hi and welcome to another video from me mark carp of the north west carp and
anglers diary fishing blog today we're going to be looking at preparing hemp
for fishing okay so hemp seed what a fabulous bait
you could be a river angler stick float fishing for species like roach or dace
or chub you could be a tench or bream angler or you could be a specimen
barbel and carp angler hemp is an absolutely fabulous bait and in this
episode I'm going to show you a real easy way to prepare it it requires very
little effort but in the meantime let's check out the sack of hemp I've got we'll
open it up and have a look at the hemp inside to see what the quality is like
ok so this is my sack of hemp as you can see it's a cage and aviary bird
seed mix that's all it is and we come up as you can see as usual with a lot of
the sacks of particles I get its Bamford's top flight which is usually
really good stuff now this is a full sack so what I'm gonna do now I'm going
to open this sack we'll have a look at the hemp inside and see what the
quality is like okay so let's see if we can get this sack open snip it off at
the corner as per usual now
if you've seen one of my videos before you'll know that there's a knack to this
get it started to do that I'm just gonna pull one on top and the whole lot comes out
that's the string that holds it together so the sacks now open so let's take a
peek inside and see what we've got okay so this is my hemp
as you can see the sacks open and it's looking good I'll just fish my in there
and pick some up I'll bring that up to the lens and then we'll zoom in now
as you can see that's nice and clean and that was the thing that worries me most
about particles you don't want particles that have got lots of dirt and dust and
stuff like that, generally they're not very good quality with this
stuff that's nice and clean there's no dust in it and that looks okay the seeds
are varying in size quite a bit some are really small some are quite big and
everything else in between it's not really what you'd call uniform compared
to hemp I've had in the past but it's not too bad we can certainly work with it
I've had a lot worse and I've had better but that generally as far as hemp goes
is okay so how do we prepare it well stay tuned and I'll show you okay so
here we are in my kitchen again not the first time we've been here is it when it
comes to preparing particles we've been here quite a few times before but more
of that towards the end of the video today we're doing hemp as I've already
said and to prepare it nice and easy we're going to use a thermos flask
so it's hemp from a flask now you might be thinking oh well that's not going to
do enough you'd be surprised you can get quite a bit of hemp out of a
thermos flask and it's certainly enough for a session
now you associate hemp with carp anglers and burco boilers and boiling loads
and loads of the stuff yeah carp anglers do do that but nine times out of ten
they make a mistake with a much they put in if you just feed hemp to fish and
nothing but hemp or vast quantities of it they will eat it to the exclusion of
everything else they become preoccupied and you can sit there all day with your
bait over your hemp and you won't get a bite they will literally they'll be
troughing that hemp all the time and they'll just ignore everything else so
what you want to do is not put so much of it in and that's where the
flask comes in now I can get three pints of hemp into this flask and it's still
so much from the top probably get three and a half but I like to leave a bit
because the hemp is going to split once the boiling water has been added so let's
take a look I'll put the hemp in now so you can see for yourself just how much goes
in a flask okay so here's my hemp I've got a pint glass and this flask will take
three pints of hemp at least in fact it will take more than that so
I'm gonna fill my pint glass one pint of hemp and I'm going to pour it in here and
basically I'm just gonna fill the flask with three pints now you might think
three pints of hemp is not a lot but when it comes to making a spod mix for
carp fishing I don't want any more than one-third of my mix to be hemp because the
fish can get preoccupied on it to the point where they'll eat it to the
exclusion of everything else and what you'd actually want to do with
hemp is make sure there's enough in the swim to hold them there and to give them
something to keep them digging around but you don't want them to eat it to the
exclusion everything else because it gets harder to
get a bite the fish will literally just tear your swim up look like a jacuzzi and
you'll catch absolutely nothing they'll just ignore your hook bait okay so this
is why I do my hemp in small amounts and when you do it as small amounts you
can use a flask like this and it's not so labour intensive you know, I
mean I'm just literally going to pour boiling water on this and then just
close the lid I'll come back to it the next morning and it'll be done and
that's how you do hemp in a flask you put your hemp in you pour boiling water
on it and you close the lid and you just leave it overnight and it's done it's so
easy so I'll just get rid of all the little bits around the rim now that's
taken at least three pints I don't know whether you can see that's where it's up too
it's about that's the top and it's up to about there you could probably get a
little bit more in as well maybe three and a quarter pints but three is enough
for me remember by the time your spod mix is done I'm going to have nine pints of bait
because I'll pull six pints of pellets in with that and again I'll measure them
out with this we'll just go in pellets and they'll go in the
bucket along with the hemp and what we end up with is a hemp and pellet
mix you can lob a tin of sweetcorn in as well but that is basically it three
pints of hemp and all gonna do is pour boiling water on it put the lid on and
leave it overnight until the morning now if you do this in the evening time come
back to it the next morning your hemp is already there and it's great should be
