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Specialized Hook Baits - Catch Reports Feb 2025 (438 posts / 103,806 views)
TCarper TCarper
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#366 16 Sep 2025 05:35
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Hi Andy. They went yesterday should be there today.
TCarper TCarper
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#367 16 Sep 2025 07:02
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Regarding drying the hook baits out and reusing them. 100% you can do that. It's best to mesh them if you go down this route. When we first started, an angler went to Abbey lakes in France with two friends. He had just 15 or 16 x S2 cork balls. He caught loads on the first night while his pals blanked. They ended up using those 15 hook baits between all three anglers. They caught over 70 big carp between them in a long weekend. Re dried those S2 over & over again until they fell to bits.
TCarper TCarper
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#368 16 Sep 2025 07:22
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This time of year we are rolling so much GPB1 & GPB2 every single day.



We get so many messages from brand new customers these days questioning if the colour of their hook baits is correct after purchasing for the first time. The curing process which the baits go through leaves a stain on the outside of all of the baits. The whites will look like a dirty off white in the tub, the pinks look a darker shade of pink than they actually are. This is all only visual in the tub. It's only very temporary. Once in the water, this stain will come off within thirty minutes. You will be left with a bright white, or a washed out pink with zero stain on the outside whatsoever. On the left in the photos below are the true colours of the hook baits having just been rolled. On the right are what you see inside the tub when you purchase them after having been through our process a number of times.

This is also true of our original brown S2 & our GPB1. Both come very dark in the tub. Both wash out to a very much lighter shade in the water very rapidly. They actually become super visual on the bottom.... Even if they may not look that way in the tub when you purchase them.





FishOn Ricci with two chunks from Welly. ScopexPineapple S2 over shops fermented particle & Krill.





Jacko, RedBerryVanilla S2 balanced



Brian with SmallTail from Welly at over 50. S2 over Cell.



Dave with two more Northey Park crackers. GPB2 barrels tipped with a tiger fished over Shrimp.





Alfie, new PB from Essex Manor. Fizz S2



Forum member Greg. GPB1







Jake GPB1



Ashamed that i can't find this mans name. Get sent so many photos, keeping track of names is not my strong suit.





TCarper TCarper
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#369 16 Sep 2025 07:48
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Just seen some PM's on here asking about Fizz S2 or Bug.

Johnson Ross, TackleBox & FishOn all have stock of Fizz currently (as long as they did not sell out already). If you need to contact us about the Fizz please do not PM or email. I simply don't see them in a timely fashion. Please only WhatsApp message our work mobile. Number is on the contact page of our website.

Please start your message with the full name on the order, followed by exactly what you require in the Fizz. We have the Fizz S2 in 13 & 16mm both balanced & pop ups. Only pink currently. You will be told what to order from our website to cover them.

We have no DNA Bug done currently, we will have more done in the next couple of weeks. We just had our busiest ever three single weeks, since we started.... One after the other.

We are completely up to date with all orders on our website up until yesterday morning. So many parcels went out yesterday & early this morning.
TCarper TCarper
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#370 16 Sep 2025 08:37
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Another question being asked a lot by new customers is what hook bait will best match up to their current freezer bait.

Below is a list of what our hook baits actually are base mix wise. For many years I kept very quiet about what was in the make up of the S2. I have customers who have used them for more than a decade... When they appeared on the Johnson Ross website as S2 Fizz (nut), they asked me for some nut S2. I had to explain to him that the S2 he has used for donkeys years are all nut based. He's appeared on our socials more than anyone, so if he don't know, most likely do not. The S2 has been a nut bait for twenty five years. Long before nut based baits were ever fashionable.

All of our hook baits are 100% food & cork. No pop up mix, no ultra light powders that pop up well, but are actually not very attractive to carp in reality.

S2, all types, nut.
S3, nut.
S4, nut.
GPB1, nut
GPB2, fishmeal
TC1, nut
TC2, fishmeal
TCarper TCarper
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#371 16 Sep 2025 16:53
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Forum member Wayne. 72lb+, 62lb+, 61lb+ with commons of 53lb & 48lb. These were the best of a recent French trip. In two trips over the space of the last year he has caught all of the 60+ fish in the venue now.... Including the biggest fish in the lake on both trips. He's gotta go elsewhere next year now. Nice problems to have. Well done Wayne.

GPB2












raztwc raztwc
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#372 17 Sep 2025 12:29
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Can anyone recommend a decent boillie to fish alongside the gpb2 cheers 🍻
Smashing_It Smashing_It
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#373 17 Sep 2025 12:40
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In reply to Post #372
Mark previously noted GPB2, fishmeal

So on that basis, my own personal preference are Baitworks Atlantic Heat and/or Royal Marine. Trent Baits Freshwater Shrimp, another I would recommend, but in all honesty there are loads of fishmeals to choose from.


raztwc raztwc
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#374 17 Sep 2025 12:43
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Cheers mate
wagtopus_7 wagtopus_7
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#375 17 Sep 2025 15:59
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In reply to Post #372
I have used it with Dna the Bug and Slk . Both are a dark colour and have worked well. To be honest It works well with any boilie as it has its own attraction with its unique smell. 👍
Scot-chegg
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#376 17 Sep 2025 21:21
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In reply to Post #372
Have a look at DGT by abs if you want a fishmeal with garlic feed boilie
TCarper TCarper
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#377 21 Sep 2025 09:52
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I'd say you already got some great recommendations there mate.

They will work with anything.
TCarper TCarper
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#378 21 Sep 2025 10:07
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Sam, huge framed fish from his historic days only Kent venue. Hutchie S2 balanced.



FishOn Ricci has walked onto Welly & started bashing them instantly. ScopexPineapple S2 balanced over shops fermented particle & Krill





Stoke Carl is currently on a guestie at the venue in Scotland which appeared in the recent Myles Gibson video. It's apparently a tough venue. GPB2 balanced.



Ian, Hutchie S2



James, new PB 32+ Fizz S2 balanced, well done sir.



Beijing from the air. I'm away for the next couple of weeks. We will be totally up to date with all orders again Monday afternoon. We have so much stock. While I'm away all orders go out within days. If you need to get hold of us, please only WhatsApp the work mobile. JohnsonRoss have virtually sold out of all stock they had already. They have already placed another large order. One thing they will have (among others) when I get back is yellow Hutchie S2. We only do them in white.



One of best rated Japanese steak restaurants in Asia. That half a cow on my plate was next level out of this world.

raztwc raztwc
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#379 21 Sep 2025 12:26
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Well 1st time using gpb2 on my toughish syndicate 4 fish to 32 and lost 2 to hook pulls best weekends fishing for a while and only one other angler had 1 fish all weekend . I did a test 1st night 1 on gpb2 other 2 rods on my normal bait all fishing in a line on a clear ish area and long behold the gpb2 ripped off so switched all rods to them weather it was luck or the bait ive loads of confidence in them now
raztwc raztwc
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#380 22 Sep 2025 13:21
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