Bait, do you use anything homemade?

[AndyA]

I'm interested to hear if anyone makes their own fishing bait, or does it need to be the regular natural baits such as worms, squid etc?

 

[Wolf]

Welcome to the forum. I only use regular natural baits,I do sometimes use a squid filled with worm,or crab.

 

[Mr Fish]

Some people make crab cart from brown crab but have no idea how. Presumably there’s info on YouTube etc.

People make ground bait/shirvy at home from mashed up oily fish, bread crumbs etc, the intent being to create an oily slick to get mullet or bream etc feeding.

And some like to make up their cocktail baits at home and freeze them on a hook trace.
I’m sure that works and yes I guess it saves time on the beach though to my mind you’re losing a certain amount of the juices and scent then before you start.

But… if you mean somehow creating actual sea fishing baits from scratch with stuff laying around the kitchen, personally I wouldn’t even try.
Might work for various carp or coarse baits but imo for sea you want the best, freshest bait you can buy or collect, whether that’s live worm, peelers crab or well frozen mackerel, squid etc.
By well frozen I mean it’s frozen quickly not too long after capture - the same would apply if you caught and home froze your own bait.

You will see accounts of people catching a 10lb bass on bacon rind or a bit of liver and tbh some fish like bass and cod are gut buckets and will eat pretty much anything on occasion.
But for consistent catches you’re better off using fresh/decent bait as above.

Also imo, life is too short to be faffing around trying to make ‘home made’ baits which aren’t likely to work very well, will just reduce your chances of catching and also waste a lot of time you could spend actually fishing with the correct bait!

 

[chesilpete]

I knit my own public hair into squid!

 

[Mr Fish]

I knit my own public hair into squid!

Ideal! If I drop a sackful off, can you knit me some please mate?
The silver ones might make sandeels too

 

[chesilpete]

Ideal! If I drop a sackful off, can you knit me some please mate?
The silver ones might make sandeels too

Sorry mate..... I have a goat pube allergy and there's always a bit of "transfer: :-(

 

[Dutchman]

I was waiting,

(Bait, do you use anything homemade?)​

For someone to come up with and answer like curry, salad, stew, or similar!

 

[Valleyboy]

I've made a fair few lures or artificial baits as they are some times known

 

[Beach]

Tescopoly make good bait, it's called a loaf for mullet

 

[Mr Fish]

Sorry mate..... I have a goat pube allergy and there's always a bit of "transfer: :-(

Discrimination! GLM!

 

[Angrybear]

I was waiting,

(Bait, do you use anything homemade?)​

For someone to come up with and answer like curry, salad, stew, or similar!

Certainly used it as ground bait a few times on a boat

 

[Casker]

I was waiting,

(Bait, do you use anything homemade?)​

For someone to come up with and answer like curry, salad, stew, or similar!

I read somewhere that a bit of garlic (in the bait mix) can work !!?? I reckon bhuna marinaded lamb (appropriately presented with or without naan) will be the next go-to bait ! Of course there is the Sunday roast blended-flavour option: what fish in UK waters will be able to resist especially on a Sunday ?

 

[Dutchman]

Tescopoly make good bait, it's called a loaf for mullet

White or Brown

Or would that be a racist question!

 

[AndyA]

Thanks everyone, much appreciated

 

[Beach]

White or Brown

Or would that be a racist question!

The cheapest unsliced white loaf soaked in a bucket of water for ground bait, save half to bait the hooks etc size 8 max,

 

[concrete]

My brother in law once made some fish flavoured boilies and the whiting loved them. Mind you, they’d eat a bogey if you could get it on a hook.