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Cheap Effective Groundbait

 

 

Making your own groundbait is not rocket science, its very cheap and also gives you that deep down satisfaction of knowing you caught a fish on your own personal bait. If you couple this with Mikes Stinky boilies you are sure to be on to a winner.

 

A few things to remember before we get started. Im not a scientist, i dont measure anything and i trust my judgement with quantitys

 

The base for the groundbait has to be the good old trusted bread crumb or liquidised bread. If you have stale bread use the bread crumb method, if your bread is very fresh and you are going fishing the next day then use the liquidised method. The reason is because fresh bread wont crumb up properly and will go mouldy very quickly. 

 

To make your crumb, make sure your bread is very stale (the stage just before mould sets in) or put it in the oven until it is rock hard. Then take your bread and place it in the wifes food processor, keep the processor going until you have a fine crumb. 

If you are using fresh bread simply put it straight in the processor and keep it going until you have something that looks like crumb.

This is your base for the groundbait. Next you can add whatever you want providing you keep in your mind you want to entice the fish not feed them. One of my best mixes is:

 

1 or 2 loaves of bread crumbed up

1 packet of the supermarkets own brand of angel delight (strawberry seems to work well)

Some dried milk or condensed milk (if its condensed milk add it at the end)

a few handfulls of pellet (chopped right down in the blender, sssh wife dont know)

handful of boilies crumbed up

a few handfulls of layers mash (get it from a animal feed store and soak it for 48 hours, this makes it give off a cloudy effect in the water)

A few handfulls of Bakers meaty chunks ground up like crump (find it in your supermarket, in with the dog food)

Porridge oats to help bind it all together

 

I then mix it all together and if its too wet add more porridge oats or crumb to the mix, I like to have a very near dry mix incase i want to use it in the stick method.

If im going fishing for catfish, to this mix I will add some dead maggots, chopped worm, chopped liver etc etc.

 

As with everything make the recipe your own and have the satisfaction of landing your PB on your own baits, there is nothing like it!