Baits are typically designed to attract & catch fish, not to maintain them. The ingredients used are probably questionable at best. I wouldn't risk feeding my fish that stuff when there are so many commonly avaialable foods.
Hi,
I'm a lifelong fisherman (40+ actual fishing years) and I'm sorry but I don't agree with that statement at all. As an angler it sounds to me like a statement that only the seriously uninitiated would make.
Fishing is largely different here in the UK than it is in other parts of the world where fish are caught primarily for food, in that scenario the bait only needs to attract and catch the fish. But here in the UK and for the types of bait that the OP refers to a catch and release policy is enforce. Carp are the main quarry now days and can take over 20 years to reach the type of proportions commonly sought after by anglers therby having an inherent value placed upon them by both the fishery owners and the fishing industry as a whole.
To even suggest that this food is anything other than nutritionally valuable to the coarse fish that we both seek and admire is insulting. Angling is the largest participant sport in the UK and a multimillion £ industry. Some 4 million rod licenses are sold every year in a country with a 60 million or so population. That equates to roughly 1 in 15 people actively participating. That's a serious amount of food going into our lakes, rivers and canals. Because for every piece that goes on a hook commonly hundreds are fed for attraction and to get the fish to recognize the 'bait' as food.
However considering the OP's question being "is this food suitable for Plec's" then IMO I'd steer clear of it. Its been designed specifically for UK coarse fish i.e. cyprinades, members of the carp family, who can handle a lot more protein in there diet than is good for Plec's. So in essence the OP answered his own question.
Chris.
