True cost of baiting up

[mrmud]

Edited June 14, 2024 by mrmud

[Higham1987]

22 minutes ago, mrmud said:

Exactly, I bought around 100kg plus of Bait...

46kg Bio Marine (when was on sale), Pop Uos, Wafter, Glugs, Liquid Food. 

30kg Carp Particles - Ultimate

10 Bags of Frozen Corn

1 Sack of Aller Aqua Feed Pellets

Thus was all supposed for a Park Lake Campaign which I should be in Now, but ended selling all my Gear (+Bait)

 

[mrmud]

On 14/06/2024 at 14:58, Higham1987 said:

46kg Bio Marine (when was on sale), Pop Uos, Wafter, Glugs, Liquid Food. 

30kg Carp Particles - Ultimate

10 Bags of Frozen Corn

1 Sack of Aller Aqua Feed Pellets

Don't realise how much until you started listening it all

[kevtaylor]

Mates going Parco again this week, taking 330k of bait for 2 weeks, something like that might last someone years, there it's nothing special.

[elmoputney]

16 minutes ago, kevtaylor said:

Mates going Parco again this week, taking 330k of bait for 2 weeks, something like that might last someone years, there it's nothing special.

Is that just boilies? 

[kevtaylor]

2 hours ago, elmoputney said:

Is that just boilies? 

No tigers - whole, chopped and powdered, 10 x crates of corn, maples and boilies.

[elmoputney]

19 hours ago, kevtaylor said:

No tigers - whole, chopped and powdered, 10 x crates of corn, maples and boilies.

That seems a lot still and a lot of preperation. Must have cost a small fortune. 

[kevtaylor]

22 minutes ago, elmoputney said:

That seems a lot still and a lot of preperation. Must have cost a small fortune. 

Indeed mate lots of prep time and fairly costly granted - final tally 340k including liquids, but this is Parco and as he's been about 10 times prob knows it better than anyone tbh

I'd love a 2 week trip somewhere - proper chilled with the security of a 2nd week should the first be rubbish.

[elmoputney]

13 minutes ago, kevtaylor said:

Indeed mate lots of prep time and fairly costly granted - final tally 340k including liquids, but this is Parco and as he's been about 10 times prob knows it better than anyone tbh

I'd love a 2 week trip somewhere - proper chilled with the security of a 2nd week should the first be rubbish.

Oh yeah it would be a dream to have that sort of time for a trip, maybe one day Kev. I guess you get out what you put into it, In my head that amount of bait doesn't even fit in a van 😂

[kevtaylor]

1 hour ago, elmoputney said:

Oh yeah it would be a dream to have that sort of time for a trip, maybe one day Kev. I guess you get out what you put into it, In my head that amount of bait doesn't even fit in a van 😂

No it's a big van and that's a lot of weight, the guy who's van it is will take a 10th of that amount and catch barely anything but he's not serious at all whereas my mate will spod night and day and smash it if conditions are good, he's a machine when need is must.

Travelling to Belgium this year in my car and taking 20k of boilies each that's it anything more is banned by me - buy pellets etc there if needed.  The only place I would want to take 150k plus a week is for Parco, very few places are like that, although it's not what it was a few years ago.

[elmoputney]

43 minutes ago, kevtaylor said:

No it's a big van and that's a lot of weight, the guy who's van it is will take a 10th of that amount and catch barely anything but he's not serious at all whereas my mate will spod night and day and smash it if conditions are good, he's a machine when need is must.

Travelling to Belgium this year in my car and taking 20k of boilies each that's it anything more is banned by me - buy pellets etc there if needed.  The only place I would want to take 150k plus a week is for Parco, very few places are like that, although it's not what it was a few years ago.

I had to work it out it was frying my brain lol, it's just over 20kgs a day of baiting, doesn't seem so excessive that way, but that's a lot of spodding. He must have arms like popeye,i would have to use a bait boat I think. 

[kevtaylor]

12 minutes ago, elmoputney said:

I had to work it out it was frying my brain lol, it's just over 20kgs a day of baiting, doesn't seem so excessive that way, but that's a lot of spodding. He must have arms like popeye,i would have to use a bait boat I think. 

No boats allowed lol and yes it's 2 buckets a day, we found that if you weren't spodding you weren't catching.  He will probably come back ill from it all again, missing meals, missing rest, up all night if it's night bites.  We were lucky first trip it was day bites and we reeled in at 7pm for dinner and didn't put them back out till morning, think I only had the rods out on 2 nights.

Some trips he's had it rocking to the point he's flipping 30s, 40s and mistakenly some 50s  without doing pics simply because you can't keep up.

Edited September 10 by kevtaylor

[yonny]

15 minutes ago, kevtaylor said:

Some trips he's had it rocking to the point he's flipping 30s, 40s and mistakenly some 50s  without doing pics simply because you can't keep up.

That sounds insane!!!

[kevtaylor]

20 hours ago, yonny said:

That sounds insane!!!

I know mate obviously good and bad trips and area specific but when it's on it's on!  Can see me doing another trip or two at some point.  He was freelining from up a tree pulling the bait away from what he thought were 40s and 50s because there was one giant lurking at the back.  4 days later he finally allowed the biggest fish on the spot at the time to take it and it went 66lb and he thought that was a 50 at the most at the time, so what he'd been pulling the bait away from all week who knows, but the lure of that possible 80 at the back kind of forced him to refuse the others.  Was up a tree all day like 10 hours in the rain, wasn't pretty but exciting he wouldn't come down, I did find the spot as well it was mega!

Over a day a fairly small group would get through a full bucket 1ft from the edge, wish we had a go-pro.

[kevtaylor]

On 10/09/2025 at 16:08, yonny said:

That sounds insane!!!

Final tally of photograph worthy fish 110 roughly inc 5 x 60's, lots of 50's and 40s - think he's done there now.  Several will have blanked, it's become very swimmy, he slowed down second week didn't fish for 24 hours after someone took the mick and wound him up.

Edited 5 hours ago by kevtaylor

[elmoputney]

3 hours ago, kevtaylor said:

Final tally of photograph worthy fish 110 roughly inc 5 x 60's, lots of 50's and 40s - think he's done there now.  Several will have blanked, it's become very swimmy, he slowed down second week didn't fish for 24 hours after someone took the mick and wound him up.

Wow that is insane, he's caught a lifetimes worth of fish in a week, mega result. He must be superhuman.