Wether this bait is from the freezer or out of a can, sweetcorn makes one of the best "deadly" hookbait for carp, tench, barbel , chubb and many other coarse fish.
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(+) Cheap to do when done correctly, good results. (-) FEAR FACTOR - You will look silly if you do it without results. Difficult to carry a large amount.
...or out of a can, sweetcorn makes one of the best "deadly" hookbait for carp, tench, barbel , chubb and many other coarse fish.
Availability
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This surely has to be one of the most readily available hookbaits known. Just by going to any supermarket many kilos of frozen sweetcorn can be purchased for just a few pounds, although these do need a little cooking before they are used. There ... ...opening a can of unflavoured sweetcorn you should drain off the liquid and rinse the corn under the tap before you put it into your baitbox. This will remove the sweet liquid and stop the corn becoming sticky or slimy in warm weather. Trust me, there's nothing worse than getting your hands covered in this awful stuff, especially when wasps are about and there's nowhere to wash it off. If you wash your hands in the lake you risk catching weils desiese, ... more
Wether this bait is from the freezer or out of a can, sweetcorn makes one of the best "deadly" hookbait for carp, tench, barbel , chubb and many other coarse fish.
Availability =========
This surely has to be one of the most readily available hookbaits known. Just by going to any supermarket many kilos of frozen sweetcorn can be purchased for just a few pounds, although these do need a little cooking before they are used. There are also tins of corn, which are ready to use without any preparation. A visit to any tackle shop will present you with flavoured corn, which can be strawberry, tutti fruiti, vanilla or one of the many various flavours available. The flavoured corn is a very good hookbait, and one that catches loads of fish when ordinary corn is being ignored.
Storage =======
After opening a can of unflavoured sweetcorn you should drain off the liquid and rinse the corn under the tap before you put it into your baitbox. This will remove the sweet liquid and stop the corn becoming sticky or slimy in warm weather. Trust me, there's nothing worse than getting your hands covered in this awful stuff, especially when wasps are about and there's nowhere to wash it off. If you wash your hands in the lake you risk catching weils desiese, this comes from coming into contact with rat urine and it is very nasty, with flu-like symptoms.
Size =====
Well sweetcorn comes in many different sizes which is ideal. If you intend fishing for small fish using small hooks, size 18, and light tackle then a piece of corn the size of a cotton bud will suffice. Where as a large hook, size 4, would require several pieces of corn the size of peas if you intended catching larger fish. Only a few grains are needed to cover the hook which makes it the best particle bait available.
Preparation of Fresh and Frozen Corn ===============================
Frozen corn only needs to be boiled for a few mins to prepare it so that it isready for use, however corn on the cob needs cooking, then it needs to be removed off the cob. Personally I prefer to keep the corn on the cob, and eat it with lashings of butter, because it's too expensive to use as bait.
Baiting Up-Stillwater =================
If you intend fishing a stillwater, and your target species are tench and carp, you should pre-bait your swim for several days before actually fishing. This will educate the fish to feed on this bait. If you do not have the time to pre-bait then you should introduce 40 or 50 pieces of corn in the area you intend to fish. It doesn't matter too much if the bait is spread around as long as it's near to where you have plumbed the depth. This will draw in some smaller fish to start so a fairly light rig is required.
After a few mins more corn should be introduced into your swim, this time you should be very accurate since you need to put your hookbait amongst all the free offerings, this in tern will draw the fish to you. The corn should then be trickle fed on a regular basis (every 5 mins 10 pieces of corn) to keep the fish feeding.
Whilst you are doing this you should catch quite a few roach, but if they suddenly stop for some unknown reason heavyer tackle will be required and fast because this means that large fish have moved into your swim, pushing out the small fry. Now it's time for some serious action so introduce more free offerings to keep the fish feeding there.
Baiting Up-Rivers ===============
This is much simpler than on a still water. Many barbel and chubb have been known to accept sweetcorn within a few mins of introducing it into the water, because of this a lot less bait is required for a session. A lot of the time only one can is needed for several hours of action. However if you intend fishing for barbel, and you want a good catch, a bed of hempseed usually does the trick.
Baiting Up-Distance =================
If you can not catapult your bait far enough, or when you do it tends to spread out like the shrapnel out of a sawn-off shotgun, you should try using corn cubes instead.These are made by placing some sweetcorn into an compartmented ice tray then topping them up with a little water and freezing them. They can be kept frozen for quite a while in a food flask and should be fired into your swim with ease when needed.
How to Hook ===========
If you look at a piece of corn you will notice two very different ends, one that is open and the other that is both domed and covered. You should now hold a grain between your index finger and your thumb with the covered end exposed. Now the hookpoint should be inicked through the corn at its thinest point. If several pieces are being used on your hook, the first hooked piece should be pushed around the bend and onto the shank to make space for the next piece of corn which should then be threaded on and placed next to the first.....and so on until the hook is full, but don't cover the hookpoint.
