brissycarper Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 What's everyone using for surface baits? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leggs007 Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 chum mixers with a cell pop up shaped like a biscuit cheap and deadly method when the suns up and the carp are cruising,don't suppose they have seen many mixers in your neck of the woods Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatch8 Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 Yeah.....mixers. Cheap and easy to get a good few catapults of the stuff a fair distance. To be fair carp will have a slurp at pretty much anything that floats. I can't imagine they can see what's on the top too well when looking up from their dark depths into the bright sky, they just go for whatever breaks the surface.. A flake of bread is a nice bait for targeting individual fish in the margins too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brissycarper Posted November 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 I've spent the last six weeks or so trying to find chum mixers in Australia with no joy Don't know if its the heat or sun, but I'm struggling to get fish to come up top for a bait. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leggs007 Posted November 28, 2012 Report Share Posted November 28, 2012 i would go for bread then,you could experiment with the dog biscuits that are sold over there if they float they should work you could just use cork as a hook bait cut to the same shape Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brissycarper Posted November 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 Breads a no no as the lake is full off ducks, that home in on it Got some floating cat biscuits & pedigree dog biscuits that float, but four boxes in still haven't had a fish rise for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spatch8 Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 If they're slow up for mixers then they're likely to be slow up for everything really. When they're reluctant to feed it can be best to start by trickling some bait in really slow - one or two mixers at a time every minute or so...when the fish start taking them that's the time to start upping the feed and get your hookbait in the mix. An alternative is marshmallows - seen that done a lot. I just see them as a firmer version of bread really, stay on your hook a bit better. Just be careful with the ducks. You might have to feed them off first. They can be a real pain and distrupt your carefully fed swim, but it's better that then hook one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leggs007 Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 cheesy wotsits Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheesynips Posted December 2, 2012 Report Share Posted December 2, 2012 jaffa cakes and sugar puffs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newmarket Posted December 19, 2013 Report Share Posted December 19, 2013 I bet sugar puffs catapult nicely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkf Posted December 19, 2013 Report Share Posted December 19, 2013 Try fishing first light best time for floater fishing bait wise I would lose feed dog biscuits little and often utill the carp are feeding confident hook bait super glue a mixer to a size 8 hook try and get the carp in close and freeline the mixer that way hope this helps tight lines and good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pte1643 Posted December 19, 2013 Report Share Posted December 19, 2013 I've had success, as said, with Pedigree Chum Mixer and Bread. But come this Summer I'm going to try Dry Fly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkf Posted December 19, 2013 Report Share Posted December 19, 2013 I've had success, as said, with Pedigree Chum Mixer and Bread. But come this Summer I'm going to try Dry Fly. tried this last summer and was great fun flies I used were all tied by myself using deer hair made to look like my free offerings great fun and would strongly recamend giving it a go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pte1643 Posted December 19, 2013 Report Share Posted December 19, 2013 I've had success, as said, with Pedigree Chum Mixer and Bread. But come this Summer I'm going to try Dry Fly. tried this last summer and was great fun flies I used were all tied by myself using deer hair made to look like my free offerings great fun and would strongly recamend giving it a go Hi Philip. Can I ask... How did you fish the fly? Just as a you would a Mixer, with a Controller Float etc? I was thinking this... Or even going down the full Fly Rod and Floating Line route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pkf Posted December 21, 2013 Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 Flyrod and floating line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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