What is the number 1,2 and 3rd baits you have total confidence in whether it's over a bed of bait, cast to a showing fish as a single or pub chucked.

Mine have to be mainline pineapple juice, tutti frutti, fruitella all soaked in a whole bottle of there matching neat concentrate.

In reply to Post #1
1. nash citruz - single
2. sticky krill - bed of bait
3. my scopex and krill cork balls

In reply to Post #1
Easy, my home made baits

In reply to Post #3
im hoping to say this over the next few months once they stop floating

In reply to Post #1
I've tried plenty over the years but keep returning to my mate's coconut baits.
He knocks them up for a fiver a kilo, and has tweaked them for me to finally arrive at what suits my regular venue (nice and white to stand out against the silty bottom).

In reply to Post #1
Mainline milky toffee
Baitroom fizz
Baitroom red eye

Also started using ub baits plum and squid and they are brilliant, had some really good fish on them in the short time I've used them 👍

In reply to Post #1
Maggot/caster
Sticky Krill
Luncheon meat/pepperami.

Nb2 from The A bait.

I wish Jay could still source the ingredients for that bait.

All my fish in the last two/three years have come on either sticky pop ups or one of my own hookbait mixes. I've recently made the decision going forward that I will only be using my own hookbaits. I've been playing with them on and off for quite a while now and I'm at the stage with them that I know they can get me pick ups from any of the waters I fish, so I figure why not, at least I know what's in them.

In reply to Post #9
S2 from Specialized baits or scent from hells.

In reply to Post #1
Single tigers

In reply to Post #1
Once had 13 fish on the same Richworth Tutti, same hook too.

The single best boile I've ever used, shouldn't of thrown it in the hedge at the end of the day thinking about it now.

Mainline - Activ 8

Nash - Amber Attract

A Baits - NB2

Every bait I seem too gain confidence in seems too discontinue.

In reply to Post #13
UB Ting Tong Corkball , closely followed by a Brazil nut

3 baits l have done well on. BFM and cranberry. MB baits snail and shell. DNA S7.

3 baits l have struggled with. CC Moore live system. Couldn't buy a bite on this. Richworth multiplex and Mainline Cell.

1 - Maize

2 - Sweetcorn

3 - Nutrabaits Techni Spice Pop Up (not used them in years, they only remained a pop up for the first hour & after that they quickly became a bottom bait, but they always put fish on the bank when a blank was on the cards!)

Proper job squid and octopus in white have been doing it for me this year, but not had enough bank time to get a place on my list yet

1.Atlantic Heat
2. Scent from hell
3. Hemp

In reply to Post #17
northern specials, had a ridiculous amount on them over the past 6 or 7 years

Mainline Grange.

Lockies Squid and octopus
John Bakers Plum
Hutchies Nouville Fizz

In reply to Post #1
Sadly two of my favourite baits are no longer available after the Bait and Feed Co fiasco, Smokey Mackeral and Smokey Bacon.

Those 2 baits accounted for a lot of carp from Nazeing Meads, I had a number of good years on those 2 baits.

The other favourite was when Nutrabaits was Bill Cottam run, Homemade Trigga, with Liver Elite, Sweet Cajouser, and GLM Extract.


Pre Nutrabaits, New Concept baits Mariner Mix gave me a lot of fish as well.

Sadly none of them are the same or available.

Currently I'm catching well on Rod Hutchinson KMG and Monster Crab

Hi

I think the 3 that have had biggest effect on my fishing have been

The original scopex flavour boilies
Tiger nuts
Brazil nuts

Best

Jon

In reply to Post #21
I love scopex but I've always wondered what is used to make the flavour.

