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What’s people’s reviews on mainline these days (17 posts / 11,844 views)
scozza
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Post #16 1 Feb 2025 07:54
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I would say forget about the ingredients and focus on what works. Bait thinking has come a long way and most people are now questioning the brainwashed HNV theory, look at bird foods and nut baits!

End of the day we are feeding a fish and I will go back to my favourite thinking, look at pellets, cheap as chips and gives fish virtually everything they need to grow, promote health and survive

Mainline know more about bait then anybody who has been in their shed for 5 years, it's that simple, they have access to the latest technology which I am sure will be incorporated in their baits. It's the Activ element that makes them work for me, the one that people question on here every month once they figure it out

They are cheap ingredients, fact, but it's how the bait works so unfortunately if you want to use mainline you have to pay for it, as a usual heavy baiter, sometimes less can be a lot more

I will say this though some have not stood the test of time like others

Activ 8, CELL have stood the test of time, I dread to think how many fish they have put in the bank

Assassin 8, Maple 8, Proactive pineapple, Fusion and NRG have been questionable in comparison for me listening to users and what I have seen on the bank but ask some people and they will rave about them, my mate loved maple 8 and it did him proud many times unlike the NRG which was the best bream bait I have ever seen
808
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Post #17 2 Feb 2025 17:59
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I would hazard a guess some of the cattle feeds are used on mass in a good few of the mainline baits and many others for that . Have a google at cattle biscuit feed and look at some of that gear its the same stuff sold to us under different names imho.
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