Any opinions on Fishbites?

In case you were wondering, Fishbites is a synthetic bait.
www.fishbites.com.

I'm thinking about buying some to try and was wondering if anyone had any
experience of using this?

Any opinions, comments or experiences are much appreciated.

Richard

**** off spammer


p.s. doubters read the mail address

In article , news.cis.dfn.de
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In case you were wondering, Fishbites is a synthetic bait.
www.fishbites.com.

A new one turns up about every six months.

I'm thinking about buying some to try and was wondering if anyone had any
experience of using this?

Any opinions, comments or experiences are much appreciated.

All of these concoctions are designed to catch anglers, not fish. Save your
money.

If you want to lay down a decent scent trail then ask a trawlerman* to save
you a few buckets of 'scroff' - the rubbish that comes out of the bottom of
the net. It's full of dead crabs. prawns, damaged-beyond-sale fish and a
mix of the general life of the seabed. Pound it up in a metal bucket then
either stiffen with bread or mud and use as groundbait(shore) or fill a
small net bag attached to your lead (boatfishing). For top of tide
beachcasting pour your scroff onto the beach at low water, tread it in
then fish over the top. If you -really- like dogfish let it ripen a few
days before using.

Cheerio,

*Or for a little more effort you can collect your own on the foreshore after
a blow.

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URL:mailto:[email protected]. wrote:

This his very first posting to the group:

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 18:47:41 -0000, "news.cis.dfn.de"
wrote:

In case you were wondering, Fishbites is a synthetic bait.

I've been using for a couple of years and it works just as advertised.
It has several excellent features. One being that it has a long "shelf
Life." You can put it in your tackle box and not have to worry about

Now the hard question is, are you manufacturer or distributor?

Hmmmm. Mustn't exclude 'terminally gullible' as option three I suppose.

Cheerio,

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Yeah, doubters read the email address....bogus because I'm fed up of getting
spammed myself in my personal email accounts.

My interest in this product is genuine, as is my interest in fishing.

Nice to be proved *guilty* by someone with such colourful language.


"steven burling" wrote in message
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**** off spammer


p.s. doubters read the mail address

Thanks Derek. Unfortunately I don't live near a decent port with trawlermen.

I read in a recent post that some people have tried liver. I might try this,
it's cheap enough!

Thanks again!

"Derek.Moody" wrote in message
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In article , news.cis.dfn.de
wrote:
In case you were wondering, Fishbites is a synthetic bait.
www.fishbites.com.

A new one turns up about every six months.

I'm thinking about buying some to try and was wondering if anyone had
any
experience of using this?

Any opinions, comments or experiences are much appreciated.

All of these concoctions are designed to catch anglers, not fish. Save
your
money.

If you want to lay down a decent scent trail then ask a trawlerman* to
save
you a few buckets of 'scroff' - the rubbish that comes out of the bottom
of
the net. It's full of dead crabs. prawns, damaged-beyond-sale fish and a
mix of the general life of the seabed. Pound it up in a metal bucket then
either stiffen with bread or mud and use as groundbait(shore) or fill a
small net bag attached to your lead (boatfishing). For top of tide
beachcasting pour your scroff onto the beach at low water, tread it in
then fish over the top. If you -really- like dogfish let it ripen a few
days before using.

Cheerio,

*Or for a little more effort you can collect your own on the foreshore
after
a blow.

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On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 04:14:13 +0000, "Derek.Moody"
wrote:

Now the hard question is, are you manufacturer or distributor?

Hmmmm. Mustn't exclude 'terminally gullible' as option three I suppose.


Nor option four, that it might actually work.
I agree that up to now there hasn't been a synthetic bait for sea
fishing that's been worth using, but they've been used for coarse
fishing with some success.
If someone can get the chemical formulation right, then I can't see a
single reason why fish won't take it readily.
They're pretty opportunistic feeders. If it smells right then it's
food seems to be the way they work.

Not saying fishbites is the one, but I'll bet a pound to a pinch that
someone will come up with a good synthetic eventually.

Cheers
Ian D

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:39:55 -0000, "Richard @"
wrote:

Thanks Derek. Unfortunately I don't live near a decent port with trawlermen.

I read in a recent post that some people have tried liver. I might try this,
it's cheap enough!

It works as well.
I've had some decent whiting on strips of pig's liver, and I'm pretty
sure that it outfished lug/mackerel on at least a couple of occasions.
No reason for thinking it wouldn't work for cod either, but there's
not enough of those around on my patch to enable meaningful
comparisons to be made between liver and more traditional baits.

Cheers
Ian D

I'll give it a go anyway, although the codling in the Mersey have yet to
show in any great numbers. Mostly whiting at the moment on lug, mackerel and
squid.

Thanks for your opinion on Fishbites.....although you'll probably be accused
as a peddlar, spammer, or something as equally ludicrous!

Richard


"Ian D" wrote in message
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:39:55 -0000, "Richard @"
wrote:

Thanks Derek. Unfortunately I don't live near a decent port with
trawlermen.

I read in a recent post that some people have tried liver. I might try
this,
it's cheap enough!

It works as well.
I've had some decent whiting on strips of pig's liver, and I'm pretty
sure that it outfished lug/mackerel on at least a couple of occasions.
No reason for thinking it wouldn't work for cod either, but there's
not enough of those around on my patch to enable meaningful
comparisons to be made between liver and more traditional baits.

Cheers
Ian D

In article , Richard @
wrote:
Thanks Derek. Unfortunately I don't live near a decent port with trawlermen.

You don't have to live there, just buy the guy a pint and swap phone numbers ;-)

I read in a recent post that some people have tried liver. I might try this,
it's cheap enough!

Any sort of meat is worth trying.

Alternative scent trails can be bought though they're not quite as good.
Very cheap tinned dogfood is one. Punch a few holes in the tin and sink it
where it wil leak scent without feeding the fish. Milk is another good one
mix it with bread as a carrier and use it as groundbait, you can add mince
if you like.

A trick worth trying if you have the time is to bait your swim the tide
before you intend to fish. On the rare occasions I've been able to maintain
bait for two or three days it has paid off very well.

Cheerio,

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