"Secret Recipe" for Bait.

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    Here's a secret recipe for bait for angling as well as a few that may help you with your horses and hens.

    Dates from the late 1800s. I found it in an angling club minute book in an old outbuilding where we lived when first married.
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      Cool:dbgrtmb:

      Love old stuff like that.
       
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      Some of the oils are quite familiar to my son who is a keen fisherman but others have left him a bit askance. Oil of Rhodium for instance...........not a clue, Cedar, Juniper, Thyme, fennel no problem. What is oil of spike?

      When they say get the above ingredients from two or three different druggists they are talking about more like apothacaries than the pharmacists or chemists we know today surely? Any comments?
       
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        Just Google for oil of rhodium, there are plenty suppliers - it appears to still be used as an lure for fish.
        Oil of spike is lavender oil, and again still available.
        You'll find it difficult to source either of the above from chemists these days as there are now few if any who mix their own "potions" from basic indredients.
         
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          The first trout I caught was using a 5 foot ash pole I'd cut, a line made from string and a hook-to-nylon on the end of the string with a worm on the hook.
           
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          Just like the book I read in my fishing days .........Isaac Walton .... The Compleat Angler....
           
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          Thanks Dave and Zig for the information. As I say Steve uses most of those mentioned just wasn't sure about the Spike and Rhodium.
           
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          when we were fishing up in Northern Onterio, Canada two summers ago, the bait was worms, while I baited the hooks myself, the poor worms you could see it hurt, can't use worms anymore.
          When we are fishing off the coast of Florida, we use sliced squid, at least their dead before I handle it.
           
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          No mention of WD40 there.
           
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          I likes Pilchard oil. Keeps my skin nice & fishy.
           
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