In reply to Post #1
Northern specials and ub baits ting tongs.....id cast either out and be mega confident

In reply to Post #1
Original Solar Winter Secret 👌🏻

1. Sweetcorn

2. Atlantic Heat

3. Dog Biscuit

In reply to Post #1
Hutchies Formula 84 caught everywhere

Shellfish B5

Premier Supermarinos

In reply to Post #1
Essential cell pop up soaked in activator
Pink boosted scent from Heaven pop up
Baitworks creamino wafter

Bread on top

In reply to Post #28
Poacher baits fruit frenzy

Original nutrabaits pineapple & nburtric acid pop ups

Richworth kg1

In reply to Post #29
Answer to all three is my little home made specials The ingredients list reads like a who's who of the proven ingredient world and they've never let me down

In reply to Post #15
Mine are

Dynamite sweet chilli tuna
Mb baits snail and shell
Essential b5
Richworth tutti
Mainline test bait done well for years on that
Tiger nuts
Worm
Maggots
Bread
Sweetcorn
Pellet

Pop ups
Richworth tutti
Solar top.banana
Mainline pineapple juice
Specialist hookbaits s1
Ccmoore belechan hookers

You cannot put this in one bait depending on season day conditions temp barometric pressure ph and so on

Atm using scientific baits and catching its more location and a decent bait that works than getting caught up with change to this and that

Do ya self a flavour and not fall into the bait trap find a bait supplier at a good price test it on tank fish so your confident they eat it. I have always done it on a few and then pick the best some are more attractive than others and you need hard hookers as small fosh will smash them and find your way

In reply to Post #1
1 ub baits G.T.X
2 ub baits ting tings
3 northern specials

In reply to Post #31
True, thanks

I also just wanted to see what everyone else has confidence in and use that to start some where.

As the song says "anything goes" Not much agreement. Bread, maggots, casters, sweetcorn, Luncheon meat, tigers. Who needs boilies?

1 sticky signature 12mm pop ups
2 sticky krill wafter with a yellow topper
3 sticky krill 12mm pop up

Brazil nut , nothing comes close 👍🎣

Pepperami

Milk bottle sweets

Best or works on the most waters for me & my current bait - Essential B5

However have total confidence in ABS Malarkey as well.

Used to love Trigga and Big Fish mix when Bill was the head honcho. Only changed to the other baits when Nutrabaits went downhill.

In reply to Post #37
northern special in yellow

In reply to Post #38
Got 3:

krill ‘pink ones'

Scent fro heaven

Dairy supreme

Original Nash scopex squid caught instantly everywhere
Essential B5 definitely picked up the bigger fish
Original Solar Squid and Octopus a runner up to the Nash SS

In reply to Post #40
This is turning out very interesting I see a lot of people rating Abs and essentials b5 I'm going to check them out.

Thank you all

Surprised no one has mentioned paste

In reply to Post #42
I was thinking about using paste around the lead

Been useing paste round the lead a bit this season but find that I foul hooked a few with a short hook link

Not a fan of paste around the lead.
Wrap it around a hookbait or a spiral hair spring thing.

In reply to Post #43
You'd be better off using rough coated leads and keeping them submerged in a pot of concentrated dip when not in use.

Change your lead each time you re-chuck.

In reply to Post #1
maggots
worms
trout pellet paste, on the hook, not round the lead.

for boillies -
Specialised Hookbaits S2
Nutrabaits Technispice
Trent Baits SSD Pro9

In reply to Post #47
Bollies:-

PRB for consistency
TnM for results
Fruit Frenzy for confidence

I often used all 3 together mixed up, but always fish PRB on the hook/hair/screw

Other baits:-

Tigers
Hemp
Chickpeas

In reply to Post #1
Long time ago
Lea valley baits - a dark red fishmeal with plum zing. .
Mainline - essential opal
Essential - b5 shellfish plum
Three baits id take to any water in the world.
Single hookbait would be proper job squid and octopus white 11mm, deadly

In reply to Post #49
Dynamite Baits Mulberry Florentine, followed closely by DDBaits Guana RedBull, and finally Mistral Baits Pure Pineapple(trying to get hold of some, but no longer available)

Not sure about best, basing it on length of time used, and boilies only.

1 Nutrabaits BFM, used it from probably when it came out or near to it (late 80's/early 90's) until 2007, started on Cranberry flav, also used Scopex, Raspberry, but my fav Leepex. Cranberry did the most fish but by god was the LPX version good in the time used.

