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@TCarper: When I'm not fishing I'll make a new thread to continue on from this thread.
The new thread will link to this current thread, so nothing is lost. Likewise, this current thread will point to the new thread.
If we create a thread every month (or two?) it will mean the thread loads faster.
I done a check yesterday on my home PC using Chrome, and if you try to view this thread (in Read All messages mode) the browser uses 1.9GB of memory. The browser also grinds to a halt so I can understand why it's been mentioned by ?whoever?
So nothing will be lost. Everything will be linked. We'll still get to see all the pics (old and new) but the threads will load faster.
I would try to do it now, but it'll be faster using a PC doing it at home
@Steve_OldH: It seems you're just a dick with an axe to grind? If we get new members, and all they do is go on one thread whinging/trolling they're not members for long. By all means have your say, but keep it succinct and then move on. No trolling.
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In reply to Post #2176
Quote... Mark, any idea when Tackle box/FishOn are getting a restock of the specials ?
Next few weeks. Both of them will have lots more stock.
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Forum member Andy, GPB2 balanced over FishOn particle and ABS K2
FishOn Ricci, Scopex & Pineapple S2
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In reply to Post #2178
No, that’s not the same Dean.
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In reply to Post #2174
Is that Dean Saggybelly 6th pic down, Mark. Who used to post on here a while back. Think he might of been banned? Huge interest in bait. 
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In reply to Post #2173
I think you have misinterpreted my post, I was simply answering the question posed about the other member not being able to open the thread.
No need to be unnecessarily protective, I like the thread thanks and have previously used your baits too as a result.
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Mark, any idea when Tackle box/FishOn are getting a restock of the specials ?
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In reply to Post #2173
Love s good photo or 10 🤭
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Forum member Josh with 'Coins' from the Lea Valley. GPB2 13mm balanced
Forum member Iain with his target, GPB2 13mm balanced tipped with a tiger
Forum member Gary, GPB1 13mm balanced
FishOn Ricci, Scopex & Pineapple S2 over shops fermented particle
David, TC1 16mm pop up
Forum member Dean, F1 13mm balanced
Mark S2
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In reply to Post #2172
Quote... Too many photos mate and too much data.
Some of the longest running/most popular threads in the history of this forum, are entirely photo based. Lots of photos in the 'View from my swim' thread. Does not seem to upset anyone 
If you are on pay as go/low quality signal, then don't open up threads like this that you already know contain lots of photos. It's pretty basic, quite simple. In exactly the same way you will not be opening up videos/reels when on other form of social media.
No one forces anybody to open up this thread.
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In reply to Post #2167
Too many photos mate and too much data.
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In reply to Post #2168
You will have them this week.
Forum member Gary, Garlic 1 & Red Berry Vanilla S2
Richie, Cheese balanced.
Aaron, S2
FishOn Ricci, Scopex & Pineapple S2 balanced
Russ, Scopex & Pineapple S2 & Cherry Cola S2
Russ gave half a tub of S2 to his friend a few weeks ago. Johnson's Railway. All absolutely ancient, gotta be among the oldest carp in the country now.
Scaly
Baby Barbless
Wade, Hutchy S2
Jude GPB2
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In reply to Post #2168
Think it might also depend on which hookbait you order and if its been sold out completely in the last week. Obviously if it's sold out like the specials then mark can't send any.ore out until the baits are actually ready. I'm sure he will have loads of hookbaits at various stages in the curing process but it might just be the hookbait you want isn't currently ready.
If you've never used his baits before they are 100% worth the wait. Only problem i have with the baits is that they all smell so good and are completely distinctive from each other i end up spending a small fortune on them haha. Another plus is the pop ups actually stay popped up
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In reply to Post #2168
Anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of weeks, it depends how busy they are
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Ordered a couple of these Sunday to give them a try. Anyone know roughly what the lead time usually is?
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Is it just me or does anyone else have any isssues viewing this thread? When I try to scroll it glitches out. Only happens on this thread
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In reply to Post #2163
Same one you had at 55 I think? Looks mega in the pic I've seen of it.
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In reply to Post #2163
Love to see 'that' common mate
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In reply to Post #2162
Backnnote of Maple, prob where the fenugreek comes in?
With the syndi being shut for spawning and festivals, etc, not been fishing for a month. Lots of sniffing tho 😂
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That fish that he caught was incredible. Unfortunately non publicity so it cannot be shown. His first night using them.
'Might' be able to show that 62lb+ common soon, from that very low stock large pit. One of the greatest carp captures ever made in this country, so hope so.
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The Hutchys certainly have mulberry aroma and then to my nose there is definitely a back note of secret agent there. Can't wait to give them a whirl 👍🏻
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My smell isn't great as I've got a cold, but the first whiff of the RH reminded me of the old Solar Top Banana.
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In reply to Post #2159
Rh smell of mulberry and scopex
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Lots of messages started coming in to the work mobile this morning, people saying what they think about the new stuff.... Say it here if you're a member. All feedback welcome
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In reply to Post #2157
Hi Mark, I know you are getting battered about the s2 specials so won't add to the whatsapp queue. I was just wondering will the cherry cola specials just be done in pink or will they come in the standard s2 colour as well ?
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Forum member Sam was not finished yesterday. Two more on days only Sutton 2 yesterday after that gorgeous big common... Including his new target 'Jacksons'.... Named after Lee Jackson, and nearly the same age. Well done Sam.
GPB1 balanced over Poacher T&M
Forum boss Karlos, GPB2
Tom, another famous Kent syndicate, TC2 balanced
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In reply to Post #2155
Can’t beat these hookbaits /SMILE> 
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Forum member Sam, starting the season on Sutton 2 as he finished it. GPB1 balanced over Poacher T&M freezer baits
We are still getting lots of WhatsApp messages asking for the S2 specials. We have more drying right now. But we are completely sold out of what we had ready for now. They are all going onto the website soon, along with a couple of other variations. Anyone who ordered them as special orders, they are going out today, tomorrow & Wednesday this week.
We have a new home, that has been purpose designed for making hook baits. It will be finished next week. Two other new places for storage. One already just been built, the other will also be completed next week.
Straight away, this will all have a gigantic effect. The curing process which the hook baits go through, has evolved massively over the last decade. Drying the stuff between each cure, has always been by far the biggest limiter as to exactly how many hook baits we can produce at one time. That's why at certain busy times, we could often have a waiting time. Previously, it was only ever possible for us to have a continuous stream of around 10 - 15 kg of hook baits on the go at any one time. That's a lot of hook baits, but not enough. Now we have a lot more space. We have two new purpose adapted driers. Each one, holds and dries over 50kg of hook baits. 100+kg of hook baits drying at the same time. They also speed things up massively. Making a very large dent in the time which it takes us to produce the hook baits from start to finish.
At the start of August, Poacher Baits will have a large batch of their flagship TigerNut & Maple freezer baits, in cured crushed cork pop ups and balanced hookbaits. The TackleBox & FishOn will both have another large stock of 12 & 14mm airball pop ups soon.
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For the time being, we are now completely out of stock of all of the S2 specials. We will have more ready soon.
We still have some Bug.
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In reply to Post #2152
Message sent 😁
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In reply to Post #2151
WhatsApp sent 
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If you want to order either the Rod Hutchinson S2 (white) Scopex/Pineapple S2 (pink) Red Berry/Vanilla S2 (brown) Cherry Coke S2 (pink)... Then please WhatsApp (best) or text message us on the work mobile phone (contact page of website). 16mm or 13mm crushed cork pop ups or 16mm or 13mm balanced. Start your message with the full name of the payee which will be on the order, followed by exactly what you require, sizes and variations. Please make your message clear. Full name of payer on the order first two words please. Followed by exactly what you require. You will be told what to order from the website. Anything else on the same order will come as normal. WhatsApp or text message only. Once you have sent your message, you then have your place in the queue. Sending further messages, will only lose you that place in the queue.
We only have a certain amount done at the moment. We sent out two sacks full of them yesterday to people on my friends list on Faceache.
We still have some DNA Bug hook baits left in all variations, virtually all the 16mm balanced are gone now though. More basemix and liquids coming from DNA.
As from two weeks ago, all 13mm & 16mm crushed cork pop ups we produce now contain 15% more cork than previously. They are now 15% more buoyant than before.
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Forum member Tony, best one from Wraysbury North recently, 42lb10oz. TC1 balanced over Bug
FishOn Ricci, Scopex & Pineapple S2 balanced over the shops fermented particle, Lillies
John, S2
David GPB1 13mm pop up
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Don't let them dry out. Stop sniffing them, keep the lid screwed up tight. They are actually much better once they age and lose their smell to your nose.
If it matters to you, a teaspoon of a good quality sweetener into the tub, keep shaking until they have soaked it all up. It will then take a couple of days to reach the centre of the bait. That will bring them, or any hook bait back to life in terms of smell for you.
Stop worrying.
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In reply to Post #2145
Keep them airtight in a cool dry, dark place.
I have a couple a pot of the original S1's sitting in my bait box that still smell / taste like the first day I opened them.
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In reply to Post #2138
I’ve never had any of Marks bait go hard like that?
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In reply to Post #2145
I've pots that are years and years old. I'm not sure when Mark first started posting about them on here, but I'm pretty sure I've moved houses 3 times with some pots 
Just store them out of direct sunlight and they're fine. They only get better with age
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How long do these last btw?
Is there anything special about how I need to store them?
Boilies are boilies, just sounds like with the amount of sugar and sweetness they might need some extra care
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In reply to Post #2140
My partner has been getting into fishing with me, so the more action the better
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In reply to Post #2141
Txt him what you're after and he will tell you what to order off page when he says they are available
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When you put the specials on the website, are they just put on the S2 page or do you have a different page for them? Always missed out on them as never actually found them on the site (could be because i’m always too late tbh).
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In reply to Post #2139
Depends how much you need a bite
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I'm guessing these would be overkill for fishing at my local commercial?
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In reply to Post #2137
Well, eventually yes! But something that can be added to the pot and not detract from the baits, whilst making them easier to pierce.
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In reply to Post #2136
Lake water
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In reply to Post #2115
Is there something that you can recommend to rehydrate baits that have gone hard?
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In reply to Post #2134
Nice one Mark
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In reply to Post #2131
Quote... Just a question regarding two of the new variations, the Colas and Rod Hutchinson S2's. What's the story behind them?
All of the S2 specials are essentially extra charged up S2. They are put through our curing process five times, just like normal S2 are. The specials are then done twice more though, with the appropriate liquids, which are incorporated into our S2 cure.
I have been sourcing some bits from Brazil for the past three years now. All of the specials, including the Cherry Coke S2, contain additives sourced from South America. My missus best friend is a high end baker, wedding cakes etc. The Scopex & Pineapple, contain an incredible pineapple oil from Brazil. The Vanilla in the Red Berry & Vanilla is actually from Jamaica, but sourced in Brazil. Again it goes into high end cakes and confectionary there.
The Rod Hutchinson S2 are our S2, done twice more with three of Rod's best liquid creations. Blended with the S2 cure, this really brings them out.
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Mark with 'Black Spot' & 'Nelson', both spawned out, 54lb8oz & 44lb4oz respectively. 98lb12oz brace from his Kent syndicate. Caught a few hours apart, GPB2 16mm balanced fished over FishOn fermented particle.
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In reply to Post #2129
Love it 
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Just a question regarding two of the new variations, the Colas and Rod Hutchinson S2's
What's the story behind them?
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In reply to Post #2128
"FishOn Joe, TC1 cc 13mm pop up"
Who else zoomed in to have a look at those messy rigs to try and see what was going on 🙂
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There was a lake record 62lb4oz common caught on a GPB2 16mm pop up from a 270 acre Berks pit a couple of weeks ago containing 35 carp. Not allowed to show the photos, captor wanted too. They are on Facebook. Bloke has fished the venue for six years and previously banked just one carp. He purchased his first ever tub from us in March. Beat his personal best by 21lb.
Well done mate.
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Jacko, first carp caught on a Rod Hutchinson S2. 40+ year old mid 30 leather. First time he cast one out, on one rod. He was one of the first couple of people given some earlier this week. Fished over Scopex Squid.
Tom, famous Kent syndicate, 41lb6oz, TC1 balanced.
FishOn Ricci, Lillies, Scopex & Pineapple S2 balanced.
She wanted that hook bait
Some of Ricci's recent used rigs with Scopex & Pineapple S2 balanced, all of them were big carp.
FishOn Joe, TC1 cc 13mm pop up
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Hi are the balanced s2 perfect for size 4 hook in 16mm I see comments that the are more like a pop up?
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That's roughly around 7.5 kg of cured DNA Bug hook baits. 16 & 13mm crushed cork pop ups, 16 & 13mm balanced. They will be available as special orders after midday today, by WhatsApp message, or text messaging our work mobile. Please start your message with the full name which is going to be on the order. Followed by what you require in DNA Bug, quantities and sizes. You will be told what to order from our website to cover what you need in Bug hook baits. Anything else on the same order, will come as normal.
They were all double cooked this time before the curing process even begun, not just the balanced, the pop ups too. They came out absolutely mustard for it IMO.
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In reply to Post #2124
Next week Colors as special orders. They can't go on the website yet, just to busy.
Bug special orders first today.
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In reply to Post #2123
Any news as to when the s2 cola will be available mark ?
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Forum member Ben, S2 barrel
Jude, GPB2 or GPB1 over Rollin Optimum freezer baits.
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Chris just now, 37lb10oz, Scopex & Pineapple S2 16mm balanced again, as a single this time.
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Alan, Woolpack, 33lb10oz on Friday morning. Red Berry Vanilla S2 16mm crushed cork pop. First time he cast one out. Fished over a handful of Creamino freezer baits.
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Chris, 'The Redmire Fish' Woolpack, 42lb10oz, Scopex & Pineapple S2 16mm balanced. First time he has used them. Fished over two broken Creamino boilies.
Last year Chris caught some of the most special and desired from the Woolpack in his first season as a member. In the entire year, he used less than 1kg of freezer baits. He fishes our hook baits as singles, or over a couple of broken baits at most. Normally only gets one night a week so he does not get much time to be putting in bait.
Less than 1kg of free bait all year.
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Forum member Richard, on a social with friends at a Kent lake. New personal best common & new lake record early hours of this morning. 46lb13oz. S2 balanced. Well done Rich.
33lb12oz GPB2 balanced.
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In reply to Post #2115
WhatsApp message us on the work mobile Mark. 
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In reply to Post #2114
If there is the demand for them.
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What’s your baiting choice to fish the s2 over looking for a good quality boilie
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I have some gbp1 wafters which have dried out and become pop ups. Is there anything I csn do to revert them to wafters. Is there a liquid I can add which will weigh them down without ruining them.
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Out of interest will you be doing the whole range in the airball mix? Was a big fan of the cornballs was gutted when you stopped doing them as I’m not really a fan of the crushed cork.
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In reply to Post #2111
FishOn sold out of everything in 2 hours 40 minutes.
TackleBox sold out of everything in 1 hour 50 minutes.
We will do both shops more ASAP.
We will also have the crushed cork pop ups & balanced food bait versions of both available as special orders soon.
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Luke, best one from Dinton Black Swan this spring, 43lb+ S2 balanced white
Best one from KAPS, S2 balanced white
Jude, new personal best & lake record, GPB2 balanced over Rollin freezer baits. Well done Jude.
FishOn Ricci, Scopex & Pineapple S2 balanced over shops particle
Jacko, TC2 cc pop up over Monster Squid
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In reply to Post #2110
Strange said out of stock when I tried.
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Still in stock mate just check and purchased both 12/14mm
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In reply to Post #2108
Gutted sold out of these already at Fishon tackle missed out!
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The Tackle Box & Fishon Tackle will both have their pop ups on Friday. They are extremely buoyant air ball pop ups, which have been through our curing process five times.
Size 4 Incizor hooks, size 8 ring swivels. The 14mm pop ups had floated the whole lot for three days in this photo. They will need putty. The 12mm have been sitting perfect on the same rig with no putty. That’s a big, very heavy hook, plus a large heavy ring swivel. They are still in the glass now, holding everything up dead straight on both rigs after six days.
We have 5kg (basemix) of DNA Bug crushed cork pop ups and balanced hookbaits that are ready this weekend. Please do not message asking to reserve them. The moment they are ready and we know exactly how many tubs there are, I will say on here. They will be special orders. We have loads and loads done.
We are so stupidly busy, the new variations of the S2 crushed corks might not be able to go onto the website just yet. Next week, all being well we will do them on here as special orders. Again, please do not message asking for them now. The moment they are available for sale, I'll say on here. The Cherry Cola S2 are brown. The Scopex/Pineapple & Red Berry/Vanilla S2 are pink. The Rod Hutchinson/S2 are white.
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Connor, S2. 3 x 30lb+ yesterday up to 38lb. Fishing a lake exclusive with friends. First ever time seeing the lake. He's the only one with our hook baits, everyone else blanking. He's had four first afternoon including one of the biggest and most sort after in the lake.
Joe S2, Hacche Moor
FishOn Ricci, Scopex & Pineapple S2, Lilies syndicate Kent. The smaller one an original, older than Ricci.
Forum member Simon, another ancient carp. TC1 balanced
Chris, TC2 crushed cork pop up
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James, Dinton White Swan, 46lb8oz, fish called 'Blue Moon' TC1 13mm cc pop up over handful of bait in the margins. He lost a bigger linear near the net 30 minutes before.
Adam, TC1 13mm balanced over sweetcorn, Thorney Weir. One of 13.
Forum member Andy, mid 30 Kent syndicate, Scopex & Pineapple S2 balanced over K2.
FishOn Ricci, Scopex & Pineapple S2 balanced over the shops particle
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Personally, I would never use bait screws with the crushed cork pop ups. I always pierce them, doubled length of floss, big bait stop. Tied onto a ring.
Every time I've said that, people always tell me that they use baits screws with them with zero problems. Loads of people. But they are a soluble food bait, with big lumps of cork. They will go a lot softer than an airball pop up. They are meant too.
Often, weed is a big part of the problem if you ever lose one. If you test them in the edge, they will stay on forever. But they do go very soft after a day or two. Reeled in through open water, they never come off. Reeled in through any sort of weed, and they will get pulled off when soft.
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In reply to Post #2102
I think if your prepared to go scroll through this thread you will find that Mark actually recommended them (or at least said they work well) but was a fair while ago
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In reply to Post #2094
I use the crushed corks with bait screws , never had any issues. The metal screws are the ones i use, the plastic ones I find absolutely useless
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In reply to Post #2100
I've left them out for 48 hours on bait screws and not had them come off. Gpb1 that is, not sure about the others
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In reply to Post #2095
Yes to both...kind of.
I wouldn't advise a bait screw if you are leaving them out a long time, it's highly likely they will go soft and fall off...(in my experience) just use a tiny topper to be safe
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In reply to Post #2094
Yes to both
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In reply to Post #2090
Guys totally new to these hookbaits so apologies.
Will the 13mm crushed cork hold up a stiff hinge ok?
Can you use them with a bait screw?
Thanks all
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Staggering Mark !!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
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The two blokes below are the very first to get sent the Rod Hutchinson S2. It will be very interesting to see how they both get on with those.
Lee Petty's better Dinton White Swan captures since just before Xmas on S2 16mm crushed corks, always over Trent Shrimp freezer baits. Lee has had a bite on every single trip since he started using our hook baits. That is quite something, on somewhere like White Swan.
Repeat capture of Son Of Triple Row 45lb+. White S2
45lb+, S2
39b+, white S2
32lb+, S2
Russ again, MVF Brooklands, Scopex & Pineapple S2
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No one whatsoever in terms of carp anglers, has even seen the Rod Hutchinson S2 yet. No need.
He is a small part of the reason why the hook baits even work in the way in which they do in the first place. The S2 that will bear his name, are appropriately spectacular (in my view) for that exact reason.
The vast bulk of the TC2 orders will be going today & tomorrow. You should expect delivery tomorrow, Weds & Thurs.
We will have loads more DNA Bug ready next week. Please do not message asking for them today after reading this. I will say the moment they are ready for sale, I'll say on here.
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In reply to Post #2086
Soon Colors. As I said before, as soon as we clear the rush for TC2, they will be added to the website. If that cannot happen soon enough, we MIGHT do a run of special orders for them on CarpForum like before. But it will be better for them to go straight on the website.
Russ was one of the anglers who was given two tubs of the S2 specials from us. He used to be the Saturday boy in the Tackle Box when he was younger. So giving him some of the TB ones seemed logical. Now he's an electrician, with a very young family. He gets one, or sometimes two nights a week, at the weekend.
He started fishing a non publicity venue in Essex last November. Red carded in months. He caught them all, bar one fish. The biggun twice, two weeks running, another very sort after fish twice as well. The fish he caught this Spring on the Red Berry & Vanilla S2 & The Scopex & Pineapple S2, are nothing short of incredible. I wish I could show you what he banked from the normally 6 or 7 fish a year syndicate. But I can't. They would take your breath away.
He just started on MVF Brooklands syndicate in Kent. A tough venue, fished by very good anglers.
Russ, Brooklands 42lb+ Red Berry & Vanilla S2. Russ has caught an incredible amount of 40+ this year on the turbo versions of the S2. Proper ones too.
Forum member Ben. First trip back to his syndicate after a few weeks in SA. What a lovely big carp well done Ben. S2 bottom bait barrel.
Forum member Gary, S2
Alan Woolpack, Cheese 1 over Creamino
Dave, Woolpack, pink S2 over Trent Shrimp
Chris Woolpack, Cheese 1, over Creamino
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In reply to Post #2085
Hi Mark, do you have a date in mind for the s2 specials to be on the website ?
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In reply to Post #2083
Quote... Mark - sorry if this has been asked before, but how do the TC2s compare to the GBP2 in terms of "softness"?
They will be very similar in that regard, as they contain exactly the same amount of soluble fishmeal.
Andy, 2nd biggest mirror & biggest original in the 60+ fully lake. S2.
Mark, brace of 40+ commons from his Kent syndicate. Garlic 1 & 2 over FishOn particles.
FishOn Ricci, Scopex & Pineapple S2
Forum member Andy, S2 over John Baker homemades
Forum member Alan, Cheese 1
Jake, S2 & F1
Jacko, S2 over Scopex Squid
Forum member Dave, S2
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Mark - sorry if this has been asked before, but how do the TC2s compare to the GBP2 in terms of "softness"?
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In reply to Post #2079
Hopefully Matthew they should be there in time for you.
Forum member NickyNapkins, biggest fish in his syndicate, 42lb+, S3. Well done Nicky.
FishOn Ricci, scopex & pineapple S2
Connor, first two four hour evening sessions using our hook baits. First evening 75lb brace, second evening another 40+ from his syndicate. Well done Connor. S2.
Harvey, TC1 13mm balanced
Jake, F1
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In reply to Post #2078
It's up.
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In reply to Post #2078
Thank you
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In reply to Post #2078
If i order tomorrow will i get it before Friday when i go France? Cheers Matt
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Just been told that the TC2 will be added to the website tomorrow.
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Lee, 45lb+ GPB1 over Nutrabaits BFM
Chris, Woolpack, TC1 balanced over a few broken Creamino freezer baits.
Jacko, S2 over Scopex Squid
FishOn Ricci, Scopex & Pineapple S2
Wade, first fish from new syndicate, TC1 13mm cc
David, TC1 13mm cc
Dean F1 balanced
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In reply to Post #2073
I'm sorry. We have been so busy the past couple of months. Ever since I mentioned the new hook baits, we get people constantly messaging asking for them right now. Or asking for Bug, or just asking general questions. During periods like right now, sometimes we can get so many similar messages in a day. It's simply impossible to respond to all of them.
We will have more Bug ready next weekend. I asked the web designers yesterday, to add the TC2 to the website as soon as possible Dean. That should be sorted this week hopefully, maybe sooner than that.
FishOn & The TackleBox will have their exclusive pop ups next week.
As soon as we clear all initial orders for the TC2, the S2 specials page will be added to the website. This will include the upgraded version of the F1, and the other special versions of the S2 previously mentioned.
If you need to get hold of us regarding an outstanding order, please message us, text or WhatsApp on our work mobile.
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In reply to Post #2072
Any tc2 13mm pop ups currently in stock please mate? Can’t see them on the website
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In reply to Post #2073
Yeah that's the one I have bud he will reply he will just be busy as said in last post
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Mark I’ve text your number on your webpage ending 9960 is this right done it a few times no response thanks
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First, well done to the two forum members, who have both caught incredibly special fish in the last few days which we cannot show. You both know who you are.
Trev, Woolpack's big linear, 45lb+ GPB2
Chris, Lucy (again), Woolpack, GPB2 over a few broken Creamino freezer baits
Alan, Woolpack, TC1, 32lb+
Alan S2, 43lb+
Forum member John, first trip back to Rodney Meadow in 15 years, 37+. GPB2 over K2.
FishOn Ricci, pineapple & scopex S2
Harvey, TC1 13mm balanced
Forum member NickyNapkins, first time using S3
Robs first uk 40+. First time he cast out one of our hook baits. TC1 balanced. 45lb+. Forum member Steve's holding it up for the photo's, due to a severe injury to Rob.
Dean, F1 balanced
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In reply to Post #2068
Both Colors.
We are still virtually completely up to date with all orders. We are so busy, we have so many new products coming out in the near future. I will not be around on the forum for a while now. It is time now to take a little step back from here.
You know how to get hold of us regarding an outstanding order that you are waiting for. Our work mobile, via WhatsApp or text message.
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In reply to Post #2066
There are other new special versions of the S2, which have not been mentioned yet. One is a fishmeal mate. Not saying what just yet.
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In reply to Post #2060
Thanks Mark both the specials sound as the name says special. Which of the 2 would you say is best suited to a really old silty mere.
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In reply to Post #2061
Look at that! Mega.
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Hi Mark, do you have any plans yo bring out a red fishmeal bait? Maybe with squid and octopus and sense appeal etc.. think that would be pretty popular 😊
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Dan, biggest of 8. GPB2 balanced
Andy, S2
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In reply to Post #2062
Quote... Can always do with more 🤣
Jude with the biggest fish in his lake, 30 minutes after casting out yesterday. GPB2 13mm cc over Rollin Baits Optimum. Well done Jude.
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In reply to Post #2061
Can always do with more 🤣
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I might even start posting 100's of my own photos soon, see if I can actually crash an iPhone 5 with to many photos.
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In reply to Post #2056
Quote... can you say what RH flavour is in the s2 specials ?
All of the S2 specials are done five times, just like a normal S2. The specials are then done twice more. Combining that sickly sweet taste/smell of the S2, with things like Scopex, Pineapple, or Plum for example... Then produces the most incredible moorish tastes and aromas.
The RH S2 are Scopex, Mulberry Florentine, and the power behind Rod's Secret Agent. They also contain an extra very special ingredient from south America.
The Cola S2 contain a high end cake/bakery ingredient that's not available to purchase in the UK.
The Cheese (TC1), also contain different ingredients sourced from the largest beef producers on the planet. That's where that incredible umami smell comes from.
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We are not a site sponsor.
You could always choose the very simple, revolutionary option, NOT to open up this thread.
