groundbait , also: ground bait

It pays to be cautious at first and increase the groundbait amount if things go well.

Remember, it is always possible to put more groundbait into the water, but impossible to take it back out!

Another method is to simply squeeze the ball of groundbait onto the line just above the hook.

Baitfish can be used as groundbait, but also below a float carried by the wind.

Where groundbait is banned, soil or loam is sometimes used as a substitute.

That one night revolutionised our bream fishing and now, of course, particle groundbait beds are standard.

Don't use groundbait as Chub hate the stuff!

By the time I have laid my groundbait, tackled up, and generally settled in it will be turned 9 p.m.

For float and leger fishing, groundbait is usually thrown into the water to attract fish to the area.

He threw in a bucket of groundbait, a pint of maggots, and fished all night without a bite.

Groundbait is fishing bait that is cast into the water in order to attract fish to the fishing area.

What I do is chop the luncheon meat into cubes just big enough for a size 8 or 10 hook and mix them with damp groundbait.

If my chosen hookbait is bread then I make sure to use mashed bread in the groundbait mix.

One method of distributing groundbait close to the hookbait is by using a method feeder.

Traditionally right up until the 1970s in fact - bream groundbait consisted of buckets of stodge.

Old loaves and stones of cereal groundbait were mixed together in bucket fulls and piled into the swim.

Bread is an excellent big bream bait on most waters, for even when anglers are continually baiting with maggots they usually throw groundbait in too.

Do not bombard the water with groundbait and feed, but begin with the 'little and often' approach and wait for the fishing to develop.

Processed baits, such as groundbait and boilies, can work well with coarse fish, such as carp.

The method feeder is a wire container that holds compact, moistened groundbait and other particle baits above the hook bait on the fishing line.

Due to concerns about the ecological impact of introducing nutrients to a water, acting as fertilizer, angling in some waters is affected by regulations on groundbait use.

Practically every angler throws in bread groundbait, whatever hookbait he uses, so it is always a good bet that a bread bait will be successful.

He tried punch bread with sloppy groundbait for small roach, but when he changed to double squatt he added five skimmers and a few small perch.

I dropped a marker into the swim from the boat and fed in about 5lb of groundbait, three pints of casters and a pint of maggots.

The amount of groundbait is optimized to draw as many fish as possible to the fishing place, stimulating them to feed without over-feeding, which will stop the fish from biting.