Sweet, Spicy or Fish Flavour's

[silverbirch]

That's the question...SWEET is the unquestioned as THE most appealling Bream flavour...mollasses,tutti frutti etc, But I'm also getting spiced flavours recommended albeit ''sweet'' ones rather than curry types. But I'm also hearing and reading about people who pin their faith on Squid and Halibut etc.
Undoubtabley the Bream like fishmeal groundbait but then again name a fish that does not!!!

Do the flavours that are most successful relate to the specific venue in relation to its water quality ..pH, algael make-up, the tastes they experience from the natural botanical life (watershrimp are fishy, snails taste of ?? Bitter/sweet?, bloodworm and other minute invertibrates?? are they sweet? to the taste? etc...)
Or are their tastes a reflection of the bait we are currently introducing and they are just weened onto an available food source.


Or as I suspect with Bream they just like to trough a bit and will basically eat anything that is remotely edible with no real preferences!!lol

I'm currently using artifiials with no flavour that suggests it could also be more of a presentation issue rather than anything to do with taste buds.

Just one more...do naturally occuring flavours outfish artificially formulated ones - what ever that flavour mat be? Flavour Vs flavourings

[Stig]

In the summer i would deffo use sweet but when it gets colder the spicey ones seam to do better curry chile etc

[silverbirch]

Good point stig, forgot about the water temp angle

[Deano]

Without doubt the best bait I have ever encountered for bream is halibut pellets.....they just seem to love em....i was always picking em up when targeting the carp....in the end I had to ditch em even though the carp did like em...just too many bream...lol.. .....not really a flavour I suppose but just thought I'd tell you.......

[kerrwaf]

Originally Posted by Deano

Without doubt the best bait I have ever encountered for bream is halibut pellets.....they just seem to love em....i was always picking em up when targeting the carp....in the end I had to ditch em even though the carp did like em...just too many bream...lol.. .....not really a flavour I suppose but just thought I'd tell you.......

Was that on redes mate?
cheers

[russ]

as deano says use the halibuts the bream seem to love them but you might just get the odd nuisance carp lol !

[Deano]

Originally Posted by kerrwaf

Was that on redes mate?
cheers

no mate....never fished it....too hard for me...LOL... ......worst place I have fished for the bream nailing the halibuts was Willesley Lake...