Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: silver ghost on March 02, 2012, 01:11:55 AM
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Believe it or not this stuff is harder to find than I thought. I'm not looking for the actual fishing scent, as it is too sticky/oily. I want to buy extract in pure liquid form [usually comes clear]. I have tried: Safeway, whole foods market, superstore, shoppers, london drugs, zellers, wal mart, as well as a few local tackle shops all to no avail. I could buy it online from a variety of different places, but thought i'd ask the board to see if anyone knows of a place where they sell it to avoid paying more for the shipping than the extract itself!
much appreciated!
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I‘d call some of the more holistic health food stores. Here in Regina Old Fashioned Foods has essential oils - there should be about 100 places like that in Van.. A friend showed me a bait he‘d fixed with anise and coconut years ago and he used licourice extract from Safeway - one of those little 2 or 3 oz bottles from the spice section, Mcormics or Nutty Club or something like that. When I used Anise in bait I just bought a bag of whole anise at the Asian grocery and powdered it in a coffee grinder.
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have u check baking section?
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You have to go to the pharmacy department of London Drugs and they can do a special order for you.
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Bosa Foods
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I just bought some from the Sardis Health food at the chilliwack Mall.
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try galloways....its like a large store with tons of specialty baking stuff
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I found mine at save-on-foods ;D
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Thanks guys, I'll look today. Save on is the only grocery store I haven't tried...hopefully they have it! I don't live near chilliwack or a bosa foods so I will give a health food store a go!
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If you're in Vancouver, try Gourmet Warehouse (Hastings at Clark).
Also, Asian food stores might have the extract. They definitely will have dried whole Anise. You could just throw a few cloves into the bait marinade, should give it the same scent.
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I bought my in Safeway last year.
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Thanks guys, I'll look today. Save on is the only grocery store I haven't tried...hopefully they have it! I don't live near chilliwack or a bosa foods so I will give a health food store a go!
Be careful what you ask for as I went into one drug store and asked if they had Anise oil and the pharmacist said no they dont but they do have preperation H. I of course laughed my butt off and he looked puzzeled. ;D ;D
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Be careful what you ask for as I went into one drug store and asked if they had Anise oil and the pharmacist said no they dont but they do have preperation H. I of course laughed my butt off and he looked puzzeled. ;D ;D
HAHA nice! Ill anuniate the word carefully this time lol
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Just out of curiosity what are you guys doctoring up with anise?
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Just out of curiosity what are you guys doctoring up with anise?
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From what I hear, steelhead love 'sweet scents'. Commercially available Jensen eggs come bathing in the stuff!
I put it on whatever i'm using, just to make the lure/artificial that much more attractive. And based on today's trip, it definitely does not scare fish away ;)
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A lot of the commercially available oils, like krill, contain anise. Some species of fish go crazy for it.
Just out of curiosity what are you guys doctoring up with anise?
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Wal mart in the USA carries huge bottles for $3 each. not sure the volume but i remember it being twice the size of bottles up here and half the price so thats a no brainer. i usually grab some every couple trips i go down for curing roe.
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I started using the star anise from the Viet grocery for financial reasons. I already had one coffee grinder for bait exclusively and the bag of anise that cost me about $8 lasted for years. I suppose if you used oil to suspend it you could make up squeeze bottles in whatever concentration you wanted. I used it in boilies so just powdered a handfull for each 5 lb or so of basemix.
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I started using the star anise from the Viet grocery for financial reasons. I already had one coffee grinder for bait exclusively and the bag of anise that cost me about $8 lasted for years. I suppose if you used oil to suspend it you could make up squeeze bottles in whatever concentration you wanted. I used it in boilies so just powdered a handfull for each 5 lb or so of basemix.
and if there you can get some of that fermented fish oil as well..... shudder ;)
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I found some at Save on in the baking aisle along with the other extracts (Vanilla, etc..)
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and if there you can get some of that fermented fish oil as well..... shudder ;)
I use that (nuoc mam) in groundbait (illegal in BC) as well as some kind of hotsauce and something sweet like molasses or fruit drink crystals. For hookbaits and the dips I soak them in pineapple is my favourite though tutti-frutti and scopex (like butter for popcorn) are good catchers as well. I suppose when you‘re trying to find what turns any species of fish on once you step outside the box of naturals the sky‘s the limit. When I read that carp would swim behind geese waiting for them to poop I made boilies out of goose dung and the results were spectacular but no way in hell will I ever do it again. I use a lot of commercial baits now but there is extra satisfaction in catching on home made baits.