best dead bait

What is your favorite or best dead baits if you could only use 2 in a session which 2 would you choose?

It seems that every water has its own preferences regarding bait. Over here in Ireland I would have to say on the loughs it would be trout and Roach, and in the rivers trout and lamprey, well for me anyway. Pollan would be a very close 3rd.

Sardines and Roach.
Sardines because I find them to be the ideal size and having caught so many fish from a wide variety of waters they give me total confidence.
Roach for its versatility drift it,ledger it.suspend it or sink and draw.its present in most waters and fairly easy to obtain.

bones16 wrote:What is your favorite or best dead baits if you could only use 2 in a session which 2 would you choose?

herring,herring,and herring.. and a close 2nd would be sardine's..both very oil'y bait's.

Sardine
(Although Blueys are doing very well for me on most waters now)
Trout

Mackerel and smelt for me.

Brownies and lamprey for me.

i would go sardine and mackerel for moi

Roach and Mackeral

And is that on every water I find a difference from venue to venue, especially because of the species in it naturally.

i just use whatever ive got in my freezer. At the moment I have quite a few roach and some gurnard, sardine,herrings and some lovely little joey mackrel that are no bigger than 6" which I use for sink and draw.

sardine, roach. with mackerel and herring in reserve.

you cant beat a nice tench........................only joking:D

tomthepiker wrote:i would go sardine and mackerel for moi

+1

trout then smelt then roach ............

roach and sardine

stubbo wrote:you cant beat a nice tench........................only joking:D

I used tench a few years ago, didnt have much luck with them though. Why dont we use tench and carp? Small pike also seem to be difficult to get hold of as well.

Smelt lamprey and sardine .

Thats 3 Fishder, or cant i add up ?

Lamprey and joey mackerel. With a soft spot for trout. I found a dead jack by the waterside once and its tail caught me a big double.

I'm supprised how few people said smelt, I fish quite a few waters within 100 mile rdius of home and I find the always readily accepted. Really hard to choose between sardine and small-medium sized herring. If you'd asked me last year it would've been the herring but this year I think i'll opt for sardine jacked up with some oil

Quick heads up for all who voted for sardines,Still on Sale at £2.00 perkg on the fresh fish counter at Asda today.
But they have hidden the cigarettes to discourage people from taking up smoking this gorvenment will be telling us when we can go to the bog next...

It just means that the bar stewards will get the tax from somewhere else mate. I dont smoke so i think i should have a tax break !!

That will get you all going now, wont it ??

im trying to quit was doing well until i bought 10 pack today ooooops

Thought I was doing well too untill I went down the river the other day, thought 10 wouldn't hurt..... 20 a day now....doh