My first attempt at DIY berley blocks

[bjorn2fish 4,612]

I finally got around to making a batch of berley blocks.

 

Ingredients included old bait like cockles, a few weird looking pillies, salmon trout, salmon frames, tommies, fresh prawn shells, squid, some old snapper  and stale bread, I think that was about it.

 

 

Some nice containers ready to use. I saved a few round containers so the berley could go in those small, screw top, plastic berley pots.

 

 

My berley BEAST! Ok not a beast. I actually chipped the blades on the fish frames

 

 

The berley mix looked awesome and sooo very tasty.

 

 

Packed and ready to freeze.

 

 

Now I just have to get out on the water and give them a go   

 

I'll definitely have to make more at some stage.

[iron chef 721]

OK. a suggestion about next time u make the mix, add some items that may be around in your kitchen.

Curry powder

Anaisseed oil

Contents of cans of cat food that have pilchards.

 

A keen jetty fisher from back in the 80,s would add the above to his burley blocks with and additional item he called  dripping.

He would use an onion bag  that had a rock in it to keep it at the bottom and  would sit on the end of a West Coast Jetty catching snapper.

[bjorn2fish 4,612]

Thanks for the suggestion iron chef.

 

I did consider curry powder but wasn't sure if that was more for just certain species of fish or if it worked as a good all rounder.

[Backchat 53]

Ok Bjorn what time is tea LOL

[Rod 773]

Good effort Byorn, but perhaps you need to man up a bit and use a mulcher 

Meant in the least offensive way of course 

Cheers

Rod

[bjorn2fish 4,612]

Had to start somewhere.

 

I was actually quite surprised that little mixer managed to chop up most of the ingredients pretty well. Next time though to chop up the fish frames I'll need something more powerful, not sure if I'll go straight for the mulcher but perhaps some kind of meat grinder.

[Rod 773]

Oops, sorry about the spelling error in your name Bjorn.

I occasionally use gmc mulcher that have solely for that purpose, but it I do feel I have to do reasonably large quantities to make the effort worthwhile so something in between could be the go

Cheers
Rod

[bjorn2fish 4,612]

All good rod, I get called lots of things

 

Yeah for me at the moment I don't have much storage space for bait and berley so I'm limited to small batches for a while. Mid range I might be able to manage. One day I'll definitely have to go the mulcher they look like they do a perfect job.

[ASD14 197]

Nice mate!! I use these when I go carp fishing lol.. I also add heaps of crushed garlic + their juices, curry powder, tuna oil etc and seems to do well.

[Rybak 622]

I do similar berley batches with old bait, fish frames, prawn & crab shells, crushed cockle & mussel shells etc and also add pellets, tuna oil & cheap canned sardines. I use a heap of pilchards in the berley due to their oily goodness they release. I freeze mine in 90mm PVC tubes cut so they fit into the berley cages. Simply tap out the berley mix & slide straight into the berley cage. The PVC tube is then ready to reuse again & again. Can also put 2 or 3 lots straight into an onion bag or scaling bag.