What are your thoughts on pellets vs boilie crumb?

Pellets are cheap and can be flavoured / tweaked easily to provide added attraction. I imagine the bait companies will want us to overlook pellets as it's not where they make their money.

Crumb is far more expensive if you simply grind down boilies. Yes they taste similar to boilies but does that really matter or make a difference once crumbed especially considering a large % of boilie crumb is just fillers / binders to make boilies in the first place. Personally I think we've been brainwashed to use expensive crumb.

I'm now looking to go down the tweaked / flavoured pellet route but welcome your views.

Cheers lads, some good advice

I'm off to France soon and the lake contains crays.

I'll have hardened and plastic baits and wraps etc, my question is about attaching them.

Is a bait screw into plastic and hardened baits sufficient to prevent them removing the bait or do I need to look to tie them on with braid?

I'm wanting to start making some rigs and not sure whether to use a ring or a screw.

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Thanks for the detailed response, more food for thought

Last week I listened to some of the recent Adam Penning videos and found them thought provoking.

He made a lot of references to subtle traps yet most anglers try and develop spots especially on lengthy sessions.

Obviously, if you see fish then you fish those spots, but let's say you are fishing a hardish French lake for a week with few features and little weed (ie no obvious spots).

Would you still fish the same spots and look to develop them over the week or have a more random approach with more subtle traps being set across multiple locations?

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