Making the Most of Meat as a Fishing Bait
Pork Luncheon Meat
Chub, Barbel, and Carp enjoy meet as much as we do. Even fish as different as dace and catfish will occasionally feast on it. Luncheon meet is the most popular of the meat baits for fishing and sausage meet is also effective.
We have all heard tales of fisherman who, often out of desperation, have hoiked a piece of pork or beef from their sandwiches, attached it to a hook and caught a massive barbel. But being Honest, if cuts of beef mutton and pork were all consistent, we would be using them every day because they are far easier to obtain and use than maggots and worms.
Lovely Luncheon Meat
On rivers as far apart as the Hampshire Avon and the Yorkshire Ouse luncheon meat is both popular and successful. Barbel, Chub and Carp all succumb to it. Luncheon meet is available in tins and fresh form the delicatessen, Both types of their devotees.
Getting Fresh
Fresh Luncheon Meat is easier to keep on the hook than the tinned variety. Buy it in a 1lb block rather than sliced (you can always freeze half for the next time you go fishing. Cut the rest into cubes and store it in a polythene bag to prevent it from drying out.
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Good old Truncheon meat always used as a standby bait but on some waters is the bait of choice. I know of 2 places near to where I live where 1cm cubes of FRESH luncheon meat are absolutely the only bait fish will take
Then there are places where ifyo uwant big Perch the bait is Lucnheon meat fried in Curry powder
The thing about meat bait is it so versatile when it can be processed so many different ways
You will hear lots of things about using uniform size of pieces but after a few fish you find bites drop off and a change in size or shape of the meat brings the bites back
My Favourite though has to be a friend of mine who swears by Luncheon meat but uses it straight from the tin uncut on a hair rig
But then he does fish for big Silurians in Spain
Its strange how different waters respond different to it. Sometimes its a way of getting through the smaller fish and sometimes they just don’t want to know it.. I’ve even caught gudgeon on it..
I’ve got a magic meat powder which I used on mine when its been cubed it helps form a dry skin so it hooks better.
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I have used luncheon for a lot of my fishing on the coms and i find it works better if it is Garlic flavoured…i had a big surprise when i used this kind of meat on a local pool because until then i had not caught any skimmer bream at this venue and had no idea there was any in the pool but i could not stop catching them on this Garlic luncheon meat…good size as well i may add and i caught a few silver Bream into the bargain.
You can catch on this meat all year round and it is very versatile as well,try and liquidise some with sweetcorn to make a slop,it pulls the fish in on the feed,fry it a little and it will stay on the hook or hair when you cast out at distance….i ues it for feeding up with sweetcorn by breaking it up in my fingers so it is rough and not cubed again i find this helps to catch but as Darren has said it is the venue realy that counts,some just do not take to it wile others fish there head off…strange but thats fishing for you.
Barbel being my main target the last 2 seasons, i always carry a couple tins of meat and a couple pints of hemp with me. Hemp being dirt cheap and being able to open tins as i use them (just to clarify i always take the rubbish home, i get angry at people who visit my stretch of the severn and turn it into a disgusting mess). Most of the time, especially with the flood water on it can out fish the range of pellets i usually take with me, 8,10,12,20mm and 4mm for the feeder. Also had my best ever days fishing, my biggest bag of carp, around 100lb, on corned beef ! I think its rough texture makes it seem as though its been in the water longer and therefore seems less of a danger to fish.
Corned beef now thats something i have not tried when fishing,you will have to tell me how you go about using it sam mate seems a nice alternative bait to use.
Yes Sam spill the beans mate not heard of that one but I’m always open to new baits
i just cut it into cubes, just like lucheon meat, it can be a bit soft though so sometime i hair rig it using those meat spirals to help it stay on better
very good,how long does it stay on the hair because i would have thought it would brake down very quickly in the water,is there anyway you can toughen the meat up a little i wonder?
I know if you fry Corned beef you get a crust so that could help fried on one side so the stop has something to grip on whilst the upper side can break off and form it’s own groundbait
That makes sense,good idea that worth a go at i say…not sure if now is the time though being winter i would have thought summer would be best time for this but always nice to have another idea to use….thanks!