Thought I'd give baitworks a try so ordered a kilo of Atlantic heat and some scent from hell barrel pop ups, how fecking strong is scent from hell!! You could smell it through the box and cant get the smell off my fingers jeez it better catch fish 🤣

In reply to Post #1
Hmmmmmmm. I found it too strong. I've used them everywhere, on some stupidly easy day tickets and hard waters, I'm nearly through the whole pot. Never had so much as a single pick up on one. I know as humans we all like a stinky bait, but I'm unsure if these have actually gone too far or if it's just a coincidence that my results on them have been so poor. By contrast I make my own pop ups which have a much more subtle flavour and on the days that I blanked with the hells I was catching on my own.

Same for me used them a number of times and never caught despite other baits doing fish. I think in certain situations it can probably repel fish rather than attract.

I've just received a pot. Absolutely stunk the house out when i opening them. Going to give them a go over the coming months against Mainline Salty Squid & Pineapple popups

Just for balance, I've always found these a good bait on my water. Plus side is the barrels balance an 18mm boilie well for a snowman or you can core out an 18mm and pop one in for a balance bottom bait. Also, you get used to the smell

It's when you get used to the smell you are in trouble, as you and your vehicle stink to everyone else but you!

I caught well on the white hells on a very silty lake.

Had a couple of pots, couldn't buy a bite on them. They really don't smell that bad/strongly.

In reply to Post #7
Good god mine do. When the pot arrived I stuck it under my wife's nose and told her to take a big old sniff. She ran to the back door and started heaving. Even though I've never caught in them. That alone was worth the purchase price.

so 'appens, I had a fish on one last night

In reply to Post #2
Thanks for the replies, thought they might be a bit strong myself but I'll give them a whirl at the weekend

In reply to Post #10
I've caught on the Hells but seem to do much better on the Sea Monster.

I'm nearly through a full pot, and I haven't had a single bite in them, If I wasn't such a tight ass I'd throw them away

They smell of really bad Man made chemicals to me.

Saw a bloke catch a fish on one in pea green algea, really bad conditions, they work, he then tied one on a size 5 chod and it leaned over.... The buoyancy would be my issue..

In reply to Post #1
I've done very well on these over the past 12 months, through the Autumn and Winter too!
In fact I only have these and the pineapple version in my bucket at the moment.

In reply to Post #14
The buoyancy would be my issue.
Just drill the pop up and add cork to suit buoyancy ?

They have caught me more fish than any other pop-up. I have even watched carp single out a fragment of a SfH that I had banded to a size 10 hook and float fished over pellet in the margin.This was after watching them ignore bottom baits and pellets for an hour.

In reply to Post #17
They work , to the point they were on all rods on most days . Just used the orange as it's a forgotten colour , but the whites are the one 😉. For a change used their pinapphell , lovely bait , confident in all of them .

In reply to Post #18
Is "SFH" a specific flavour/blend or blend of hydros, that gives the bait it´s putrid odour ? What does it smell like ?

In reply to Post #19
Smells like a two people in a mortuary having a fight with n-buytric acid. It's a very man made chemically smell.

About as subtle as a pan-galactic gargle blaster.

In reply to Post #20
According to the other thread chemical flavours don't attract carp. Go figure.

In reply to Post #19
It's basically a very very strong Crab smell from why I can make out.

Defo not subtle, but that's not what I'm after in a pop-up.

In reply to Post #22
The matching booster liquid is seriously pungent stuff. Don't get it on your fingers or open it inside - it will linger for days. It smells very similar to the krebsdyr-flavour(crayfish/shellfish) that the danish bait firm Danish Delight put out in the late 90´s. I may be wrong, but to my mind there seems to be a some fruity blackcurrant´ishly notes in the scent from hell booster liquid.

Smells too synthetic to me.....

In reply to Post #24
Never smelt these particular baits but don't knock synthetic smells some of the flavours that have been most successful in my own baits have a definite synthetic chemical smell.