2 DNA S7, used since it came out, total confidence, may even use with a different flavour at some point to be 'different'.

3 Perhaps a odd one but after returning from a break in fishing of 5 years I didn't fish enough to warrant a freezer bait. Having dabbled with Solar Banoffee way back when and loving it, the nearest Shelf Life alernative at the time was Dynamite Baits Banana Nut Crunch which I used until S7 was released and I was fishing more regularly, again DB BNC a very good bait for me for the use.

There are other flavours & boilies which I rate above the top 3 but haven't used in earnest, when I say earnest I mean for years at a time, original RH Scopex, Richworth Tutti, RH Mulberry. I still always have some Tutti and Scopex hookbaits/pop ups in the bag even if it's not the same. As for boilies, so very nearly started using Carp Company Icelandic Red all those years ago, a very good bait at the time too.

Why didn't I go back to NB BFM? t the time price and availability, must say the BFM Krill has peaked my interest but like a lot of others I've moved on and don't need a alternative as I'm happy with S7.

Push come to shove and I had to stake my life on it, best bait overall would be a worm or a maggott.

In reply to Post #51
Essential Shellfish B5
Mainline Cell
And my own Ugley NUTmix

IMO Best ever bait no longer available was Hutchies Addicted

In reply to Post #48
Is it prb or psb that you use

In reply to Post #1
NOT a Boilie.

Northern specials
Scopex squid
Anything involving tiger nuts

In reply to Post #55
1. scopex squid has caught fish everywhere I used it. preferred the red version.
2 shellfish B5 caught many of my best fish on this
3 back in the day a basic fishmeal flavoured with original hutchy monster crab/shellfish sense appeal. awesome
4 an honourable mention for pineapple pop ups.

In reply to Post #1
Aqua bait hot shrimp. Was lucky enough to use it before it became available to the public, and have continued to use it ever since. All my big uk fish have all fallen to it.
Second to that maggots and caster, but that is generally goes in with hot shrimp to some degree be it crumb chops or whole.

In reply to Post #49
Lea Valley baits remember them chap of this forum wasn't it 👍

As a single bait - UB pineapple and NBA takes some beating.

In reply to Post #58
Yea tyrone if memory serves.
Did well on a few waters using that.

In reply to Post #60
Yep Tyrone. Not sure he rolls nowadays, maybe for pals but I done well on the Aqua Reds with Pink Zing and was a big banger of the LVB drum back in the day. Even got accused of working for them

In reply to Post #61
Anyone ever heard of ocean fresh ? I loved their strawberry and there mussel and pepper I think it's called but haven't seen it in years I think the owner use to own a tackle shop down Trent road in Chelmsford.

In reply to Post #61
That rings a bell aqua red with pink zing.
Love to get my hand on that bait again

In reply to Post #62
Cliff ran Ocean Fresh.

Same guy who runs Crafty Catcher now.
Was lucky to get free bait for a couple of years and Oily Crab always did well when used. Red Shrimp & Garlic was another.

Gone off track a bit, so sorry to the OP

In reply to Post #64
Yes that's the one I never knew he ran crafty catchers

In reply to Post #65
Ocean Fresh was years ago in Holland also available.
Not for sale at the moment?
Oily Crab did some good catches.

In reply to Post #1
1. MAD Esta Pop Up in 14mm (with a massive great hook under it)
2. Black Tiggers (Skinned) - Critically Balanced
3. ESP Plastic Double Corn (Pop up)

In reply to Post #64
The Crafty Catcher King Prawn in shelf life or freezer is still a good bait.

Crafty Catcher make baits for a number of tackle shops as well as their own range.

In reply to Post #68
Cotswold baits in the early 90s, Red bird spice with their Salmon and Shrimp flavour .
Carp company , Icelandic red with cranberry and caviar

In reply to Post #67
I really struggled with MAD esta pop ups. Did ok with the pear drops though

In reply to Post #62
I was trying to remember the name last week.....Ocean Fresh, that's it....what was their white/cream coloured bait called? It smelled good enough to eat...and i had a very good winter on it one year....

