The Pikers Pit

I have a whole load of things like jam and different spices plus other food stuff that either are years past the sell by date or growing culture... What works for adding to baits to create swims for a fish a pull without paying out for commercial feed.
Hate waste but looking to use up stuff for some river adventures and big bags.
Wasting my time or has anyone some recipes to hand to use up this out of date stuff.

Cheers

I've heard of people using marmite in boilies and pastes and also oxo cubes. Years ago my uncle used to use a paste made from peanut butter to catch carp. I've often wondered what oxtail soup mixed with brown crumb would work like as a groundbait.also people use pastry mix with cheese to make cheese paste.
I would imagine curry powder, spices etc would work in a paste for chub, they usually aren't fussy!

Soup powder,Nesquik and so forth. Marmite is great, yeast and all that. Anorak moment, adenoid nasal speech mode -on, did you know that Marmite is named after the pot on the front label, pronounced mar-me-tay?
There, that's the kinda s**t I bring to the forum, hadaway.

Nobby.. I'm hoping mad dog Hendo looks in on this thread as it will save me repeating this valuable bit of advice......when it comes to suppositories you're meant to shove them up yer ar$e ...not snort them.

Freshly ground white bread crumbs make a great base for any flavourings for chub and roach fishing. If you have any tumeric kicking about it works really well for roach. Barbel are suckers for meat flavoured with garlic purees etc. Any sweet flavours could be incorporated into pastes or boilies for carp/tench using semolina and skimmed milk powder as a base. Bait possibilities are endless really.

Ive crumbed up scraps in the past using the food processor with a grater attachment. Bread crust, pizza crust, beans, sausages, stale biscuits, anything and everything.

Save it up in the freezer.

They are fish, no gordon ramsay. They will eat pretty much anything

I've used all the usual suspects, turmeric on my maggots, an old one was horlicks, if I recall a mag article correctly, the early version of sticky mag?

I've made pastes with coffee in and caught commercial carp on it, not that that's an achievement.

I've made boilie base mixes with semolina, ground rice, liquidised bird seed and flavoured with marmite and worcester sauce, had chub and barbel on it but for the effort involved it's easier to buy kilo of the source.

Pretty much any food stuff can be chopped up or liquidised and added to groundbait.

Fennel and aniseed is a kitchen cupboard flavour that I have had success with carp in the paste, especially in a fish meal.

Tumeric sprinkled on your maggots, particularly favoured by Roach, which you can in turn use as a livey for Pike !

Duncan Holmes wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07 2018 21:27 -

Pretty much any food stuff can be chopped up or liquidised and added to groundbait.

Fennel and aniseed is a kitchen cupboard flavour that I have had success with carp in the paste, especially in a fish meal.

Aniseed used to be a favorite of my old pal poach in his deadbaits

So basically guys, anything will do !

Will.

Chilli powder- used to always use this in a method mix back when I was match fishing the carp puddles! Just be careful when you go for a p**s and don't rub your eyes either

Ouch! ^^^

There is a great book that I was introduced to......

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I used coriander, strawberry nescquik, chilli powder, garlic paste and blue stilton in my baits. Also use yellow food dye to paint sardines with.

i always have a volley of tesco own brand cream soda bottles in the shed.
great for making a sticky method mix and smells just like scopex

bencarvosso wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20 2018 19:13 -

i always have a volley of tesco own brand cream soda bottles in the shed.
great for making a sticky method mix and smells just like scopex

That reminds me of poach using neat diluting juice like robinsons for mixing groundbait instead of water and those little bottles of attractant (dynabait ?)

Those little bottles and glugs... its all about branding
Glugs are mostly just glyserine based with added flavour branded to be the next amazing super fish catching additive.
They sell little bottles of molases for 9.99...
A fiver, 7 years ago got me ten year supply from the animal feed co-op.
Whether any of it works is another thing, but its all about confidence.
You have one big catch or fish on a certain bait and flavour and you sit easy in your chair with it in your arsenal because it worked before and it çould again.
Still, it wont stop me being a sucker and looking for edges and wasting my money, but we all secretly love it

I've read about using tinned pilchards in tomato sauce as a groundbait mix but never tried it.