Chris Bromley, slipping back Woolpack repeats. GPB2 balanced
TackleBox Liam, red berries & vanilla S2
Will has started smashing them at the Zoo, all TC1 cc pop ups. 3 x 50's, 4 x 40's, 6 x 39lb. Well done Will.
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In reply to Post #2057
It'd better in here I think
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Didn’t this thread get moved to the sponsors section?
It crashes my phone trying to load all the photos 
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In reply to Post #2037
Hi Mark, I did tell myself I was only allowed to buy the cheese and the garlics, then you went and said s2 and specials and it'd be rude not to have a pot. can you say what RH flavour is in the s2 specials ?
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Knew I'd forget plenty.
And that's not even mentioning the ones that are on other large bait firms social media. Fish that were caught by their paid 'stars' on our products, which they paid full price for. Nothing whatsoever to do with the crap bait which they get for free, and are paid to promote to you lot... But they do not want to actually fish with it, just to sell it to you. Nothing new there whatsoever. "You can post the photos on Friday". You can poke those two mid 40's where the sun does not shine. You're a joke, you flat earth noddy idiot. In future, you can buy them in someone else's name. Like a little weasel, when those vast amounts you have run out, can't you.
We will have loads more DNA Bug ready in the next couple of weeks for those that keep asking.
Forum member Ashley with a new PB, white S2 13mm cc. Well done Ashley.
Jack, Johnsons Road & Island, that carp is older than me, let alone Jack, GPB2 13mm cc
Dutch canal, GPB2 13mm cc
Tonfords long common, GPB2 13mm cc
Will and his mate Mark are out at the Zoo currently with some of the Gardner blokes. It's fishing hard and no one is catching. Will has on a TC1 16mm cc & his mate Mark has on a GPB2 13mm cc.
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I've likely missed loads, if I missed yours I am sorry.
This one has not been caught for several years, from a large London ressie. It's a forum member who would rather not be named. Thank you for letting us show it. That's a really special carp.
TC1 balanced
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Parky, S2 over creamino, the common from Hacche Moor, the mirror from Furzebray
Chris, Woolpack, single GPB2's.
Chris, GPB2 13mm cc
Forum member Andy, S2 over John Baker homemades
Spiller, Niges Fish, Sandhurst GPB1 13mm cc
Clint, S2 Sandhurst
Forum member Craig, GPB1
Forum member Andy, S2 over K2 freezer baits
Jacko, pink S2 over Nash Scopex Squid
Forum member SmashingIt, GPB1
TC2 comp winner, first cast with them
Forum member Sam, Sutton 2, TC1 over Poacher T&M freezer baits
Forum member Tony, Bug 16mm cc over DNA Bug.
TackleBox Liam, Red Berries & Vanilla S2
Forum member Ben, S2 barrel
Richie, pink S2
Wade, pink S2 13mm cc
Forum member Steve, TC1 balanced
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In no particular order whatsoever.
Tony, Orlellana, Spain. Mid 50 PB & numerous other 40's, F1 balanced over Dynamite peppered squid.
Forum member Carl & his son Jude, Garlic 2 & Cheese over Rollin freezer baits
FishOn Ricci, Pineapple & Scopex S2. Ricci has also been slaying a non publicity venue recently, but cannot show those.
Dave, Woolpack, single pink S2 13mm cc
Forum member Adam, Cheese
Forum member Alan, Cheese
Forum member Alan and his dad broke a 12 year old venue record for the amount of carp banked in a week, on their first visit to the venue. Fishing our garlic 1 over DNA Bug. His dad smashed his PB, they both caught stupid loads.
David, GPB1 & TC1 13mm cc
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Patience is a virtue Mark shame some people haven't got any, dont sweat the small stuff and enjoy the rest of your holiday as you'll soon be back in dreary Blighty with the rest of us miserable sods.
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In reply to Post #2045
Work/life balance is more important to me. We’ll be a long time dead.
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In reply to Post #2042
Chris, your text was not replied to for six hours yesterday. There is a four hour time difference where we are. I am typing this at 06:40am. I was spending just a small amount of time with my loved ones yesterday. We were at the beach. Because you did not receive a reply to your text message after six hours, you came to social media to start all this. When you are saying 'these', and 'quick to take the money' you are trying to imply something. That's your right. But that's why you were refunded instantly.
There is a two week waiting time on our website. You waited seven days. The post you replied to three times last night, actually told you that I was on holiday. It's far better just to refund you. Hopefully you will be more happy now that you got your money back. We are as of this morning completely up to date with all orders.
Before the forum shut down two months ago, we had a couple of people from other bait firms, plus a couple of absolute noddy members of this place trying to create crap for us. That has now spilt over to other platforms too. Standard internet practices in 2024 for some very tragic people it seems.
Your money was refunded, there are no more problems now. This thread, on this forum, has seemingly completely run its course now.
Have a great day Chris. Apologies again that we did not get your stuff to you fast enough.
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In reply to Post #2047
Just to add i wasnt asking for a refund as your products have great feedback and didnt see anything about holiday when ordering or from paypal.
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In reply to Post #2043
As a business owner yes i do reply on holiday as customer satisfaction is key!
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In reply to Post #2042
You get a PayPal,confirmation and the website says a fourteen day turnaround?? Why would you also need another confirmation email?
And he does reply when on hols, just not instantly as he’s on hols. I really hope you don’t sit there on your phone answering stuff instantly, as you’re on hols. Having a holiday. With people that don’t see you when you’re at work. Which is why you have a holiday. To get away from work. Isn’t it?
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I wasnt worried about how fast just nice to know my order had been received and would be out as soon as stocks were available, should of just either text or answered to say be out soon not ignored regardless whether on holiday as youre a business and your email on the website does not work.
Thanks
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In reply to Post #2040
Quick to take the money? We have a 100% record with PayPal, that spans more than eleven years. We sort out stuff for our customers when it's not even our fault. We always have. You received a PayPal receipt of purchase, with our phone number on it. We do not spam email our customers. We do not even collect your email address.
Sorry your text message from 4pm today had not been replied to just yet. The post below yours, the one where it says that I'm on holiday, that's why you did not get an instant reply today. While on holiday, I'm replying to all messages once a day, in the mornings.
You have just been refunded for your order from seven days ago Chris. Check your PayPal, it's been refunded in full. We had a two week (14 day) waiting time on the front of the website when you placed your order with us last Tuesday.
We will be totally up to date with all orders, right up to current time by tomorrow afternoon. We have just had an incredibly busy six weeks. Apologies that we did not get your stuff to you fast enough.
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In reply to Post #2037
I ordered some hookbaits off these over a week ago, quick to take money but no correspodance or conformation, wont answer calls or messages and email doesnt work any ideas whats going on?
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Taaa daaaaa, he finally sorted it, well done Karl.
I hope you are all well
I am on holiday, only a quick one, been working to hard, Ladbrokes insisted
We are in a good place with stock levels and waiting times for the first time in a few weeks. Orders are going out pretty rapid as of now.
When I get a chance, I will post photos of forum members with big carp this spring. There are a stupid amount.
The Cheese is smashing everywhere it's being used Andy, that is all I keep being told. Bit scary if I'm honest what's been happening. The TC2 will be added to the website as soon as I return from holiday.
There is also an S2 specials page being added to the website. The original S2 are put through our curing process five times. We are releasing some new turbo charged versions. These are done five times with the S2 as normal. Then they are done another two times with some different variations. There are Cherry Cola S2 & RH (Rod Hutchinson) S2 both ready to go now. As an example of how good some of these are to us, the first two blokes to receive some of them, have both caught the biggest fish in the lake on their very first session using them. One of them then caught the same upper 40 the following week too. A once a year fish normally. He has been red carded from his six or seven fish a year no publicity syndicate in Essex, after literally tearing it to bits fishing weekends only since November. Last weekend he caught four 40's and numerous others. He has done this while testing some scopex & pineapple S2. He was accused of using hormones, because his results have been nothing short of stupid. He had two more A team fish yesterday. He's caught them all in five minutes flat. He's had something like eight 40's from that one tub of scopex and pineapple S2 in the last three weeks alone. The bloke who was given the red berries and vanilla S2, caught the only two 40's in his pit on his very first two sessions using them.
There are other variations which are not yet being announced done too. There will be at least five new hook baits added to the website over the next month. Including the TC2. Please do not message us asking for them before they are released on the website. The Tackle Box and FishOn will both have their pop ups below in stock when I get back too.
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In reply to Post #2034
agree, absolutely mate, having the best spring on my lakes for many years. 1st fish out for approx 4 months fell to my rods on the cheese, low 30 common. Has been constant since on the 16mm tc1 wafters, gone through 1 pot already
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The cheese wafters have been a revelation for me, I’ve had 50 fish in the last 6 weeks from a lake where I hardly managed that in 6 months last year. They’re not massive fish but they’re bloody hard to catch normally. I’ve had to put in another order as I’ve nearly done the pot already.
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In reply to Post #2032
you're right mate, I seen him larging it up in the hotel this week.
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In reply to Post #2031
I think he's on holiday at the moment, so reply might be slower than usual
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hows the cheese getting on mark??
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Mark started one of those new Sandhurst winter tickets in December. He's had a few already, biggest one Niges at 44lb+ S2.
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In reply to Post #2028
Both Andy.
But if the S2 had caught all the fish in my lake, over and over again. It would be an F1.
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In reply to Post #2026
hi Mark,
out of the s2 and f1, which would be your go to for wintern/spring??
thanks
andy
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In reply to Post #2026
Thanks for getting back Mark. I'm the one from Wales 
Already have loads of confidence in the gpb1s I used on my last session but fancied the sound of the s2 for the winter. Will probably stick both out and see which they prefer. Don't get on the bank anywhere near as often as I'd like but it's nice to know I've got a stonking hookbait on when I do
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Without knowing your real names... Both on our next delivery, which will be Monday. We will be completely up to date with all orders again on Monday. We have lots of everything in stock.
We have a mountain of F1 done. Everyone who messages, asks if we have any left first.
We have so much done now. Absolutely loads. 13mm & 16mm balanced, or 13mm & 16mm pop ups. If you WhatsApp message our work phone about ordering these.... Please include your full name, and exactly what quantities/sizes you actually require on your first message. You will be told what to order from our website.
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In reply to Post #2022
Also interested as have also put a s2 order in!
Sorry replied to wrong post
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In reply to Post #2019
Sorry hadn't seen your message.
It was about 5 years ago I fished it, didn't know single scale had passed, so you know more than me lol
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Does anyone know the rough turnaround time on S2 at the moment? Just put myself an order in
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In reply to Post #2020
That's good enough for me. It's a 3 hour drive so I need to know at least there are fish in there still
I had a tip off about another lake I've been interested in. But the biggun turned out to have been over exaggerated by 20lb and hadn't been seen for 10 years.
I've just bought myself a new set of reels for my distance rods and I yurning to fish somewhere I need to use them
Anyway that's off topic. All hail the S2 
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In reply to Post #2019
Rock? If so, then yes, it's believed Single Scale has passed. Last of the original big 4. Still plenty of big fish in there though.
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In reply to Post #2019
Best bet is never ask any questions, just get the ticket and go find out for yourself mate. PB's for you.
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In reply to Post #2015
What is the stock in there like these days, I assume the biggun has gone?
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FishOn Joe finally posted everything he caught on that two night session just before Christmas. Incredibly, in 48 hours, he caught the biggest mirror in the lake, and three of the other most wanted.
No wonder he called it his session of a lifetime. Well done Joe, great angling. A mid 40 & three 30's.
"As the night drew on the storm got worse and worse, absolutely biblical conditions, after chatting with a few mates buzzing about my captures we all agreed I was due one of the lakes big girls. Well a few hours later a slow pull up on the hanger had me scrambling out of my brolly in the storms full force, picking up the rod the fish took me out into the middle of the lake, busting me on a tight clutch, stripping braid so fast when cupping the spool I could feel the heat coming off it!
At first I thought it may be a smaller fish covered in weed but as I drew it close I saw a huge dorsal flick up in the moonlight, straight in the net she went, the lakes big mirror Sparkie's Sister a true Essex relic."
44lb, GPB1 13mm balanced over the shops particle and crumbed Krill.
The other three
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In reply to Post #2015
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In reply to Post #2014
Quote... Is it just the camera angle, or has that fish got an unusual shaped mouth?
I have only seen that one photo of Will's fish. But I would say that you are correct and it has an unusual shaped mouth. I caught a carp from Roach which is the neighbouring pit. Spitting distance away from Rockford. It had the same shaped mouth and puffy cheeks. Roland (NemesisWitch) would know far better than me, but I would say that they are from the exact same stocking, likely brothers or sisters. Back from when the same angling club controlled both Rockford & Roach Pit.
This one in Roach had the same mouth. It's mouth was pristine, but a very strange shape. This fish was an S2 addict. I had it four times in eighteen months. This was the third time I caught it, on an S2, I caught it once on a F1 too.
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In reply to Post #2011
Wow 2nd night!! Impressive! I blanked for a whole year on there lol. (17 sessions) I don't live close enough to really get a feel for the lake (That's the excuse I gave myself) I didn't see a single fish get banked in that time either and one of the bailiffs I was chatting to was on his 47th night without a fish (which made me feel better) definitely not an easy water, so bloomin well done!
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In reply to Post #2013
Is it just the camera angle, or has that fish got an unusual shaped mouth?
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In reply to Post #2011
Nice to see that one. That's an old original, stocked around 1990. Probably 35 years old. Proper carp!
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In reply to Post #2007
That must be one of the very few times I've had anything off Ladbrokes. 😆
I hope you keep skinning em. 😉
Have a good un. 👍
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Will, 2nd ever night on Rockford last night. His first night was 20 years ago when he did not have our hook baits. Well done mate.
36lb+ S2 13mm cc
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In reply to Post #2003
I did not realise yesterday when I posted this.
This 42lber was Wade's new PB. He's not fished all summer, he got married to a beautiful young woman earlier in the year. That was his first trip out in donkeys because of it.
A Christmas PB. Seriously, well done Wade!
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In reply to Post #2003
Steve the fireman below only done 27 nights all year. Work and a young family.
3 x 40's, with two personal bests among what he caught from a competitive syndicate in Berkshire... Fished by household names, and anglers with far more time than he could ever dream of. Don't matter with a bit of good angling and a tub of S2.
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We often get asked by new customers, why our white or pink S2 are a bit 'dull' coloured inside the tub. This photograph below, is something none of you have ever seen before. These pink hook baits below, are all at various points of the curing process this morning. The first row of trays up from the fan, the darkest ones, are finished pink S2, drying after their final go. The second and third row of trays up from the fan are finished pink F1. The tray under the step that is by far the brightest colour, are pinks that have not gone through any process yet. They have just been boiled.
That is what colour your hook baits really are. This is what colour they will be after a couple of hours in the water. Our curing process leaves a stain on the outside of the baits. This gives the white & the pink S2 a dull colouration inside the tub. Everything drying on these trays is exactly the same colour in reality. It's only the stain on the outside from the curing process that changes this. This stain washes off to reveal the true colour.
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In reply to Post #2005
You're very welcome. All orders from our final two deliveries before Christmas had at least one tub of freebies added. We gave away more than £2400 worth of free hook baits as Christmas presents before Xmas.
The lovely traders at Ladbrokes paid, you should really thank them. As people on my personal social media know, I had nine Ladbrokes accounts (among others) in extended family members names closed/heavily restricted at the same time in early November. They don't know how much I won though. I actually won a pretty life changing sum of cash over a six week period from those nine accounts. Mainly when I was laid up for a month virtually dying from Covid. I should try dying of Covid more often
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In reply to Post #1993
Stunning colours that, lovely fish
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Received my F1's today and they taste very nice indeed. Thanks for the present, greatly appreciated. Will be putting these to good use shortly
All the best for the New Year.
Cheers.
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In reply to Post #2000
No worries, could you knock up a pot for me next time you're on them please.
Cheers
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Wade, yesterday, all white S2 13mm cc. Well done Wade.
42lb8oz
32lb+
34lb+
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In reply to Post #1997
thx for replying mate
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In reply to Post #1993
Another chunk from FishOn Joe's 'session of a lifetime' just before Xmas at Ashbury fisheries. I don't even know exactly what he had, work have been getting tagged in when the shop has been posting the photos over Xmas. But he's clearly had it right off. That's at least 3 x 30+ so far though.
GPB1 13mm balanced over the shops particle and crumbed Krill again. Another lovely one.
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In reply to Post #1999
No sorry Chris.
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Mark, do you have any S2 PINK bottom baits ready?
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In reply to Post #1995
I'll echo what others have said, the older they are the better. I was catching some special fish on S2's that were 8 years old a while back so I wouldn't worry at all. So confident in the age theory I made sure I stocked up on GPB1/2 18 months ago and they are sitting in a dark cupboard doing their thing for when I need them.
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In reply to Post #1995
They are even better now than when you first purchased them Andy. When they lose the smell on the outside to your nose as you are describing... That's when they have really kicked off inside. If you place one of them into a glass of water for five minutes, it will explode, it will smell like a new one.
For the S2 & GPB1 especially, at 18 months old, they will be properly ripe now.
100% use them exactly as they are, do not add anything to them whatsoever.
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In reply to Post #1995
I find the s2 work better the older they are
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hi Mark,
I've got some s2 amd gbp1 and 2 amd I've stored them in a ridgemonkey multi pot things that screws together, some of the baits seem a bit dry, they're 18 months old. Will these be OK to carry on using or is there anything I can add to them or would you just leave them and use them as they are.
many thanks
andy
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I hope you all had an amazing Christmas with your families. We had quite a few messages over Xmas asking if any F1 were available, from people who had seen their mates tubs on the bank over Xmas.
We have loads of F1 done in both sizes and variations. We only have a few tubs of Bug balanced & pop ups left currently. I'll post details again below.
If you are interested in ordering any of the above, please text or WhatsApp message us on our work mobile. (Contact page of website). You will be told what to order from our website. Please include the full name which will be on the order, and also what amounts you require. Please include sizes, pop ups, or balanced in that very first message. You will be told what you need to order from our website.
We are completely up to date with all orders up till early this morning. Orders from over Christmas went this morning. Our next delivery day after today will be the 2nd of January.
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FishOn Joe has been catching some really lovely carp recently. 2 x 30+ from what he describes as his 'session of a lifetime' just before Xmas.
GPB1 balanced over the shops particle and Krill. That top one is such a beautiful carp.
David, pink S2
Andy S2 over Creamino, Hacche moor fishery.
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Thanks. I hope you had a great Xmas Neil & Martin.
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F1's arrived today... Holy moly they smell amazing. Brilliant service as always. Looking forward to using them. Merry Christmas 🤶🎄👍
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In reply to Post #1988
Hi,
Fully understand, we’re here should you need us.
Keen to help as I’m curious to try the cheese
Love the GPB1, GPB2 (very confident using as singles) and S3 (great on a silty reservoir where S3 retains its aroma where match the hatch hookbaits come back smelling of silt or of nothing.
Have a great Christmas
Cheers
Neil.
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FishOn Ricci, 42lb12oz Ashbury fisheries, S2 over Krill & the shops particle.
"To be honest, I was still buzzing from last week’s capture and although confident this week the temperature had plummeted. It felt freezing!
The first night passed with nothing, no surprise really but I did see a couple show and remained confident.
Ash came down to visit and as the kettle was boiling for the second time my alarm let out a series of bleeps indicating a drop back. I walked up to my rods wound down and lifted into a heavy weight. We both agreed it was a gooden by the way it was fighting. Big head shakes and staying deep.
Annoyingly it picked up one of my lines and so it came to a halt. Paying line off from the other rod meant the fish was on the move again but shortly after stopped again. I couldn’t move it!
I put on my torch and lit up absolute unit that was sat on top of the weed only 10 yards out!
I put the waders on a hoped to walk out to net it. Ash said it was too deep and it was, as I got closer a good helping of freezing cold water went down my waders! Christ it was cold! I got the line in my hand and with a different angle the fish started coming towards me, it was just a case of slowly pulling it back until it was over the net that. It was a proper struggle to lift but, wet legs, freezing, the fish was in the net! We both cheered and laughed.. what just happened?!? I was half way through making a tea!
Ash confirmed it was a fish called Orange Spot, one that hadn’t been out since August. And it looked massive! A very front heavy old carp, a proper character and one I had my eyes on hoping to catch and I had!
She weighed in at 42.12! It’s biggest ever weight and my third 40lber in a few weeks!"
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In reply to Post #1987
I saved your details last time Neil. Your number is saved on our work phone. I have not even spoken to the Fortis lads yet, who built and have always sorted our website. I have been to busy. I do know Fortis is the much bigger part of their working days than websites by far now. But Darran has helped us a lot over the years, so there's a lot of loyalty there from our side.
We do need quite a bit done right now. We need a new website built soon too I'd imagine. That one is more than ten years old now.
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In reply to Post #1986
Hi,
As offered previously, if you need any help with the website, drop me a line.
Neil@perfectcast.com
Cheers
Neil
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Cheese will not be available until the website can be sorted out. It needs its own page. That simply cannot be physically done as a 'special order'.
Next round of special orders, will be more Bug, more F1, plus Sticky Krill pop ups and balanced next time. But that will not be happening until the end of Jan.
Merry Christmas & a happy new year to you all.
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The last of our Xmas orders have just been processed and are going this morning. Lots of deliveries last week for larger orders, had a tub of extra freebies put in. Happy Christmas.
Yesterday was our last big delivery day before Xmas. Every single parcel, big or small had at least one tub of freebies added to it that left us yesterday. That was a lot of parcels, and then more early this morning. Many of those parcels will be forum members, or watching in as guests. Happy Christmas. (Ladbrokes generously paid).
Non publicity venue this morning, photos that cannot be shown, a truly incredible carp.
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FishOn Joe, what a lovely carp from Ashbury Fisheries. GPB1 over the shops particle.
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In reply to Post #1982
Only for us mate. No difference at all for you lot. The difference for us is astronomical though. Two large mixes of Bug balanced went in the bin after boiling last time. Even when they were done perfect last time, half the mix was still not suitable for sale because of misshapes.
This time, by double cooking them, without the need to add any binders at all, not one hook bait went into the bin. It's like exactly the same mix, is completely different. But it's not.
The base mix does not like heat. Last time they were eventually cooked for far longer in 85c water. And still half the mix did not like it. This time on the second boil, the water could be raised up to 100c. They cooked perfect, and there was zero loss for us.
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In reply to Post #1981
Are the #2 bug likely to be different in a fishing situation or just that you had less waste and an easier boil process?
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In reply to Post #1979
Quote... Hi Mark, as a single hookbait for winter/spring which would you prefer the F1 or the S2?
As a standalone single hook bait, 100% the F1.
That was what they were specifically designed for originally.
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Clint & Oisin. Riverton syndicate Devon, S2 over Cell freezer baits.
Clint, 42lb+
31lb
34lb
Oisin, 40lb10oz
35lb14oz
32lb4oz
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In reply to Post #1978
Hi Mark, as a single hookbait for winter/spring which would you prefer the F1 or the S2?
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Lots of people messaging, panicking a little bit because a lot of people have their F1 etc, and some do not. Most people ordered other products along with the special orders. We were out of stock of a couple of products until Monday. That has held up some peoples orders until Monday. Also, we just got blown out of the water a bit for F1 & Bug. Later orders we took are all going Monday. This F1 & Bug in the photo is ready today, and will be going out in orders on Monday too. We have even more than that ready tomorrow. Last delivery for us before Xmas is Tuesday. All outstanding special orders are going Monday morning. We will be completely up to date with any orders placed by Monday afternoon. Any after that will go straight after Xmas.
The Bug balanced were so much better than previous for us. This time they have been double cooked. Briefly at first, just to skin them in hot (non boiling) water. After drying, they are still paste like in the centre with a hard skin. They were then cooked again. The second time cooking they have a hard skin, which stops them from distorting or blistering, allowing them to be cooked like a normal bait.
We have a load more basemix and liquids from DNA turned up yesterday, so Bug balanced are now back on the menu again.
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F1's arrived yesterday, top service as always. Just got to get out to try them now!
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Aaron, 39lb+ Papercourt, S2 over Wraysbury Baits Nutmix
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Marks care and attention to his customers is as good as his baits
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Hookbaits ordered Friday - arrived today. Plus a pot of freebies. Best hookbaits bar none. Cheers Mark, have a good Christmas - Ashley
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In reply to Post #1972
Just received my order, they look fantastic and definitely a bit of me! Really can't wait to give these a try, top service from the team at specialised hookbaits! Many thanks for helping me out, really appreciated
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Thanks for the kind words James.
We sent out a mountain of special order stuff Monday afternoon, even more yesterday. We are completely up to date with all normal orders on our website as of today. We will be sending out special orders now well into next week. I totally underestimated how missed the F1 were for a lot our old customers! I've been told in no uncertain terms by a lot of anglers the past few days!
The F1 were the third hook bait we released, on April 25th, 2013. Our website had only been built in Jan 2013. Tinpot caught his PB & first UK 50+ from Roach Pit on May 1st on an F1. Just over a month later, I caught the same fish on an F1, also my first UK 50+.
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In reply to Post #1970
Mind blowing service from these guys - read the reply post, messaged them and all sorted and ordered in the space of 45mins
Thanks a lot to you all !!
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In reply to Post #1966
Many thanks for the reply. Whatsapp sent as per instructions
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In reply to Post #1967
Perfect mate thank you I’ll sort it in a bit just at work
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FishOn Ricci, with the biggest carp in his syndicate, a new lake record for Ashbury Fisheries 46lb10oz. Pink 13mm S2 cc pop up, fished over 5 spombs of crushed Krill and the shops excellent prepared particle.
Well done mate.
"Having not fished the Top lake at @ashbury_fisheries since early October I rocked up full of confidence as my last two trips I had managed 8 fish but in that 6 week period of not fishing it had slowed right up & due to the immense rain it hadn’t done a bite for two weeks, my first trip back resulted in a blank. I left with my tail between my legs but that long journey to work my head was in overdrive thinking how I can change my approach to trick one of these carps… I returned the following week, the lake still not producing a fish but I felt confident. I fished the same swim, keeping one rod on a spot that had done me bites in early October & moved two rods to two new areas and changed my baiting approach.
At 1pm a pike caused a bit of bother getting hooked up in my line meaning I had to redo my middle rod. The rod went out perfect but thought that might of ruined my chances.
In the very early hours that same rod absolutely melted off, as soon as I picked up the rod I knew & said to my self, this is one of the bigguns, it was unmistakable. I was convinced I was hooked up with the biggest mirror in the lake. I don’t know why but that’s what was going through my mind while it beasted me taking a lot of line from my tight clutch! Eventually I stopped it and pumped it all the way in until it locked me up in the weed at the bottom of the shelf, holding the rod high and after 10 minutes or so, looking at the tip in the bright moon light I started to gain a bit so I kept walking back until I saw this big ball of weed pop up 10 yards out. I put the rod back on the rest and pulled the line with my hands. I felt a kick, knowing it was still on I carefully guided it over the net & scooped up a huge weedbed!
Removing the weed i revealed my prize, to my surprise not a mirror but a huge common,the rarest of the bigguns, one I didn’t think I’d catch to be honest, I was buzzed! The wheel of fortune slammed round to 46.10!!! A new lake recorded!
