Make Your Own Groundbait

This is a groundbait we have been using on our match circuit for many years to great effect for carp and bream. It is simple to make and more importantly it is cheap.

The first things you need for the process are:

Bait Box
Kettle
Clingfilm
4 mm hard pellets. ( Buy in bulk to make it cheaper )

Directions

Fill the bait box to just below the rim with pellets. If you want four pints of groundbait use a four pint bait tub.
Boil the kettle
Cover the pellets in the bait box with boiling water to just cover the pellets. ( Health and safety says be careful with the kettle. Boiling water bloody hurts)
Cover the bait box with clingfilm.
Attach the lid.

Then leave the pellets for at least a couple of hours, and for best results leave them overnight.

When you open the bait box you will now have a cake of soaked pellets.

This is then pushed through a maggot riddle and you are left with a groundbait that is basically broken down pellets.

If you want a finer mix push it through again. If you want paste then add some water. Its great for the feeder or loose in shallow water or as an initial ball of groundbait.

At Alders Farm I had just under 300lb and fed 22 pints of this mix in 6 hours made into a slop and a slightly stiffer mix as paste on the hook so it does work. Stewart Lister was pegged next but one to me so he knows !

It’s cheap and simple and this is so very often the best way.

Darran Monk

Hi,
Just wanted to share my untested groundbait recipe. I bought a bag of smart price (Asda) dried dog food (£1.54), 1 box of cheap Asda dog biscuits (Hero)(£1.17), 1 tub of jerk spice (£1) and half a tub of tandoori spice (£1). I also asked at the bakery section of Asda for some breadcrumbs from the bread slicing machine which they gave me free of charge (there was a good few kilos in the bag).

I put all of the ingredients through a blender, then put all of the dry mix into a big tub (the type used for cheap emulsion). I tried mixing a small amount of the mix with water and it binds perfectly, then breaks apart. The mix has made the equivalent of about £30 worth of shop bought groundbait for under a fiver.

Now all I have to do is try it. Going to go at the weekend. I’ll let you know how I do with it…..fingers crossed.

Davidhowell

hi darran. just trying your mix went to morrisons to get breadcrumbs tight fisted b——s charged me it would hve been cheaper to have bought a loaf of bread any way good luck always interested to know how it went.

David Howell
abbeydale shop
Gloucester

paul sails

ello all,
iv never used groundbait b4 so can sum1 tell me how much water u need 2use? thx
Lee Thomas

How did the ASDA ground bait do then pal, waiting to hear.
tucker

does anyone know any good night fishing venues near dewsbury west yorkshire for carp pike
andy

so how did the asda smartprice ground bait work? me and my mate have just started fishing and want to find the cheapest ways to fish , cheers
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Darran Monk

Sorry it’s taken so long to reply. I’ve only had time to go fishing once, this was on the 9th October. The groundbait worked great, I had a PB Carp 22.5lb from Westerly Lakes in Yorkshire. i went fishing for the weekend but only managed 3 fish. The lake was fisj=hing poorly that weekend and there were’nt many fish pulled out.

Does my grouindbait work? I would love to say that it was my groundbait that brought the PB fish into my swim but I suppose only time will tell as you can’t really say that it was definately the groundbait that did it.

I am going to try something a little different next time I make a batch, I have heard that strawberry or chocolate slimfast in your groundbait works, that will be my next experiment.

Darran
Bollard Boi

what a great way to make groundbait i went to my local pond and had a 103lb bag of fish what a fking day fanks mate
whinnerwhistle fishery

sensas crazy bait gold over a ‘the secret’ pop up from solar tackle with a bit of bread with a no.1 shot 2inch of the hook. will cost you a tenner for 1kg of groundbait and the pop ups
connor

i have used this before, great ina feeder with a pellet on a band on the hook it works magic! highly reccomended!
vicki knight

try using a standard kitchen sift.
darren

i get my worms from the compost bin i get loads
geraint

cheers mike ur awesome! i caught a 226lb bream the other night using this cunning technique.
geraint

