Bait thrown into the water while fishing (as distinct from hookbait).
〈英〉（钓鱼时投到水底诱鱼的）水底诱饵
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For the modest price of a day ticket there is excellent sport available, with possible 20 lb bags of roach and dace falling to stick or pole with maggot over small helpings of groundbait.
I've had most of my fish on sweetcorn or home-made boilies over groundbait and particles.
Choose a likely clear area of bottom and bait heavily with groundbait and sweetcorn or chopped worms.
No groundbait is required because the fish you are after are already there - no need to attract them.
So to sum up the subject of bait and groundbait, I have to say that you really cannot take too much bait.
I always mix my groundbait at the waterside and always with lake water.
He had already prepared breakfast and I could see that he had also prepared mashed bread groundbait and wet bread cubes.
The main area of groundbait on the bottom, with my hookbait, was being ignored.
It is unlikely that such a small amount of groundbait will attract many fish in a large moderately stocked water.
However, please remember not to use groundbait.
This is usually a mixture of groundbait, broken boilies and seeds and beans.
The local rat population from the nearby landfill site have been lapping up the bonanza of discarded and unused sweetcorn, groundbait and pellets.
In fact the tonnage of maggots, casters and groundbait introduced must have been incredible.
The hook is pushed into the groundbait leaving the hookbait of two mini-boilies standing proud.
I arrived three hours before dark and immediately fed in eight balls of groundbait before setting up my tackle.
Offering maggot over pellet and groundbait at 13 metres he had small carp to 3lb.
In addition to worms and groundbait you will need some casters and red maggots when you are there.
In shallower or less fast flowing water I seldom need to add a stone and just place balls of groundbait in the swim.
At a signal, they all reached down into the buckets and pulled out ready-prepared balls of groundbait.
It fell to hair-rigged halibut pellet fished in conjunction with a cage feeder packed with pellets and halibut pellet groundbait.
Derivatives
groundbaiting
noun
British
Now groundbaiting (or ‘chumming’ as they call it over here) is against Fish and Wildlife regulations so I figured I needed to have some swimfeeders.
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It can be cheaper to buy large sacks of this breadcrumb if a lot of serious groundbaiting is to be carried out and this is quite common when fishing abroad for a week in Ireland or Denmark to attract large bream shoals.
This was obviously made by small particles falling off the main ball as we were groundbaiting.
So let me stress again that for me the most important aspect of groundbaiting with mass baits is to get the swim full of feeding fish.
This does not mean that we will catch less - just be thorough and accurate with your groundbaiting and with your casting and the results will come.