I text Joe who was fishing the Mere next door, he came up at first light… we were both in awe, she was perfect & looked incredible in the bright November sunshine. My Autumn/winter target achieved, the biggest fish in the lake."
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In reply to Post #1965
No problem at all next week, that's very easy to sort out when we are rolling the barrels next. WhatsApp Rich.
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In reply to Post #1964
Yes mate. We have been a little bit blown out of the water for F1 & Bug. It's becoming clear just how many of our external customers are watching this thread as guests now! We spent all weekend until late into the night rolling loads more F1, as we were selling what we had done so fast on Friday! We have loads of everything, except any more Bug balanced (loads pops still) left, and no more basemix to make anymore for now. We will have all of these other products below available until mid January at least for special order.
I'll repost the original post here. PLEASE REMEMBER TO ADD FULL NAME & SIZES REQUIRED, POP UPS OR BALANCED in the first text or WhatsApp message to us. You do not need to inform us of any other products already listed on our website which you will require on the same order. Just the 'special order' stuff listed below in your message. You will be told how to order from our website.
Pink F1, 16mm & 13mm pop ups, 16mm & 13mm balanced.
Red or white S3 balanced, 16mm & 13mm.
Yellow S4 balanced, 16mm & 13mm.
DNA Bug 16mm & 13mm pop ups
If you are interested in ordering any of the above, please text or WhatsApp message us on our work mobile. (Contact page of website). You will be told what to order from our website. Please include the full name, and what you require, including sizes, pop ups, or balanced in that first message.
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In reply to Post #1955
Any chance of getting some more gpb2 round bottom baits mate? I no u did them roughly this time last year before the summer went crazy, not ran out yet but not far off
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In reply to Post #1955
Im a bit late to this party.... Could i still order some of the F1 pop ups (either size) and some of the bug pop ups (either size) ?
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In reply to Post #1962
Quote... What's the F1?
F1 stands for Fruits 1. It's a blend of 16 different nature identical fruit based flavours, a couple of essential oils & organic acids. Essentially on the S2 base mix, with milk & fruit powders added. They are bubblegum pink colour.
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What's the F1? 🤔..... I feel like I haven't been invited to the party 😂😂
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In reply to Post #1959
Well done Sam. Do you remember you were all worried when you joined that syndicate? I'd say you have done alright
Thanks mate, I've had the best season of my life this year, I it's probably because haven't messed about with rigs, or bait 😅
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In reply to Post #1958
Totally agree, looking forward to trying these out , thanks Mark 😊
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Forum member Sam (Leeroyjenkins) 43lb10oz from his Devon syndicate today before work. Sam had a big order that was going this week whilst I was on my way back from holiday. I asked work to stick him in a tub of F1, he's been catching so many recently on pink S2. He only got them on Thursday.
First night using them last night, just before packing up for work this afternoon. I am guessing that he did not have them on all three rods either. We have taken so many orders for F1 yesterday and today. There's a nice little confidence booster for any of you who have them coming on Monday.
Well done Sam. Do you remember you were all worried when you joined that syndicate? I'd say you have done alright
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In reply to Post #1956
You will have them Matt. It will be easier for you with these because you are a fishmeal lover. The S2 and the GPB1 are both non fishmeal. That's never going to work inside your head for confidence, unless you start having them right from the off. To much doubt.
Your order is going Monday. Xmas post is slowing things a touch now.
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In reply to Post #1956
I have taken a leap of faith and ordered a tub of the 13mm GPB2 Popups and a tub of 16mm GPB2 balanced wafters.
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In reply to Post #1953
Yes I have to say I think I am going to try the GPB2 and stick with it. I agree it must be a confidence thing. I don't change any other aspect of my angling anymore. I even stick to the same boilie(s) which has taken me many years to get to.
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This weekend we are taking special orders for the the following...
Pink F1, 16mm & 13mm pop ups, 16mm & 13mm balanced.
Red or white S3 balanced, 16mm & 13mm.
Yellow S4 balanced, 16mm & 13mm.
DNA Bug 16mm & 13mm pop ups, 16mm & 13mm balanced.
We constantly get asked for some of these above throughout the year.
If you are interested in ordering any of the above, please text or WhatsApp message us on our work mobile. (Contact page of website). You will be told what to order from our website. Please include the full name, and what you require, including sizes, pop ups, or balanced in that first message.
They will be sent out from Monday onwards.
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Forum member Sam again, Sutton 2, GPB1 over Poacher TigerNut & Maple, the length of that carp is insane.
Aaron, Papercourt, S2 over Wraysbury Baits Nut mix.
FishOn Joe, GPB1 over shops particle
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In reply to Post #1952
The S2 & the GPB1 will catch ANYWHERE & EVERYWHERE Carpbandit.
You have answered your own questions in your last post. Confidence is absolutely everything. Confidence means you are not thinking about stupid things like "shall I change this, or shall I change that". Confidence means you are fishing well, and applying yourself to the things that really matter. Not worrying yourself about silly things, that are not the reason why you are not catching.
I have said this before on here, the difference between a really good angler, and an angler with zero confidence... Is that the the really good angler understands that he is not going to smash the carp every single time he goes fishing. That's impossible, especially fishing lower stock syndicates. But he changes nothing toolwise. The only changes are watercraft changes. He understands that for a whole variety of reasons beyond his control, the carp are not going to be throwing themselves up the bank every single time he goes fishing. When things are right again, he is using the best rig, with the best bait, and he will smash it.
Some anglers lack confidence. They will blame their line, their hooks, their bait, anything and everything except the fact that they did not fish that well... Or simply that the fish for whatever reason, were not playing ball. That can be conditions, or the fish were smashed last week and are all sitting in the snags. Two blanks and they have changing everything. The stars align, but they have changed everything now. They blank again, when they should be hauling. It's a vicious circle, that 90% of carp anglers get stuck in.
I made a statement on here when I first joined. "There is absolutely NOTHING man made that you can cast into a lake, that is as attractive to a carp as an S2". That has changed now though.
The GPB1 & GPB2 are better than the S2. They are everything the S2 was, and then a whole lot more. But there is still an entire an army of anglers all over the country, that would never even try either hook bait. The reason, is confidence in the S2. It works both ways. Confidence is everything. Stick with them. You will have the session of your lifetime, and from that moment on EVERYTHING will change for you. You will no longer go fishing 'worrying' about silly things.
You will go fishing and start catching more carp than everyone else around you.
I have lost count of the amount of CF members, who have contacted me, and flat out told me that our hook baits have absolutely transformed their fishing. Not caught a few and are happy. Transformed it, to another dimension. That should be you.
If you are a fishmeal fan. There is nothing that will even come close to our GPB2.
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In reply to Post #1951
This is the thing though right, it depends on the lake.. see I have tried the S2s on my previous lake and couldn't catch on them and the GBP1 on my current lake and couldn't catch on them, however I can't see how they wouldn't catch, but I am an out and out fishmeal user so to me the GBP2 Make sense and the ingredients will work brilliantly (in my head) which is probably the key. As someone has said, there is probably an element of not leaving it out long enough to see the results or using it as often as i would my go to hookbait. So it's probably having faith and sticking with it.
I really want them to work for me as I have seen the results others have had with them.
It's a funny old game isn't it. I do kinda feel like I must not be getting the best out of the hookbaits when I've used them. OR maybe it was just bad conditions and I would have blanked regardless.
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In reply to Post #1950
But funny that, can’t buy a bite on the gbp 1s or 2s.
Even went through a stage of stubbornly using them as it must be me.
Back on s2/3’s and away they went.
Funny thing fishing.
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In reply to Post #1946
I fish over baitworks Royal marine if that means anything.
Confidence is key though. Its funny, I have the most confidence using pink baits, that's what i catch the most on, so that's what I mostly use. But the man next to you only uses white and can't buy a bite in pink. I regularly fish 3 pink s2s very tightly on one spot, and then say how I have no confidence in yellow baits as I never catch on them. Of course I don't, I don't use them
Anyway I forgot what I was talking about. Oh yeah, S2s till early spring, then GPB1/2's till late autumn for me, and I doubt I'm the only person here who goes that way.
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In reply to Post #1939
I put in an order on Monday thinking I might get it before Xmas and it arrived today. Well chuffed. Thanks Mark and the team.
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In reply to Post #1946
I understand your issue, I know you like bait. Stick to ONE fishmeal and you will catch.
You use decent food bait.
Marks baits don't need to match anything, find feeding fish, fish well and patiently over bait/s or particles of choice and the fish will find your FOOD hookbait.
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In reply to Post #1946
IMO you’re barking up the wrong tree with how you think Marks baits work or need to “complement” the feed bait. But I’m sure he’ll put me right when he’s back 😂
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In reply to Post #1945
I know what you mean I loved the S2s they taste amazing if you touch one on your tongue.
I am just so confident in fishmeal baits though and I've tried all year on my syndicate with different coloured popups and bright hookbaits but I only ever catch on match the hatch and occasionally washed out pink.
As i say would love specialised to do a B5 or red fishmeal variant, bet they would sell like hot cakes. Im a big fan of GLM as an attractor and I'm also trying out a bit of essentials newish garlic bait so I think that's the one to go for
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In reply to Post #1944
What this guy said.
Pink crushed Cork S2s. Fished as a single, or over bait. Confidence in a pot.
I wouldn't worry at all about trying to match the hookbait to the bait your feeding. I've had numerous fish this year very shortly after baiting heavily, or whilst still baiting, situations where it was pretty apparent the first bait picked up was my hookbait.
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In reply to Post #1940
Just use s2 CC over it nothing else required! Broke my pb every season for last 4 years doing just this over dna s7 or slk
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In reply to Post #1942
Just let Mark know your a Carpforum user. He'll look after you..
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In reply to Post #1941
Fairenough, I've used the s2 and the GBP1s b4 but really like the idea of the glm and fishmeal added to the GBP2
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In reply to Post #1940
As far as I’m aware the price is the price, just look at the information contained in this thread, probably tells you everything you need to know.
They’re special and different baits, quite unique in their make up, I have nothing to do with the company, just happily use their products with confidence.
Tel
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In reply to Post #1939
Does anyone know, is there a discount code or anything associated with carpforum members? Thought I'd ask before putting an order in. Want to try the GBP2.. Tried so many different hookbaits now but just can't settle, but I do like the look of these!
Is there any plans for a red fishmeal based bait like the essential B5? I would be all over that!!
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We were completely up to date with all orders up until this morning. Everything went out today. Xmas post is now slowing stuff down though. When I get back from holiday, F1 will be available immediately to all, no need to message now. Lots more Bug too. Cheese launch date will be when the site can be sorted. New pages needed. Hopefully before Xmas. That will happen ASAP.
How’s work today? 🤪🥳
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Forum member Sam, pink S2. Lost count how many 30+ he’s had in past few weeks now. Well done Sam.
36+
33+
FishOn Joe GPB1
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In reply to Post #1931
F1.
As we grew larger, simply having the space and the time to throughly dry the coatings out became impossible. In the winter the coating alone takes five days to dry. That’s after they have been cured and dried five times already.
They are returning with the coating inside the liquids in a different form. IMO they are actually better this way.
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In reply to Post #1935
100% buddy
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In reply to Post #1933
Cheeers Joss , it’s been nice to get back into contact with you after all these years , it would be good to catch up , maybe we could arrange a poacher baits social ?
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In reply to Post #1931
Why?
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In reply to Post #1928
Ya Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooornt
ive known Sam for many years.
Met him as a young lad when he worked at Poacherbaits through my true friend Gary Bainbridge (Mr Poacherbaits)
I fished with Sam in France, top lad (as was) and i couldn't be more over the moon for him and his recent captures....
Seriously mate, top angling.
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In reply to Post #1931
Put your own coating on mate it's well documented
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In reply to Post #1930
I'm in for the cheese . What is the thinking on not having the coating on the S1's?
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Can’t wait to try the cheese ones, searching for something that was as great as cheezy pepperami in the early 00s, good opportunity to restock on some other too.
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In reply to Post #1925
Brilliant, been there myself in the past during busy periods of my life, some effort that, not only to catch but to keep the motivation going
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In reply to Post #1925
Cheers mate them hookbaits are a game changer Iv always messed around making/ improving my own hookbaits but with yours i don’t have to bother complete confidence in them , the results speak for them selfs.
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Forum member Tony, one of those Bug hook baits we made recently, over DNA Bug. 35lb+
Ian, S2, 41lb8oz.
Andy, 35lb+ one of our old F1 balanced from a few years ago. Over ABS 12mm freezer baits.
FishOn Ricci, S2 over Krill.
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Another forum member, another Sam. He's been battering them since that 49lb common. All pink S2 from his SW syndicate. Well done Sam, some lovely big carp.
38lb+
35lb+
36lb+
31lb+
26lb+
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Sam is a forum member. GPB1 over Poacher Baits TigerNut & Maple freezer baits. Cluster from days only Sutton 2. A fish he was so desperate to catch. She has to be at least 45 years old or even more at a guess by now. Well done Sam.
Sam only does two - three hour sessions before work. At the gate at 4am, then a full days graft there after. Weekends are spent with a young family. Hard earned capture.
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I am on holiday until early December.
We were completely up to date with all orders up until yesterday afternoon, orders go out rapidly while I am not there. But nothing new will be available until I am back. Why on earth would I want to do that while I am on holiday? I'm trying to forget about work as much as is physically possible. I have to do a little bit obviously, but that has to be minimal till I actually get back
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In reply to Post #1922
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In reply to Post #1919
I was asking about the F1s, should have said in that post tbf.
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In reply to Post #1917
“ When I get back, we will be releasing the Cheese.”
I feel so sorry for your inbox….
PM 😘
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In reply to Post #1917
What colour will the cheese be out of interest.... looking forward too these 😬
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In reply to Post #1918
“When I get back, we will be releasing the Cheese”
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In reply to Post #1917
Available when your back Mark? Or beforehand
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I am out of the country now until early December. All orders are going out within seven days while I am away. We were completely up to date with all orders up until Tuesday afternoon. When I get back, we will be releasing the Cheese.
We are also bringing back the F1 as a seasonal special. We get asked for these so much. This time they will be bubblegum pink instead of white, without the coating. They are a Winter and Spring banger. It's time they returned.
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In reply to Post #1915
They are both pukka carp mate. Neil done well.
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In reply to Post #1912
Good friend is Neil (Fudger), always gets his hair right for the pics 
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In reply to Post #1913
It's giving me a lob on 
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In reply to Post #1910
Carp porn, stop it
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Neil, two S2 40+. Both amazing carp Neil.
Carls second mid 40 in weeks. Takes some doing living up in Stoke. 44lb7oz. GPB2 over Optimum freezer baits.
FishOn Joe, GPB1 over shops particle
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In reply to Post #1910
That linear is perfect.
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In reply to Post #1909
Lovely isn't it.
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In reply to Post #1908
That top linear is very nice, cracking picture
Most of them are
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Chris S2
FishOn Ricci S2 over bloodworm pellet
Sam GPB1
FishOn Joe GPB2
Aaron S2
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Forum member Aaron, white S2 cc pop up. A fish he really wanted to catch. Well done Aaron.
Forum member Sean, GPB1 balanced
FishOn Ricci, S2/GPB2 over Krill & Shops particle
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Well done Sam.
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In reply to Post #1904
very impressive fish!! well done on the capture 👍
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In reply to Post #1903
Good luck with it, think the fish will be bloody massive next year! Be interesting to see how it fishes with new faces on there, at the minute the same few swims receive 90% of the bait, but I recon once it starts receiving bait all over, it will get them moving. Definitely a few suprize fish in there still too. I knew which fish it was the second it tore off, it was due out, i knew i was in the right area, and mega conditions. Absolutely crapped my self when it somehow, came mostly flipped out the water tail first about 10 feet in front of me 😅
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In reply to Post #1902
Well done Sam
It’s Pinky season - booked on there this time next year.
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In reply to Post #1901
Thanks mate. It's pink S2 season again.
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Not meant to be online, but had to come and post a forum member with a massive PB really.
Well done Leeroyjenkins.
49lb4oz common from today, and a 35lb mirror from a few days ago. Pink S2.
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In reply to Post #1895
Replied Reuben.
We are so crazily stupidly busy. I will def not be about on here now for a little while.
I just replied to loads of PM's. Please do not PM me on here. That was only for special orders for the Bug hookbaits previously. I just do not see them in an appropriate time frame.
Please always message our work mobile, text or WhatsApp if you need to get hold of us regarding anything important. Don't ring, as it never gets answered, it's on silent constantly. But your messages will get seen and replied to rapidly (if it's an order query or about an outstanding order).
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Forum member (MarkCunnington) & author of 'The Syndicate' series Mark. His best ever Summer on his Kent syndicate using either our GPB1 or GPB2 balanced, fished over Fishon tackles prepared particle. Six forties and a mid fifty. Well done Mark.
First photos I've ever had from Mark. He's been using our hook baits for very a long time now and has caught some incredible fish on them along the way.
Thank you for the photos Mark.
56lb+
48lb4oz
45lb12oz
42lb4oz
42lb
40lb2oz
37lb4oz
33lb12oz
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Stoke Carl & his son Jude, top one new PB 44lb8oz, GPB2 balanced over Inception freezer baits. Well done Carl. Great photo.
Forum member Tony, 44lb12oz GPB1 cc pop up over DNA Bug
FishOn Charlie S2 over Blackseal freezer baits & shop particle
Clint S2
Chris GPB1 over Urban mixed fishmeals
FishOn Ricci, GPB2/S2 over Krill & shops particle.
Mark, S2 over Wraysbury baits nut mix. Large Berks club water
Tacklebox Liam GPB1 cc pop up
Tony, S3, 2500 acre French public venue
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In reply to Post #1896
Be mega on essential salami
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Hi Mark, will you be doing other variations of the GPB2 of other brands such as sticky’s krill? 🤞🏻
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In reply to Post #1885
Apologies only just seen this, have sent you a pm
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In reply to Post #1893
Cheers pal great confidence boost for first time out with them
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Glad you all liked them.
Got loads to post when I get a chance later. A forum member with a mid 40. Another forum member with 6 x 40's & a mid 50, all UK last couple months.
Carl (Tranter11) with the first photo I've been sent from the Bug hook baits. A lovely old one too. Best one of a few which he caught last night. Well done Carl.
Bug 16mm cc pop up.
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In reply to Post #1891
Mine arrived too- look great.
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mine arrived today,many thanks
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Mine arrived today also smell amazing. Looking forward to my new winter ticket to start next week. Thanks mark
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In reply to Post #1885
I've just received some Bug balanced baits. They look amazing and are so obviously "The Bug" hookbaits but with the unique twist of Specialized thrown into the mix. I'd be surprised if these don't prove to be very successful, very quickly. Looking forward to using them.
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In reply to Post #1887
Yeah I did scroll through and see it after I’d posted cheers
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In reply to Post #1886
🤦🏻♀️
See a bit further down,,,,,,
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In reply to Post #1885
Appreciate that you’re busy but it seems like ages ago the cheese hookbaits were mentioned, any news on them?
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All the Bug hook baits are long gone now. The only CF member who said they wanted them who I did not hear from, was Reuben. Saved you some Reuben if you still wanted them. It's no problem if you did not. We had to roll a load more yesterday anyway.
These are the 16mm, balanced and pop ups.
Anyone who saw the original thread about that lithium bait gun... I picked up another one on Prime day. It was a spur of the moment thing late at night. Cheapest on Amazon now is £160. On Prime day I got another one for £133 I think it was with a voucher. With two batteries I thought that was more than reasonable. It's black Friday soon, they will be cheaper again.
Coming all way from China now too. All of them on Amazon are.
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In reply to Post #1883
Thank you
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In reply to Post #1881
Top man
No more questions just really interested, thought you were making some kind of powder slurry
Keep it all to yourself 
Something good going on for sure which is great to see
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Jacko, GPB2 13mm balanced over Scopex Squid freezer baits
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In reply to Post #1880
Very dodgy questions. Of course it's a SHB trade secret
No. I should really have said, we are taking the 'soluble' food ingredients in that sentance, from inside the cooked bait. Our curing process involves two different types of liquids (cures). Obviously for the Bug, both are based entirely around the Bug liquid food.
I actually asked Jason to send me some readymades to match up too. But only after, I had smelled the base mix for the first time. The base mix, has a very strong creamy aroma, that smells nothing like the liquid food that the finished bait smells of. I knew straight away, when I first smelled the base mix, that we were going to slightly change the smell of the finished Bug hookbaits after it went through our curing processes. I knew we would drag that creamy aroma (among other things) out from the base mix itself. And it did. They are currently being matched up for smell to the human nose (it only matters to you lot, not the fish). The smell to our noses changed ever so slightly, but it's only all stuff that is inside the baits base mix already, we have just dragged it out. That changes the smell very slightly. The important part of the process is that it has also changed the structure of the hook bait itself, how it will now react once it goes under water. It becomes uber soluble, it's been unlocked.
The process is absolutely EVERYTHING. Our GPB2 are so incredible, because they contain a stupid amount of soluble pre digested fishmeal. Locking that inside a bait is very easy. We are unlocking it to a fish through our curing process though. I could give you two hook baits. Both identical in every single way to you. One is made in a traditional way. One is put through our process five times. The difference to the carp is absolutely stupid. One will outfish the other 5 - 1 or more.
No more dodgy questions pretty please. Wait for the hook bait article. It will get posted online eventually
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In reply to Post #1874
taking the dry powdered food ingredients inside the Bug, liquefying it
Interesting reading as usual Mark
So you are soaking the base mix and then drying it out before rolling it? Could be me that has misinterpreted that wrong? If it’s a SH trade secret, no bother
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Dan loving life
Andy's biggest from that 2500 acre public venue, S3 over Creamino freezer baits
FishOn Ricci with a relic, GPB2/S2 over Krill
Carl's son Jude, biggest in lake, GPB2 over Inception freezer baits
Carl, GPB2 over Inception
JUde, GPB2 over Inception
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In reply to Post #1877
Exciting times - should have a message from me
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Ordered and can’t wait to try out
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In reply to Post #1874
Looking forward to getting these in my collection 😂
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In reply to Post #1874
I would love to take some of these to France on the 4th November. I've messaged the WhatsApp numer. Cheers Matt
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The Bug hook baits are done and at various stages of the curing process currently. They will be ready to send out next week. They are identical to the Bug freezer baits in look and smell. They contain 80% Bug base mix, with some of our gear added to the base mix. The liquid cure, is around 70% Bug liquid food. We took the oils that go into this bait separately, and have processed them before adding them to the hook baits. They have then gone through our curing process five times. Putting them through this process, is taking the dry powdered food ingredients inside the Bug, liquefying it, then popping it all back into the hook bait along with the liquid food. They are 100% food, with natural cork for buoyancy. We have added no binders to the Bug, just our magic.
They have gone through this curing process really, really well. From the catch reports I constantly see, it's a great freezer bait. We have just turned that into a hook bait, that the carp will find absolutely irresistible.
Anybody who has already previously messaged our work phone about them, or PM'd on here will be getting them. We only have a certain amount done for now. The balanced might be slightly more buoyant than ideal on this first batch. I have never seen this bait previously. I even asked Jason to send me a few readymades, just so I could make sure the finished hook baits were identical to the food bait. Knowing how much cork is required to balance them, can only be discovered through practice. You only find out how dense and heavy a mix is, after it's rolled. The Bug is an incredibly light mix it would seem. I would imagine when completed the balanced will be slightly more buoyant than ideal (easy resolve). The pop ups, will hold up a tank in terms of buoyancy.
The only people who are getting these for now, are Jason, a couple of his sponsored anglers and you lot on this forum. Someone asked us in the comments on a social media post this week when the Cheese would be available. I stupidly replied. Two hours later, after a scary amount of messages to our work phone, I had to delete the comment.
Just for these. Please PM me on here, if you are a named CF member who has already previously shown interest in them. I will tell you how to order them. We have them in 16 & 13mm CC pop ups. And 16 & 13mm balanced. They will be sent out next week. Please make sure you add the full name that will be on the order in the PM, and also sizes, pop ups or balanced.
Some of what we have done drying between cures
This two photos below are a 12 egg mix of Bug balanced hook baits in the bin, just after boiling. I had never seen anything like it. After boiling, the structure of the bait changed completely. They underwent some sort of strange chemical reaction in the boiling water. The bait fell apart, crumbled on its own, flaked around the edges and resembled a sponge texturewise. I panicked and was straight on the phone to Jason at DNA. I knew as soon as I boiled them, that DNA would unquestionably have had big problems cooking this bait themselves. This is the reason that the Bug is the only one of their baits, which they will not sell you the base mix for. Jason told me they wasted 100's of kg's of bait while developing it. Loads of it floating, or crumbling if not prepared in certain ways. I could see exactly why!! I have never experienced anything like it with a base mix. Nothing worth having is ever easy. We had already rolled the pop ups. They came out absolutely perfect straight away. But the much higher proportion of cork in the hook baits, had clearly given it far more structural strength. This allowed it to be cooked in a normal way, without provoking this reaction at all. The pop ups were sorted perfectly straight away. The balanced, took a lot more care and attention to get right! A 12 egg mix, is a lot of hook baits in the bin.
Same mix, golden this time.
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In reply to Post #1866
Thank you - how does one get put on the waiting list for some of those bug wafters / hookbaits please ?!
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In reply to Post #1868
Blimey, fished there in 2004 just after John and Maiv acquired it, as a test fish. 4 of us went.
Biggest fish of the week 35lb (his only fish). I had loads and loads, biggest 16lb
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In reply to Post #1845
Well done that man
Must be nice when you have somewhere like that to fish!
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In reply to Post #1868
😂😂 Ridiculous, you couldn’t make it up. Absolutely smashed it out of the park.
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Andrew & Tony are on a tour of public venues in france. They are currently on a 2500 acre venue. After moving around , they have finally located some fish and have started to catch.
Bet they get a monster.
Andrew, white S3 cc pop up.
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What Roger has just done at Lac Serene over the last seven days on a fishing holiday is pretty incredible. He personally caught the biggest fish in the lake, the mid 80 twice. One of the most sort after fish in a French holiday venue apparently. Repeated on several other bigguns as well. Caught the second biggest fish in the venue, and I'm quite sure the third biggest too. He banked 29 fish. Doubt anyone has ever done, what he has just done on that lake in seven days before.
Well done Roger, what a holiday.
All GPB2 crushed cork pop ups
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In reply to Post #1866
I'll be all over them bug baits when you get them sorted mate
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Of course it's okay to talk about other brands of baits on here Reuben.
Of course you will all be able to get some of the Bug hookbaits on here Ron.
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In reply to Post #1863
Loved TnM but don't have freezer space anymore unfortunately to be able to use them.
Just seen the bug post below, how do you get your name down for some of those?
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In reply to Post #1862
Think I'll stick with the bug next year and if I'm lucky enough to get some of the bug specials should be perfect over the top - pretty rare I ever put out a whole bait these days, so my hookbait is often the only 'big' bait in the swim.
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In reply to Post #1861
For me, TnM
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In reply to Post #1861
Bug and S7 for me but likely going to drop the S7 and just use the Bug. Come the warmer summer months it’s SLK for me.