If I could point to anything about the difference of some currently available flavours and their original versions it would be that they have lost their chemical edge

In reply to Post #25
Perhaps the originals was suited to a fish preferences and the new versions are more suited to the preference of the angler

In reply to Post #26
Or certain constituents are no longer included. Diacetyl for instance, most flavour producers make statements saying there products are free from it...they are now selling to the vaping industry and diacetyl is a no go for them.

In reply to Post #27
Yes, I assume very few bother to make blends just for fishing, so that might well be so.

In reply to Post #27
Some flavours still have Diacetyl in though. For example, Capella do a Version 1 with Diacetyl and a Version 2 that is Diacetyl free.

In reply to Post #29
Interesting, do you know if they sell to any of the bait manufacturers, or indeed any kind of retail outlets

In reply to Post #30
Christian, have a google around - should be widely available. As I understand they were predominantly a food flavour supplier but must have had huge growth with the boom in vaping, hence the formulation and supply of diacetyl free flavours.

In reply to Post #30
Chefs flavours stock the range.

https://chefsflavours.co.uk/flavourings/capella/

In reply to Post #32
Thanks guys

Have anyone tried the scent from heaven pop ups?

I just can't get on with the scent from hell, I've caught fish with them but the smell stays everywhere for ages 🤮

I've used Scent From Hell Pop-Ups for years now and More Recently the Pineap-hell and Sea Monster. I personally have found these to pick out the bigger carp. This may well be coincidence, but my Three Biggest U.K Fish have fallen to either Scent From Hell or Pineap-hell.

I also have absolutely no issue with boosting these on a regular basis too. Once every six weeks, taking to them with a liberal coating of matching booster and allowing it to soak in

In my opinion Baitworks produce some of the best products on the market and I will always use a variation of their pop-ups on one of my rods

In reply to Post #34
The Heaven's smell like BAF Tutti flavour, not sure if that's an ingredient, but that's what they smell like.

In reply to Post #19
Smells like monster crab and nba have made a baby and its got leprosy.

In reply to Post #24
but youre a human , how can you speak for fish?

In reply to Post #13
to you ? they are aimed at fish though arent they !

I fish a very silty club lake and I have done extremely well on the scent from hells, I figure that they can pick up the scent better through the silt especially in the winter, pretty much all I use through the winter months.

In reply to Post #40
It's one of them baits that you'll know if it works very quickly in your lake.

I've had some of my best fish on singles in lake and not a touch on another. It worked really well on the St Laurence as well.


It's also nearly got me kicked out of the digs and we could also smell it in the plane cabin. The white ones seem the strongest

I took my fishing gear into work one Friday , showed one of the labourers my sent from hell pop ups and the boost bottle, which he nicked off me , and put it in the electricians van , who went off the head at the smell in his new transit van and a fight broke out. . Great bait in my opinion also was great entertainment that day .

In reply to Post #42
Brilliant!

Having listened to the Thinking Tackle #22 episode that features the owner of Baitworks, and reading through this thread, I've purchased a tub of SfH and matching booster to try at a few lakes around me in the York/Leeds regions. Mark appears to really know how stuff and for that I'm willing to give them a go.

Someone asked about whether they sell to retail. Mark has produced a short video on the website explaining why they only sell direct to customers. Makes sense. Including delivery, it could be the best £15 spent on a hook bait given what has already been reported below. Or the worst We'll see in the coming months.

In reply to Post #37
Monster crab and a couple of acids I'm lead to believe.

Not so long back I had a couple vial's of the boosters to add to the popup. Later I found out that the reason their brown in colour was because they are cut with soya sauce.
The clear liquid is the one to go with.

One thing I have found this year, catfish do not like it on the one lake I fish.

In reply to Post #44
Clear scent from hell booster on white PJPU crabs...thank me later

In reply to Post #44
How do you choose the clear version over the brown booster? Or do they just send whatever..

I've only ever had the clear sent. Used them for years and never seen any brown booster.

I agree when ever I've ordered the booster I've only been sent the clear one, I've never even seen the brown one

In reply to Post #47
I have a couple bottles on the shelf, one orange lid, one blue lid, this was before I knew better. Baitworks is just up the road so I can just go in and buy.

