Sweetcorn.
How Fresh Is Your Sweetcorn?
Hooking Your Sweetcorn
Hooking your sweetcorn kernal could not be simpler. Because the kernals of sweetcorn are so firm and when out of a tin so well preserved the hook can get good purchase and rarely come off. Sweetcorn can be seen as one of the easiest baits to hook. Indeed on size ten hook upto three sweetcorn kernals can be hooked.
Yellow Fishy Peril!
Fresh sweetcorn and frozen do not come with their own juices and are therefore not the best of the forms of sweetcorn to use. Tinned sweetcorn has many advantages as it comes with its own sweet fish attracting juices and also tinned sweetcorn is also the most yellow. The most yellow corn attracts fish and can be considered one of the cheapest and effective baits known to fisherman kind.
What can be simpler than going fishing with a tin of sweetcorn crack it open and there is a ready made bait. However there is one draw back and that is the juices because they are sweet and therefore sticky then the angler can get it on their hands reel and line which can hamper the effect of the yellow fish peril. The wise thing to do is to pop the sweetcorn open and drain the juices in to a bait box where this can be mixed with ground bait and can be used to draw the fish to your swim.
The yellow peril is know to anglers which means that on some waters it could be used frequently and the fish could be used to it. There is a way around this dye your sweetcorn using different colours does not make the sweetcorn bait any less effective.
In this case fresh is not as effective as tinned. Frozen works but needs a flavour addition. Tinned sweetcorn comes with its own fish attracting juices!
Where To Use Your Corn
Because sweetcorn kernals are bigger than say a maggot or a caster smaller fish find it difficult to take it. This leaves the way open for the bigger fish to take your bait so potentially you are in for a big catch.
When fishing flowing waters such as rivers sweetcorn throw a few grains out every cast and ledgering or trotting one or more grains is a very effective method.
If you are a stalker then make sure the sweetcorn lands in front of your desired fish and with precise casting success is virtually gaurenteed!
In still waters sweetcorn can be used for float fishing with the kernal sitting on the bottom another effective method is with the use of the open ended feeder packed with both ground bait and sweetcorn.
Cheap effective and worth a try.