To be fair I have a lot of Mark’s hookbaits and most of the time it’s just a random pick what I use as I'm confident the fish will pick up any of the hookbaits I decide to use
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Can I ask what people fish thier GPB2 over please? Not sure if it's OK to discuss different brands etc on a thread about specialised baits 😬
Currently fish mine over bug as I've done well with bug bottom baits since release and they also look very similar but smell wise the GPB2 are very sweet smelling and wondered if anyone found something more like the GPB2 to fish the over.
Would have to be a similar colour to the GPB2 as I like to match wafters / pop ups to my bottom baits.
The wafters have done me quite a few fish this first season of using them 👍🏼 can't share pics due to publicity ban unfortunately.
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In reply to Post #1845
The 2 lakes have Some serious fish for a £60 a year book…….
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In reply to Post #1858
'The plated' lovely carp
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Carl, with what I presume is a very special northern carp. 'The plated' 42lb10oz. GPB2 over Rollin Inception
Carl's son Jude, GPB2 over Inception
David, GPB1
FishOn Ricci, GPB2/S2 over Krill
Mark, large Berks club water, S2 over Wraysbury mc nut
Tacklebox Liam, GPB1
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In reply to Post #1854
Result wise. Just WOW again.
What are the odds on one of the most sought after commons in France being caught 3 times in one week, let alone on the same type of hookbait by 2 different anglers.
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In reply to Post #1855
Addict. She needs to learn to just say no.
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In reply to Post #1854
lol that’s mental
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Been asked not to talk about it now. Twice in as many days the same thing. Get fed the information, and then straight away asked to take it down.
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In reply to Post #1852
Well done
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Cant wait to try these👌. I will definetly have some balanced and pop ups 👍 I just came back from my latest trip and fished the GPB2 over The Bug and had some lovely fish to low 60s. You said they would work their magic abroad Mark, and you were spot on 👍 100 % confidence in a hookbait.
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In reply to Post #1850
Can’t wait for these 😋
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For all those nutters (lol) who keep messaging asking when they are going to be able to get some Bug hook baits from us.... They are being sorted today and tomorrow, in balanced and pop ups. They will be ready in the next couple of weeks. I know you are all reading this (even as guests), as they have only ever been mentioned on here. Please do not message us anymore asking for them. I will say on here as soon as they are ready.
For now, there is only one large batch being done. Jason the owner and a couple of his anglers will obviously be getting them first. But those of you that use that bait and have been messaging asking for them, will also be getting them too.
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In reply to Post #1848
For any angler who can actually think for themselves, that photograph speaks a thousand words all on its own.
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In reply to Post #1847
Mark when are you selling the specialized snail hookbaits..
They certainly earned those captures between them.
That scaley mirror is stunning.
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Self explanatory.
That's one of our CC pop ups that's been in the lake 24 hours, it's not a freezer bait.
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In reply to Post #1844
The lake is already busy, and being fished by some of the best anglers around. I know Dave Mallin is on there for one. There are some incredible photos, that I will not show, because they give away to much background to blast all over social media. The fish are known about, but now they are bigger.
Daniel the captor of the common, told me his friend Dan here, taught him absolutely everything about that lake. Dan deserves to catch it very much, and he will. That common photo was last November, they were fishing together. It does not come out much and has been kept pretty much a secret for his friend for a year. Daniel is desperate for Dan to catch it. Da works full time and has a young family.
That fish had already put on 10lb in three years. I'd imagine it's bigger now. It's an incredible looking common. I think personally, this mirror Dan is holding is even better.
Dan prepares the fermented garlic hemp too.
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In reply to Post #1843
Refreshing is the word for me. Let’s hope it is kept quiet and it keeps the carp circus away!
Nice to know they are still out there
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In reply to Post #1841
Hearing the sheer unbridled joy from this young bloke and his friend about their captures, has restored my faith in carp fishing a little bit recently.
Especially after a Summer of shameful embarrassment from some of the shouty nods.
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Small things amuse small minds. Made me laugh yesterday when someone sent it.
Ricci smashing up his new lake instantly. GPB2 over Krill
Carl, GPB2 over Rollin Inception freezer baits
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In reply to Post #1835
Well done that man, love it!
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In reply to Post #1839
I was asked to remove it. That's why that post is now edited. He's 19 and wants to post it himself when he gets home. That's fair enough. It's the fish of a life-time.
I am likely to run off and hide again anytime soon. See you all sometime after Xmas maybe....
Thank you all reading this. We don't employ any famous anglers to sell our products. We don't offer any kind of 'team' benefits. So we don't have team members on social media fighting our corner to get 50p off. Just me, and photos of our customers. It's a very simple formula, but a very honest one. All the blokes photos on this page are working men as far as I know. Most of them get to fish one or two nights a week. We rely on photographs from our normal customers. Many of them, don't like showing their photos. They simply do not want to give up their edge, when they are paying full price. Who can blame them? I don't get to go fishing myself hardly anymore. But I still manage to live my fishing dreams every single day, through our customers.
It all makes me very proud. I lost count a long time ago now... Of just how many members of this forum alone have smashed their personal best using our hook baits in the past couple of years. This forum, is actually a very small fraction of our clientele in reality. But it gives the perfect window, into what is capable if you use our hook baits properly.
Honestly, thank you all. For the kind words, the messages, and thank you for the photos. xxx
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In reply to Post #1837
Wow. Great fish.
Twice out on GPB2 in as many days.
You cannot deny they are a bit moor-ish and special then
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In reply to Post #1837
Jeez... There's some absolute bangers being caught 👏👏👏
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In reply to Post #1831
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Lewis, GPB2, beautiful fish.
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Daniel, 57lb last November. Red S3 cc. Epic carp, from a large undisclosed UK venue.
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In reply to Post #1833
Ridiculous hookbaits
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In reply to Post #1832
Tomorrow morning mate, just been given the permission to show it.
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In reply to Post #1830
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Roger is currently in France. He's only been there two nights so far with our GPB2 cc pop ups.
He's already had an 86lb6oz, a 68lb+, a 57lb+ and a 53lb+. He currently has three 40's in slings waiting to be photographed, plus another monster that's not been weighed yet apparently.
86lb6oz
68lb+
57lb+
53lb+
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From a large public access venue. About as good as a UK carp gets IMO. Will be allowed to show you it soon. Incredible fish.
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Different Dan, we're lucky to see these ones.
S3. Incredible carp Dan, bloody well done.
45lb+
41lb+
37lb+
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Daniel with some special carp. GPB1 & GPB2.
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In reply to Post #1826
Incredible carp that one 😍
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Chris with the incredible 'Rosie' from the Woolpack. 45lb8oz, GPB1 crushed cork pop up fished over Creamino freezer baits.
Highgrade Chris.
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Forum member Rich, first trip out for two months. Both white S2 balanced.
42lb
37lb
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In reply to Post #1823
Touch wood, I’d never had a crushed cork come off a bait screw (I use the plastic Korda type ones), but changed to hair rigging them - better safe than sorry and I can’t see the downside. Just tie a loop to a ring or swivel, got 3 or 4 pre-tied but still using the same 18 month old one 😂
Still got a few corkballs S2’s left. £3 each lol.
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Matt and his friend, ended up with 21 carp between them in a week from a large Croatian public venue. More than a dozen other carp anglers from around Europe fishing the same venue, on the same week. All of them, every single one blanked.
Matt and his mate, had just one tub of S2, and one tub of GPB1 between the two of them. The fish had never seen one of our hook baits before. Matt's Croatian friend, simply could not understand what was happening.
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Forum member Bashmiester, UK pb, smidge under 50lb. Balanced S2. Well done Martin.
Aaron hauling at Papercourt again. 35lb+ S2
Tacklebox Liam, GPB1
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In reply to Post #1820
They will work and catch fish dried back out without question. They will never be as good as they were originally obviously, but you can reuse them. They will also not be as durable second time around.
Pop them in a pop up tub after you have dried them out. You will find after a few days they will magically regain some smell. This is to do with the cork, and our curing process.
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In reply to Post #1819
TC, I've got three GBP2's on the dashboard of my van and 3 sat on the hooks. At what point would you say they are past their best of stored in certain conditions?
To be honest, the three on the dash will probably stay their, along with the assorted back leads and PVA bags of mixers that have been sat there for over a year 
So, would having them dry out for a week or so affect solubility?
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Nigel with the big fully from his Kent syndicate, first time over 40lb. GPB2 balanced
FishOn Ricci first night on a new water. One of five.
GPB2/S2 over Krill
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Graham again, 46lb12oz ‘blackeye’ from Frimley. One of 3 first night back. S2
Aaron again, making Papercourt look easy. S2 over Wraysbury MC Nut
Matt, first night in Croatia. S2
Forum member Gary GPB2 over K2
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Graham, Frimley S2. 430 mile round trip from Manchester for 48 hours. He’s been hauling recently
35lb+
Aaron, Papercourt S2 over Wraysbury MC nut.
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Aaron with another of the Papercourt A team today, ‘the ear’ 44lb8oz, S2 over Wraysbury Baits nut mix.
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In reply to Post #1811
Someone else did mention it before. I’ve never had a problem. Loads up the last page instantly. It’s only a few photos mate. Not like it’s HD video or anything big like that. If you try to open up the entire 45 odd pages of photos every time, then I’m sure it will take a while. But mine only loads up the last page unless I ask it to load all of them?
But even when I’m in Brazil, on crap wifi it always loads instantly for me.
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In reply to Post #1808
Good luck mate,
we ended up with nearly forty fish to 68 as a group
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In reply to Post #1804
pub chuck king he is
strange thing, like you said mate, i did everything like i normally do, my bro, who really doesnt care one bit, flings three rods out on singles, cant be bothered to bait etc, marker, feel the lead down has 8 carp, all over the 30 including a 41 and a 58 
bloody fair play too him though
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In reply to Post #1811
No it's pretty much instant.
I have to say though I'm using a Windows 10 laptop and MS Edge, that could make a difference
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In reply to Post #1810
Does it not take a while to move from this thread to the next when you click the button? For me it seems as though it's delayed and is waiting for the images to load before moving on. I am sure someone else mentioned similar before.
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In reply to Post #1809
I use Read the next topic. It's the way I use the forum, if the thread doesn't interest me I just click again.
Not had a problem with this thread though.
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In reply to Post #1807
I use the "Read the next topic..." function and so it just throws me straight into the thread. I can't navigate the forum any other way without missing stuff.
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In reply to Post #1804
They had a good week. I’m back there Sunday for 2 weeks (likely my final session there☹️ .
Hoping for a repeat of last year when GPB2 produced one of the once-a-year bigguns for me.
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In reply to Post #1806
I was having that problem if I clicked on "read all pages" but clicking on the thread title just brings up the latest page which loads quickly, at least it does for me.
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Would it be possible to create a new chapter for this thread? The vast amount of pictures of the fine carp seem to be causing a fairly hefty slowdown.
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Nice one Joss, looks like you had a great trip
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Joss the Mod and his better looking brother at Labyrinth. GPB2 over Poacher TigerNut & Maple. Joss fished properly, using a boat, finding spots, used loads & loads of bait.
On the other hand, his brother had a party, pub chucked from the bank, used 5kg of T&M & a tub of GPB2 all week and smashed them. Caught the most, caught the biggest. 😂
FishOn Joe, GPB2
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Aaron, first trip back to Papercourt since Spring. 41lb+, S2 over Wraysbury baits nutmix.
Mark & Aaron had been fishing a notoriously tough large Berks club water all summer. S2
FishOn Ricci GPB2/S2 over Krill
Polish angler Marek, new pb 25kg+, GPB2 over garlic hemp. Well done Marek 💪🏻
Forum member Boo, S2 over DNA Bug.
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In reply to Post #1799
He landed in UK from Tenerife with the family late last night. At the gate at 4am and he’s already had this cheese this morning 😂
Sam, Sutton, GPB1 over Poacher tigernut & maple
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In reply to Post #1799
DP First one I have ever done.
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In reply to Post #1798
I just see it. I replied to a WhatsApp message earlier on the work phone. That’s the way mate, not PM on here 👍🏻
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In reply to Post #1792
Good ole Ranson, lovely lad/chap.
Known him for years right back to when he Rolled for Poachers.
Lovely to see him back behind the rods again and doing so well.
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In reply to Post #1791
Tcarper sent you a pm mate 👍
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In reply to Post #1796
I bought a spool of nash lead wire, works great...small.drill,push a bit of wire it and cut it off.
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anyone find that the balanced baits/wafters are more like pop ups my 2 tubs pop up size 4 hooks had to use shots below the bait
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In reply to Post #1794
It’s a cracker
Should have chopped the trees down in the background, they will be queuing up for that swim now
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In reply to Post #1793
I’d say so mate. The mirror is one of the Frimley A team. Memories for life. There’s a few happy faces and memories below
Here’s a funny little story I realised recently whilst I was on my death bed. At the beginning of the summer, I wrote something on my personal Faceache mentioning stuff that was happening with work. I made an anecdotal joke, referring to our hook baits as ‘magic beans’ and the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.
I also referred to the hook baits as ‘magic beans’ on here quite a few times at the same time, I’m sure many of you remember.
I had repeated deadly serious messages straight away from a European customer, asking how to make the ‘magic beans’. I had to explain it was a joke, referring to our hook baits.
Fast forwards to two weeks ago, I was so sick, whilst scrolling social media an advert pops up from a newish bait company…. MAGIC BEAN hook baits. Hahahahahaha it made me laugh so much. That’s so incredibly funny. Never had any intention of using that name whatsoever. It was a joke.
I’m glad to be of service, I’m also very glad that you are all looking in on here so regular party people. You certainly never saw that on my Faceache.
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In reply to Post #1792
Nice
Graham must be a happy man, used to take my daughter too now and again, quality time
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These ones are also from a forum member Sam. He used to work for Poacher Baits 20 years ago with my friend Gary Bainbridge, who sadly passed away a few years back. Sam used to roll my TigerNut & Maple back in day. Last time I had spoke to Sam before recently, he was just a teenager. Now he has a family of his own. He never shows his photos normally.
He recently started using our hook baits for the first time on Sutton 2, which he has fished for twenty years now. First three mornings, three big carp, one everyday on days only. He’s never done that before. Never three in three.
GPB1 over Poacher Baits T&M.
Gavin Bainbridge, Gary’s son runs Poacher Baits now. The T&M is still as good as it ever was. To me, the original nut mix designed by Gary & Steve Ludlow.
Our S2 was designed while I was using this bait. I once wrote a thread on the old Cemex forum extolling the virtues of the T&M, and nut mixes in general. At a time when NOBODY in reality used them. Fishmeal dominated absolutely everything. I was laughed at a bit by the bait buffs of the day (including PeteB). “Cheap, rubbish nut mixes”. This was nearly 20 years ago now. Oh how times have changed.
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FishOn Ricci, completing another Kent syndicate. The biggest common is 45lb+ and there’s a couple of other A teamers.
GPB2/S2 over Krill.
Forum member Jack, two low 30’s S2.
Forum member Lee new pb common 35lb+ GPB1
Forum member Aaron white S2
Graham S2
Mark, from a large tough Berks venue. S2
Steve Long Lake S2
Clint GPB1
Andy GPB2 over K2
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I hope you are all a lot better than I have been for the past two weeks. I have been so sick with some hideous virus. I have not done a test, but I am quite certain I’ve had Covid. I have just locked myself away from everyone. I was tripping out for a week or so. Many people have tried to get hold of us over the past two weeks, I’ve missed so many emails and text messages. I apologise, no one was being ignored, I was just dying and not with it most of the time..
I’ve lost 12kg in 16 days. Finally seem to be improving a bit now.
Work is completely up to date with all orders up until yesterday afternoon.Tonnes of orders went out this morning alone.
I am likely not going to be about again for a while. I had worked myself into the ground a bit over a two month period, which is why I think whatever I’ve had, hit me so badly. Have a load of photos to post, which I will do now.
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In reply to Post #1788
Doesn't matter what you fish them over just use what your confident in
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What is your go to bait when fishing s2 hook baits over the top
Also gpb2
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In reply to Post #1786
Text the mobile number on the website for a quicker response 👍🏻
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In reply to Post #1785
sent message.
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Steve, first trip since May, 46lb2oz new pb from Long Lake in Reading. Well done Steve 💪🏻
White S2
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In reply to Post #1783
Well done Jack 💪🏻
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In reply to Post #1782
Yeah that‘s me, backed up that second fish with a 31 common this morning on the S2 too
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Before I jog along, two forum members.
James, first 40+, S2 balanced. 43lb8oz. Well done James!
I do not know this lads name, but he's def a member of here. S2. Top common is lovely!
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I will not be about online for a little while now.
We are crazy busy. We are pretty much up to date with all orders. That will continue. But, I personally have not had a day off for the last five weeks now. 39 days straight, Sat, Sun, bank holiday, all the same.
If you need to get hold of us regarding an outstanding order. Always text or WhatsApp message the work mobile. Number is on contact page of our website. Don't call, it's always on silent and never gets answered.
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In reply to Post #1779
Depends on what rig you are using. Any rig with loads of extra metal work, or tungsten kickers and the like, with a chod or a SHR you will need not much putty with a 16mm. If using the same 16mm with a multi rig, clearly you will need to use a bit of putty. They have to cover every situation.
SHR 16mm, multi rig or normal pop up rigs 13mm.
They all work exceptionally well in cold water. If anything, they become even more effective than in the summer I'd say, in comparison to anything else. S2 has over a decade of winters doing incredible things in cold water. If I had to pick one for cold water, personally it would be the S2, S3 or S4. Others tell me the GPB1 are just as good in cold water.
The GPB2 contain so much soluble fishmeal, I gave anyone who asked the advice last two winters to avoid them in extreme cold water (Jan/Feb). I was clearly wrong. Anglers have told me they have clumped fish all winter on them.
But still if pressed, winter for me, personally it would always be S2. But that's only because I have caught so many fish on them in cold water.
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Are the crushed corks mega buoyant? Do you need much putty to hold it down?
What’s your go to hookbait for this time of year also what hookbait works well in winter as I will ge getting my prep ready for winter also
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That Woolpack carp is incredible. Not quite as impressive but I had a lovely black low-20 at the weekend on S2 CC during a social with friends. Really enjoying using the hookbaits and love seeing the calibre of fish they're nicking out
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In reply to Post #1775
Such a good idea sticking them in the avid case, does anyone know which one this is? Not long made my first order, keep missing the postman! Had to redirect to neighbour, hopefully they don't fish😂😂
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In reply to Post #1767
Received this morning thanks very much 👍
Cheers for the extra pink ones too 😁 they smell amazing
Can't wait to give them a go tomorrow
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Dutch carp angler Bas. Not sure if Bas is a forum member or not. He ordered a load of stuff in May. He messaged this morning, to say he's been having a great old time with the hook baits. Dutch fish going absolutely mental for them apparently. The biggest 22.4kg from the canal
Great photos Bas.
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In reply to Post #1772
Nice pictures of the linear, love those old ones, survivors, incredible
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In reply to Post #1771
Could well be going to see if the tidal Trent beards have a taste for them, soon.
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Alan, the Big Lin from Woolpack. 50+ years old, 44lb. The one he desperately wanted to catch. S2 over Creamino freezer baits.
Fish On Ricci, 'The Angry', last biggun he needed from the other Kent syndicate. GPB2/S2 over Krill freezer baits.
David, biggest couple of 9 landed bank holiday weekend. GPB2
Tacklebox Liam, GPB1
Andy, these two plus caught the lakes big common for second time in weeks. Slipped it back without a photo. GPB2 over K2 freezer baits
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In reply to Post #1769
GPB2 bottom bait barrels. The barbel absolutely adore them.
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In reply to Post #1768
Well done Chris.
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Now it’s coming into the time of year i do a bit of time on the river, any of your bottom baits you’d recommend for barbel? Nearly run out of my old sonubaits oily hookers that i’ve caught quite a few on and they don’t do them anymore.
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New PB to the pink S2's today. One of only 2 fish out from the lake today, both to the one rod I had S2 on.... I think they may go on all the rods next time!
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In reply to Post #1766
They come RM 24 signed for Dean. They are already wrapped up, will be going early Tuesday morning. They should easily be there in time for Thursday.
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In reply to Post #1765
Yes that's me mate, 16mm S2 balanced CC.
Cheers mate I'll keep them in my bag which I keep in the house anyway.
I did text you about them yesterday too but just asking the same questions
Do they go out on a next day delivery? Got a session booked for Thursday on my local so would love to give them a bash then
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In reply to Post #1764
They will go on Tuesday, which is our first delivery after the bank holiday Dean. 16mm balanced S2 you ordered yes? Is that you?
Store them indoors in your fishing bag. No need to fridge or freeze them. Don't store them in a shed or a garage, or mice will find them.
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In reply to Post #1760
Just placed an order this morning for 16mm CC S2
How long would delivery take?
Also how is best to store these? Would an air tight container be ok?
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In reply to Post #1760
Ordered yesterday (24th) delivered today (25th) cracking service 👍👍
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Forum member Bashmeister.
39lb8oz & 34lb10oz. Both GPB2 fished over Atlantic Heat freezer baits. Well done Martin.
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Jacko, lovely dark common. GPB2 13mm balanced, fished over Scopex Squid freezer baits.
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Not quite sure how, as last week we were nearly three weeks behind with certain orders..... But we wanted to get as close to up to date if possible, before this weekends bank holiday.
Barring just a few orders in the past few days, that contained either 16mm white S2 pop ups, or GPB2 13mm balanced, we managed to get completely up to date with all orders yesterday. Right up until midday yesterday afternoon in fact. We sent out an incredibly stupid amount of product every single day this week.
Far more, than we ever have before.
We still have a two week waiting time on the front of our website. But if you are reading this as a guest and are waiting for an order from us, it should be with you by today. Today is the first day in months, that we do not have a waiting time in reality.
Have a great weekend.
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More from Fish On tackle Ricci and that Kent syndicate.
Most of these were caught at times, when we were simply far to busy to be posted by us on social media. Most of them have never been posted on here either. Ricci works full time too.
Proud of you chavi xx
The linear
Sargent
The broken linear
Three scale
The rare mirror
The middle fully
The upfront fully
The fully
Big tail
Not the little plated
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Jimmy, Lucy's bowl charity event at Wraysbury last weekend. He won it last year and caught the biggest fish... This year 2nd with the biggest fish again. Jimmy was the original Frimley ripper with our S2. Last few years he has been fishing a strictly no publicity venue, like so many of our long term customers. He is still smashing them, just can't show them anymore.
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In reply to Post #1756
That common is immaculate
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Forum member NickyNapkins, 43lb from his Essex club water. A fish called the half lin. GPB2 balanced. Well done Nicky!
Forum member Gary, GPB2 balanced fished over K2 boilies.
Fish On Ricci, GPB2/S2 fished over Krill.
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In reply to Post #1752
I would have said a multi rig as well. But any simple rig.
8-12" of 15lb mono with a simple no knot with a D, is a deadly rig, that hardly anyone uses anymore.
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In reply to Post #1752
Multi rig everytime
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In reply to Post #1752
flouro d-rig for me for balanced hookbaits over a clean/silty bottom which I predominantly fish over
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Hi Everyone,
Just wondering what rigs everyone uses with the 13mm balanced baits and if I could see some examples/pictures of some rigs everyone uses😁
Thanks guys
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Well done JT, and well done Andy
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had a social with a mate last week on a predominantly match water with a few carp from mid to upper 20,but theyre old fish. pink s2 doing the business.
22lb,it does go 24/25 pre spawning.
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First outing with S2 CCs on an overnighter and had four out of the edge over a a few handfuls of hemp, maples and tigers. Nothing huge but four certainly isn’t the norm from the water. I’m left now eyeing up the pot thinking when I ought to place the next order
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That is a proper collection of carp!Ricci could probably catch out of a puddle.
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He posted them on Faceache the other day. Put together like that, it's a serious compilation of monstros UK carp.
They are all Ken Crow fish. Incredible strain of carp. That strain is in the KG and some of the other London ressies.
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In reply to Post #1744
epic captures
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In reply to Post #1744
some amazing fish there!
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The one big common Ricci wanted from his Kent syndicate, was found dead in the spring, so his time on that pit is now over. Some of these fish have been posted on here before, but a lot of them have not.
What an impressive array of big UK carp. 62+ the biggest, 50's & 40's the rest.
Black linear
Nelson
Chestnut common
Big plated
Tels common
Slopehead
Big leney
The Italian
Black spot
Tors common
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Fish On Ricci, GPB2/S2, over the shops particle & Krill.
TackleBox Liam. The lad has had seven 20lb+ on work overnighters the past week alone, from eleven fish banked. All from a couple of different Kent club waters. Well done Liam. GPB1 & GPB2 13mm cc pop ups.
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Fish On Ricci with another of his Kent syndicate's A team. Going through them rapido as normal, making a tough lake look easy.
GPB2/S2 combo fished over his own shops particle and Krill. Drop Scale Lin. What a lovely carp.
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Tacklebox Liam, GPB1, what a beautiful carp.
Gary, local club lake GPB2 fished over K2. Gary has been hauling on work overnighters.
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In reply to Post #1738
They are so stupidly attractive to all fish.
You have seen with your own eyes the sort of thing that you will not see on any underwater camera set up. Not one's for selling Chinese plastic or cardboard balls. I'll give them all some stuff for their underwater cameras... Trouble is, the cameras would likely never see anything whatsoever, the water would be so clouded up with fish in a complete feeding frenzy. When the sediment settled, the camera would probably be knocked over, and one foot of gravel stripped from the spot. But they would have a lot more big carp for the photographs.
But that will not sell to many brightly coloured cardboard balls, or £50 worth of plastic rig components either will it.
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In reply to Post #1680
I've been doing really well since the beginning of July on the GBP2 CC's over Bug. Not had a decent nights sleep since using them! Considering the pond hasn't been exactly fishing it's head off, once again everything that swam was having a go the other night, to the point where I had a recast at midnight just to make sure the hookbaits were still on as I've had occasions when the roach and skimmers have been smashing the hookbaits. I even caught a tench on a ball of bare crushed cork, the external coatings had been completely stripped .
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In reply to Post #1736
Andy said similar too. A few others have said same thing to me last week or so. I have not seen the K2 yet.
That was quite an irregular result Andy had for that lake, to get 7 bites in 24 hours.
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In reply to Post #1729
GBP2 and ABS K2 are born to be together……
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Fish On Charlie, first fish from a new syndicate. GPB2 bottom bait barrel over the shops particle.
Tackle Box Liam, DDAP's Brooklands. GPB1
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Chris, first trip back to Woolpack after lake spawning closure. A fish called pink tips, a very old and rare visitor to the bank apparently. GPB2
Andy, 7 in 24 hours from his Sussex syndicate. Biggest 39lb+. GPB2 over HydraK-2 & particle from Fish On
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In reply to Post #1732
We will do exactly the same thing as we did with the Mainline stuff previously mate. We will add a few of our own bits and pieces, and then put them through our curing process five times. They will look and smell the same as the Bug that you know. But they will be very different to a carp.
They are already an incredible freezer bait, going by just the catch results alone. We will turn that, into a hook bait, that the carp cannot not leave alone.
