Maple peas?

[mancity]

Has anyone tried maple peas?. I hear their a great winter bait but i have never seen them and was wondering if anybody has had any luck from them?

[silverbirch]

They are like a bigger, sweeter version of a tare. Soak them in water overnight (if you wish to add a flavour like molasses put that in at this stage and they 'drink' it in as thet hydrate) To cook - bring to boil and then simmer until they can be 'squished' between the fingers....fish 2-3 on a hair. If you want them darker than normal add some bicarboate of soda at the cooking stage.

I bag and freeze them down....but if you leave them out they go gooey in their own juices after a few days and this is the way I lke to use them. Beyond this though they start to ferment and go off.

Good for Tench apparently but do not let that put you off. I was using them a lot on Redesmere as feed for the Bream and accidently hooked two carp.

dinamite do these in a tin at a resanable price aswell there all sticky and gooey lovely stuff get on them mate they work a treat

What do you consider a reasonable price ? Arent those jars £6.99 ?

I take it you mean for one of those Dynamite 'jars' ?


are you aware that to buy that quantity of maples would cost you
approx 45p ? Im sorry but i dont see that sort of mark up on a simple product as reasonable !

[Joephus]

Well they have to buy the maples, soak and boil them (taking time and labour) then sort them into the jars the bought, then label them. Then sell them too a tackle shop who then sells them to you. Oh and maybe make some money while there at it.

Not all cheap processes either as there not done on a big scale in industrial terms. Coke cans are made on a large scale, dynamite maple peas arent.

If you have got the time do it yourself.

[PJW]

If you can find the blooming things. All the places I used to buy them no longer seem to keep them in stock (must be because they are not as popular any more)

[Joephus]

A bait used by many people as a alternative, for the simple reason there not used much anymore.

Does this make them good? or just an alternative which is less effective than the norm?

i can get a 10kg sack of maples for £4.50

[Joephus]

Well done......I cant find the gold star emoticon but if i could.....by god phil you would have one!

[Cliff]

Can i have a silver star emoticon, for finding them at ?6.50 for 10kg a sack

[Joephus]

Yep, good effort but not as cool as Phil.

[Cliff]

must try harder!!

Originally Posted by Phil highlander

What do you consider a reasonable price ? Arent those jars £6.99 ?

I take it you mean for one of those Dynamite 'jars' ?


are you aware that to buy that quantity of maples would cost you
approx 45p ? Im sorry but i dont see that sort of mark up on a simple product as reasonable !

phil i didnt mean them big jars bloody hell there expensive i was taking about the big tine su can get of them i think there around 2.50 a tin i dotn think thats that bad