Daft carp baits that have worked?

[redpat1 225]

Fished a small still water and kept seeing loads of tiny frogs around. Hooked one up and cast in, barely touched the bottom and had a low double. Collected a few more Kermits and had several decent fish throughout the day, everyone else was struggling on boillies, corn etc

 

Pat

[reddawn 2,173]

we was fishing an kept finding wee mini oyster like things all crunched open in shallows, got a few got the good bit from inside the shell an caught decent carp

[paulus 26]

slugs work very well when cast close to an island feature

[billybaltic 308]

Fished a small still water and kept seeing loads of tiny frogs around. Hooked one up and cast in, barely touched the bottom and had a low double. Collected a few more Kermits and had several decent fish throughout the day, everyone else was struggling on boillies, corn etc

 

Pat

Great idea mate, done it for trout, but never carp.

[miroku moocher 140]

i'v caught rudd on elder berries i picked round the lake. caught chubb on dead baits aswell.

[billybaltic 308]

I have heard about elderberries for roach, never tried them myself.

[miroku moocher 140]

yes the rudd took the ripe elders and loved em, the elder berry tree was growin in me swim. so i picked a few. loose fed em . then stuck em on a size 14 ''started hittin rudd for fun..

[billybaltic 308]

They must wait for the wind to blow the ripe one's into the water,great idea.

[miroku moocher 140]

i'd read about them .as had my son who was with me . he said dad shall we try these elder berries that book you got said ya could use em''' chuck a few in loose i said . i'l stick with maggots for now. he loose fed a few then hooked a couple up cast in and bang ''fish. we had used maggots all day and the fish were biting short and shy biting. soon as we both switched to elders we were catching more fish.

if ya find yaself in a swim with a ripe elder berry in it give em ago ''you will catch fish on em.

Edited June 2, 2012 by miroku moocher

[northern lad 2,292]

Swan mussels!brilliant bait,we used to remove the foot for hookbait,then smash the rest up,shells included.We did this the day before going then let it ferment ,add brown crumb made perfect carpet feed,this did well for tench too.I beleive swan mussels are becoming rarer due to competition from Zebra mussels,so youd better use zebras!

[bobcullen79 1,495]

Year's ago i mixed up some pedigree chum original tin meat with brown crumb, put in the blender, quick blast and your done, i thought it would be great for carp, couldn't stop catching tench, using corn or maggot as hookbait, that was in stanley park that bull.

Ahhhh, Good old Stanley park, them was the days, wading across to ducky island... Have they filled it in? Sorry off topic. We used a lot of macdonalds bbq sauce one year on a certain lake, glugging pineapple boilies in it. They definately out fished the ones that didnt get dipped.

[billybaltic 308]

Not sure if your taking the piss mate, but stanley has been made bigger, the lake goes into the garden's now, ducky still there, got a few nice carp in it now, biggest i have heard is 26lb, can't moan at that when it's 5mins away.

[Guest bullterrier]

Not sure if your taking the piss mate, but stanley has been made bigger, the lake goes into the garden's now, ducky still there, got a few nice carp in it now, biggest i have heard is 26lb, can't moan at that when it's 5mins away.

billy we will give stanley ago in a few days when this rain calms down its been fishing well some tench a few 20s carp aswell john

[billybaltic 308]

Not sure if your taking the piss mate, but stanley has been made bigger, the lake goes into the garden's now, ducky still there, got a few nice carp in it now, biggest i have heard is 26lb, can't moan at that when it's 5mins away.

billy we will give stanley ago in a few days when this rain calms down its been fishing well some tench a few 20s carp aswell john

Sound's good mate, i am gonna have a walk over there monday if this rain has stopped, have a little walk around and talk to a few angler's, i have been hearing that it's fishing well, so look forward to having ago.

[toby63 1,236]

i ave caught diff carp on opel fruit or starburst.