FORGOTTEN BAITS
Not so much forgotten, I suppose, as seldom used these days. There is something a little special for me as a user of so called traditional tackle, in employing baits that my old rods and reels would have been familiar with when they were first used. I have no great desire to seek out bullock's pith and brains, although I have no doubt that they would still work at least as well or as badly, as they ever did. To my mind, fish are simple creatures, not as susceptible to fashion as anglers are, simply tuned in to finding food, whether that be bread, worms, boilies or pellets. They test it and eat it if it suits them. They certainly don't eat chocolate orange or salted caramel flavoured baits because they believed the adverts. Anyways, pontificating aside, I've been enjoying myself lately using stewed wheat for roach, mixed I have to admit with hemp and tares which are probably more established in the modern anglers pysche. It is a very convenient bait and, it turns
