Ground bait
Best suited to bottom feeders like Bream and Tench
A very important choice for you to make, mountains of the stuff are available, as well as the thousands of additives you can add.
They are required to attract and hold fish in your swim, it is unfortunate that different species are attracted by different smells and flavours, not to mention the varying consistency you will
require to cope with still and running waters that all have varying depths.
Basic Ground bait
Simply dried bread crumbs available in white and brown from your tackle dealer.
The brown is the main ingredient and the one used most often.
The white is the one that you add to the brown to make heavier mixes for the faster and deeper waters.
Preparation
Before you use your bread crumbs you must clean it by running it through a flour sieve, discarding any foreign bodies and rough crumbs.
Mixing
Still and slow moving waters only require brown bread crumbs.
Only add white bread crumbs for faster and deeper waters.
Use a round canvas mixing bowl, estimate the amount of ground bait you are going to mix, then put some water into the mixing bowl and add the bread crumbs to it in several stages,thoroughly mixing
each stage before adding more.
When the consistency is about right you will be able to take a small amount and mould it into a ball that begins to split open when held on the palm of your open hand.
Now add a few offerings and attractors (ground hemp is good) then add a little more water until the mixture just holds together. You now have the most suitable mix that should reach it target and
hang in the water sending out a slowly sinking cloud full of particles and offerings - Very attractive to most species.
Should you require a stiffer mix that breaks up on the bottom
add a little more water, for faster swims add a small amount of white bread crumbs .
Pops Tip:
Keep a small bottle of water by your side so that after you have moulded your ground bait into a ball,you can run it round in wet hands this will give it a skin that holds it together when throwing it longer distances.
Commercial Ground baits
Enumerable textures and flavours and smells are available, very professionally made, all seem to work but they are quite expensive.
My particular choice is Sensas Explosive Feeder
As its name implies it is intended for use with feeders.
It also makes an excellent additive to Basic Ground bait
Suitable for all forms of float fishing.
Mix 1 part Explosive to 3 parts Basic, its literally fizzes giving off lots of particles, it really does attract the fish.
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