Alternative Baits

[theoldfart2]

Now that digging bait carries the Death Sentence, frozen bait cost the same as a night on the lash in a nice warm pub ,fresh  bait is now a gourmet luxury that is found on the fish counter of most supermarkets,and the average new fangled 'guaranteed to catch any fish' lure, is a tenner a throw... I was remembering some of the baits we used when I was a Nipper. 

Garden snails and Earth worms used to work well, the worms in the river for Flatties, snails for the sea.

Any fresh squashed road kill ( used to be Mixi Rabbits) or Phesant, cut up worked well for Bass and Congers.

Bits of Chicken,allways caught well, usually the head or guts as we ate the rest .

We used to go to the Market in Newport on Tuesday,on the Bus, so the old chap could get his 'Chiddlings' ,nice and fresh from the butchers. The old chap in there used to give us a bag of scraps, bits of skin, grissle, etc that we could use as bait.

Doubt any of you lot will remember it, but the market was where Morrison's is now.

Remember back in my day meat was a luxury 

I wonder if we have all become brainwashed into buying the 'recognised' baits, squid, mackerel, rather than giving something else a try.

And before any smart Ass ,tells me that Bacon Rind is good for catching Crabs, then so was staying at the Imperial Hotel in Port Said. 

That I bloody well do know!!
T O F

[loopy78]

I used to find that innumerable pints in the NAAFI bar, Warsteiners in the Altstadt followed by a lot of vodka red bulls in "Jams" night club could result in a good return on the crab front too.....

[danglinglad2]

The gypsy bar tel aviv , some s---e hole round the Jaffa gate Jerusalem ,kaz ba Nahariya, Dubronskis hamburg,frimis linkoping,el dorados nordenham,geordie trainer bar slump ,rosies bar lemverder,another s---e hole in Dordrecht,and patsys ryde come highly recommended too P-)oh and another s---e hole in port said and yet another in Cairo :)the rest becomes vague hic hic oh yeah and barneys roadhouse and brookhouse and the boat and the sandrock

[Sunny]

bread .... catches most things; although never had a shark species on it

[zebedee111]

During the summer I was catching wrasse on red jelly baby's

[backdraft]

'Chiddlings' haa i bet not many people on here has had the pleasure of them. dont forget ox heart and trotters and pigs head. i remember years ago i brought home a 1/2 pigs head and asked the wife to cook it for me. i came home that evening and looked through the glass door in the oven to see the pig looking back at me see didnt remove the eye. lol.

[theoldfart2]

Ya, can't get proper food now thanks to this Nanny State we live in. 

Everything has to be passed by Europe Rules  before it goes into the shops, and the only country that takes any notice of the rules is us. 

Every other country either ignores them or interpreters them differently ( ignores them) 

Same as fishing quotas. 

Cant get hearts now, kidneys are forbidden, you can't even get proper milk!!! 

And don't even think about asking for chiddlings, most butchers wouldn't know what they were.

Everything is plastic wrapped, sterile and bloody tasteless crap!!