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In reply to Post #1729
thanks for the reply mate,really intruiged with what magic you're gping to work with the bug hookbaits..
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In reply to Post #1730
Nice common
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Forum member John (Slim). Got his stuff on the 27th July, after a problem with RM. Today a week later, we got this lovely message back. Well done John.
S2
S2, 40+
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In reply to Post #1727
Hello Andy. I already know exactly what will be happening mate. We will be doing a Bug hook bait at some point. The top photograph, is waiting for me at the Tackle Box. It arrived just before I sodded off to Brazil. It's to work on some Bug hook baits, and see how they react to our process in a physical sense. I have not had a chance to go get it yet. I will likely get it sent over, I have been so busy since I got back. I have been working since 5am, and it's Sunday. I won an absolute fortune this week at Goodwood, as anyone on my personal Faceache knows. The last thing I really want to be doing is working 16 hours on a Sunday... But needs must. If someone came up with a great offer for SHB, right now today.... I'd likely take it, show them the crown jewels and let them go forwards with it all. But that's because it's Sunday, and I don't fancy working every single day for the next six weeks right now .
Our waiting time is around a week, but I am scared to post anything else on the other social medias. Rich, off this forum became our most liked post ever on Faceache with 3.8k likes. That broke the record from the day before, of 3.2k likes of Matt's photo of that London mirror. Things have exploded a bit.
I have the hook bait part of my ramblings ready to post online... I posted a very small part of it on here before. But I cannot do that yet either until things start to calm down a touch. I already know what that is going to do, well in advance. I talk a little bit for the first time about our curing process, which I have never done before. The two boxes in the photos below are smothered in liquified S2. Pink and white S2. It's become fashionable to use hydroslates recently... Liquified foods. Well, we have actually been hydrolysing real food in our own way for 15 - 20 years, via our curing process. You can't do this with cardboard/rubber balls. . The photo of the dead blue bottle flies.... I have spoken about them being attracted by what we do before. They liquify their food before they eat it. They are incredibly attracted by what we achieve with our curing process. Just like the carp, and all other fish.
One of the photos below, is me sitting in someone else's god awful Nash bivvy at Fen Drayton, long before SHB was even a thing. Even back then, I never wanted my photo taken. That's just me. I have always been far to secretive about the hook baits as well. Because right from the very start, every silly sausage has wanted/tried to rip us off everytime I opened my mouth. . We are long past all of that now. Me talking about the hook baits this year, is a good thing. It's time to reveal a bit more to the carp world, about exactly why the magic beans do, exactly what they do. Not all of it obviously, just some of it. But we need to wait until things calm down a touch first before that gets posted. Just like the Bug hook baits. Otherwise, we simply get over run.
Jason of DNA will get some first. We might then end up doing some as specials on here maybe straight away, because we keep constantly getting messages about them ever since I first mentioned them. I also had a good conversation with Geoff Bowers before my holiday, about HydraK maybe being another. I need to speak to Geoff again at some point this week. To many things to do, never enough time.
We are also going to release the Cheese this year. That has been ready to go for nearly two years now. That is epic.
Please, do not message us asking for any of the above. We don't have them. I am likely to completely disappear from online again for a little while. Including from on here. WhatsApp or Text is the way to get hold of us regarding a missing order.
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In reply to Post #1726
I was so clueless to all of this mate, until I started SHB. We have never discounted anything. We have never had a sale. We never will either. If that means we will lose a small proportion of custom. Oh well.
Our product sells itself, so we do not need to sell it cheap.
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In reply to Post #1725
morning mate, are.we.any closer to finding out what you're going to be doing with dna baits and the bug?? love the bug,love the pulling power of your hookbaits..
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In reply to Post #1718
Some people will only buy something they perceive as a 'bargain'. They will buy something only on low cost, that something has to be 'discounted'. The product quality itself does not matter to them, as long as it is cheap. The concept of real value is often lost on these people.
I have worked in the food industry for years.... i once had a conversation with a sales person who had worked for all the major retailers.... they termed this type of person a magpie shopper and in essence supermarkets are layed out to catch them. Its why the end of the isles always have the saver deals on them. Ive seen first hand a product that sold for £1 and as a example sold 500 cases a day, same exact product was still sold for £1 and had a bit red sticker saying a £1 on it and the amount sold over doubled... people perceive a bargain.
The supermarkets have finally started to get shopped for it now - they purposefully make it difficult to compare prices of products then use promos to trick people into thinking it cheaper
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Good nighttime self takes.
Ricci, one of the A team, GPB2/S2 over Krill.
Forum member Gary. One of 4 on an overnighter. GPB2 over HydraK.
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In reply to Post #1723
Pecs like a flying fish 😄
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Nigel with an impressive Italian. S4 13mm cc over Manila. Size of that bloody pec!
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CF member Ian, pair of recent 30’s, S2
Ricci, S2/GPB2
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Chris on his social again, another one of the lakes bigguns yesterday and a great photo with his friend Sam. Good memories on a social with mates. GPB1 over Tuna & Garlic.
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Andy, beautiful zip, 32lb, GPB2 over HydraK.
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Chris, on a social at Creedance fisheries. One of the lakes bigguns, GPB1 over Urban Tuna & Garlic.
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In reply to Post #1715
All of us when we buy things, have very set habits mate, not just fishing kit either. My mate Gary from the Tackle Box first wised me up to all this, as I was totally clueless to it. I'd been a plasterer most my life, casinos before that. Never retail.
Some people will only buy something they perceive as a 'bargain'. They will buy something only on low cost, that something has to be 'discounted'. The product quality itself does not matter to them, as long as it is cheap. The concept of real value is often lost on these people.
In exactly the same way, that some people will only buy the very most expensive things available. They will buy something only on brand & a higher cost.
And everything in between those two extremes.
Some carp anglers are totally pre programmed to need a totally, and perfectly spherical pop up. It triggers something inside them, if it is not aesthetically pleasing to themselves (like that matters to a carp). Does not matter to them if it's just an insoluble rubber/cardboard ball... As long as it is spherical, they are happy.
The list goes on and on and on. People have very different purchasing tastes and criteria, and you can never please everyone.
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Forum member Rich. First night back this weekend at Welly, white S2 balanced.
47lb12oz
36lb+
Ricci, Masons, GPB2/S2 over Krill & particle.
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In reply to Post #1713
I just gave Parky some 13mm S3’s as I rarely use them (prefer the crushed corks). Should’ve kept them safe along with the 13mm S2’s I’ve got and put them towards the retirement plan
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I also like the way the crushed corks are not a perfectly round ball. I can’t think of much a carp would naturally eat that is perfectly spherical, but some people are very precious about their balls.
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In reply to Post #1713
100% I much prefer the crushed as there trimmable and I like having a flat spot on the top
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We will likely just stop selling the cork balls eventually Carl. That will upset a small number of our older customers.
We sell 20 times more crushed corks than cork balls now anyway. They are simply a far superior hook bait anyway. They contain 50% more of the liquids. You can pierce or trim them. They are far more durable.
We don't have to be held to ransom for the cork balls, so we will not be mate.
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In reply to Post #1711
Yea it’s not good pal. Hopefully you can resolve it
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In reply to Post #1710
No Carl. Cork plays a very important part in our hook baits and not just for buoyancy. It's a completely natural product. This is all to do with the old man who died of Covid in Portugal in 2021 and to a degree us leaving Europe too. These kind of high quality cork balls are cut from one piece of solid cork. Anything else is a mulch of glue and cork. Crap. The machinery that he used was sold, along with everything else just after he died. I know this, because we actually looked into purchasing it when we found out that he had passed. But unfortunately we did not find out soon enough, and it had already all been sold by the family.
He made 95% of the cork balls used by UK carp fishing. It left a vacuum where for a year, demand far outsripped supply. That's why we stopped selling 16mm cork balls. The 12mm corks we used were impossible to obtain in the quantities that we required. Now anyone making these things are just taking the utter piss.
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In reply to Post #1709
Is there an alternative mark ? You’d think nowadays they’d have found something that can replicate cork
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Whilst I was away in Brazil on holiday we needed a load of 10mm corkballs which make our 12mm corkball hook baits. They have just increased in price, from approx £210 including vat per 5000... Up to £370 per 5000.
This is just stupid. Things are on the increase, but not to that pisstaking extent. Clearly our cork ball prices are about to increase again when our current rolled stock runs out completely. We cannot near double our prices, which is being put onto us.
Not sure what will happen regarding these in the future. They are literally becoming untenable now with these crazy price increases.
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In reply to Post #1707
Kids these days..... I have always thought the same thing mate. When I first showed that photograph, it had to be with the entire background blurred, which totally ruined the photo.
That's a very special carp, from a large London drinking water reservoir. Not the King George.
This S2 muncher below was from the KG. Another truly epic big carp.
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In reply to Post #1702
That’s an incredible picture. There’s a rawness to it.
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Fish On Ricci with one of the Masons bigguns Lemon Scale. GPB2/S2 over Krill & his shops particle.
Steve social on Yateley Pads lake, 40+ S2
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It’s absolutely traumatised some kids holding 15lb commons in their profile pics. Grown men too. Apparently I’m a noddy, Matts a thief (fishing rights) and the entire world might end 😆
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In reply to Post #1702
Nobody noticed the bloke on the crane in the background without his hard hat on tho did they?
Awesome brace shot 😍
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In reply to Post #1702
Cracking picture, love it
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Might as well post them here too, the brace shot has upset quite a few new age carpers on Faceache today, loads in fact.
From a strictly no fishing venue in London. No name, completely off the radar. Epic IMO. Controversial for some though 😂
Matty S2
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Coincidence today. Two x 46lb6oz.
Forum member Rich, 46lb6oz the linear from Welly, S2 balanced. One he really wanted. Well done mate.
David with a repeat capture of his syndicates biggest. 46lb6oz GPB2.
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In reply to Post #1697
Quote... Has this fish been ottered? Looks like a missing gill plate?
I have no clue mate. But now you mention it, the fish does seem to have a big dent/scar close to the gill plate. But the gill plate all seems there.
I'll ask him, although I am quite sure that was on a social type weekend at a completely new lake/venue for Jacko, just like Sam below. He's a very good angler, catches loads. He's only just started using our hook baits last couple of weeks, he's very impressed going by what he has caught and said since he got them.
He is another person to mention that if there are any cats in your lake, the GPB2 is like crack cocaine for them. To be 100% avoided if you do not wish to catch them. Unless you are after them ..... .
We will be completely up to date with all orders again this week, Any outstanding orders that could not go last week, will be going tomorrow. I've just got back from holiday and have a load of PM's on here again regarding orders. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, ALWAYS contact us via text or WhatsApp message on our work mobile (number on contact page of website). You will get a near instant reply. Email or PM's on here, they might never even get seen is the reality.
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In reply to Post #1695
😂 thanks Joss, back now mate.
Sam 2nd night on new Berks syndicate. 43lb10oz & 30+. GPB1
Andy brace 30+ S2
Ricci GPB2/S2
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In reply to Post #1696
I know, far too understanding
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In reply to Post #1694
Has this fish been ottered? Looks like a missing gill plate?
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In reply to Post #1695
Such a caring mod Joss
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In reply to Post #1694
The next time you post when your on holiday mate, im suspending your account until you home
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Jacko, 41lb+ GPB2 balanced over Scopex Squid
TackleBox Liam GPB1
David S2
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In reply to Post #1692
Thank you both very much for the detailed replys, very helpful indeed
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In reply to Post #1691
I’m using a size 4 hook on a spinner rig. Granted it’s a fairly light gauge but using that tiny bit of foam is all it needs to hold it up for 24-30 hours. Never tried longer or needed to.
I’d happily use the 16s I’ve only gone to 13s for the long range work just to minimise drag.
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In reply to Post #1688
You are not interrupting anything Ian. Even though I am on holiday… I have lots more time than normal. It’s only 7am in Brazil, I am up before everyone else as I am still on UK time.
Carl would have been kindly referring to the 13mm Ian. The 13mm, are less buoyant than the 16mm.
The 16mm will all hold up any sized hook, on any rig. SHR, Chod, anything with all the extra metal work.
The 13mm will hold up any size hook on a multi rig or any other normal type of rig. On a chod or SHR or anything else where lots of extra metalwork is used, size 8 hooks maximum. The 13mm will not hold up a size 4 on a chod or SHR for days.
13mm for multi rigs or smaller sized hooks on chods etc. 16mm will hold up anything whatsoever forever. Manchester Graham was using 13mm white S2 cc below. We sell a very even split of both sizes over all of our customers. In the winter more 13mm, in the summer far more 16mm.
All of our hook baits are pure food and cork. There are zero glass spheres or light powders added for buoyancy like standard type pop ups. The powders are all there for specific catching reasons, not buoyancy reasons. The S series base mix is by far the heaviest. That’s S2, S3 & S4. Followed by the GPB1. The GPB2 is by far the lightest, consequently the most buoyant.
Here is something I have never spoken about on here before regarding our hook baits. Colour, and size.
Traditional thinking with air ball type pop ups, is a bright color and the smallest size possible. Forget that. The opposite is in fact true with our hook baits. You are actually better with a larger size hook bait. A larger sized hook bait contains more of the magic. A larger size pumps it out for longer. It’s as simple as that. Traditional thinking with air ball pop ups is you need that bright colour. Well with our hook baits you simply do not. They work in a different way, triggering completely different senses. The best S2 we make is the standard brown. That is not the biggest seller. The white and pink are. The dyes added to the mixes only serves to lock them up slightly. It’s the only powder that goes into our hook baits that is not pure food, inherently attractive in its own right. The browns wash out to a pukka light yellow color very rapidly. They become more subtly visual really quickly. In the summer within one hour of being in the water they will be a completely different colour to the dark brown in the tub. Our GPB1 are the same.
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In reply to Post #1689
Thanks Carl much appreciated, which size were you using mate if you don't mind me asking
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In reply to Post #1688
If marks not about I’ll try help out.
GB2 I’ve found the most buoyant and will hold up a 4. But to be on safe side I use a small piece of zig foam just under the hookbait. Only talking a 3mm slither of 6mm foam and I’ve had no issues over 24hrs being in the lake.
Gb1 is very similar. The s2 crushed corks I just use a slightly larger bit of foam but if used on a mini swivel you can almost compress it so you can hardly see it.
Only need a small amount of putty then or small sinker of some sort.
Used on both hinge stiff and Ronnie to good affect without issue doing the above.
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In reply to Post #1687
Sorry to interrupt the thread away from them incredible fish Mark but would you mind if i asked regarding size and buoyancy please. Will the 13mm hold up a size 4 on a spinner rig as theres a lot of metal work involved in that rig but i like the small bait big hook mechanics of it , secondly are the 16mm super buoyant as i find myself using the soft hinge quite often but dislike having large amounts of putty where possible, I'm guessing the crushed corks could be trimmed of course but i would want as much of the cure present as possible. Thank you
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Manchester Graham, new pb 43lb12oz (Cashew) from Frimley. White S2. Well done Graham.
For the first time in a good while, barring just a few very recent orders… We are completely up to date with everything, up until right now. Not sure how long that will last, we still have a two week waiting time on the front of the website. But it’s a good feeling today. 🥳
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In reply to Post #1683
To be honest, I would not waste them surface fishing, or on zigs personally. But everyone is different. I very rarely fish on the surface. When I do it is always right now at this time of year. Always at night, when you get those still muggy flat calm nights in the summer. I use the rubber imitation mixers anchored on the surface on 15lb slightly over depth zigs. Lead clips with no tail rubber. Rods on alarms with bow tight lines. Just keep putting out the mixers all night. You will catch 3 at night to every 1 you get during the day. Try it one night, it’s great fun. Get a couple of massive sacks of cheap mixers. Trips up the wary ones too. They go crazy for them at night.
I never fish zigs in the Spring, not ever. When everyone else always needs to fish zigs at that time of year, I was always clumping them on the bottom on S2. If your hook bait is good enough it will drag them down, even when they are sitting up in the surface layers. If your hook baits are crap, that’s when you need to use zigs in the spring
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Forum member Gary, brace of Wingham 40+. The mirror hardly ever gets caught. GPB1 over HydraK & particle. Well done Gary 💪🏻
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Me and a mate of mine have done really good on them on the top. Had a huge hit of fish off the surface on linear with them last year. Seems to good to waste them surface fishing but I’m more then happy too to get me a few more fish
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In reply to Post #1682
TC, have you heard of many people using them surface fishing? I'm on a water where I've done fairly well drifting singles across groups of fish on the surface, so I presume the CC's would be ideal for that scenario?
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Andy, first night on a new syndicate. Biggest fish in lake 40+. S2 over Creamino bollies.
Ricci more from Masons, S2/GPB2 combined over Krill boillies.
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In reply to Post #1680
Well done mate 🥳 Now’s the time that the garlics really come into their own.
Today we cleared all orders up until and including last Thursday.
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In reply to Post #1678
First time out using the Garlic 'magic beans' and I had a magic (yet sleepless) overnighter. 3 mirrors out in 4 hours, and numerous Bream all of which were over 8lb, had plenty of pick ups from smaller fish that couldn't get the choddy in their gob. Everything that swims seemed to have a go last night.
All caught on the same two hookbaits out the pot. It seemed the longer they were out there for, the less sleep I got
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Tackle Box Liam, DDAPs Brooklands S2
Forum member Gary, GPB2, Wingham.
Forum member Rich, GPB2 balanced.
Forum member Rich, Wellington Country Park garlics I think.
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Wade, one of his syndicates originals, the long common. White S2 over Cell.
Will, Junction12 42lb8oz. New pb, first UK 40+, hook bait not specified. S2 or GPB2. Well done Will!!
Forum member Ian, Ashmead, GPB2 balanced, new pb common, well done Ian!
Forum member Paul, GPB2 over pimped ABS Rock Lobster
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In reply to Post #1676
I echo that. Would love to read it.
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In reply to Post #1675
Enjoy your holiday, Mark. And do keep planning that book! Your various writings here deserve that…..
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In reply to Post #1674
I am honestly sorry I got touchy. I have to be that way about all that kind of stuff in public now. I can’t be arsed with it anymore mate. It just grinds me down. I have dealt with nothing else since I first said I was going to write about it for MrF a week ago (not you). I am on holiday and still dealing with carp fishing, because I wrote some thing for charity. One day maybe I’ll talk about it all, maybe one day I will not. But that’s my choice. It certainly would never happen on a thing for charity, which is the only reason that it was even written. Chances are otherwise, it never even would have been.
I should not have mentioned Ringwood either, I am sorry. That stuff is a decade old now this year. It’s actually ten years today since I caught the Linear & orange scale Roland I’m quite certain. Two best anglers in your area IMO used my garlic hook baits, Beadle one, can’t name the other because he is connected to someone else and loyal. I respect that too. Respect him because he’s honest . I hear Beadle makes an amazing boillie. You should get on it if you can.
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In reply to Post #1673
No probs mate, have a fab hols !
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In reply to Post #1672
No Roland, I did not misunderstand at all. I knew in a roundabout way what you were saying in your cryptic message. Kind of. But EVERYONE else does not Roland. Just something about fish moved in your original message. That means that I have to then make it clear, because I was the last person to catch the fully.
I might have misinterpreted your intentions, for which I apologise. I fell out with Alan when I did not get a ticket, we did not speak for a few years. That was all ex Yateley boy stuff…. We made things good again recently.
Yes it is for Paul Forward. If I wanted to talk about other stuff, I would have. So please do not come and think that you have the right to start talking about it. Because you do not not Roland. You know better than anyone what carp anglers are like when someone starts catching, what everyone else thinks is to much from a lake, straight away. When they have sat there for years catching sweet f all. Does things to people.
I cannot fish UK syndicates anymore because of that. I make my living from carp fishing. So hurting carp fishing is not in my best interests. But the gossip and whining, not for me anymore thanks all the same.
It’s closer to 30k last time I looked. They have done an incredible thing. So please just stop. I’m on holiday too. Not interested in carp fishing today or having to respond to people talking about stuff they heard. Please do not take that the wrong way mate. xx
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In reply to Post #1671
Hi Mark,
I wasn't referring to you at all about Nursery mate, It was merely a comment around what is going on there now, many years after you stopped fishing there, which I kinda understand due to the otters around Sonning/Nursery/Long. So there was no insinuation, you've misinterpreted what I wrote. I'm sure you fished there in its prime and those old fish have either mainly perished or flooded back into Sonning (probably a combination of the two), but like you, I suspect the monster is long gone. That fully you and Alan caught was an outstanding fish.
And yes, It's about Paul, over 20k raised I gather, which is fabulous.
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In reply to Post #1670
Roland, what has happened at the Nursery since I fished there, is zero to do with me. When I fished it and caught that fish, I was poaching it. I have no clue what you are talking about, and to be honest, I do not care. I was not given a ticket. You think I was happy?
As for Theale Lagoon. This was written for charity. I spoke about fishing and zero else. Same as the Nursery piece, when I spoke about Burghfield it was ONLY about fishing.
When carp anglers start, “I know, I know”. It always makes me sad. You don’t know Roland. You know about Eastenders gossip. That’s all. The only people who know, are the people who were there.
This is for Paul Forward. So please do not do that Roland. It’s a little bit cringey. You’re Ringwood through and through, and likely far more interested that I mentioned Spinnaker. That also has a large bearing on Alan via Roach Pit because he purchased you lots lake. I’m not interested in all that rubbish no more Roland.
I have pretty much stopped carp fishing now. That’s the only reason I have been writing about my fishing.
Here’s two Nursery returners of both 40’s. As they are going back…. I was the last person to catch the fully. So don’t come here with your cryptic insinuations please.
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In reply to Post #1669
As mentioned, prob with Otters on Nursery...and that fact that anything that now is caught in there, "may" ( ) be rehoused.
I've heard some stories about certain events at the Lagoon last year from a long standing member on there, but I'm sure there are two (or more!) sides to every story. I gather it all got a bit spicy at times.
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And also, any of you who have read that Theale & Nursery thing. Theale lagoon is likely the most sort after ticket in the land, numerous people offering many, many 1000’s for a £300 ticket. The Nursery was likely one of the best kept secret lakes in the country before it went syndicate.
I’m on holiday too. I got roasted by my missus when I wrote both. You’re reading them for free.
I know how much you all spend on pop ups remember. There are some loaded mofos on this forum. There’s also tonnes of anglers looking in as guests. More than any of you can imagine in fact. If you don’t all go and donate for MND & Paul Forward on that link…. I will personally find every single one of your wives and girlfriends and then tell them how much you REALLY spend on pop ups and fishing kit. Not what you lie to her, the truth. 😂
It will be far less aggravation for you to just go donate a few quid if you can afford too. Remember, I know what you spend on hook baits. I already know that most of you can afford it. 😂
We still have a two week waiting time on the front of the website. But yesterday all orders were cleared up until the 22nd. Anyone looking in as a guest waiting for orders up till then they should be there today.
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In reply to Post #1666
Thank you. It was so much more hard work than I could describe in something that was being written to go on social media for charity. It could only be a certain size/length what I wrote.
I know people fish in France at extreme range. But that is not on a UK gravel pit choked with weed. One where you might have thirty minutes using the boat most days, just before dark to get the rods sorted. The sailing club had a bar, they stay to past 9pm most evenings. Ovbs fish had to be landed from boat. Leads could not be. They all had to be reeled in from 550m.
It would take me 30 minutes to reel in each rod. I needed a break after each rod. Sometimes the lead would pick up a weedbed on it the size of a small car. It could take me virtually an hour to get one rod back in that scenario. One hour to reel a weedberg in from nearly half a mile out. I can still remember one time having to reel four rods in quickly because I had to go for a small emergency. I could barely feel my arms for two days. They still hurt the following week when I returned.
That’s just from reeling in. Reeling in itself, became an anticipated nightmare for my arms well in advance on every session. Sometimes the weedbergs were so big I had to straight rod it slowly. Like easing a snag in, but from half a mile out 😂
I had to have my front suspension replaced on my Mercedes estate fishing car. The pit destroyed the front suspension in five minutes flat. My friend wrecked his van too. There’s no wood chipped swims or manicured tracks.
So much more than I could ever describe, than in that thing written below that could only be a certain length.
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In reply to Post #1665
Thank you for donating, and for the kind words.
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What a story of graft graft and more graft , well earnt fish amid the gut wrenching feeling of losing huge fish , read it twice mate as it inspires me in in my modest attempt to catch a huge barbel from a stretch of river that has otters, weed , canoes and not knowing where the fish are at any time , loved it mate !
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In reply to Post #1664
What a fabulous read that is. Thanks for posting it mark. Inspiring.
Ive chipped in a few ££.
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In reply to Post #1662
Theale Lagoon 2021.
The story actually starts a few years previous. I had kept close tabs on the pit for many years. I knew the man that ran the syndicate from the old RMC forum, back in the early days of the internet. I first acquired a ticket for the pit in 2018. I had a few sessions, and caught the first fish of the year from the sailing club swim. Only a small common, but it was nice to catch one from such a monstrous pit on one of my first trips. Unfortunately I did not get back near the swim again all spring. Work was becoming more of a monster, and I had met a beautiful Brazilian woman in London. That led to me spending the next year or two, flying backwards and forwards to Brazil during any spare time which I had, after she had returned home. We were actually due to get married during the start of Covid, but travel restrictions and the world shut down soon put paid to that. I had already purchased a beautiful apartment in northern Brazil, inside a gated community, and fallen in love with the country. I'd never been any further than Spain before we met, not for many years either! Suddenly I was flying transatlantic far to much. 2020 was the year of Covid. We were all forced to stay at home. I knew I had a ticket for the pit again, starting at Xmas. I was praying that Covid would not ruin that! The world was in lockdown, but I was allowed to travel to Brazil in January 2021, because my missus was Brazilian. I returned late January, with every intention, of giving Theale Lagoon my full attention whenever I could around work.
Theale lagoon, is somewhere around 270 acres. It has a thirty man syndicate on it. It used to be run by both RDAA and Ameys at certain points in the past, when it was more famed for monster pike and massive match fishing weights. Those days are long gone. Previous to the M4 being built, it was actually somewhere around 400 acres in total size. The M4 cut that down to around 270 acres. When I rejoined in 2021, it held a known stock, of somewhere around thirty, to thirty five carp. The pit is situated in Theale, on the outskirts of Reading. The carp in the pit had been stacking on the weight really fast. The biggest mirror, known as 'the machine' had now gone above 55lb. There was likely another four fish at least over 50lb. Including a common that had also just been caught at 55lb. Another big fish also that had not been caught for a couple of years, which could be as big as those two, or bigger. The fish were putting on 4/5lb in between every capture now. And it would still throw up the odd unknown 40+! It was clear that the pit was changing, from somewhere where it had been previously very easy to obtain a ticket, into somewhere that very soon would have a long waiting list that absolutely 'everyone' wanted to jump on. A waiting list which would soon become closed it grew so fast. It was clear for all to see, that the pit would end up doing something really special in terms of size of carp. A small stock of carp, in an incredibly rich environment. It was always going to happen. Why more places can not grasp this and stock less carp, I personally do not understand. The numbers of fish in our syndicates, is vastly on the rise in the UK. To a point where a lot of places you see in the media, the lakes are so black with big carp, you could literally walk across the lakes on their backs. Theale lagoon is one mile long approximately. You have zero chance of even seeing a person on the far bank without binoculars. If you are at the opposite end of the pit, looking down it towards the M4, you can barely see the juggernauts hurtling along, as they are that small in the distance. Add to that, a stock of only around thirty, to thirty five carp, you can see that the place could be termed as a 'challenge'.
