What is the controversy over patateos?
Par-boiled Patatoes have been a favouret triditional carp bait, but I am not sure that they were a particularly effective bait incomparison to modern baits. Rreading tales from anglers who used them in their heyday, it apears that they were used for the same reason that we use boilies ie they were large and hard enough to be a selective carp bait and at the time there was no betteralternative – certainly no boilies. They were not effective on all waters, you could catch carp with them on some waters and on others you would get no action at all. A word of warning thoug , Last year (94) someone started to use small cooked potatoes on one lake and had an initial high degree of success. This *new* bait was quickly discovered by many of the mainly boilie fishing anglers. The result was a large number of potatoes entering the lake. This situation is very unheathly for the fish and the water composition. As the months passed by, the fish realised that these potatoes were also to be considered
