Article Published: 18 January 2009
By Rassie Erasmus

"Racing Methods Used by Rassie Erasmus"

On visiting my uncle the other day we started talking about the incredible angling results that one of his friends has. It doesn't seem to matter when and where he went he always succeeds in bringing back a string of big ones. This particular angler kept reeling in fish that were at least a foot long and then he kept throwing them back into the water. A fisherman in a nearby boat kept watching this with a mixture of amazement and disgust. Finally he couldn't resist and called over to the fisherman after he had just thrown back another fish that was over a foot long. He shouted, "hey! why are you throwing back all those big fish?" The answer was more disturbing than not keeping them. He replied, "Hey! I've only got an eight-inch pan!"


So this fisherman is settling for small fish as he's only prepared for small fish. Dumb is’nt. Now let's go to the feeding part of our birds (the way I feed with great success ) and see if we can pick up a much bigger pan for bigger fish. To start off I first need to explain what I used and why I used the following.

1) Racing mix. Not high protein. The reason is for the ingredients I use over the food. Thus a high protein racing mixture will not work. Further more the ingredients I make use of contains enough of everything the birds need.

2) Isomil. See all the good stuff it contains. Just read on the container.

3) Vital brewers Yeast. Powder form.

4) Superformance. ( Magic Magic Magic stuff )

5) Energizer oil.

6) Sunflower.

7) Peanuts. ( Long distance )

8) Barley. ( Short distance )

9) Black eye susan peas ( Long distance 800km and above )

10) Viroban. This will be mixed later on with Avisol. Especially long hot weather races.

11)Vitamin E oil.

With the above mentioned and mixed with the feed it doesn't matter like whith our fisherman, when or where he fishes, he brings back a string of big ones.

How to feed and when, will be discussed at a later stage. Next time I will give a list of vitamins I used.

( Tip: The feeding, training, adding of vitamins, health products and preparation goes hand in hand).