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In reply to Post #1661
The sheer size of the pit, and the harsh conditions which that can bring with it are quite scary sometimes. Things can change fast as well. You need to make sure everything is well pegged down when the wind blows! I started back fishing, as soon as we were allowed out. That was in March. It was absolutely bitter that year, and freezing cold. The area where I had caught the small common, was a very popular area in the spring. I decided to leave this area alone. I wanted some space, and to explore the pit a bit more. Whilst everyone wanted to fish around the known area that the fish liked to visit in the spring.... It was the perfect opportunity to investigate some other areas that I had no knowledge of. I needed to build up a picture in my head of the pit. I had acquired an old depth map (shown in attached photos) that the sailing club who share the pit had produced many years previously. Between this and google earth, it was easier to build up a picture faster, while not even on the pit but at home. I started fishing an area on the opposite side of the sailing club, in a large shallow bay. The bay itself, must have been ten acres easily. It was very shallow all over, so in my mind, any warmth in the spring sun would also warm this area quickly too, and the carp would show up. It did not work. I blanked. I never saw a carp. I did catch a couple of bream at long range though. Fishing some 250m out to the entrance to the bay, next to the Burghfield sailing club itself, where they put the boats in and out. I caught these bream on long running chods, over low lying weed. I had watched some small signs of fish early one morning at long range. These turned out to be bream, but it was nice just to get a couple of bites which made the heart race a little. I was flitting around, trying to fish as many different swims as possible. Quite a few of the members had their own swims they already favored and liked to bait. The more mobile anglers, were mainly concentrating their efforts around the islands area, which had done a number of fish over the previous few springs. This was by far the most popular area on the pit. April and then May rolled in, still nothing had been caught. We were all told the pit had not done a carp for eighteen months or so, since before Covid... Although as it turned out later, one or two had been caught apparently but kept quiet. Now May was here, the weed had really started to sprout. I'd had a couple of trips on the motorway bank, in a swim around the very middle of the motorway bank itself. I had started putting a bit of bait in here, very close in. There was a lovely deep drop off. This was by far the deepest area on the pit along this margin. Created when the M4 was built as mentioned earlier, it was a very interesting margin. Large lumps of concrete and huge boulders lined the margins, the original base they put down before the motorway was built. House bricks, all sorts along the margins. The motorway was a nightmare.
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In reply to Post #1660
Just fifty feet behind you, it would really take some getting used too. The noise was on another level. It's hard to even describe it. I ended up purchasing a very loud digital radio from Amazon, which I had running at full volume the whole time at rush hours. The swim I was in, the motorway was at it's closet point, so it seemed to get totally left alone. There was a lovely man who worked for the Angling Trust called Dean, who was fishing down in the far corner of the motorway bank. Dean was good friends with some one I knew well Adam. Anyway Dean had fished the pit for a number of years, and he was sound as a pound. An all round angler, not just carp. He'd caught some nice perch from the pit too. I'd just been catching some big barbel and pike from the Thames. We got on really well. Dean only really needed to catch the machine. He had already caught the big common named the football, due to it being as wide as it was long. He had also caught some other big fish from the pit. He was plugging away in the far corner of the motorway bank, whilst the rest of the members were up the other end around the islands as previously mentioned. I would be joining them again as well, my margin spot was producing nothing but tench. I started fishing in the large bay next to the sailing club again, a mile away at the opposite end of the pit. The weed had really sprouted now in this shallow water, and it just looked so right now. Now it was time to start applying some bait. I found a lovely small fine strip of gravel at around thirty yards. Perfect. It had fresh weed all around it, and when viewed from the boat it looked right. I started piling in the fermented garlic hemp. Two fifteen kilo buckets at a time. This was laced with a garlic oil which we make and goes into our garlic hook baits, with a good dose of salts. The reaction was immeadiate. The spot had only had five or six bait ups before the carp arrived. Smaller ones to start with. The weather was warmer, and the bay was starting to attract more attention too from other anglers. The bay is so shallow, it was so easy to spook them, I found this out almost immeadiatly. At 5am every morning, you would see paddle boarders emerge from the sailing club. This was often the kiss of death. The carp seemed to like to arrive at around the same time, but the moment the paddle boarders emerged, they would all disappear. They did not mind the boats so much, but they definitely did not like a human standing up on the skyline on a paddle board. Numerous mornings it looked like I was going to be in with a shout, and then the paddle boarders would emerge. They had every right too as well. But this just made things even harder. The carp started to smash the spot to bits, it was becoming very visible. I was working, but filling it in between weekly trips. One morning, I had the entire stock of the lake in front of me, the paddle boarders did not arrive. I was certain this was it. Over the space of the morning, the heads appearing over the spot got larger, and larger. The big fish started to bully the others off of the spot. They were claiming it as their own. Then two anglers arrived, doubled up in a swim along the bank and went out for a look in boats. Every fish in the shallow bay disappeared. I packed up and left. Cursing my luck, the pit was starting to hurt. I could see chances, but between carp anglers, and paddle boarders, it was so much hard work. I returned the following week, raring to get back in the same spot. The other anglers had clearly seen lots of fish too though, as they returned that day. Three fishing in a shallow bay, to much for me. I packed up and left again, and a decision was made that I needed to leave this area now. Despite the hard work, despite knowing that all the fish were visiting the spot, I had to walk away from it. Dean was down in the far corner that night. We spoke on the phone, I told him I was coming back down to the center swim on the motorway bank. But this time I was going long. REALLY long. I needed to get away from the carnage. The pit is a very public place, and during warm weather every swim is filled with sunbather/kids/swimmers. Between them, the paddle boarders who go round the edge, and eager carp anglers, I needed to do something different. I have used a boat my whole life, Virtually every venue I have ever fished, bar just a few, for forty years I have been able to use a boat. Even as a small kid at Johnsons. I'm good in a boat. I started looking for an area at extreme range. The center swim on the motorway bank I had previously baited in the margins, this gave access to the center of the lake, with no bouys in the way at all. There are not to many places on the pit where you can easily access extreme range because of the sailing clubs bouys. The center swim on the motorway bank was one though. And apart from me, no one had fished it that whole year. That night I found a large gravel area at approximately 500m or so in front of the center swim on google earth. I packed everything up that evening, ready to move first thing in the morning.
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At first light I was up and packing away. I moved my kit down to the center swim on the motorway bank. I knew I did not have enough braid on my original Shimano long cast big bait runners right now.... But I also knew, from many years previously at Spinnaker in Ringwood, that I could get an entire 600m spool of .33 Gardner sinking braid onto the spools. I fished at extreme range on Spinnaker, across to the sailing club on that pit. I knew my reels were capable. But most importantly, I knew that I had the skills to fish at that range, and land them from the boat, which is essential. But this trip now was just camping, chuck some rods in the edge. The goal was find a spot at extreme range, which I could bait. No one else on the pit had any chance of fishing my spot, even if they wanted too at that time. So it was perfect, it was the way forwards. As I was setting up the bivvy, under the drones of the busy M4, I had a phone call from Adam. Dean had just landed the machine down in the corner, could I pop down and take some photographs for him, but keep it quiet! Of course I bloody could! Yessssssssssss Dean!!! I sorted my camera kit out, and ran down to the corner, which was a good 500m or more away. When I got there, me and another angler helped Dean to sort the machine out. It was absolutely ginormous. A decision was made that my scales were needed too, so I ran back down to the swim, and back again. I thought I was going to die. I cannot remember the exact weight, but it was 61lb+. It was monsterous. Absolutely monstrous. Poor Dean struggled to hoist him up, his bulk was a sight to behold. It was the best moments I had on the pit, it topped my own later captures. It was a happy morning, Dean had done it. Unfortunately, as it was the first carp out in a long while, and the biggest in the lake, it brought the whole syndicate straight down to the motorway bank. Two anglers were having a disscusion about who would follow Dean, before his rods were even reeled in. I felt for him. But nothing could take away from the joy of that morning, nothing at all. It's what carp fishing is all about. A UK 60+, from an inland ocean with barely any carp in. Get up there Dean!
Boats can only ever be used when the sailing club boats are not on the water, or the sailing club are even at their headquarters. I sat that afternoon, just waiting for them to leave so I could go find my spot. I had small paddles at this point, which I much prefer for 99% of boat work. But this was different. 500+ meters on a knarly big pit. The first time I paddled out there for a look, it felt like my arms would fall off. An engine was a big neccesity for landing the carp from the boat. I would need to be out to that 500m+ in rapid time with a hooked carp on. I found my spot, and it was absolutely epic. Surrounded by heavy weed, it was just big enough to nicely fit three rods on. The spot was likely six foot deep, surrounded by depths of ten foot. The weed came up to a height of around five foot at this time. I lined myself up with four sky markers, so I could easily find the spot again next time. I put 30kg of fermented garlic hemp on the spot that first day. I returned the following week with a new snazzy boat, a great big 110ah lesuire battery, and spools filled with 600m of sinking braid on each rod. Onto the end of that, I then had 50m of 20lb green Big game mono. Everything would be landed from the boat.
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The weed was exactly the same color as the green Big Game. I needed the heavy mono, to absolutely make sure that the last 50m sunk right down into the weed. Big Game is tow rope. Theale lagoon is home to the Burghfield sailing club. Racing boats, power boats, all sorts of massive boats are always out on the water. To fish at what turned out to be nigh on 550m, I had to keep my lline right down in the water. Tips were on the bottom in the margins in five foot. Screwed down as tight as you could imagine with Solar titanium spring bow indicators. Three rods, all three with a 13mm balanced GPB1 hookbaits. These were fished over lashings and lashings of fermented garlic hemp. Up till that point, I had been using 12t rods on the pit. These were now gone. 10ft Tacklebox CFX 3.25lb rods were now the weapons of choice. Perfect for boat work being shorter. I already knew that the carp adored the fermented garlic hemp, it was just a case of now keeping this spot topped up to the maximum with it. No one had ever fished the spot before, it was mine and I knew it. A good feeling. I already knew what was coming if I'm honest, a serine calmness came over me. I blanked the next couple of trips, but with a big cheesy grin, because I knew what was coming. On my fourth trip, as I went out to place my rods, the machine swam past the boat. To see that carp in water was incredible. He was agitated too. He went and sat in the weed around four rod lengths away, but watching me the whole time. He's the king of the pond, and he was guarding 'his' spot. I knew he was dominating that spot. It had been smashed, it was now nearly half the size again. The surrounding weed was trashed, broken stems, weed all laying the wrong way. You could see big carp had been feeding hard and excited. But now there was only one, the king was guarding the spot. He certainly did not like me being there for sure, he was certainly not afraid of the boat either. All three rods were placed, all three lines fanned as they were laid. A very important part of fishing three rods, on one spot, at such extreme range. Those lines must be laid correctly on the return. I was so excited, I had to do everything right. It was all completed perfectly. On my last drop, there was now another mirror lurking too, slightly further away from the spot, but clearly there for the larder. This fish was well over 50lb, a sparsley scaled mirror, I was certain I knew which one. GAME ON. That night was the most exciting of my fishing life. I could barely sleep. At 5am I was awoken to an absolute one toner, a one toner that just kept going and going and going. As I scrambled into my waders and slipped my life jacket on whilst holding the rod in my left hand. I was straight in the boat and out to the spot in an instant on full throttle. Reeling like crazy to take up the slack, whilst keeping a bend in the rod like a lunatic. All steering of the boat is done with the rod. I was close to the island, this fish had gone on an incredible first run. I got somewhere close to above it, and immeaditly felt the grate. My mono was caught around something, but the fish just boiled up over there, and it's a monster. Panic stations. I was still in contact with the fish, but my line was caught around something. In this situation from the boat it's hard work getting the purchase you need. I felt the fish go crazy one last time and all went slack. I reeled up a snapped rig. 30lb flouro which is tow rope, had been broken like cotton. I was using short combi links, with a 30lb boom. The 30lb boom had snapped. A 60lb carp on a short line has a lot of power. Especially a big male. I went back to the bank, praying I had not just lost the machine. Hoping it was the 50+. Imagine that. Quite a crazy thought. Hoping you had just lost a mid 50, because the other one, was actually much bigger. It was catastrophic, but onwards we must go. There are fish now on it. Forget that, it's called fishing, not catching. Losing big fish is all part of the game that has to be dealt with. Especially somewhere like that. They were there though, and I needed to capitalse fully. All rods in, out comes the green 25lb Big Game mono, off come the combi rigs, on go 30lb coated braid multi rigs. Tiny little short ones with big size 4 beaked point hook. I went back out to the spot, to re drop, it was a scene of devastation, a crime scene. They had dug down into the gravel so far. They had turned the small spot, into a runway landing strip. I placed the rods, fanned the lines, and put a load more garlic hemp on the spot. Nothing happened on my last night. Losing a fish is always much worse than catching one, it always ruins the swim normally. I told no one whatsoever what had happened. No one. I put 30kg on the spot when I left, and went home gagging to get back. I knew I was about to catch. I just had to make sure nothing went wrong this time.
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Clearly work was hard that week. I got back down the lake on Sunday evening, and all three rods were put out on the spot. It was the first of July now, summer was in full flow. The motorway bank had calmed down since Deans capture of the machine, no one had fished there apart from me for a month or so. But the sunbathers and swimmers were a nightmare. Covid and lockdowns, had meant the whole world wanted to be outside, in the fresh air, and they did just that. Theale is so public, at times it can become a touch wearing. But these are the things you have to put up with for the prizes. It was clear when I placed the rods that the spot was smashed again. Large holes. I had a new toy this week, an Atropa green marker. My plan was, to place this at the back of my spot, set three foot under the surface. I wanted to leave it there. But it had to be deep enough that the propeller of a speed boat would not smash it to bits. I wrapped the tip in reflective 3m tape, so I could find the marker easily in the dark. An atropa marker swivels at the bottom and will lay over if a carp goes around it. I used half a house brick as the anchor. It took some messing around placing it in the deeper water off the back of the spot in the weed, to hide it from curious boaters in the crystal clear water. But I managed it superbly. Now when the nights started to draw in, I could find my marker in the dark. Important when I needed to wait for the sailing club to leave everyday, before placing my rods. That night I was so full of anticipation. I knew what was coming, just be ready Mark. I watched through my binoculars the following morning, and saw the lakes big common clear the water twice over my spot. It was clearly a common, so golden, but it was massive. One of my rods simply went into meltdown as I watched through the bins. Everything went as smooth as silk. Waders, life jacket, into the boat, out to the spot. As I got above the fish, it towed me around for a while, but I had this smug grin on my face hahahaha you're mine..... Then the hook pulled.
You would not wanted to have been anywhere near me, trust me. I went back into the bank, launched the rod into the bushes, and sat down and sulked. It was like the world had just ended. I might have just lost a 61lb mirror and a mid 50 common. It could not get any worse. I pulled myself back together, and had a rethink. At that range, with the weed and the nature of the pit, the micro barbed Gardner talon tip hooks I was using, the barb was to small. The older versions which I preferred to use on the river Thames, they were coming out. These have a much larger beefier barb which does hinder penetration, but using 6oz leads and spring bow indicators at extreme range, hook pentertration was the last of my worries, I just needed them not to fall out! This was extreme fishing, and it called for extreme tackle. The following morning at 5am I had another one toner. I jumped into the boat, it all went like clockwork. Out there like a shot on speed number 5, she towed me around for a while in the middle of the pond, but ultimately I landed the football common. It was clear which fish it was, it was a foot and a half across the back! Well I had not lost that the day before to the hook pull it seems. I rolled her up in the net, placed her along side the boat facing the right way, and gently made my way back to the bank. Her bulk was truly incredible on the mat. My Le Graviers unhooking mat has one foot sides on it. Laid on her side she absolutely towered above these. She was clearly spawned out, and still weighed 55lb6oz. She must have been close to, if not over 60lb before spawning. I popped her in a sack while I got myself together and it got properly light. I spoke to a couple of friends on the phone, who were all sworn to secrecy. I would not even get anyone down to do photos, she was a new personal best by one pound, but it would be self takes for you my girl. I set up a video camera to record a little film, and took what turned out to be pretty rubbish photos of her. I did not care, there was more to be caught for sure. This time when I replaced the rod, there was big storm brewing. I only had one hour of light to sort my rod after the sailing club left, but wanted it back on the spot. White capped waves were rolling in, and the sky had a look of doom. As I got about a quarter of the way out, I noticed a tiny little frog, who had clearly struggled into my boat to avoid the white capped waves and certain death. As the waves lapped over the front of my boat, getting more and more violent the further out I got, I looked down at my new friend Freddy the frog, and made a pact with him. I'll keep you safe Freddy, please, please keep me safe. I was at a point where it was "shall I go back, or kick on, come on Freddy, lets go for it".
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I bailed water out of the boat with one hand, while grasping onto the tiler with the other. Once I got out there behind the cover of a big island, I had a bit more shelter from the wind. It was still a nightmare placing the rod. I made a pact with Freddy, to never, ever be so stupid, not ever again. And also to get my self inflate lifejacket checked soon. I am good in a boat, I am a great swimmer too, but that became a touch to much for the sake of a carp. Me and Freddy made it back safe, and I made sure he was okay. He was absolutely mullered by that storm.
The following morning I was away again on the replaced rod, this was getting crazy now, four bites in a week was more than I could have ever wished for in my wildest dreams.... But it was happening, so I better wake up fast. This fish really gave me the run around, everything went smoothly, I was out there like a shot. But this carp was on steroids. It towed my boat around for ages, I thought it was never going to give up! But the bigger barbed hooks held firm, and a whole monsterous ball of weed and carp was eventually bundled into the net. Back on the bank, this fish was far better in my eyes than the common. Much smaller at 40 something, but so much more beautiful. I once again done some self takes, a little video, and slipped her back. No one at all was any the wiser.
I fished hard over the next three weeks. But all three trips were null and void. Bait was remaining on the spot too, far more worryingly. All of it. They had done the off for now. Hardly surprising, if there are thirty carp in there now, I had just hooked nearly 15% of them in the last week. That is going to have a big effect on them. It was time to let everyone else know. I was given permission to put them online. I knew what would happen slightly, and it did. 240 kilos was put into the swim next door the weekend the fish appeared online. To claim the swim as such. The weed had now grown up to a point, I was picked up a couple of times by the sailing boats on race night. It was becoming hard to keep my rods in the water. Fishing at extreme range really can take it out of you. I was waiting all day to place my rods just on dark, then often having two of them moved, by boat, or weed bergs, by 10am. Then waiting all day again to repeat the procedure. Tigers started to float in on the wind that were popping up from somewhere on the lake, rotting and stinking. I left the pit, went back to Brazil on a long holiday and had an amazing winter that year. And have never been back ever since. I no longer have a ticket for the pit. My actual fishing time there, was actually incredibly short. Spread over two separate years in 2018 and 2021. I am certain I lost the machine, that very first bite. When the king of the pond decides that the spot is his, like he had done that day. It was very likely to have been him. I never saw him out there again either. Despite many days spent all day watching through binoculars. He would not have let another carp near that spot, maybe one or two others in his little clique, but I would doubt that. I would imagine I lost him that very first bite after seeing him guard the spot. And likely lost the mid 50 I saw as well as the second bite. You can never win them all. I landed three fish from Theale lagoon in pretty quick time, I was very happy with that.
That was written in memory of Paul Forward. Paul had messaged me to say well done after those fish were made public. If you could see your way to making a small donation on the just giving link below, it would be so very much appreciated. Anything you can afford, big or small. MND is a horrible disease, the more money that can be raised, the better. Thank you.
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Thank you all, glad you enjoyed it. I have a week off this week and a little time I don’t normally get.
This weekend, there is a charity event in memory of Paul Forward. It’s raising money for motor neurone disease which Paul suffered from. I’m on holiday but would like to do something to help them raise more money. They have already raised over £17k, an incredible amount and Oz Holness should be proud.
If you enjoyed that about the Nursery, go and make a small donation please. Anything. 50p, £5, whatever you can afford.
I will write something this week if you do, about my short time fishing on Theale Lagoon. I will post it on Facebook & on here for free. Just like the Nursery post below. All you need to do is click on the link below and make a very small donation. I did not know Paul really well, but I met him many years ago when I was fishing the Ocean in Kent. He came down to see Simon Bater who was fishing the Road & Island next door. Paul was fishing for the Swirly common at the time, which I had caught previously. So we had a common interest in Milton Pan and got on well. Paul was a builder, he went fishing because he loved it, not to be famous or get get some free boilie stops. He fished a lot of the same Kent pits that I have during my lifetime, just never at the same time.
Paul messaged me to say well done when I caught the big common from Theale. It’s no publicity now, so you are not likely to hear much about it. If you all make a small donation if you are able too, I will write an in depth piece about my short time fishing on the 270+ acre pit in 2020 this week.
I can’t do links, if someone could make that a link it would be appreciated.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/mr-fs-linear-fishery-social-weekend?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer
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Read it on Faceache, great read! 👏
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Absolutely brilliant
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Thoroughly enjoyed that a great read and that fully......oh my days! thanks Mark
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I had a bit of time off, and I wrote that in two hours at 3am when I could not sleep after a long flight. It’s not been proof read, there’s likely a few mistakes. But it is free. It details some fishing, on what was, one of the best kept secret lakes in the UK.
If someone with the power could put it into a more readable format that would be amazing. It was hard work copying and pasting that into a few different posts. If I try to stack it now I’ll mess it up. I’m useless 😂
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In reply to Post #1648
A small syndicate was formed on the Nursery whilst I was away, and after catching the fully, I was not given a ticket. I was gutted. The fully was never banked again. The single scaled long Thames fish which I saw was never caught again. I hope and pray that both are still there, and the blow up doll. And all of the other very special (and ugly) carp which the lake contained in 2017. But, some very good anglers have fished the lake ever since my time on the pit, and neither the fully or the monster have been seen since. Otters moved onto the pit sometime around 2018. In all likelihood, they have taken them both, and most of the others. I barely get to fish these days, work has become an all encompassing monster. I often look back on 2017 with great joy. When I do get to very rarely go carp fishing these days, it can only be on pits similar to the Nursery. No bitching, no dramas, real fishing, for very few carp. These kind of places are the essence of carp fishing to me personally. Long may there remain just a few places in the UK, like the Nursery that I knew in 2017. 🇬🇧
Blow up doll
The Nursery swim
Evening bait up
11lb6oz male tinca
The Nursery is light blue pit marked with black x
Burghfield 42lb+
Burghfield 42lb+
Burghfield 40lb+
Sam 32lb8oz
26lb+
18lb+
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Over the next week the pits bream moved onto my area. They stripped quite a bit of weed for me, but ultimately they became a real pain in the backside. I was doing over night trips after work, and being kept up all night by monstrous slabs. I would not be at all surprised if the Nursery also contained a British record bream. I stopped fishing, but carried on baiting. I knew that I would be able to visibly see when the carp eventually got onto the spot. And they very soon did. I arrived one evening for a bait up, the moment I got above the bar I could see everything was different! It had been absolutely smashed to bits. Every strip of weed was now gone. Large glowing areas clearly dug right out by carp. As I scanned the bar gleefully knowing my work was about to pay off, a 40lb+ mirror glided under the boat. This fish was probably the most ugly carp I had ever seen in my life. Although the pit contained some very beautiful Thames carp, it also, like the river itself these days contained some absolute munters. Fish that had been washed into the river from Oxfordshire day tickets, which had survived in the river and ultimately found their way into the Nursery via Sonning. Simmos, but horrible simmos in the main. The one which drifted under my boat that day had been christened 'the blow up doll' due to having and very strangely permenant open disfigured and deformed mouth. Clearly a birth defect, or being caught far to many times as a small carp. Whatever the cause, boy she was ugly. But the carp were there, and now it was time to capitalise. Stiff hinge rigs, with pink S2 crushed cork pop ups, with either a fermented tiger, or fermented peanut on top would be the weapons of choice. These would always be fished spread along the bar as single hook baits.
My first night after the carp arrived, I landed a 21lb common. This first fish was added to the following night by the blow up doll at 42lb+. They were clearly now 'on it'. Every time I went out in the boat to place rigs or bait up I could see the bar was being dug right out. They were digging right down into the gravel in various areas. I would very regularly see the blow up doll, she was so greedy she was always on the spot. One day she had another carp with her. I have been lucky enough to catch and also see some very large UK carp in my time. The carp I watched from the boat that day, was far larger than any carp I had ever seen before or since. It had to be in excess of 70lb. It absolutely dwarfed the blow up doll. Easily by 30lb or more. I nearly fell out of the boat. It was the most impressive sight which I had ever seen whilst angling. A carp that would have shook carp fishing to the very core if it was ever banked. I could not stop thinking about what I had seen all week at work. It really blew me away. I mentioned it to my friend Alan who ran Long lake and had fished the Nursery before me. I described the fish to him as having one large scale on its side. Alan showed my a photo of a carp which he had caught from the pit some years previously. It had long been feared dead, or flooded out, because it had only ever been banked from the Nursery just the once at just over 30lb. Well I had just seen it without any doubts, and it was a British record in waiting. Without question the largest carp swimming in the UK, and completely 'unknown'. Things had just become so much more exciting. On a whole another level of exciting! My following trip saw me bank the fish of my dreams. I have caught so many much larger UK carp. But being a lifelong Thames angler, she simply meant everything to me personally. She was literally carved from oak, and she had no silly name. She was completely unknown to the masses. She had been caught some twenty five years previously from the lock-cut on the Thames at Sonning at 18lb. She weighed 40lb8oz when I was lucky enough to catch her. My friend Ben came to help me do some photographs and a little video. As we slipped her back, I never dreamed she would be the last carp that I would ever catch from the pit. It was June 5th, just eleven days later the river Thames would open and I would be chasing my nemesis again. I caught some absolutely breathtaking carp from the river in 2017, stacks of them, but I never caught my nemesis, who would be dead within six months.
