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| Pound-shop bird seed |
Take a couple of bags of birdseed, soak it for twenty-four hours, bring to the boil, simmer for an hour and what you end up with is a big pan full of hot soft particles. Add a pint or two of preprepared hemp seed and the end result is a bucket full of particles ready to attract the hungry carp into your swim. Well, that is the theory.
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| Particles cooling down |
A few weeks ago Tim and I were having a bit of fun on the back of Major's lake trying out some new wafters attempting to catch one of the bigger fish in the lake. If you have been reading this blog regularly you will know that
we had a bit of a drama that day. This time we will be better prepared. This Friday we will be back on the lake and we will be having another go at getting our hooks into a decent sized fish. Feeding seems to be the key here. My plan is to lay down some particles in two areas and fish over them with boilies and PVA mesh bags of free offerings. We haven't tried this before so we will see how it goes.
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| hard (ish) outer shell and soft in the middle |
The boilies we will be using are my new Two Dog boilies. These are made in exactly the same way as my original batch of boilies but using the following ingredients.
Two Dog boilie recipe:
- 200g Two Dog Ground-bait
- 100g Semolina
- 50g Rice Flour
- 50g Dried Skimmed Milk
- 225g Eggs in their shells
The original boilie recipe can be found
HERE and the recipe for the Two Dog ground bait is
HERE.
The plan is to fish the deeper end of The Major's lake this time. We normally only fish within easy distance from the van but on Friday we will be free to fish anywhere thanks to my latest bargain buy.
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| How much? are you sure? |
A few weeks ago, our local Aldi store had a fishing event and had a lot of good offers. Among the interesting items was a very nice fishing barrow. Priced at a penny under £40, I was tempted but resisted the temptation. The same barrow is sold under various brands and currently it is being advertised by one of the big mail-order companies 25% off RRP at £75 all but a penny.
While in the store the other day, they had one of these barrows in a tatty box with the price slashed to £27.99. They have not got it any more! I could not turn it down at that price so it came home with me. It just goes to show, it is worth waiting to see if they reduce the price of such items, as they often do once they have sold the bulk of the stock.
We will be trying it out on Friday as it will make it easier for us to access other parts of the fishery easier that do not have parking close to the swim.
Ralph.
