blue train peas

[DALMATION]

I was told over the weekend about "blue train peas" Apparently hard peas bought from the supermarket, boiled and kept in menth/spirits. Sounds bizarre but two different guys told me anglers of colour use it quite effectively????

 

[Brakkanjan]

Barry van Niekerk , owner of The Original has bottled mealie pips they sell called "Blou Trein Mielies".

It is pips in spirits. Works great at the Vaal river during the night

 

So I think you will probably get those kinds of peas. Didn't the guys make it themselfes perhaps?

 

[DALMATION]

Yes, they do make it themselves. But does it work?

 

[Vleipadda]

Thats an very old recipe shucks the old toppies at the club were i used to catch in school told us bout that already 1995 there abouts - great success in the boland too

 

[DALMATION]

Thanks, I am old Toppie as well but never heard of it. Thought it might kill the fish. I will make some and try it.

 

[damian27]

i have made my own with millies, and it worked great here.

 

[Stefan Engelbrecht]

We used spirits alot when conventional angling in the Cape especially when the wind blew.

I have a method I call the "S-Method". I take the base line of the trace 10cm above the feed ball and hold it tight. I twist the feedball to spin the line thight and when it spins back i hold the bottle of spirits over the feedball and soak it with spirits. Because the spirits disperses so well through the water this is a great caller and caught me lots of fish when the action died down.

I mixed a bit of food colouring into the spirits so other anglers couldn't see it's spirits. I also had another spirits that I mixed syrup in to give a thicker consistency and also flourosciene.

We have also fished with dettol pips, windolene and even petrol pips. All of them caught fish. Because the products are so miscible in water and you use low quantities they simply dilute into the water with no negative impact on the environment.