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My first walk around the pit, revealed very clearly that the much older more shallower area closest to Sonning, was the area anyone fishing the lake previously had mainly concentrated their efforts. Once you got behind the maze of impenetrable gorse bushes, a hidden world was revealed. A hidden world of truly lovely swims completely cut off from the outside worlds knowledge. Clearly lovingly prepared by anglers who had poached the lake previously. The last thing I wanted to do was tread on anyone else's toes. So this area was imeadiatly written off. Little did I know, that I would have the pit to myself pretty much for the next six weeks. I could have fished where I wanted, but I did not want to fish near anyone else, so I went to the opposite side of the lake to where it was obvious anyone fishing was going. At the end of the main path on the opposite side, there was a fence, with access to the back of the Nursery center. It was here that I chose to start fishing up next to this fence. It had a large plateau to my right, with bars running from the more newly dug half of the pit like roadways. The swim that I chose, was right on the meeting point of old and new Nursery. Basically on the outside corner of the L shape. To my right, was the much deeper, heavily weeded newer part of the lake. The weed was the thickest most horrible you could imagine. Full up with zebra mussel at all depths. Directly opposite me at extreme range, was the shallower, much older part of the pit. I would later find out that the pits very small stock of carp, would spend the vast majority of their day times in this shallower area. All of them. They very rarely visited the deeper, more heavily weeded part of the lake. But when they did at night during darkness, they just had to use the road ways right out in front of me in my mind. I knew the first time I went out in the boat and looked, that this would be the area for me to target. The two bars that came off the side of the plateau to my right, both ran for around ten to fifteen yards and broke up directly in front of me. Both bars were completely covered in thick Canadian pond weed. My first task was to clear this weed. An eight foot bamboo cane was placed at the start of the furthest bar, which also ran slightly longer than the closer bar. The cane was placed, so as I could see it from the bank. The photo with the rod leaning on bivvy was just after a carp. If you zoom in you can see my cane. At the time I was living very close to the Nursery, having moved to Sonning for a year. I was working every single day, but I could visit the lake just before dusk and bait it. And that is what I did. My fishing time was kept to the bare minimum really. But I maximized my preparation time. 30kg of particles at a time. Mainly fermented garlic hemp, but also masses and masses of tiger slime and some of Geoff Bowers nut mix, also soaked in tiger slime. During these initial bait ups, I bumped into a tench angler. He had been poaching the pit for a number of years. We quickly struck up a mutual respect. He left me alone, and I left him alone. During our early conversations, I had asked him if he had caught any decent tincas from the pit. He flat out told me there was no big tench in there, that he had never even caught a double. I started to notice bait being eaten, at first not to much, but it was a start. My first night fishing the spot, I banked an 11lb6oz male tench. This is an absolutely montros male tinca. Just ounces off of the largest male tench ever banked in the UK. I chuckled to myself about tincaman, Fair play to him too, I'd do the exact same. If the pit contained male tench of this size, it likely held a British record female. It was my first glimpse of the potential of the pit. The new ground Lafarge had dug, had created an environment where all the fish in the pit could REALLY flourish on that fresh ground and neglect. Any lake is very rich during the first ten years after it is dug. The Nursery fish had come from the Thames via Sonning, into a rich environment, made substantially richer by Lafarges work to extend the pit previously. It was all like the 'perfect storm'. An environment where fish could really flourish on neglect.
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In reply to Post #1645
2017 was a great year for me fishing wise, I had moved out of London, and was going to take full advantage living close to the river. I had already been chasing the former, and now dead river Thames record over two stretches for a good number of years. Me and my friend Sam had enjoyed some incredible pike fishing on the Thames that winter in 2017, culminating in Sam catching the third largest pike ever banked from the Thames at 32lb8oz. With me also banking numerous large 20's. On the last day of the river season I had got it into my head that I needed to christen some new DV 1.25lb Avon rods my friend Gary Peet had given me from the Tackle Box. So I baited a swim on the river for barbel with spiced meat and garlic hemp. That evening on a very flooded and powerful river, after a stupidly long battle where I was completely under gunned with light 1.25lb Avon rods... I landed what I was told at the time was the third largest barbel ever caught from the river Thames, on my first ever Thames trip specifically targeting them. During the start of the closed season of 2017, I had my one and only session on Burghfield, which resulted in three 40+ and two 30+ mirrors in five nights. I had located the carp long before my ticket had started on April 1st at long range, and had put something rather special 'out there' to keep them in the area. It really worked too. I caught a big carp everyday. Not bad for my first and only ever trip. I watched the BBC clear the water three times at long range on my last morning, which will remain with me forever. An incredible sight. I had that first and only wonderful session, slightly ruined by a few members, who clearly did not like what was happening. That's carp fishing.... But little did I know, that this was to lead to me catching the fish of my dreams in the very near future. It was also the very first year of a new five day rule on Burghfield, so I had to leave. The BBC was caught from 'out there' three days later by Scott Lloyd, a great capture at over 60lb. Clearly, that was the end of that though for me. The Nursery was calling. I had previously seen photographs of two, very special ex Thames fully scaled. Both of which had previously been caught by friends from the Nursery pit. These fish interested me massively. Unfortunately, one of them had since blown up spawnbound and died. But I knew that there was another, also that she was one of the most beautiful carp that I had ever laid eyes on. Being a lifelong Thames angler, she was the ultimate prize for me. But I knew of some other very special ex Thames carp in there as well, and I simply could not wait to fish the pit. I knew I could have access for parking, I knew the pit would fit in well with me needing to work constantly. I would just need to keep myself well hidden away from any birdwatchers that would regularly walk the lake, and the out of bounds on the back of RDAA Sonning. I would also need to make my hard earned time fishing really count. I would always wear 'normal' non fishing clothes, and anyone who approached my swim would be cut off long before they got close to seeing any fishing kit. I blagged two bird watchers, and a Lafarge employee during my short time on the pit, none of whom ever saw my rods or my kit. "He who dares Rodney", "he who dares".
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The Nursery pit, Sonning Eye, 2017
The Nursery, is a SSSI, former no fishing venue owned by Lafarge. It lies directly next to Sonning Eye, very close to the river Thames. At one time, half of the Nursery, was actually a part of the montros Sonning Eye gravel pit. The lake itself is an L shape, one original half of the lake being much shallower, than the other much newer and more deeply dug half. The shallower part of the lake, was the bit that was once a part of Sonning itself. A causeway was built across the entrance to a large bay, which formed the original part of the Nursery. For many years, every year during flooding, this causeway would be under water and fish would enter and exit the Nursery at times of flood. In exactly the same way they always have from Sonning itself, which very regularly floods into the river Thames. At a much later date, Lafarge dug out the newer much deeper half of the Nursery. It would be this 'new ground', which would lead some of the fish in the pit to grow to truly incredible sizes. The pit was approximately fifteen acres or so at an uneducated guess. The Nursery gets its name, from the Nursery center which backs onto the lake on the Henley road. At some point, the barren causeway separating the Nursery and Sonning Eye sprouted gorse bushes. As the gorse bushes grew denser, they formed a natural impenetrable barrier, which would eventually stop the fish being able to enter or leave the pit during times of flood. At this point, the pits stock became more permenant. The entire stock of the pit, was made up of former Sonning Eye & river Thames carp. I have never mentioned the name of the pit before, out of respect for the other anglers who fished it. When I fished there in 2017, I, and anyone who fished there before me had to hide in the bushes. It was a strictly no fishing venue which very few knew about in reality. The Nursery pit lies in between Sonning Eye, and CWA Long lake. In 2018, CWA fisheries got the fishing rights for the Nursery pit from Lafarge, and a small five man syndicate was formed on the pit. It's not a secret anymore, so there is no problem naming it now. My fishing on the pit in 2017 was very brief, but ultimately very successful. The very momentous to me personally fully scaled which I went on to catch, has not been banked again ever since unfortunately. Since my time on the pit, otters have had their say. Although no bodies of the specific fish I am about to speak about have ever been found. So never actually confirming 100% that she and the others are gone. It’s looking more and more likely every year that goes past that this is indeed the case and otters had them. The pit contained some absolutely incredible carp, the like of which I have never seen before or since. Monsters, left alone to grow to incredible sizes in a totally unmolested environment. The account below, details my fishing on the pit from Late April 2017, until June 2017 when the river Thames reopened.
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In reply to Post #1643
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In reply to Post #1639
Sam, numerous 2023 40+ from The Car Park & Hollybush. All GPB1 cc.
Richie, all white S2 balanced.
Clint S2 cc
Gary GPB2 balanced
Wade S2 cc
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In reply to Post #1639
Works fine for me
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FishOn Ricci, another beautiful Masons 40+. GPB2/S2
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In reply to Post #1639
Sam, Yateley Car Park, 52lb4oz. Part of a brace. One of 4 this week. GPB1.
Well done Sam.
FishOn Ricci, 42lb6oz, Masons, GPB2/S2
FishOn Charlie S2
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In reply to Post #1638
Are there any mods available please
I don’t know if anyone else suffers from this —
Would there be any chance of starting a new thread for this topic please
I use an I pad for reading through all of the forum pages - whole site option
Every time it’s gets to this thread it takes an age to load and move onto the next thread
I know there was a topic a couple of years ago where you started a new thread because of this
Many thanks
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CF Mod Cam, new PB comm & first 30+ comm. First fish from a new lake. Happy days Cam.
GPB2 barrel trimmed, in PVA bag full of DNA bits & pieces.
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In reply to Post #1635
Quote.... Some cracking fish them.
Looks like Aaron has turned into a one man carp catching machine this spring. There is a lot of big UK carp there. Papercourt is certainly no walk in the park as far as I know. I'd imagine that there will be plenty of anglers on that lake, who think he can literally walk on water right now. I am grateful to him that he has shown his new edge.
I love the smiles. When you work five days a week.... It's all about those smiles.
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Two more Papercourt 40+, two more cheesy grins for Aaron from this week's session.
S2 fished over Wraysbury Baits MC Nut.
Not sure of this man's name. Quite certain he is a forum member by what is written though. Well done mate, you will always remember that day 💪🏻. GPB2.
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In reply to Post #1634
Some cracking fish them
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Ricci again. Beautiful common. GPB2 over Sticky Krill
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Aaron done 'rather' well at Papercourt this spring. S2 fished over Wraysbury Baits MC Nut.
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Lee, GPB1 fished over Nutrabaits Trigga.
Andy and friends went on a social lake exclusive to that place in Hampshire with the 60+ fully in. Andy had 10 on S2 & GPB1 fished over Baitworks Creamino. Andy gave his mate who was blanking a couple of Garlic hook baits for the last night and moved him closer. His mate caught nice fish on both of them.
Ricci, Masons, S2/GPB2
Russ, new water, same result. GPB2.
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That's my last post for a good while anywhere online. I have so much to sort out in the near future, and we are so stupidly busy on top of all that. I will still pop in every now and then and blast a few photos up, & I will be back. Just not right now. We have a two week waiting time. Contact regarding any outstanding order is always via text or WhatsApp message only. We simply never see anything else. We will see your message rapidly. The work phone is on silent, and is never answered for calls. If we did, we would never get anything done whatsoever.
Be very lucky all of you.
Alan, Woolpack S2. That top fish is just beautiful.
Ricci, Masons, GPB2/S2
Forum member Tony, Wraysbury North GPB2
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Something that had gone on other social media but I had forgot to post on here. It's only a copy and paste. But it's very relevant info regarding our hook baits.
It's now that time of year, when everything naturals wise in the water has sprung into life, and not just the carp/fish. Our hook baits are all very soluble, and made of 100% premium food and natural cork. Crayfish, mitten crabs... Even just a shoal of roach or naturals sent into an absolute feeding frenzy by the food signals being pumped out by the hook baits, will all have their say on a bad day. Our GPB2 in particular, will send all of these creatures just as wild as they will send the carp. 99.9% of angers will resort to plastic, or even wooden balls in this situation. Here is the big problem with that though. Those crayfish and mitten crabs, their babies will be the main food source for those fish. A heavy fishmeal based feed bait and hook bait is by far your best bet in any such water. By a long, long way too. You just need to know how to keep your hook baits in the water.
Wrap your normal hook baits in shrink wrap. We would highly recommend Korda super wrap for our hook baits. This stuff is amazing, it's one product, that will catch you a lot more carp when facing the situations above. The two fish in the photos, are both Thames carp. The photo of the black common, is a scan of a print. It's from 1997. The area of the Thames where that fish was caught, has always been infested with Chinese mitten crabs since the 80's. The photo of the linear is from 2017, the general area of the Thames where she was caught, is infested with crayfish.
The other two photographs were taken in Brazil. Me and my missus often spend the evening on the pier fishing, watching dolphins and the like while watching the sun go down. The going bait is shrimp. I very quickly worked out, that by keeping the shrimp on the hook for more than two seconds, this was the key to hauling big fish, after big fish. This was not lost on the local fishermen, who were soon all over the 'gringo' like a rash to see why he was outishing them all 10-1... Whilst catching monsters. They found out that 24mm chunks of jumbo shrimp, shrink wrapped in Korda super wrap, then hair rigged was what the gringo was up too. One of the local fisherman Mateus, he fishes to feed his family (often struggling)... I gave him all of my fish, and the two packets of the super wrap which I had left. Showed him how to do it. The next time I was in Brazil, we went fishing as usual... As we walked along the pier, we could see Mateus. He had a bag of big fish next to him, a small crowd, and brand new Nike trainers on. He also had great stories of Amazon deliveries of Korda super wrap to Brazil, and more fish than he could ever feed his family with. Now he sells the surplus.
If we used a wooden ball soaked in shrimp juice... Yes we would beat the small Piranha type fish and catfish, and undoubtedly would have caught a few... But we would have caught a tiny, tiny fraction of what we were hauling utilising the Korda super wrap around a proper bait. If things are really bad, double wrap your hook baits 'both ways', to completely encapsulate the hook bait in shrink wrap. The holes allow the bait to still pump out all of the goodness/signals. Fish these on a simple resetting rig, that cannot be tangled.
Fishing, is fishing, and 'edges', are edges, all over the world.
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In reply to Post #1627
Mega fish that 🔥
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So many big fish were being being caught before the lakes all shut. Again I am really not supposed to be doing this at all. But that one, is a rather special old carp.
Chris, a fish called the Strawberry from the Woolpack. White S2 balanced.
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Thanks Mark. Had a 16lb common that trip also so was very happy when I came home 😃
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Big fish coming out left right and centre, loads of proper ones. Not meant to be posting anything at all. But that’s forum member Boo and self explanatory. Well done mate.
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In reply to Post #1622
Cool, thanks
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In reply to Post #1621
thanks, just what I wanted..... I will place an order
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In reply to Post #1620
I'm sure Mark will give a definite answer,but just incase he's away from the computer for a while the ones I have received have been more pastle pink,definitely not flouro that's for sure.
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How pink are the pink S2's - bright pink, pastel pink? None of the pictures on the website appear to be of pink baits...
thanks
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Thanks Greg.
We have a two week waiting time currently on our website, that slipped to three weeks last week. We cleared everything up until the 15th of May yesterday, barring just a few orders. I know lots of our customers are now reading this, who are not members of this forum. We are getting inundated with texts. You should all be expecting deliveries today, or tomorrow latest. By the end of next week, we should have totally cleared our backlogs. Just one more time. Do not PM me on here. I currently have 131 unread messages. Do not email us. We have 16,638 unread emails currently. Do not phone us, our phone is on silent. It does not get answered. Please ALWAYS text or WhatsApp message our work mobile regarding an outstanding order. We always need the full name on the order.
Ricci being Ricci. RG Lillies lake in Kent. Place has come on leaps and bounds over the last decade. Lots of lovely carp now.
GPB2 fished as single, cast at a showing fish.
After getting a Frimley red card for catching them all. First night success on a very tough new lake for Mark. Nothing spectacular. But bagging one first night from a difficult new venue means only one thing for the near future. Marks going to catch them. He already knows that.
S2 fished over Wraysbury Baits boilies.
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In reply to Post #1617
Good luck on the new venture mate
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As previously mentioned. I will not be about at all online for quite a while now. I spoke a little bit a while ago... About us maybe making cured hookbaits, in our formats, in some of the biggest named boilies on the market in the future. These would also get sold through the best fishing tackle shops in the UK & Europe. The first and only person I have spoken to personally about this so far, is the owner of DNA Baits. We will still be making all of our current hook baits, we will actually be adding lots more to our own range too. But we will also be adding a select few of the current best selling boilies on the market to that range as well ultimately.
One of those hook baits, is going to be the Bug.
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Ricci, S2/GPB2 combined, fished over Krill.
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In reply to Post #1612
One other thing I did forget yesterday.
We have always used the same eggs, from the same source. These are big eggs specifically chosen, because they have a very pale yellow, and tiny yolk. Loads more fresh egg white, per egg. The pale yolk, does not affect the colors of the crushed cork hook baits. Because of the recent egg crisis. We have had to take whatever fresh eggs we can often get. Some of these, have had a very dark yellow yolk. This had a very slight effect on our pink and white S2. If you have noticed very recently a tiny color change darker, that's why. The egg crisis is pretty much over now, and we have loads of the same eggs that we have used for a decade again. There is zero difference though, just aesthetic. But if it's not mentioned, people might think something has changed. It was only that.
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In reply to Post #1613
Richie definitely has a very good camera. And catches some amazing looking carp. He fished this lake to catch this linear. He caught it three times on an S2. Just lovely stuff. That’s a beautiful carp.
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In reply to Post #1611
Two lovely photos again, crystal clear. I need to get myself a new camera
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In reply to Post #1611
I have a feeling I will have to disappear from online for a while again very soon indeed. It maybe for quite a while too in reality this time. If anybody needs to contact us regarding an outstanding order, always mobile number on website. WhatsApp or text message only, it's on silent and never gets answered for calls. We have a two week waiting time on all orders.
A couple of 'things' that you should probably know.
Our GPB2 cc pop ups, are far more buoyant than any other hook bait which we make. They have so much pre digested fishmeal in them, which is incredibly light when dried. Consequently they weigh far less than anything else which we make, but contain the same amount of cork. Followed by the GPB1. The S2/S3 are the heaviest basemix by far. A 13mm GPB2 cc, will hold up a bigger hook, than a 13mm S2 cc will because of this.
The S3 we sell, were a very well guarded secret for many years before our GPB1 went on sale. I always noticed quite a few anglers, who only purchased S3's, but would report fish as being caught on an S2... Because everyone uses S2's.... They may look, and smell incredibly different.... But in essence, it's exactly the same natural sugars created by our curing process that actually make them both work. The S3 gets no publicity. Some clearly prefer it that way.
I am constantly being asked daily, by some of our most long standing and loyal customers, for the new products that they know are clearly now coming in the future. I cannot. No one at all has them. No one. No one has even seen them. I am not stupid. No one whatsoever can see anything, until it actually hits the market. I have only mentioned things that are already out there so to speak. Please do not take offense at any of that.
It's all going to come.
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Wade, pearly scale from the Riverton syndicate. Well done Wade that’s a lovely one.
38lb GPB1
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Phil caught this one from Junction12 the same morning as Josh below. They are great mates. It weighed 43lb8oz. They caught the two best fish in the lake the same morning. I doubt they will ever forget that morning.
I’ve seen loads on this forum members asking for lake exclusives etc for socials. Look at those two fish. The lakes got beautiful carp in. It’s run by Reading & District Angling Association (RDAA).
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Josh, 12hr session on a social at Junction12 in Reading. New born baby two months ago. No time. What a lovely carp. Well done Josh.
White S2 over honey water pre soaked Manila boilies.
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I’m pretty certain Paul is a forum member too. 55lb8oz pb from chateau moulin in France. Taken him 13 years to beat his French PB. Well done Paul.
22mm bottom bait with a 16mm GPB2 snowman.
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Steve, with a fish called 'the forgotten mirror', from Long Lake in Reading. 45lb12oz, new personal best. Fish hardly gets caught, not been out for two years.
White S2
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In reply to Post #1602
magic beans.
Mark, your post below is so, so spot on though isn't it - a 'right' reality check in the real world,
You must see and hear it every day.
Great to see the Real good anglers, working full time, with families having mega results.
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One thing I see a lot is novice anglers thinking that they are buying magic beans from us. Magic beans that are going to do certain incredible things, the first and then every single time they go fishing. They are buying magic beans from us. But they are not going to go and smash fish every single time with them. Fishing does not work like that. It would be really boring if it did.
A big difference between a really good angler, and a really average angler, is often essentially this below. The really good angler understands that everytime he goes fishing, everything is not going to be at the optimum. The moon, the conditions, the pressure, the fact someone clumped half the lake over the last three days and they are all sitting in the snags. These and a whole lot more reasons all contribute to this. A really good angler changes nothing essential. Nothing tool wise. Only watercraft changes. They are consistent with the essentials. They will not change their hook pattern, they will not change their mainline, it's not their baits fault, or the new rods. It's 'fishing'.
An average angler can't get their heads around this. They have purchased some magic beans, and them magic beans better work right now. Change the magic beans. Change the hooks, change the entire rig, change the mainline, change the rods..... Change it all.
When everything is 'right' for them and the stars align, which they always do.... The really good angler is using things, that he knows are going to cause utter devastation for him. His rigs, his magic beans, the whole lot. He will haul.
The average angler has no confidence, he has changed everything three times over, pickled his own brain on the internet 27 times over watching YouTube. The stars align and he is now using absolute crap. He is then blanking, or maybe catching one.... When he should be hauling, if he had just a little patience. Someone else fishing in the swim next door is not being average, he understands the above. He's getting his camera gear ready again.
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Ricci, one of the ones he caught along with the biggest mirror in lake.
GPB2/pink S2 combined.
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In reply to Post #1597
Interesting Q&A, Mark… that was the latest Dec22 edition, the small format mag.
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In reply to Post #1589
Nice
Only as good as the bait that you are sat behind at the end of the day. One thing I love about yours, they certainly work, evidence is EVERYTHING, fish after fish after fish
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In reply to Post #1595
I honestly did not even know he was in SSV2. I've never seen it. Was his article good Tim?
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In reply to Post #1593
Mega result. Just shows what can be done.
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In reply to Post #1589
Just read his bit in Sub2, he deserves everything he catches ..IMHO.
Work, home, fishing balance extraordinaire, amazing stuff.
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His mrs deserves a medal, time on the bank with a family like he has is only made possible by an very very understanding wife.
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In reply to Post #1592
Me too don't worry about that. Worse than dickhead too
So you understand better than anyone mate. Imagine 4 of them under the age of 9/10 at a guess. A thriving business, a very young family. That's hard work just to go carp fishing, especially where you are up against very good anglers, who can fish full time too.
Then he goes and does things like that. Maximum respect from me.
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In reply to Post #1591
Would make a change Mark, most call me dickhead and would like to hold me under the water.
I've got an ageing misses two grown up kids and like to get out fishing at the weekends so she's not nagging me to do jobs at home
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In reply to Post #1590
I'm more impressed that he has 4 kids, a beautiful missus, and goes carp fishing at all. Let alone them numbers
If you done what you are speaking of in 60 nights, they would all be calling you 'Terry' and thinking you could walk on water, trust me.
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In reply to Post #1589
I'd hate to be an "EXCEPTIONAL" angler and complete Dinton WS in thirty nights, I'd like to think i'd get at least sixty nights for my money.
Exceptional angling and exceptional Fish
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In reply to Post #1588
This is the sort of stuff, that when it was actually happening, I could never even mention online. It would simply take us to places we could not be taken at the time in terms of orders. Imagine that. You can't even ever talk about things like this. This is the very first time I've have ever mentioned these numbers online. I still cannot mention them on the bigger social media platforms. Our website might literally blow up.
John Cash had 37 bites, landed 30 carp, in his first, and only 30 nights on Dinton White Swan. That is truly incredible on that lake. He works full time (has his own floor laying business) and has four beautiful young kids. He is a good angler. Give a good angler our S2, and they will do stupid things with them. Really stupid things.
He was done and pretty much dusted in those 30 nights. Works full time, fishing against packs of the best hungry young anglers around, all with far more time than he could ever wish for.
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John, Dinton Black Swan.
GPB2/pink S2 combined.
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Ricci, biggest in the lake, one of 7 caught in 24hrs. Ricci owns FishOn Tackle and works long hours 6 days a week. By the amount he catches, you might think he’s doing far more time on the bank than he actually is. Well done mate.
GPB2/S2 combined
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Lee is a pretty secretive angler, who has caught some incredibly special carp on our hook baits. Can't show you the vast majority of them, as they are all on the 'don't talk about them ones' list. He's a VERY good angler indeed. He was fishing the Railway & Larky with his dad as a very young boy and catching em, donkeys years ago.
GPB1
GPB1
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In reply to Post #1584
Next time you see that Parky, you tell him that he did not do a very good job. Not with the amount we sell in the SW.
But as funny as that is, there in has been our big problem (Not with Andy or Tony). Every slippery git using them, but does not really want, or sometimes even are not allowed to tell anyone else about their edge.
We have never paid anyone to tell people that our hook baits are mustard. It might have taken longer to get there because of it, but it is real. Carp anglers are not stupid.
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In reply to Post #1582
A couple of years ago Andy told me off for saying I’d had fish on the S2’s from his lake as he didnt want everyone else on them
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In reply to Post #1582
Beautiful photograph that, crystal clear
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In reply to Post #1581
Can't change yesterday, can only change tomorrow. It's all gone and already forgotten.
Yes Tony has used them from the start. He caught the big common out of Kingsmead Islands on an S2 a decade ago. He has since become sponsored by Dynamite & Carp Spirit, but still uses the hook baits. He is not stupid.
So has his best mate Andrew used them from the start. He was on Roach Pit in 2013 with me, where he caught the Yellow among others on an S2. I'd imagine it was him who showed Tony. He, like his mate has his own fishery now too, where he caught this one yesterday. Some nice fish down that way now.
Andrew S2
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In reply to Post #1579
And a “sponsored” angler that’s always said “alternative hookbait” when he catches them 👌
Not a bad pond in his back garden either……
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In reply to Post #1579
Stunning
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In reply to Post #1578
Lovely isn't it.
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All crackers but the Dinton fish is something else 
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Forum member Andy 44lb2oz S2
Tony, Dinton Black Swan S2
Andy, 64lb14oz Parco, last out draw, PB common. GPB2 fished over ABS Hydra K
Ricci GPB2 over Sticky Krill/particle
Wade S2
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In reply to Post #1575
yeah mate hes a top (in more ways than one ) bloke, gentle giant
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In reply to Post #1574
Love Lee Joss, he is the nicest person you could ever meet you know that. We used to call him far worse than tall, especially Gal (banter). He is like the Eiffel tower. When we were young and innocent he was 8ft10" but weighed six stone wet through.
Now look at him. That carp is 167lb really, it just looks like a double, cos Lee is so massive.
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In reply to Post #1573
Good Ole Tall Lee...proper nice chap, and a cracking carp
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In reply to Post #1572
Lee, he's the fisheries manager of DDAP's. We used to fish Brooklands together as kids 35 years ago. This is from a Kent syndicate that can't be named (not DDAP's). He caught it on one of our GPB1 pop ups, fished over Nutrabaits Trigga boilies. That's the first fish he has caught on one of our hook baits. Stating the obvious, it's a lump.
Well done Lee.
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In reply to Post #1558
Thank you Lee. 😊
Ricci GPB2/S2
Will, pink S2 over pre soaked Herb boilies
Chris ‘single scale’ 37+ Hollybush GPB2
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Best of luck with the new venture Mark
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In reply to Post #1554
That fish
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Trawler man Mark again. 35+ braced with the big fully. S2
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Forum member Sam again GPB2
Wade S2, beautiful carp
Joe Dutch canal GPB2
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Mark Harris has been red carded from Frimley pit 3, and rightly so. He’s caught Charlie’s Mate the 50+ common two or three times, I forget, def twice in middle of January on an S2 at least.
There was only one carp left that he was so desperate to catch. The big fully. He only had two weeks left on his ticket and time was running out. Today he caught it.
43lb6oz, S2. Bloody well done mate, I am so chuffed for you Mark.
