What are your views on pellets?
Is it worth paying extra for pellets from big brands such as Sticky/CC Moore etc or is a pellet pretty much a pellet.
I am thinking it is surely better to buy the same pellets that are fed by the fishery all year around as the carp would be more use to taking them.
Is it worth paying extra for pellets from big brands such as Sticky/CC Moore etc or is a pellet pretty much a pellet.
I am thinking it is surely better to buy the same pellets that are fed by the fishery all year around as the carp would be more use to taking them.
If you have storage and think you'd get through them, look at a sack from skretting etc, much cheaper and decent quality.
In reply to Post #2
Cheers mate will have a look. Bulk was kind of where my thinking was, if I bought 100kg reasonably cheap I would be able to bait up quite happily for a week or so before fishing and the fish would hopefully get used to the bait.
Cheers
Cheers mate will have a look. Bulk was kind of where my thinking was, if I bought 100kg reasonably cheap I would be able to bait up quite happily for a week or so before fishing and the fish would hopefully get used to the bait.
Cheers
In reply to Post #3
When buying pellet thay should have a date stamp on the 25 kg sacks of skreetings
When buying pellet thay should have a date stamp on the 25 kg sacks of skreetings
In reply to Post #1
You won't go far wrong with a decent Trout pellet and high summer a decent Halibut pellet.
You won't go far wrong with a decent Trout pellet and high summer a decent Halibut pellet.
Skretting actually do a carp pellet. Lot less oil content
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Been using their carp pellets for 25 years, changed from trouts when a lot of places near me banned them due to the high oil content and the belief at the time it was bad for the fish (rightly or wrongly I still don't know but thems the rules).
Did dabble with trouts last year but they didn't quite work how I wanted them to so went back to the coarse pellet.
As a side note fishingpellets.com was about the cheapest I could find. When/if ordering I'd stipulate you want skrettings as I found the coppens ones just don't seem as good for some reason.
Been using their carp pellets for 25 years, changed from trouts when a lot of places near me banned them due to the high oil content and the belief at the time it was bad for the fish (rightly or wrongly I still don't know but thems the rules).
Did dabble with trouts last year but they didn't quite work how I wanted them to so went back to the coarse pellet.
As a side note fishingpellets.com was about the cheapest I could find. When/if ordering I'd stipulate you want skrettings as I found the coppens ones just don't seem as good for some reason.
In reply to Post #7
There isn't a carp alive that won't eat pellets. You need them in your armoury. Don't be fooled into buying cheap fast breakdown stick type pellets as I have found that they are nowhere near as effective. Skretting and coppens are the best available. They are designed to feed fish.
There isn't a carp alive that won't eat pellets. You need them in your armoury. Don't be fooled into buying cheap fast breakdown stick type pellets as I have found that they are nowhere near as effective. Skretting and coppens are the best available. They are designed to feed fish.
In reply to Post #8
This.
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studys have shown a far better intake on the stick pellets, break down far quicker and give a cloud making it more difficult for the fish to avoid the hookbait
studys have shown a far better intake on the stick pellets, break down far quicker and give a cloud making it more difficult for the fish to avoid the hookbait
In reply to Post #10
On the tests we have done on the fish farm the stick pellets did break down very quickly and yes they turn the water red or green or whatever colour they were, but the fish were clearly more attracted to fishmeal pellets. The stick pellets were designed for chicken feed and contain cereals. Carp will eat them but they prefer an oily trout Or carp or halibut pellets. Hence why fish farmers normally use fishmeal pellets
On the tests we have done on the fish farm the stick pellets did break down very quickly and yes they turn the water red or green or whatever colour they were, but the fish were clearly more attracted to fishmeal pellets. The stick pellets were designed for chicken feed and contain cereals. Carp will eat them but they prefer an oily trout Or carp or halibut pellets. Hence why fish farmers normally use fishmeal pellets
In reply to Post #8
Skrettings and coppens for me aswell! Won't go without it. Few good deals about atm on 25kg sacks aswell.
Skrettings and coppens for me aswell! Won't go without it. Few good deals about atm on 25kg sacks aswell.
In reply to Post #1
CMCS fish feeds do a large range of pellets including low oil, high protein and the flavoured type of stick pellets that are worth a look if you want something different
CMCS fish feeds do a large range of pellets including low oil, high protein and the flavoured type of stick pellets that are worth a look if you want something different
a lot of carp these days will have been brought up fed on coppens & skretting pellets and will always recognise them as food 
In reply to Post #14
Carp that have never tasted a pellet in their life like them too
Carp that have never tasted a pellet in their life like them too