Hi everyone looking at making some high attract pop ups and just wanted to know what to add to it. I am looking at what additives i need to add to it. Very confused on what to add to them to make them really attractive and effective.
In reply to Post #1
Just get a pop up mix, add some flavours to the egg, then add your colour dye to the egg and mix the pop up mix boom. I used to use a few flavours from mainline, there's instructions on the bottle, I wouldn't personally go over the recommended levels, some stronger than others.
Mainline also do some ade ingredients, like sweet ade, peach ade etc, I used to use say 3ml scopex and 6 ml peach ade, so double the ade to your flavour so they aren't so chemically? Try a few different colours flavour combos anything could work on a specific day. If you trawl through with the search I'm sure you'll find some good combos
Just get a pop up mix, add some flavours to the egg, then add your colour dye to the egg and mix the pop up mix boom. I used to use a few flavours from mainline, there's instructions on the bottle, I wouldn't personally go over the recommended levels, some stronger than others.
Mainline also do some ade ingredients, like sweet ade, peach ade etc, I used to use say 3ml scopex and 6 ml peach ade, so double the ade to your flavour so they aren't so chemically? Try a few different colours flavour combos anything could work on a specific day. If you trawl through with the search I'm sure you'll find some good combos
In reply to Post #2
do the flavours attract carp though or is it feeding stimulant additives of some kind. lots have people have said flavours dont work.
do the flavours attract carp though or is it feeding stimulant additives of some kind. lots have people have said flavours dont work.
Who knows? I've added betaine, multi-stim, nb acid in the past, does it change the ph of the water? Who knows really, you start adding stuff, the buoyancy of your bait starts to become effected. You boil the baits and do all these additives denature? Your opening up a whole can of worms.
In reply to Post #3
Easy way to find out for yourself, make some popups without flavour then some more with and try them side by side over a period of time...you should know by now what I think you will discover.
Easy way to find out for yourself, make some popups without flavour then some more with and try them side by side over a period of time...you should know by now what I think you will discover.
In reply to Post #1
id just buy a couple of tubs in 14-16mm in a couple of colours with fishmeal/sweet smell to them and just fish those over the top.
I see popups are more of a lure when fishing over bait.
can recommend northern specials, do i did get a few bits off some hand rolled orange rosehip and sweet cajouser one winter.
id just buy a couple of tubs in 14-16mm in a couple of colours with fishmeal/sweet smell to them and just fish those over the top.
I see popups are more of a lure when fishing over bait.
can recommend northern specials, do i did get a few bits off some hand rolled orange rosehip and sweet cajouser one winter.
In reply to Post #1
Personally, I like flavours in high attract baits (pop ups/wafters/hard hookbaits). In fact I soak hook baits in neat flavour combinations but these are reserved for single Hookbait fishing which has been most of the time this year pre lockdown as I only do day sessions. I'm looking forward optimistically that this will change!
It's easy to get a bit boggled with the amount of flavours out there, but there quite a lot of information on this forum about what are the best flavours/combinations that people use. I've found the search tool very handy in digging up flavour ideas. Just bear in mind that It can be quite an expensive addition to bait making to assemble all the required components of a magic flavour blend, and then you have to go out and see if it works for you. For example, a flavour blend recommend on here called “Ting tong” might set you back £30-£40 quid and you are only using 1.6mil of the three flavours plus a few drops of N-Butyric Acid.
So I would suggest just sticking to one or two with a good track record, rather then spend a fortune on a load of flavours which end up gathering dust.
You mentioned pop ups, and I don't think you could get a more classic pop up then Pineapple and N-Butyric. I know it's been around for a long time but it has a good track record, and yes it's a flavour blend, so how about John Bakers Plum? It's got a good track record, always gets a mention in best flavour posts, smells divine (yes, I know a carp smell in a different way to us humans, but it's people friendly), is very strong which means you don't use a lot so it's very economical. It also works well with other flavours which you can acquire at a later date.
Hope that helps.
Personally, I like flavours in high attract baits (pop ups/wafters/hard hookbaits). In fact I soak hook baits in neat flavour combinations but these are reserved for single Hookbait fishing which has been most of the time this year pre lockdown as I only do day sessions. I'm looking forward optimistically that this will change!
It's easy to get a bit boggled with the amount of flavours out there, but there quite a lot of information on this forum about what are the best flavours/combinations that people use. I've found the search tool very handy in digging up flavour ideas. Just bear in mind that It can be quite an expensive addition to bait making to assemble all the required components of a magic flavour blend, and then you have to go out and see if it works for you. For example, a flavour blend recommend on here called “Ting tong” might set you back £30-£40 quid and you are only using 1.6mil of the three flavours plus a few drops of N-Butyric Acid.
So I would suggest just sticking to one or two with a good track record, rather then spend a fortune on a load of flavours which end up gathering dust.
You mentioned pop ups, and I don't think you could get a more classic pop up then Pineapple and N-Butyric. I know it's been around for a long time but it has a good track record, and yes it's a flavour blend, so how about John Bakers Plum? It's got a good track record, always gets a mention in best flavour posts, smells divine (yes, I know a carp smell in a different way to us humans, but it's people friendly), is very strong which means you don't use a lot so it's very economical. It also works well with other flavours which you can acquire at a later date.
Hope that helps.
I am sure people in the know have noticed that many hight attract pop up base mixes contain very highly attractive base mix ingredients in their very construction..?
