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Singles? (7,136 views)
Mattw13
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#1 1 Jul 2025 15:23
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What people's opinion on the best single hookbait out there at the moment?
dave_e dave_e
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#2 1 Jul 2025 16:36
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Specialized Hook Baits
nexus6
Posts: 163
#3 2 Jul 2025 17:43
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S2 or TCs or GBPs from Specialized or my homemade specials!!!!
Karlos Karlos
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#4 6 Oct 2025 11:44
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Specialized HookBaits.
GBP2 or TC1 wafters being my favourite, although I'll be back to S2 variants like Fizz as the water gets colder
0nslow 0nslow
Posts: 1,601
#6 6 Oct 2025 15:17
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Been doing alright on Stoglemans Pilgrims and their Pineapple Express which I'll carry on into the cold with
Wayne Wayne
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#7 6 Oct 2025 16:45
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I have done well this year using sting from HHB and also TC1 from SHB......
Fivenil Fivenil
Posts: 2,028
#8 8 Oct 2025 13:32
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Been doing well on Sticky Krill active wafters.
vossy1 vossy1
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#9 8 Oct 2025 16:55
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Last few years I've mostly been using DNA Crayfish Mini Hooker barrels with the top 3rd replaced by part of one of their sticks, usually PB. It started after I used to use the S7 dumbells but wanted a alternative flavour to the feed bait.
Smashing_It Smashing_It
Posts: 1,072
#10 9 Oct 2025 09:15
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SHB S2's, by a fair way, for me.
Silverback Silverback
Posts: 1,521
#11 6 Dec 2025 00:07
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What do we mean by "singles?" People seem to have different interpretations of what this means. I always assumed it's a bait fished in perfect isolation, nothing around it, on its own. Yet some anglers will call fishing with a bag "singles, while others will call fishing a single bait over a bed of bait a "single bait."

Just so we're all on the same page, which is it to be. Personally I love fishing baits in perfect isolation, give 'em less choice
Baitman Baitman
Posts: 5,187
#12 6 Dec 2025 02:03
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In reply to Post #11
Definitely a single bait on its own.
Maybe its a long chuck and hard to get some freebies out there without creating too much disruption. Maybe there is a feature to fish up to like an island margin and its a fish holding spot.
Maybe the fish are showing in a certain area and you do to want to spook them too much.

Personally I'd prefer to chuck a bag for the added attraction wherever possible.
jhhilton1983 jhhilton1983
Posts: 1,935
#13 6 Dec 2025 02:30
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Singles for me = a single bait in isolation.

Generally fished in winter or spring and usually at what I perceive as fish activity.

For me:- Specialized Fizz, a homemade ting tong, or one that has saved many a blank over the years is a pink northern special

InTheMargin
Posts: 451
#14 6 Dec 2025 06:22
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12mm DNA PB pop up soaked in pineapple goo. (Or any yellow pop up with good buoyancy)
elltell elltell
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#15 7 Dec 2025 09:25
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Morning all,
Just adding to the mix, in winter and spring I generally use a single SHB White S2 pop up or wafter, in addition I'll sometimes use a stringer with 2 or 3 Baitworks Monster Red Boilies along side, before I switched to SHB BW's Monster Red were always my go to bait, I loved their pop ups stayed buoyant forever, that said my S2's are an awesome alternative if not an upgrade.
Tel
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scozza
Posts: 18,419
#16 8 Dec 2025 18:58
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What do we mean by "singles?"

Pub chuck
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