I have always doubted nuggets and rarely use them in preference to a small PVA stick.. I feel if you wet them and pinch them on, they will flap and spin about more on the cast and increase the chance of tangling. If I use them whilst using my boat, I will just hook them on from the side with the point masked so they are like a dumbell pop up hooked length wise and hopefully they do not spin on the drop.
I often wonder if they have dissolved, yet, when conditions are right, you often see them pop up on the surface, usually followed by a seagull diving for it and hopefully not pick it up until I have used it as a marker to fire some bait out around it. But, I have also had occasions when I have seen other anglers cast or send a bait boat into my swim, they have denied casting into my swim or dropping the rig from a boat into my swim, but, I point out the evidence of a nugget of PVA on the surface which shuts them up and they have to move it.
Ideally, I prefer the nuggets made from corn starch than the PVA ones as I feel they have less chance of putting a fish off it they do not melt.
In my shed, I have a black bin bag full of them, usually obtained from parcels I have received, but it seems to be rare now to get the corn starch ones.
I often wonder if they have dissolved, yet, when conditions are right, you often see them pop up on the surface, usually followed by a seagull diving for it and hopefully not pick it up until I have used it as a marker to fire some bait out around it. But, I have also had occasions when I have seen other anglers cast or send a bait boat into my swim, they have denied casting into my swim or dropping the rig from a boat into my swim, but, I point out the evidence of a nugget of PVA on the surface which shuts them up and they have to move it.
Ideally, I prefer the nuggets made from corn starch than the PVA ones as I feel they have less chance of putting a fish off it they do not melt.
In my shed, I have a black bin bag full of them, usually obtained from parcels I have received, but it seems to be rare now to get the corn starch ones.
I've always used a pva nugget but I also always check if it has popped off afterwards if I can't see it then it gets re done, I take binoculars with me aswell to make sure.
I must admit the 2 inside some pva mesh sounds like a good idea, I couldn't just cast out without nothing on the end (pva nugget or a pva stick) I would be paranoid about the hair being tangled or the hookbaits swinging round and getting stuck on the hook.
I've seen a few before tying pva tape around the hook apparently that helps aswell but I've never tried that myself
I must admit the 2 inside some pva mesh sounds like a good idea, I couldn't just cast out without nothing on the end (pva nugget or a pva stick) I would be paranoid about the hair being tangled or the hookbaits swinging round and getting stuck on the hook.
I've seen a few before tying pva tape around the hook apparently that helps aswell but I've never tried that myself
In reply to Post #17
Thing is, people use a stick mix without thinking about the stiffness of the hooklink material and swivel set up. When stalking a gin clear margin, i've seen bags land next to leads with the hooklink in an arch from the bag to the swivel. When it melts the hookbait has spring away 6+ inches from the nice neat pile of groundbait which is next to your lead. Yeah, your hookpoint is clean, but the hooking arrangement is nowhere near what we believe it to be.
Thing is, people use a stick mix without thinking about the stiffness of the hooklink material and swivel set up. When stalking a gin clear margin, i've seen bags land next to leads with the hooklink in an arch from the bag to the swivel. When it melts the hookbait has spring away 6+ inches from the nice neat pile of groundbait which is next to your lead. Yeah, your hookpoint is clean, but the hooking arrangement is nowhere near what we believe it to be.
In reply to Post #18
Tbh mate my stick mix's are tiny like half my little finger, so it doesn't really effect It tested it in the margins a couple years ago till I was happy with the size mine are about half a golf ball mate. I found exactly like you said when using a bigger mesh stick it was doing exactly as you said, so down sized it and it works fine now.
I use either Korda semi stiff or Korda dark matter, with the dark matter it doesn't effect it at all but the semi stiff you have to be careful with the size
Tbh mate my stick mix's are tiny like half my little finger, so it doesn't really effect It tested it in the margins a couple years ago till I was happy with the size mine are about half a golf ball mate. I found exactly like you said when using a bigger mesh stick it was doing exactly as you said, so down sized it and it works fine now.
I use either Korda semi stiff or Korda dark matter, with the dark matter it doesn't effect it at all but the semi stiff you have to be careful with the size