Other Baits

Advantages: Strong Scent, Readily available, Free
Disadvantages: Soft, Die Quickly

Here is a list of other baits to try fishing with:- 1. Mussels. 2. Cockles. 3. Sand clams (White). 4. Limpets. 5. Winkles. 1. Mussels are found plentiful on roacks either just below the mean highwater mark (a mark even on the small tides that is covered by water), orsheltered gullies. They are a soft bait and care should be taken when opening them because a knife is required and also the shell it self is very sharp when broken. Inside you ...
...set your hook into. When other baits failed i have found that by using these as an extra they are enough to exite the fish into feeding especially Bass. Storage is the same as for Mussels above. 3. Sand clams These are excellent as bait for flatfish, but near on impossible to keep on the hook so an investment in bait elastic for securing them onto the hook is essential, best used when aboard a boat where your bait is lowered to the sea bed, full ... Read review

Advantages: Great for Chub, stops them buggering up your garden, simple set up
Disadvantages: Possibly the grossest bait possible (apart from Maggots)

...myself, but I've heard from other it does work...... and it's worked for a very long time, right back as far as before the year 1653 when "The Compleat Angler" by Isaac Walton was published. Fishing with them is simplicity itself........ just tie a hook to the end of your reel line (about size 2 - 8 should do the trick)....... stick the slug on the hook..... then very quietly (so you don't spook the fish) go looking for the Chub (this is where a ...
...Chub takes it....... you'll know about it...... they'll hit it like an express train. If you're too squeamish to pick the slug up with your bare fingers, you can try gently picking them up with your forceps (as used for unhooking the fish with... they're a very handy tool to have with you when fishing). An additional benefit to using them as bait (as well as getting revenge on them for buggering up your prize petunia's) is when collecting them ... Read review

Advantages: cat food a good bait for carp
Disadvantages: banned on some commercial fisheries

cat food is a very cheap and easily obtainable bait. The type of cat food to be used is chunks in gravy as you can hook the chunks as you use luncheon meat. It can either be fished on the hook or hair rigged. It is very good bait on commercial fisheries as all types of fish will take it especially carp, tench and bream. I have also had large roach using this method. Be careful how much feed you place in because some anglers have been throwing large ...
...forms scum on top of the water hence some commercial fisheries have banned this bait. I would recommend any cat food in gravy but meat flavours seem to work best. The branded names of cat food seem to be better ie. whiskas. The best way to buy the cat food is in resealable pouches and peel back packs. ... Read review