One for the home growers rollers out there

Has anyone played about with herbs and spices in their base mix? If so, what have you found effective?
Is there an 'overload' point with any of them, or anyones to avoid?

I use 11 differant herbs and spices with my mix and it works makes my bait smell like an asian takeaway LOL

I add 1 desert spoon per six egg mix

Found any that don't work then Biv?

After a bit of reading about I'm trying some fenugreek, chilli and garlic powder in my base mix. Just done a six egger and going to test it out on my lass's dad's koi, will see what happens

i have been using spice for many years , there are plenty that dont work , and a few that really work well , keep the garlic levels low , for some reason, the animal feed garlic is crap compared to human grade garlic , more husk than garlic i guess ?

To be honest a mate gave me the tip on a product called "ti 7 spice" he had good sucsess with it in his own bait on one particular water we fish.

I wanted to try something differant to him so i bought every hurb/spice mentioned on the 7 spice jar i could find plus a load of others not mentioned,i picked up every jar in the spice rack at asda and put them all together and mixed them up in a large tub so ive never actualy tried them individualy so i can't tell if any don't work because ive caught on that mix.

Mind you ive caught plenty on my own base mix on other waters long before i ever started to add any spices/hurbs to it.

I knew garlic was one that could be overdone so currently trying 1 teaspoon in 6 egg mix with fenugreek and chilli mixed into the basemix at 2% each. I've done well using the mix 'plain' with just my regular additives but we're always trying to improve

As a rough guide, these are what I consider about optimum/maximum levels of various common spices in a bait.... not all at once mind you... All are per kilo of basemix:

Chilli 70g
Fenugreek 40g
Garam Masala 90g
Garlic 50g
Coriander 100g
Asofeotida 30g
Tandoori powder 60g
Black pepper 50g

Hope this helps...

Nice one Pete, that'll save a lot of messing about

Have you found capsaicin to have any effect on a carp's digestive tract as 70g of chilli is a fair bit! (my arse would certainly tingle )

In over 40 years worth of carping, I have found it very hard to OVERDO the chilli. The more I put in, the more I appear to catch. Thats of course, when and if I can be bothered to go;);)

kind regards Jeff

Chilli 70g

Thats ok then im not over loading my base as its only got 62g in but of milder paprika