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Freshwater
Baits - Processed
Freshwater
fishing is unique as there is an extremely wide range of baits
available to the anglers. As well as the major choice of natural baits,
there is also a selection of processed baits available to the angler.
Processed baits can be very effective and many processed baits have a
number of advantages over natural baits.
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Corn
Corn
that is used whole can be highly effective such as when targeting for
many bottom feeders. Corn can be used straight from the tin, all that
needs to be done is to hook the corn onto a hook.
Bread
Bread is a very common bait when freshwater
fishing. The advantages of bait are - its cheap, effective and useful.
As the bread slowly releases its flavour into the water and the
currents spread crumbs to hungry fish. Bread can be used
as bottom
bait or as surface bait. An excellent ground bait is roasted
bread
crumbs that have been compressed together. It does not really matter
what kind of bait is used it can be white, brown or whole wheat.
Nuts
Nuts can also be used as bait, the
most
common nuts used are peanuts. The nuts need to be soaked overnight or
boiled before use.
Beans
When fishing for carp, butter beans
and tinned
baked beans will be useful. Beans can be used as loose feed or be mixed
with a suitable ground bait. Harder baits such as kidney beans will
need
to be soaked or boiled before use.
Meat
Meat is a suitable bait when fishing. Trial and error might need to be
used when fishing with meat as the type of meat will depend on the
river/water and species. Common meats used are ox heart and
chicken
livers for eels
and catfish,
tinned meats such as bully beef and sausages will attract carp and
Yellowfish.
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Dough
A simple and easy mixture of egg and flour based doughs can be highly
effective when freshwater fishing. Mudfish, Kurper, Carp
etc will readily take dough baits.
Mealie
Meal
A stiff paste of mealie meal is also an
ideal bait. See below for the simple recipe of making a batch of
mealie meal bait:
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Mealie Meal Recipe:
Boil 125 ml (½ cup) of water and mix 750
ml (3
cups) of mealie meal with 325 ml (1 ½ cups) of flour. Slowly add the
dry ingredients to the water. Stir the mixture for 5 minutes and then
lower the heat. Leave the dough to cook for 10 minutes on the lower
heat and then knead the dough and allow cooling time. The example to the
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Cheese
Cheese can be used as bait in a number of
forms including hard, soft, paste form, chunks, and cubes. Cheese makes
excellent bait for bigger fish especially carp. Due to the cost of
cheese its uses are limited.
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