In reply to Post #68
Good baits those Nick - very underrated.

In reply to Post #71
I know they had a Beije colour bait called scopex which is very creamy.

In reply to Post #69
Cotswolds Salmon & Shrimp........ Never beaten. Best flavour ever

yellow or orange northern specials or a match the hatch over live system.

used to love mainline essential opal from the xenon book range

active 8

and assassin 8 was pretty good when it was available

In reply to Post #75
2 standouts for me

Cotswold Bait Creations UFO , when Phil Chun had it , was a bait that caught everywhere for me

Key Baitsolutions ASM, still on it , another one that just keeps on catching

Tiger Nut would always be my number 1

Although i am becoming increasingly impressed with the baitworks pineapphell. Doing me bites when nothing else will.

In reply to Post #77
I've been looking at the pinehells myself good to hear positive feedback

In reply to Post #77
Not had a sniff on them.
Sea Monsters still the best Baitworks hookbait for me.

In reply to Post #79
Literally only thing i could get a bite on last week !

In reply to Post #80
I have had the same with Pinaphell, getting me bites when all else fails. Its going on 2 rods next time.

In reply to Post #81
Scent from hells for me Been using them for few years now my go to hook bait.

In reply to Post #82
Have you found with the pineaphella the colour leaches out and makes them hard to handle (dies your fingers). I got a pot of the very early ones and the pop ups have gone orange. No such problem with wafters and had success on both.

In reply to Post #83
Yep noted the same, not gone orange though. Still hold there smell after 24/36 hours

In reply to Post #83
Just had 5 carp on both creamino and Pinaphell. And yes they had gone orange after glugging in the booster but once its washed off its back to yellow. Again the Pinaphell pop ups outfished everything for all three of us.

In reply to Post #85

Cell wafter with pink almond goo - used to do it for me most outings

In reply to Post #85
Creamino and pinehells are definitely on my list now.

Congrats mate on your captures.

Roll on black Friday sales.......

In reply to Post #1
My 2 bobs worth

1 Nutrabaits BFM Cranberry Nutrafruit
2 Carp Company Ice Red
3 Cell

In reply to Post #85
What is the hell element to Pineaphell? Are they wife friendly?

In reply to Post #91
Crab & n butyric acid

Bread. By a country mile.

Can fish on the surface, zigged, on the deck. Works in all weather conditions / seasons / clear or murky water. Easy to add flavour. Easy to crumb for groundbait. Easy to cut to size, shape etc.

And a damn sight cheaper than the latest boilie craze.

In reply to Post #93
Agree with all that IF there are no shoals of small rudd or roach. If there are you are fishing a bare hook in 15 minutes. Major drawback.

In reply to Post #94
Fair point.

But that's what your second Rod is for

In reply to Post #91
Fine mate tbh. Nothing as pungent as thr normal Hells. As a rule now i sort all baitworks baits in the gazeebo.


Cheers to others for comments. Was hard going, had to work hard changing rigs and baiting little an often.

Shame about lockdown. Feel gutted about the prospect of no fishing when i finally have two great cold water baits.

my favourite Singles and always caught well on

S2's ( specialised hookbaits )
Fruit combos - TKO baits

Milk bottle sweets , definitely an edge when it's tough going and they won't pick up a super douper bait .

In reply to Post #98
Scent from hell white pop ups for me been using them for years.

In reply to Post #99
PRB from Poacherbaits - ive used them for years hence why its my number 1 choice

Specialised Hook baits - been using them for a couple years - fantastic hookbaits and their track record speaks for themselves

Over the past few years its been Specialized hookbaits S2's, previous to that it was Baitcraft Snowballs, I caught a lot of bigger fish on those.

