Shelf Lifes?

[waltjnr 6,899]

You could air dry your self , no bother , and when you get there you'll have the lake water to re- hid rate

5k in a bollie net would only take a couple of hours at that time of year no other

looks like i will be drying my own baits ,as ive been put on to a promising new bait !

[Nicepix 5,650]

Anybody going out to France for fishing can get good bait at some of the local branches of national tackle shops such as

 

http://www.pacificpeche.com/

 

http://www.europeche.fr/

 

And you can pick up cheaper stuff including ground baits, pellets and boilies at

 

http://www.decathlon.fr/

 

Each of these have stores all over France and you can locate the nearest one using their store locator.

 

Lots of larger supermarkets and garden stores such as Gamme Vert and Jardiland sell bags and sacks of grains including pigeon conditioner, hemp seeds and both whole and crushed maize.

 

Also Croston Mill in Leyland, Lancs do an international delivery service for bird seeds at £6 per sack delivered anywhere in France in 2 to 3 days. 20 kilos of peanuts would be thirty quid delivered. Assuming you can find anywhere that doesn't insist on using their expensive baits that is.

 

http://thecornmill.com/wild-bird-food-3-c.asp

 

Me? I just use maize and Frolicks dog biscuits 'cos I'm a cheap skate.

 

 

[David.evans 5,323]

Fec all wrong with tiger nut and maze , I've had some great results with that combo , when every body is using boils

Just Somthing diffrent some times catches them unaware

Atb

[Nicepix 5,650]

When I first came over I used all sorts of boilies and pellets, but found three grains of maize out fished them all. I'm not fishing commercials and holiday let lakes though. Mostly virgin or lightly fished public waters and rivers. It would be a different story on lakes where the carp have been fed boilies day in, day out.

 

I used to rent a cottage on a farm estate. There was a small lake where the hunters had some call ducks and a feeder on the edge of the water. I used to see carp up to around 8lb beach themselves to get to the spilled maize grains.

[waltjnr 6,899]

Fec all wrong with tiger nut and maze , I've had some great results with that combo , when every body is using boils

Just Somthing diffrent some times catches them unaware

Atb

would be my tactic,but unfortunately not allowed,anyway got a confidence boost of a mate ,with the offer of trying a new bait,im well out of the carp fishing ,just getting back into it so not upto date with which is the bait to be on,done all my recent fishing on particles,and plastic fantastic ,used to work for a bait rolling co and got some idea on what makes a good bait ,but well aware that more anglers are caught on bait than fish!lol