem to rely on simple crushed pellet or boilie.......or commercially available base mixes and flavours.
I was checking out the contents of my bait freezer today,I should at this stage say that I have lots of frozen seabaits, and some really need using up, having been there a bit to long, I had a brainwave....
For my next batch of Paste, I have used defrosted squid, mussel, peeler crab, some mackerel, and a roll of black lugworm, all has been zapped in the foodmixer, and rolled together with some semolina powder, powdered pellet and Mackerel oil, oh, and some belachian paste to add a bit of zing.
The result is a purple / dark brown paste , smells, well I will let you guess that one, the wife shut me out of the house with the paste and would not let me back in until I had washed everything up.. the paste has had to stay in the workshop.
I wonder,as there is about a pound and a half of this paste mixture does anybody think it would be worth adding an egg or two to create some custom boilies ?
I shall use the paste on a paste spring, and also as a wrap, I may try some mixed with crumb in a method feeder mix as well.
I will be testing this stuff out tomorrow on the Ribble, the last Barbel I had on home made paste was a double,a couple of years ago, so who knows, I may strike lucky again, problem is that I very likely wont be able to replicate the stuff.

Has anybody else any experience of this type of paste mix ?

Dave

 

[David Pearce]

Homemade pastes can be a killer but you want to start noting down what ratios your putting in, so u can replicate it if you hit a good one,

 

[David Pearce]

If crays or nuisance fish aint going to be a problem, I would just make a real stiff paste that will last a fair while on the spring, and don't bother with the boilies,

 

[David Craine]

Thanks for the imput David,the paste was quite stiff,and outfished a conventional pellet rig 4 fish to one,nothing big,but results were good enough for me to try and replicate the mix.....trip report on Ribble thread.

Dave.

 

[Neil Smart]

Hi all, I have been doing some searches on here re paste mixes, and it seems that there are a multitude of differing views as to how to get the best out of them, most seem to rely on simple crushed pellet or boilie.......or commercially available base mixes and flavours.
I was checking out the contents of my bait freezer today,I should at this stage say that I have lots of frozen seabaits, and some really need using up, having been there a bit to long, I had a brainwave....
For my next batch of Paste, I have used defrosted squid, mussel, peeler crab, some mackerel, and a roll of black lugworm, all has been zapped in the foodmixer, and rolled together with some semolina powder, powdered pellet and Mackerel oil, oh, and some belachian paste to add a bit of zing.
The result is a purple / dark brown paste , smells, well I will let you guess that one, the wife shut me out of the house with the paste and would not let me back in until I had washed everything up.. the paste has had to stay in the workshop.
I wonder,as there is about a pound and a half of this paste mixture does anybody think it would be worth adding an egg or two to create some custom boilies ?
I shall use the paste on a paste spring, and also as a wrap, I may try some mixed with crumb in a method feeder mix as well.
I will be testing this stuff out tomorrow on the Ribble, the last Barbel I had on home made paste was a double,a couple of years ago, so who knows, I may strike lucky again, problem is that I very likely wont be able to replicate the stuff.

Has anybody else any experience of this type of paste mix ?

Dave

Nope
I am married with neighbours