Bait Presentation-Float ===================
This is very simple. First of all you should plummet the depth of water you intend to fish, and set your float so that the bait will be resting on the bottom. The indicator shot should then be placed about 10 inches from the hook and all the rest of the weight (bulk shot) should be placed half way up the line. This means that your float will stay quite still until a feeding fish takes your bait, then your float will either lift slightly or totally dissapear from sight.
Bait Presentation-Ledger =====================
There are many ways of fishing corn using this style, wether it's using an open ended feeder, a running ledger, a paternoster rig or even a pop up rig fished bolt rig style, using man made corn for the bait. The list of the various ways just goes on and on. Even a simple link ledger has proved to be fatal when fishing with this brilliant bait, so I'm not going to bore you by explaining all of the rigs involved, needless to say they are all effective.
My Experience With Corn =====================
It's knowing where to start really because I've been using this bait for almost 30 years. I have caught many sizeable tench (up to 6 1/2 lb) and carp ( 20lb +) using this bait. Other species caught include Roach (2lb) , ide (2 1/2 lb) and bream (6lb). I have caught barbel and chubb using it too. To me corn is one of the best all round baits, second only to maggots.
Last year I had a very good day. I was fishing on my local syndicate water, using corn for bait, and I managed to catch over 300lb of fish (tench, bream and roach) in only 5 hours. Many of the fish caught were over 4lb, and by the end every muscle in my body was aching.....It was almost a fish every cast!!
To me this truely is a wonderbait and one I highly recommend for use in the summer and autumn. So what are you waiting for.... go and get some today.
Advantages: Tried and tested Disadvantages: Angling is not everyone's cup of tea.
...The wonder bait? Sweetcorn is the answer to that and the point of this piece of writing.
Sweetcorn has been used as a fishing bait for many, many years and has been used with considerable success by thousands of anglers in that time.
Sweetcorn.
We all know what sweetcorn is don't we. In fishing terms tinned sweetcorn is the most widely used because the sugared water in which it is immersed in the tin adds to the smell, flavour and general attractiveness ... ...shops have started to stock sweetcorn of different colours and different added flavours in a bid to improve this already highly successful bait.
What kinds of fish like sweetcorn?
First and foremost sweetcorn is the classic Tench bait, they seem to love it and never tire of it. Carp too seem to be partial to the odd nibble as well as, Roach, Rudd and even Chubb along with Bream.
How to fish with sweetcorn.
Stick it on a hook and throw it in the ...
docpov 10.08.2005
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Advantages: Cheap, allround bait. Disadvantages: Only really good during the summer.
...Prices for a tin of sweetcorn obviously vary from place to place. One of the cheapest and best I’ve found is actually Lidls supermarkets. What you’re often looking for is a small grained variety. Then you can stick with a smaller bait by using just a single grain, or put on 2 or 3 grains for a bigger one.
Especially through the summer months, when there is a lot of sunlight shining through the water, I really think it can be a quite ... ...particularly well in these conditions, and is therefore easier for fish to see, so hopefully they’ll eat it.
Smaller grains can be fished on a hook as small as an 18 and possibly a 20 (2lb+ line) if they’re really small. Grains this size are actually excellent for bream and roach. Fished shallow on a warm sunny day, large roach and rudd will often attack the grains like they have a severe hatred for the poor little yellows. Fished deeper, ...
BJEEE 08.03.2001
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Advantages: Easy to obtain, fairly cheap Disadvantages: dozey idiots dropping us in it with the "Anti's" by not taking the used tin home with them!
Sweetcorn has always been one of my favourite baits to use, almost from the moment I switched over to Freshwater fishing...... I think it was the episode of John Wilson's "GO FISHING" series on the River Guden in Denmark that did it.
It's also simple to obtain...... simply go into your local Corner Shop, or supermarket.... grab a can of Green Giant Niblets from the tinned vegetable section (or the one by "HAPPY SHOPPER" is supposed to be best from ... ...also been possible to by sweetcorn in all kinds of wierd & wonderful colours and flavours....... but I've never used them. If you want to give it a shot, then you'll have to get it from a tackle shop (if your local tackle shop don't stock it, give Askari's mail-order service a try).
Anyway, you can fish it with either just 1 or 2 pieces on the hook.... or present it as a large bait by hooking it as usual, then sliding it up the hook length + on ...
duck1979 06.02.2005
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I have found that with extensive testing of baits which include luncheon meat , chicken tikka pieces ,classic maggotts maggots with a twist and corn.I have found with coarse fish in particular and some game fish including trout you are most likely to catch on corn .Sweetcorns vary you can get dirt cheap corn from supermarkets eg.Jolly green giant are the best.but my favourite corn i use is Strawberry corn ,it has several advantages one it stays fresh ... ....I have also found 8 out of 10 fish i catch on corn are over 3 pounds in coarse fishing.Strawberry corn attracts big fish ,carp are attracted on the bottom and base of ponds smaller fish and other varieties of coarse fish are caught up in the water on smaller lighter rigs.
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si_is 20.03.2001
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