cheers mike! i caught a 226lb bream on this
p.s. can i have ur number?
xx
james

i just use a blender on dry pellets, saves ALOT of time
master of disaster

Hi all been reading all your comments and ideas & there are a few bits ill give a go. but in all i have found the best bait for carp is a sweet bait. i even put a little olive oil over my lunchion meat then roll in caster sugar.. also i found they love a strawberry lunchion meat.. all spicy powders are a good mix to include in your ground baits too but like i say i personally find a sweet bait best for carp.. milk shake powder is the simplest also mix strawberrys into my ground bait and they went mad for it…
happy fishing
regards
mod
jacob

can you put something in maggots
David Sims

Jacob, when you buy your maggot’s get them home riddle them off so they are as clean as possible and then add a flavour of your choice, i’ve found nutrabaits strawberry or banana are good, add about 5ML to a pint of maggots. Leave them for about an hour so the flavour works into the maggots, then if you want you can put them into your freezer overnight. When you get them out as they thaw they will suck the flavour in, they will all be dead and if fishing a lake they will lie on the silt for the fish to have an easy meal. Hope that helped TIGHT LINES.
joe

Nice idea it will definatly save me money !!!
Dan

Dose it work with 6mm floting pellits
BEN

6mm cheap trout pellets. 1 tub of dog food. any flavouring(vannila works well) put in a small dish. pour boiling water over your mix and leave for a few hours(overnight if possible). take out your mix and give it a quick stur (blend if possible) and use on a method feeder or add some flour and use as paste for hookbait. if you wanted you could add an extra egg and some flour and also use as boilies ( just role and boil them). i have tryed all these methods recently landed a 16 pound carp using my home-made paste with my mix on the method feeder. thanks alot ,ben 14
pranno

Is this a cookery website or what?
Stu Woods Dcfc

If I make this will I be able to store this and how
Harry Rose01

this is the best stuff i’ve tried hip hip
Dane-rooney

well, what i like to do is fasten dog poo bags to my dog and let them go on a walk, they then excrete into the bag i do this for a few days. (keep the poo in a freezer) after you have go enough poo use a blender or squeeze in hands to a slop (if you want it extra sloppy add water) this is then really good groundbait also voted best by fish feel funny and smell F***ing fishy 2011. also what i like to do is eat 2 tins of sweetcorn the day before i go fishing then i sit on the toilet and strain alot until i let rip (dont strain to hard you might get piles also known as hemroids) the sweetcorn is not not digested so pick it out and youse as hookbait all my home made baits helped me get a 3lb bag after 11.5 hours of fishing my bigges was a pb of 12 ounce the bend on my rod was unbelievable, well i hope my home made tips help. p.s none of my tips are poo! best of luck, dane xxx
ChrisL

Type your comm Subscribe by email ent here. Well, I’ve read so many forums on groundbait, baits, surface bait fishing, ledgering that my heads in a spin. There are so many different recipes out there that I have decided to concoct my own groundbait and try out some different baits as well. I intend to go tomorrow and try all this out. Here is my recipe – 1 loaf of bread 47p, 1 tin of Chappie dog food 825gm 99p, Cheese spread tub 45p tablespoon mixed spice 2 tablespoons of milk 1/2 large tin strawberry flavoured sweetcorn 60p. Total cost £2-51. Crumbed the bread (leaving the crust out for surface bait) and then mixed in all of the other ingredients. Makes a lovely sticky goo which I have put into a cage feeder and shook it about to make sure it doesn’t come out. Success! If it doesn’t work I can feed it to the dog as he went mad whilst I was making it! As bait I will be using bacon, pork sausages, mature cheese cubes, chickens liver and the left over strawberry sweetcorn. This little lot cost me £2-08. A cheap lot of bait which I reckon will do at least two fishing trips. I’ve put it all in seperate containers too so that if I do have any left over I can freeze it Well, let you know after tomorrow.
gaz24

i mix my ground bait with strawberry milkshake mix and bread on hook dippet in honey and the carp go mad for it in 1 day i had 16 carp rangeing between 6lb to 18lb

Owenjack99

are u james scorahs step dad and nials aswell james said hes caught a lot with u if is plz reply hes like mi best mate!!

paul de leg

BRILLIANT!! i had another one of those 226lb bream, out the local duck pond!
roo

i use digestive biscuits instead of breadcrumbs, works the same but is sweeter and cheap
Adamduggan85

this is the best ground bait ive used in a long time! thanks
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