In reply to Post #49
My order arrived yesterday with a small bottle of transparent booster liquid. The smell is putrid before opening the tub

Not looking forward to touching these Might have to consider a smell proof bag or container.

In reply to Post #50
You will grow to like the smell of it i have over the years haha

I've kept my bottle of hell booster. Even though I never had a single run on either the hell or the heaven. I've kept it simply to squirt through the letterbox of the next customer who bounces me for payment.

In reply to Post #1
Reminds me of hutches Swan mussel abs from the 90's.

In reply to Post #52


Along with half a pint of maggots

I used this for the first time yesterday - I've never smelt a bait remotely like it. I like Baitworks and what Mark Bryant does, so thought of giving them a go. When I opened them the smell was so intense, and in my limited knowledge I pretty much assumed it would be too much to a fish, and maybe more of a cold water bait. And like some of the replies in the thread, it felt quite chemical in smell.

There weren't many bites recently on the lake I am fishing, and I had nothing for two days and a night, then moved swim and within 20 minutes had a lovely fish out.

Yes it might well have been the change of swim - I'll never really know.

However, the fish in the lake are very wiley they worked.

It was interesting reading a fair few of the comments below this morning, as there seems a very divided opinion on this bait - fair enough.

It has done a positive thing for my confidence and I will continue to explore this bait.

In reply to Post #55
Hi - I have used the scent from hell pop ups since they came out.. Use with total confidence mate. The most effective popups I have used. They did go through a spell where the buoyancy wasn't great but now absolutely fine. And yes they absolutely reek and best not kept in the house. I keep mine in a sealed glass jar which seems to be the best way

I honestly wish that they were less effective

I've probably tried most of the better smelling, more expensive hookbaits available and *for me* the Scent From Hells have always consistently out-fished anything else used side by side.

I used to plug them with cork, but they have improved the recipe and no need anymore.

They stink though, and it's a smell that normal people will not tolerate in the car!

Thank you for the replies, great feedback on this bait that I am looking forward to exploring more.

Glass jar - I hope that works as my mrs just complained about the smell of the car and there has been nothing in it since yesterday!

I used it as a single, no feed. Any tips on feed with this if I want to put free offerings in at some point? There is no SFH fresh boilie's - there is Royal Marine which has SFH at a low level.

And I am not bothered about the booster bottles, they smell enough already!

In reply to Post #55
Tried them one winter and never had a sniff . Much preferred the scent from heavens

is it glm that the scent from hells smell of?? I know the smell but can't put my finger on what it is from when I dabbled making ny own baits

In reply to Post #60
Hi does not smell like GLM ,it is Monster Crab

In reply to Post #61
Been a while since I used them, but isn't there also some N-Butyric acid present too ?

In reply to Post #62
Never had a fish on them either. I dont find smell that bad either ...its fairly subtle like my socks lol

SFH dont smell half as bad as they did years ago they used to smell like a pot of puke that had been cooking in the sun for a few days I never done very well on them Sea Monster was the one for me caught plenty on them.

SFH reminds me of an old flavour from the mid 90's that I think Richworth or Hutchinson made - Danish Blue...

It was so strong and chemical, with that rancid cheese smell. Chub loved it.

In reply to Post #65
Monster Crab, NBA and other organic acids. Love it as a flavour.

They remind me of sticky baits xs or triple s

In reply to Post #67
Wow that Sticky bait is a blast from the past

I used to like using that.

Does anyone know what was in it? I'm guessing the S stood for Spirulina?

In reply to Post #68
Yeah sprillana was a good bait that 👌

In reply to Post #58
I've done really well on Royal Marine wafters glugged in scent from Hell and coated in C Stim powder in fact these caught me my new PB French carp of 79-12 Just over a week ago, the Barbel love these also, I also catch well on the Pineapell wafters, really rate the Baitworks bait as fished a mix of the heat/Marine and constantly caught the other week 👍