Sharking: Attractants

 

I owe a lot of what i know about sharking to Andrew skipper of white water but i would like to share some of what i found out last year here.

Rubby Dubby :

Ok this can be a as simple or as complex as you like here is what we do. [ Credit to Andrew for the base recipe i have tweaked a bit]

Horse bran 1/4 - 1/2 sack 

chopped fish preferably , mackerel but pollock , herring seem to work well to. [ Doesn't have to be fresh but shouldn't be rotten either ]

1 lt of concentrated pilchard oil [ Ammo seems the best bet but its expensive ]

That's the standard mix here's the bits I’ve added on the last few trips.

Chicken Pellets [ Made form fish meal ] I prefer carp fishing halibut pellets but there expensive, but there dense and they take the oil right down fast [5kg - £10.00] [http://www.bristolbaitsupplies.co.uk/pellets.htm] I soak these in pilchard oil for 72 hours and then stir in 4lbs of fish meal and builders sand till the mixture is cohesive slop, this i then mix half with the rubby dubby and spoon the other half out the back of the boat i generally take 25 k. It puts out a trail like you wont believe.

My motives for this is that i personally believe that the average sharking trip doesn't give you the time to get bait down to the big ocean predators that are down deep this mix gets the sent down to cover the deep baits fast.