PEMANCINGAN GALATAMA "TAMBOK LOBU"

Cheap Baits!

I know a lot of anglers can have trouble with buying expensive bait, so I plan too try and help people with a few suggestions of cheap baits, that can be obtained easily.

1. Luncheon meat/Spam/Cat (or dog) food:
Go into any supermarket and you will find these baits. Great fished in cubes for carp, tench, chub, barbel and bream or scale the size down for some good sized rudd, roach and crucians.

2. Sweetcorn:
A very good bait, will work for tench, chub, barbel, carp and bream. Can also pick off the bigger specimens of rudd and roach. Can be bought from any supermarket either tinned in a can or frozen bags.

3. Worms:
The best and cheapest bait around. Go out into the garden, do a bit of digging and you will get a lot of worms. For lobworms, go out at night and they'll all be on the grass and can be picked up without too much hassle. Also a sprinkling of water with washing up liquid in will get them up.

4. Borlotti Beans/Butter beans etc..:
A great bait for carp, freelined, fished under a float or legered. I've caught carp to 11lb on borlotti beans which have a nice sweet flavour. Go into any supermarket and they can be bought very cheaply.

5. Dog biscuits:
A great summer bait for carp feeding off the surface. Can be bought very cheaply from supermarkets and will last a long time.

6. Bread:
A great bait for most species. Can be fished on the surface for chub and carp, bread punch will catch quality roach, and bread flake will catch bream, carp, chub, barbel and tench. Extremely cheap from a supermarket and will last for ages.

7. Cheap pellets:
Go into a pet shop, or supermarket and you can often find cheap pellets at around 2.00 for 1kg. They can be used as loosefeed or made into a paste, and will catch/attract most species.

8.Mollases:
You'll find this stuff in 250ml bottles for around 2.50 in tackle shops. Go too any Pet store or Farm shop and you can buy the stuff in 5kg tubs for around 6.00. A great attractant, and good for making your groundbaits a bit thicker. A great attractor for carp and in particularer bream!

9. Goat/Chicken feed:
Can be bought in 25kg bags for around 6 pound from farm shops or pet store. Good used as groundbait, or great for spodding. Has some great ingredients and it includes betaine pellets which are expensive in tackle shops.

10. Pepperami:
Another bait that can be very good for picking off carp, tench and bream. Also good for chub and barbel. Can be bought very cheaply from supermarkets.

11. Wotsits:
A great surface bait for carp. Can be purchased from any supermarket, cheaper equivalents (cheese curls etc..) will do just as well. (www.freewebs.com/fishing_mania/index.htm)