Scottish Bait!

[Wakou]

I recently bought some cheap "square sausage" ("Lorne") from Farm Foods (!.. Not my usual Fortnum and Mason's weekly food-shop!). I can't pretend I enjoyed it hugely, but it did make me think that a chub or tench or bream etc might.. When fried it became quite tough and chewy, and I imagine it would stay nicely on the hook or hair. Has anyone here used it?

[Wallys-Cast]

Makes a lovely sarnie. With brown sauce of course.

Wal.

[Grumpy]

Most meaty products work,give 'em a go,nothing ventured nothing gained.

[Duckett]

Sadly, the cheap Lorne sausage available south of the border isn’t a patch on those I’ve tasted in Scotland. However, with no casing to hold it together it’s a little coarser and seems to have more rusk than would go into other sausages, which might explain the chewyness. I’m with Wal on it making good sausage sandwich though.

Phil

[Olly]

I found some in a local butchers which is strange being so far South!

My wife and I tried it - she, from near the Borders, said it tasted nothing like the sausage in the Northern Northumberland area!

So good for fish - - ??

[Dave Burr]

Scottish bait? Shouldn't it be deep fried?

But of course it will catch, a mixture of meat/offal and bran is a very traditional choice and most of our coarse species will eat it.

[John Milford]

The Scottish 'Square sausage' I once tried was very noticeably spiced. That flavouring might add extra appeal as bait, but not for breakfast - at least not to my taste.

However, I have also seen 'Sausage squares' - which are something different. They made excellent sarnies, especially the Cumberland ones.

(As an aside, I once opened a tin of Luncheon meat, intending to use it as bait - but upon noticing it's unusually delicious aroma, I saw that it was the black peppered variety. That got promoted very swiftly to breakfast and a tin of the plain old stuff got opened as bait!).

[BoltonBullfinch]

Deep fried battered lorne sausage, now there's a idea, but why waste it on the fish. I do miss my bi weekly trips to Scotland delivering our product, a lorne sausage bun was always the first thing on my mind. There was a small services just off the M74 that had a mobile catering van on the car park on the way up, I think it may have been near castle Douglas, but I can't exactly remember, and their lorne sausage was excellent.

Thanks
BB

[Ian]

Can’t beat square sausage on a Morton’s roll. None of these horrible doughy rolls. Morton’s rolls are almost hollow so a tattie scone can be added ha!

[Barbelseeker]

Yes - have used it for barbel and caught. I placed the whole slice into a hot pan for about 20 sec, flipping once. When cold I cut it up into cubes. I felt that doing it that way always left a soft (Unsealed) 4 sides to leak flavour