nicely split and perfect okay so my kettle is just coming to the
boil and I'm going to pour this boiling water into the flask okay
there we go
tighten the lid down on that and it's done we just wait until the morning so
there we go three pints of hemp from a flask just
like that you know there's very little effort involved you
literally just pour the hemp into the flask pour water on top make sure you
leave enough space in the top and I can get three pints in there it's enough for
a day's barbel fishing it's enough for a couple of days of stick float fishing
for roach it's a basis of a spod mix for carp so you know by the time you've
added extra pellets in and sweetcorn and stuff like that you'll have over a
gallon of bait with one third of it made up of hemp so we'll come back to this in
the morning stay tuned I'll take the lid off I'll pour it into a bucket and you
can see how it's come out and we'll take a look at the grains and the seeds and see
if they've split okay so join me for that now and we'll take a look how it's come out
hi and welcome back its morning time I've got my flask here from last night
with three pints of hemp in you watched me put it in the flask and pour
boiling water on it last night we've left it overnight and now we're going to
have a look at how the hemp has turned out I've also got a bucket I'm gonna put the
hemp in the bucket and see what it looks like okay so here's my hemp
there's my bucket let's take the lid off
we'll tip it out and see what it looks like as you can see it's right up to
the lip the waters actually gone down a bit there now obviously there's
still a bit of hemp stuck to the inside of the flask i'll rinse that out in a
minute but in the meantime let's take a look at this hemp as you can see it's
started to split
okay there's plenty of little white bits in there it's not split as much as I
would have liked it too but it varies form batch to batch some of them split
really well and some of them take a little longer
but that's not too bad at all that I'm quite happy with that for a days fishing
now as you can see there is plenty of hemp in there in that bucket so you can see
it's not quite half full but it's over one third now you might not think
that's much but by the time you've added pellets in sweetcorn and
chopped and whole boilies and stuff like that you know that's a bloody good
spod mix I'll need a bigger bucket to make a spod mix with that there's so
much of it that's not too bad for a days barbel fishing perfect three pints you
know mix it all with your groundbait that's an awful lot of groundbait for
a days fishing for Barbel and as far as stick float fishing for roach and dace and
chub you can cut that in half, freeze half of it and fish with the other half, a pint
or a pint and a half is enough for a day's stick float fishing so that's
great it's come out well I'm well happy with that what I'm going to do with it
now is
because there's not enough water in it, it's been in the flask remember I'm going to boil the kettle
and just top it up with boiling water over the top of it and then I'll stick the
lid on it and it's ready to go fishing happy days okay so that's hemp
it's pretty easy isn't it? put it in a flask add boiling water
leave it overnight until the grains split and it's done and this is the bucket I've
put it in that 1.8 litre thermos flask has filled this bucket to about there
it's not quite halfway but it's certainly over the third now by the time
I've added pellets, a tin of sweetcorn, chopped and whole
boilies stuff like that, that bucket is not big enough for a spod mix it's going to have
to go in a bigger one there's absolutely loads of hemp in
there okay so it's pretty good doing just small amounts and you can create a
good spod mix with it but you don't need to go over the top you know there's no
hours spent with a burco slaving over the stove cooking pans and pans and
pans of the stuff you use it in a combination with other things and make
the spod mix what's in here is good enough for the day's barbel fishing as well if
you're a barbel angler and you like using hemp and three pints in a flask
done overnight it's great you know you can take it barbel fishing with you
the next day and you're not going to run out of hemp stick float fishing for
chub, dace and roach on the river or even a stillwater if you're a match fisherman
you want a pint a pint and a half to take with you on a session you can
cut this in half and freeze half of it because there's so much of it in
there and just half of this amount will do for the day's fishing so doing it in
a flask for most of us it's a good way of doing it you know there's always some
carp anglers you'll take it to extreme and do sacks and sacks and sacks of the
stuff and pile it in but it's pretty good used this way and it
works great as a combination so hemp and pellets is a good combination other
particles, it combines pretty well with them as well so hemp and maize, hemp and tiger nuts
hemp and maple peas all go down really well with the fish now I've covered
maize, tigers and maples already on this channel there's videos on how to prepare
them and how to use them so check them out as well regarding hemp the last
thing we're going to talk about is the price as always thirty quid for the 15
kilo sack that's quite expensive it works out at £2 a kilo uncooked you
know cooking it's not so bad with the flask but 30 quid for 15 kilos is quite steep
now I've already done pigeon conditioner on this channel as well and
that's a good alternative pigeon conditioner is 18 quid for 20 kilos so
you get more of it for less money it works out about half the price roughly so if
you don't want to spend out for the hemp check out the pigeon conditioner
video I've got on this channel already and you can see how I use that and how
cheap it is and that makes a good alternative to hemp, again it's a seed
mix and you can use it as the basis of the spod mix so that works out pretty well
so check out the pigeon conditioner video this is going fishing with me
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