Specialized Hookbaits GPB2 for me that has completely changed my fishing complete confidence for me

In reply to Post #102
Rosehip isotonic pop ups

In reply to Post #1
1 tiger nut
2 peanut
3 chick pea

In reply to Post #1
Mainline baits Diamond White
Good old Maize
Mainline baits fluro Cell

Years ago it would have been a Premier baits corked peach melba fish meal pop up glugged in Nodd Oil

In reply to Post #22
I believe it was an isolate of something from the dairy industry, which is why the good quality versions have an almost creamy backnote.

Specialized S2's. I recently found out a few lads I know who absolutely bag up, had been using them for years too. I always thought they were my secret

Original scopex squid livers , BFM cranberry , Ocean protein which was awesome in its day

Nash Whisky, like 90% of Nash baits they discontinue.

Frank Warwick's white Hot Squid pop-ups.

Grange plum all day long.......made anglers at the time catch fish with ease......

In reply to Post #111
Whiskey smelled great but I couldn't catch sod all on it.

In reply to Post #111
Now that was 1 quality bait

We were using the original scopex squid livers as "testers" back in the 90s and rinsed many waters with it with ease. Sadly when foot and mouth hit we noticed a decline in results that were noticeable by a mile. I spoke with Gary at Nash and he said that the screening on most fishmeals now due to changes in base ingredients was responsible for the decline. He couldn't get the raw ingredients he used to be able to due to government legislation. A shadow of its former self sadly. It was a really incredible bait back in its day.

In reply to Post #1
I've had 3 baits over the years that for me have been outstanding. First was the original Nash Sting, I was gutted when that changed and IMO was never anywhere near as effective. Second was a bait calked Spicy Sausage & Raw Liver from a small company in Devon called Cyprobaits. I was lucky enough to meet them while on holiday down there many years ago. That was seriously confidence in a bag. And thirdly & currently Hydro K from ABS....

In no particular order, depending on situation

Sweetcorn
Tigers
Home rolled original BFM with 3 to 1 Peach & Cranberry, and salmon oil.

Zenon Bojko's Essential Opal, Gutted when they stop rolling them, Wish i had the recipe to roll my own.

Baitworks - Scent from Hell pop-ups/ wafters

Elite Baits - Ocean Fruit

Shoreline Baits - GLM Sausage oil

In reply to Post #115
Cyprobaits was owned run by Gary Thomas ,based in Cornwall,lanner....

Well known for his College lake exploits and his wife Alisons pic on the front cover of Carpworld .

He is or was a commercial sea Fisherthem...lol...tied up or was with Mainline baits,...helped me out loads when we did a sponsored fish on another local ressi ,for Children's hospice Southwest ..in the early 90s


Not to be confused with Cypri baits or similar a Dutch flavour house..

In reply to Post #1
Another for the original BFM with Cranberry, Nutramino and Salmon oil. (Julian Cundiff recipe)?
Loved the Enervite Gold with the the old Nash Chocolate and Minamino when the temps dropped.
Singles would have to be a yellow NS1.

The best single hookbait I ever used, was actually in the 90s when I was a kid and didn't have the money to be smashing 5kg of bait into everywhere I went,

It was the original Mistral Rosehip Isotonic, they caught me so many fish.

SAE bait developments skins are my favourite in recent years, very potent hook baits. Definitely don't open a pot in the house 🤣

Iv had a few Iv been really confident on. Vision baits - ocean protein was always good . I also did quite well on Richworth kg1's . Iv now been using livesystem for probably 7/8 years and I'm just as confident on this as I have been on anything

Solar Jacko pops for me. They haven't been the same for a number of years now.

In reply to Post #124
Years ago Richworth Tutti's, now Sticky baits Krill Barrel Wafters, I don't use Sticky baits as a whole but I often fish the Krill wafters over my DNA Bug when things are getting hard, believe me they have worked for me numerous times

In reply to Post #107
Hi mate, which colour S2 do you tend to use which has the most success?

Northern specials!

In reply to Post #127
Baitcraft T1 when it was first released

In reply to Post #126
Same question from me...

Bread crust or meat