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Porridge oats are banned on one of my waters, they were so effective as a method mix the club banned it. mind you, kilos of the stuff was being introduced every day and the club said it was effecting water quality!

Hello to all fellow anglers, I am relatively new to Carp fishing, but I have found myself becoming more and more interested in this area of angling. There are few drawbacks to pursuing larger fish in my opinion, with one exception being the constant trips to the bait shop to replenish my stocks of ground bait and hook bait. It was for this reason that I decided to experiment with making cheap, effective, safe, and easily produced baits for my fishing outings. After some mixed results , I have discovered both ground bait, and hook bait recipes that have not failed to catch fish to 19 pounds on every session that I have used them. Please don't think that I am being egotistical, that is not my intention at all, I am merely passing on these recipes incase anyone would like to try them. It might be argued that there is nothing new about the baits that I use, and I would not be in a position to contest that, as I mentioned, I am something of a beginner when it comes to Carp fishing. For the ground bait I use one box of the cheapest corn flakes that I can find, and the same size box of bran flakes. I also use ten ginger biscuits, again the cheapest that I can find.These ingredients are then blitzed in my food processor until they become a coarse powder. The ground bait is then mixed with water, as any other ground bait is. It is worth mentioning that if the water is not fully absorbed, then particles of the corn flakes will come to the surface, bringing the carp with them! I have watched as many as 8 fish pick off these morsels! The ground bait for a full day's fishing costs me less than £2.00, and is very effective. For the hook bait I use one block of supermarket pastry, one small block of mature cheddar (for cheesy bulk, and flavour) , one small block of Red Leicester (for colour, and flavour), and a similar amount of Danish Blue cheese ( for scent , and flavour) . I then thoroughly mix all of the ingredients by hand, until it is not possible to distinguish any one ingredient. I will then have enough hook bait to last 4 to 5 full day's fishing. Although the initial outlay for the ingredients costs about £7.50, the cost per session for my bait is less than £2.00. I generally split the bait into 4 freezer bags, and freeze it. Any defrosted, unused bait can be refrozen. I don't, as a novice use complicated rigs when I fish, I simply use a 40 gram weight, which is stopped by a swivel, which is then connected to a home tied hair rig, ( I don't like to spend money on something that I can learn to do on YouTube!) I hope you all have great fishing sessions with whatever baits and tackle that you choose to use, Good luck, Martyn.

I done mine last summer I put my dome out the back set up gave it a good wash with a light soapy water let it dry Then get a 2 1/2 put some in a spray bottle use an old toothbrush or new paintbrush spray a little patch brush in circular motion I found best do a little at a time it takes two coats but well worth it mucka

Cultured goo baits anyone? Been soaking these for ages now they are being coated with sticky manilla stick mix and loads of goo it's quite amazing how much liquid these can take with the addition of groundbait 😍 The pink one is how they started out 😂

ive never read so much rubbish theres never been a 47lb carp in there it got to 44lb 8oz as for the crayfish they are no longer in there and mate you must of done something really wrong to make pete be rude and arragant as hes a very nice and helpful fishery manager and its not a poor fishery and run by rude staff its just they want to make sure they get proper carp fisherman on there who know what there doing and look after the fish not just some noddys who think they know what there doing just because they have a set of carp rods. theres a very good bunch of blokes get down there and they try and help new comers to the lakes and yes its hard lake but if you know what you doing and think about your approach it can be very easy to catch