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In reply to Post #1550
Thank you Andrew. It should mean I get a bit of time for myself eventually.
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In reply to Post #1549
Thank you Shane
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In reply to Post #1548
Thank you Andy
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Best of luck in the new venture! Hope it goes well and you get some time for yourself!
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In reply to Post #1546
The best of luck to you in your new venture Mark, if its anything like the quality of your hook baits you will laughing.
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i wish you all the best in the new venture,all sounds very interesting.
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In reply to Post #1545
Thank you, me too.
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We have always had the capacity to create very special boilies, but never the time or space. We will have that space now, but we will not be doing that. If we did, it would hurt many businesses where we already sell hook baits to their customers. We do not need to do that, we will not be selling boilies. We specialise in hook baits. That will continue. But we will be selling more things other than just hook baits in the future. So many anglers (Including famous ones) want hook baits that look and smell like their favourite boilies, but that come with our results. We will be producing hook baits in variations of some of the best selling boilies on the market. We can make them look and smell identical, but turn them into carp drugs. We will be producing fermented particles. Fermented garlic hemp, fermented maize, and turbo charged peanuts. Things like this should be on sale in UK tackle shops in the near future.
These are things that are already 'out there' from previously, which I can speak about now. There are many other things coming, that are not 'out there' yet. I cannot talk about those yet for obvious reasons.
I am likely to disappear from online again at any point soon, for pretty obvious reasons. I will be back eventually. But there much to sort out over the coming weeks and months. I will not be about much online.
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Good luck with it all Mark, I hope that means you’ll get 5 mins to yourself soon!
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I got shown photos yesterday that made me incredibly proud. One set of photos, was from a member of this forum. I cannot show them to you, because carp fishing does not even know that these fish exist. I wish I could show you them right now, one day I will be able too. A 40+ Donald Leney special mirror caught yesterday morning. Also a 50+ common among them, that now ranks as the best looking common I have ever seen, bar none. He knows who he is, well done mate. I do not to get to fish much anymore, I live my fishing dreams through you lot instead now. I have no time because of work. Things like that bring a massive smile to my face.
I got shown another photo from the Instagram stories of a big tackle company. From a heavily sponsored angler I really respect, he's done some truly incredible things over the last few years.... Truly incredible. He had one of our hook baits screwed on his rig in this photo I was shown. That sort of stuff used to upset me, it does not anymore. We are past that now. I told the people who showed me the photo, it was no surprise to me, not like it was to them. It makes me proud now. Plus I already knew anyway, people talk. He ain't alone.
I mentioned recently I had been asked to put together a business plan. It looks like it's going to happen for sure now. Cards on the table time. You lot are getting an early heads up, long before everyone else will. I am sure some of you who are a bit smarter realise I could of sold SHB already, very easily. Showed someone how to do it all, and walked away. Lots of folks want a business in carp fishing. But that would be selling all the potential in the world to someone else. I have always known I have something very special indeed, created by a process and by the liquids and other things that I myself make. I have to keep our circle incredibly small and trustworthy, or we would just get pillaged. The trouble is, the hook baits we make, only bring such high quality results, because of that process that they go through. That process takes a lot of time, and effort. As we have grown, the quality has never dropped, nothing changes as we control everything. That has now led to a situation where we are maxed out, selling in reality just a few products. I have to work all the hours that there are, just to keep up. We can't release any new products, we have so many that would blow everyone away. For many years, we pretty much only supplied anglers fishing a lot of the biggest syndicates in the south. Most of them, never wanted to tell you what they were smashing up lakes with. No one wants to give up a proper edge. Over the last few years though, many anglers who go to France, or fish day ticket and club lakes, all over the country are now using our hook baits. This is causing an explosion. We are now running at 70% new customers a month, every month. We are a cottage industry type business, think of it like the little farm shop that sells 10 x better quality produce than the high street supermarkets. We are not importing goods from China and reselling them. We are not buying anything in from anyone else and rebagging or rebottling it. Everything we produce, is made from scratch, by us. That is all about to get a massive upscale. To deal with that upscale, I could only do that with people I trust. That is going to be facilitated now. It will free me up to do so much more. Don't panic, everything will be seamless. The quality will remain exactly the same. Our range will stay the same, it will actually increase massively. Nothing will change, apart from you would not be buying the stuff from our website anymore at some time in the near future. You would also be able to buy it in a lot more shops too. Recently we stocked just two of the biggest tackle shops in Kent, they cannot keep the stuff on the shelves. Both are currently out of stock, and we cannot supply. Anglers crying for the stuff. That's stupid. That's all going to change. Waiting times will also be a thing of the past. We are going to put our quality, into independent tackle shops. People such as the Tackle Box, Johnson Ross, Yateley Angling, Fish On etc have always been desperate for our hook baits from the very start. Clearly other people coming in and this upscale, will change the economics massively. There will be a small price rise. But this really has to happen now. To many people, are catching to many fish. I literally can't keep up anymore. We have people screaming for the stuff from all over Europe. Every angler that goes somewhere and has incredible results, it snowballs.
Please do not ask me any questions about what products will come, I am not going to speak about anything whatsoever, apart from the details I give in this post. Like I said, you are all getting an early heads up of what is coming.
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Mark, Frimley S2
Craig, Yateley Car Park GPB2
Ricci GPB2/S2
Forum member Sam GPB2
Forum member Andy S2
Russ S2
GPB2
Andy GPB2
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In reply to Post #1541
It makes a big difference. Part of the reason for that difference, is why your paste dried out. Thank you for that. It's something that I never even thought of when I wrote that. I am telling you to do something with boilie paste, which we do with a hook bait paste. The difference between those two, is ours is milled to within an inch of its life and then sieved, sieved and sieved again. There are no lumps.
Your boilie pastes will all be full up with far coarser ingredients. By cold fermenting the paste, all of those lumps in the mix will soak up far more, like they never normally do. That will draw in more extra moisture (egg) than you usually use. Normally those chunks of food are rolled and boiled immediately after the paste is made. You are proving something to yourself as you go Jamie.
The colour of your paste (if a lighter mix), the smell and more importantly the taste will all be drastically changed by what you have done. Something so simple, will actually make your bait so much better than any magic ingredient you can add. You created this yourself.
This will take you down a path where you will not do things the way you have always been traditionally told to do them. You will start doing other things now, how you think it should be done. That will lead you to a much better place Jamie for your bait making.
If your paste ever dries out again, it is quite simple to remedy. Open your plastic bag which the paste is sealed up in. Tap an egg with the back of a knife to create a small slit, and allow some of the runny watery part of the egg white to dribble out of the slit over the paste in the bag. Use the outside of the bag to manipulate it all over the paste ball. Then kneed it from outside the bag. Seal it back up again and wait an hour. It will soak up most of the egg. As you load the gun each time, manipulate the paste even more. You can bring it back to perfect.
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Hello Mark.
Have been playing around with the cold fermentation this week and blimey doesn’t the paste comes out of the bag a heap more pungent from when it went in!
After many years of designing and making my own bait, have never before tried the cold ferment - so thank you for the suggestion and education.
One thing I would add for anyone else reading this (depending on your base mix).
Is that you will need to play around with the moisture/consistency of your paste before putting into the fridge and then back out.
My first test batch, I found a little dry after being out of the fridge for 12hrs and was hard to make little round balls without a crack down the middle.
I since addressed this by making more test batches more moist before undergoing the cold ferment and seems to have done the trick. This is of course all relative to my mix and the dry ingredients that are incorporated.
I have also done away with boiling the little round balls as per conventional methods and have adopted using a kettle. This has helped create a ball of paste with a firm surface around the bait, resulting in a breakdown time of approximately 10 to 12hrs in cold tap water.
I shall continue the tests until the season starts and I can put them into actual practice. As I have also incorporated a curing process to use instead of using traditional conventional flavours.
Top man Mark. Thanks for the knowledge you have shared!
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Mark S2
Ricci GPB2/S2
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In reply to Post #1538
Forum member Chris is clearly still there at his wild French lake and smacking them. GPB1 & white S2 balanced combined. They can’t keep the GPB2 in the water because the cats are smashing them in minutes.
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New pb common for David, S2
Wade S2, Riverton
Mark S2 Frimley. Mark has been red carded, caught them all now.
Dinton Black Swan, John S2
Andy, new syndicate first fish GPB2
Will, new PB, S2
Chris, 50+ wild French lake S2/GPB1
Ricci S2
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Just ordered a tub of pink ballanced s2’s 👍🏻
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Got too many captures to even mention, it’s clubbing season now. But this one needs a mention. Another forum member Mark, with a pukka 47lb15oz club lake common. A new PB. Bloody well done Mark. (Looks a winter capture too from that backdrop).
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Thank you. That’s exactly why Matt. It’s also a massive part of why sweetcorn is so attractive to all fish… Because it’s mainly water. Because of that, lake water transfer happens instantly when the sweetcorn goes into the lake. Every attractive food signal, floods out of it to a fish instantly.
What I am telling anglers to do with their boilies, will make exactly the same boilie, so much more attractive to a carp, instantly. It cannot fail to catch you more carp over a period of time if you use boilies. Lots more carp.
Watch all your favourite anglers on YouTube, or in the mags/books over the last 30 years… They will virtually all be using dry boilies straight from the bag. I don’t get to go fishing much anymore, I'm a sad joey now.... So giving up any of my little edges in my own angling, ain’t the end of the world.
This one, should completely change the way a smart carp angler thinks about his bait.
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Hi Mark, yes fine thanks for asking, you are certainly doing well fair play to you.
Just one more thought on this in my early carp fishing days in the late 80s we used to roll Geoff Aminos with salmon oil peach and black pepper literally on the bank....it was still warm when it was fed and hadn't skinned. Best bait I have ever used....maybe that's why, same principle it would have still had a lot of water in it from boiling.
Cheers
Matt
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13 & 16mm pink S2 balanced.
12mm red S3 corkballs
13 & 16mm red S3 crushed cork pop ups.
13 & 16mm white S3 crushed cork pop ups.
13mm GPB1 crushed cork pop ups.
16/12mm GPB1 bottom bait barrels.
16/12mm GPB2 bottom bait barrels
These have all been added to the website tonight. Unfortunately all prices have had to be increased very slightly. Been holding off, but it had to happen. Everything we buy in has skyrocketed. We have put prices up by approx 5-6% (£1 per tub). Our costs have gone up so much more than that recently. Some things have literally doubled.
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In reply to Post #1529
Thanks Matt, i hope you are well.
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In reply to Post #1529
or make your own boilies and only lightly boil them, paste-like in the middle, just different to the majority.
Edit: Ive just read Marks last 3 posts aimed at the ready rolled boilie, makes my post a little irrelevant 
Now thinking even more about bait absorption, texture and water solubility
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interesting and thought provoking Mark - I've fished soaked baits for a few years now and particularly on pressured waters it's definitely a massive edge when everyone else is firing in rock hard baits.
thanks
Matt
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Last time, we spoke about how to make the boiled baits which you make at home far more effective by cold fermenting the paste. Today, we are going to speak about how to make your shop purchased freezer, or readymade boilies, far more effective in a pressured carp fishing situation. Any and all of them. Not many of us have the time to roll our own boilies at home anymore, so these are what most of us use.
I'm going to help you to catch more carp than all of your mates. Next time you go to France or you go on a social with your friends... You are going to be a so much better angler, because of what you are about to read. You will catch more carp than those around you because of it. Everybody wants to catch more carp, that's why we all go in the first place. No one is trying to sell you anything at all. Last time, the only extra ingredient you needed, was time. This time, there's one more extra ingredient which you are going to need on top of your normal freezer/readymade baits. You will need a little water. Previously boiled tap water will be fine. If you have some good quality honey at home, that will help too, but it's not essential, the luke warm water is.
Boilies have played an incredible part in the history of carp angling. They pretty much transformed carp fishing along with the hair rig. Allowing us to keep baits in the water for far longer than before. Since their inception many years ago though, carp fishing has changed out of all recognition. The fish are now more pressured than ever before. If you work five days a week and you get very little time. You need to maximise your time on the bank to the very limits. The convenience of boilies, is one of the greatest things about them. We are able to store them in a freezer, or readymade ones we can keep in a bucket. All water obviously needs to be removed from them during production for storage purposes. The problem is, a carp is a wild creature that lives under water. So water, is a very important part of the equation for a carp, regarding anything it eats. That seems to be lost on us as carp anglers a little though. We would rather convenience for storage, and are also obsessed with how things smell in our environment of air. If you throw a completely dried-out piece of sweetcorn, next to a big carp sitting in some snags... It will not even realise that it is food, until it soaks up a little water. Throw a normal wet piece of sweetcorn next to the same carp... It can sense it in an instant. Hemp, tigers, natural baits like this that we put into the water, they are all already wet. They are instantly attractive to carp. If you really think about it, why would you throw dried out 20mm balls of food into the lake, if you only have a day session or maybe a single night to fish? Most of them take ages to actually fill up with water. Simply understanding the mechanics of how things work underwater regarding bait... Is far more important to you than any fancy rig, or £500 fishing rod. It is, if you actually want to catch more carp anyway. Here's another great example of the same thing. Have you ever wondered why boilie crumb, is more attractive to a carp than the same 20mm boilie which it was crumbed from? Simple water transfer is the answer. The 20mm boilie is bound together with eggs. This creates a hardened skin around the outside which helps to deter smaller fish. But it also slows down water ingress. That's a big problem. By crumbing that same boilie, you are opening it up, allowing the water to fill every particle rapidly when it's thrown into the water. It's the same thing, but one is more attractive than the other. Why? Speedy water transfer is why. That is the biggest downfall of the humble boilie. Put your favourite boilie into a glass of cold water, see how long it takes for it to get wet right through to the centre. It could be upwards of twelve hours or more. Do you work five days a week? Do you really have twelve hours to waste waiting for your bait to reach its full potential when you go fishing? No, nor do I.
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Twelve hours before you go fishing, place your favourite boilies into a bucket, and add a measured amount of pre boiled, warm water to them. If you want to dissolve a spoonful of honey into the water first, it certainly will not hurt at all. The water is the most important thing though. That is going to unlock all of the goodies that are already inside your favourite boilie. What you are looking to achieve, is to make those boilies wet through to the centre. You do not want, or need to turn them to mush. Just enough water, to wet them all the way through to the centre. Once you know how much water to add to a set amount of your favourite boilies, you are golden for the future. It takes a surprisingly small amount of water, to fully swell a kilo of boilies. All baits are different, so you are going to have to judge this part for yourself. Start with a small amount of water, less is more. You can always add some more. By adding this water, you are not 'washing' anything out from your favourite boilies. All of the attractors are still there inside. But you have mixed them up with water and changed how they are going to exit the boilie now, when you eventually throw them into the lake. Now those attractors are going to literally flood out. Water transfer will occur rapidly. They are so much more attractive to a carp this way. Your friend might be sitting in the swim next door, using exactly the same boilies as you. By pre-soaking yours before you go fishing, you are making your boilies much more attractive than his during the first day of your session. But there are far more benefits than just that. During those twelve hours before you go fishing, your sodden boilies inside the bucket are already starting the process of breaking down. A signal from nature to a fish, that something is ready to eat. You're actually making them better and more attractive to a carp, just by leaving them in a bucket sodden for twelve hours. Most baits will fully turn and go off after forty eight hours when wet in our environment of air. It's different under the water, it happens much slower. Prepare only small amounts at a time. Be prepared that you will now need to throw some bait away that goes unused quite regularly. The convenience is now completely gone from your boilies. But if you are here reading this, I am going to take a wild stab in the dark that you have progressed from YouTube carping and the like, and you will be able to deal with that problem.
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Everything around us was created by nature. Most land-based animals fall into one of two categories, carnivores or herbivores. Carnivores/predators consume high protein diets. They have guts built by mother nature to function well eating loads of protein. Under water, pike and perch. Herbivores, who graze, they are not designed by nature to consume a high protein diet. They are designed to eat in a completely different way. They are designed to consume vast amounts of low protein food, over a long-extended period. A cow, will eat in excess of twenty kilos of grass in a day. They can only do this, because they have a very simple gut, and as fast as they eat the grass, it's coming out the other end. Underwater, carp are designed by nature in a very similar way to a cow. They are not normally predators. They are grazers. Yet we like to feed them often very stodgy high protein boilies, as it makes them grow bigger/faster. Here's the big problem with that. Have you ever seen a carp pooh out a 20mm boilie? You have not. Because it simply does not happen. If a carp picks up twenty boilies that are still hard in the middle, she's off to sit in the snags and digest her meal. In cold water, Winter and Spring, the carp's system slows right down, and the whole problem is magnified even more. By you pre-soaking your boilies, you can completely circumnavigate this problem. You are making the boilies much easier for the carp to actually eat, especially in cold water. They can pooh them out as fast as they are eating them, in a similar way to something like sweetcorn or hemp. The way 99.9% of all carp anglers fish with dry, hard boilies straight from the bag, this simply cannot happen. Not for many hours most of the time. I have never had that time to simply waste when I go fishing. No one has really, however much time you actually get. Start the process at home first. Continue it on the bank, if you stay more than one night. The common carp in the photos, is the Swirly common from Milton Pan, a famous old Kent carp. The photo must be virtually thirty years ago now, it's a scan of a print. I fed this particular carp 17.5kg of sweetcorn in 2.5kg bags, right in the edge. I had to feed this fish that amount, before I got the bite. This was before I had come up with our original S2 hook baits, or it would never have taken that long. This fish, ate as much as its own body weight in just a few hours. I watched it eat every single grain. It truly shocked me. If this had happened out in the pond, I would never have known to keep chucking more sweetcorn in and would never have caught her. They are feeding machines, but only if the food is suitable enough to pass through them quickly enough. By pre adding water to your boilies, you are allowing the carp to eat that same food for much longer than if you do not. Exactly how mother nature built them to eat food. The longer they are feeding on your area picking up your boilies, the more chance there is that you will catch them. It's really quite simple. There are even more benefits than that though. If you are fishing a tricky pit, with carp wised up from pressure. Your sodden boilies also appear 'safe' to them. Boilies that would appear to have been in the water for much longer than they actually have been, will always be viewed as safer by highly pressured carp. They will be eaten with far greater gusto. The only thing you are going to lose, is the convenience of storing your bait for more than a day or so whilst on the bank.
Why did you add the honey? Carp, like all other creatures on this planet, adore sweet things. The reason everything including us loves sweet things, is because of simple inbuilt senses from nature. When fruit ripens for example, it sweetens naturally. This is a signal to us and other animals that the food is now ready to eat. Mix some honey with some warm water, put it outside in your garden in a dish. Everything, crawling, or flying will be attracted to it. Absolutely everything. Like so many other fantastic things that go into our boilies, if that honey had been actually put inside your boilie with the eggs and then boiled.... It would be subjected to boiling water, and all the real goodness totally ruined. The carp is a very simple creature. The honey mixed with the water which you added, will help trigger an inbuilt sense that tells that fish it needs to go and investigate that food source. Pre-soaking your favourite freezer/readymade baits, also allows all of the real food content inside your boilies to do the job of attraction for you.
These very simple things, will help catch you far more carp, wherever you fish.
Next time it will not all be so simple, we are going to talk about hook baits.
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A little snifter. A very small excerpt from the hook bait part, of what will eventually get posted online about bait mechanics.
Match the hatch. A real classic 'carpy' saying. Often rolled out on YouTube or social media over the last decade. 'Match the hatch', is really just a plea to continue buying/using someones products. That's all. It's the biggest load of rubbish to someone who actually really understands big carp, how they feed, how they work. Not internet theories, or 'buzzwords', facts. I'll explain to you exactly why. If you have a bit of watercraft about you, you can test this yourself with your own 'underwater' observations in the edge.
'Match the hatch', implies you should use a hook bait that matches your feed bait. Great theory. Like so many things in carp fishing, it's actually a whole load of rubbish. Here's the big carp reality. Feed bait, and hook bait, are two completely separate entities. They need to perform completely different functions. They are not the same thing at all. When a big carp that is constantly fished for, picks up a freebie with a hook attached... It will spit that hook out 9 times out of 10. The area is then blown. It's game over. A carp is a wild creature with a natural inbuilt sense of danger, and then flight. That fish might return, if it does, it will normally clear out every other bait on the spot, except the one attached to the hook. That's 'Match the hatch' in reality. Of course, if the lake has far to many carp in like so many do, there will be another hungry mouth along in two minutes and you might get a bite. If you are not fishing a lake with starving carp in, you are literally tying your hands behind your back. You are going to blank for long periods when you really do not need too. As time goes by, we train the carp to become more and more wary. Things get harder and harder because of it.
A carp uses its mouth to test things. A carp is really a very simple creature in reality. Many years ago, I discovered through my own fishing, that you can actually override that flight sense in a big carp. Only if the hook bait excites them enough to do this though. They can take it in, and spit it out ten, or even twenty times... And there will still be a lesser flight reaction every time. But they do not bolt off and then not return. They will hardly leave the area. They will then have it into their mouth again, within minutes. And again, and again, and again. This is a monsteros difference. If it is fished on a resetting rig, you hardly need to be a genius to work out that you are now going to catch that carp. It's a very similar reaction to how a carp acts, when it becomes preoccupied on a bed of seeds or maggots. They will throw caution to the wind. The more preoccupied they become, the less wary they become. Tapping into this sense, is the sole reason you have seen that our hook baits have landed some of the biggest carp in the UK, over and over again. It's the reason I and others have been able to walk onto the busiest low stock syndicates, and start catching them IMMEDIATELY. There is no 'blowing', another great carpy saying for crap bait. A natural inbuilt instinct from mother nature to eat that hook bait, overrides that flight reaction. Any of you who own a dog, will know that greedy git will knowingly stick his/her nose into the most stupid/dangerous places, if the treat is irresistable enough.
Things that excite a heavily fished for carp enough to investigate something marked dangerous over, and over again. Are COMPLETELY different, to things which that same carp will happily feed on for many hours on end. Trying to make feed boilies this attractive, only leads to giving the carp a bellyache, and you then blanking. A very common mistake made by home and commercial bait makers. Nature holds the keys to absolutely everything.
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In reply to Post #1523
I'm licking my lips as we speak.
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In reply to Post #1522
There would be all sorts of goodies, on both sides of your questions. Everything you can imagine, and more Jamie.
I was asked to come up with a business plan, by people who don't mess around at all. I trust them, they must trust me. But who really knows, nothing is certain, till it is set in stone.
If it does happen, I already know that our customers will all be seriously licking their lips in anticipation. I've been begged for all this stuff for many years.
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In reply to Post #1517
Hi Mark,
This new business model you are alluding to - will there be products for the home made bait maker to use?
Or, will this be an enterprise with just finished goods?
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In reply to Post #1517
Business sounds good. As you say Mark, results are everything and the pictures in this thread are testament to that
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In reply to Post #1519
Everybody say CHEESE
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In reply to Post #1518
Thank you Darren. Anging? What is anging? It sounds like fun. Does that happen outdoors? Outside is all but a distant memory for me at the moment. The only time I go outside, apart from my back garden.... Is when I go to the airport, to see my missus, and that's it. Got more transatlantic air miles, than sense.
I can see that name SHB being a thing of the past soon. Maybe... SB or similar will be more appropriate... Who knows.
The next thing that gets added to our website at some point this year... Will be the Cheese. Eighteen months it's been ready to go for now.
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In reply to Post #1517
What a refreshing honest read Mark
Hope you make the SHB expansion, as stress free as possible mate, and find some time for your own angling/Brazil trips to the beach
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In reply to Post #1514
Quote... I would keep the real gold dust to yourself though otherwise it will be raped and pilfered.
I am not silly mate. I've kept those secrets for more than a decade. For years, I kept my mouth completely shut. But that has been to the detriment of the thing I love and have always been obsessed about. Fishing. I've now become an expert in talking about things, without giving away the real secrets about the hook baits. I can help carp anglers so massively with what I have learned over my fishing life. One thing I do know, is one little comment from me online now, leads to big changes at other bait firms. Trust me, they would all love to know what we are up too, without exceptions. Walk around any of the top syndicates in this country, and you will see why.
Self perception, is an incredibly hard thing to gauge when everything changes in your life. I have not always dealt with that the best, I know that.
So many things that you lot do not know. The real reason we stopped selling hard coated hook baits... Was because I realised that another bait firm, had sussed we were using citric acid in our F1 coating. This was very stupid of me, a real school boy error. To easy to detect in a powdered coating. There is a member of this very forum, who used to work for this firm when we first started. He had told us right at the start to be wary.... Our original coated S1 had sat in a prominent position at this firms desk, for more than a year. Everyone who visited, was asked if they knew how we were doing this. A year later the same firm tried to use this concept to sell very expensive freezer baits. It failed. Everything is scrutinised. It's big money. That's business, you have to deal with it.
I ain't a noddy, but they are.... So I can handle that kind of thing with them, no problems. We just stopped selling coated hook baits, and told everybody how to coat the baits themselves. Within a year, lots of bait firms were selling coated boilies.
There's another nauser though, who's far worse. He was copying me from before the hook baits were ever put on sale. Magazine articles about two things I wrote on the old Cemtex forum, before SHB was ever even a thing. The sands of time, have proved what a fraud this man was/is. The bait company he was with at the time, who went on to sell 'cured' hookbaits six months after we started (not their fault for believing him).... Have done fantastic things, EVER SINCE he was no longer there. He had them over as well, they found out exactly how clueless he actually was. He was then at another firm, with a budget that could not fail... Which very quickly failed, after producing truly shocking bait off of his back. Years of carp shows and magazine articles, influencing novice carpers..... Years of absolute waffle. Now the cheeky sausage is referring to me in podcasts I'm told, because he needs to remain relevant for some free boilie stops. The dearly departed Paul Forward, was so astute in his observations about the bloke in his Carpworld series.
I truly feel quite sorry for the lads who have taken up our pastime over the past decade. There are sharks swimming in the water who smell blood.... They need to be very careful when consuming media. RESULTS ARE EVERYTHING. Talk is cheap. Everything is copied, by those who do that sort of thing. I look at what happened to my childhood hero Rod, and it all makes more sense. I have literally become a jedi warrior in the art of keeping schtum over the past decade. Bait firms now advertise for 'team members'... Part of the deal for getting 50p off a kilo, is you have to help sell bait for them on social media. They openly state this. Don't matter if the bait don't work.... Just help sell our bait for us online in anyway at all possible, and you can be on our 'team'. What a truly sad state of affairs.
Here is the really good thing for us though. The explosion in novice anglers over the last decade... Eventually those novice carp anglers all become, good anglers. They start fishing proper UK syndicates, ones that do not contain 10 billion carp... Then they wake up, and realise that no one is chucking 'cheeky little' bread bombs at 60's, or pouring goo on their cardboard pop ups.... Then they come see us.
Now it's time for us to step properly into the bait arena, and me to open my mouth about what I know a little bit more. Now it's time to start selling products in every tackle shop across Europe. They all want it. I have many incredible things, that I have never even been able to even speak about... Simply because we have never been in a position to sell the stuff on the scale required if I did. That's all about to change, if things pan out well. I am now at the stage, where keeping our circle small and trustworthy, I need to work 15 hours a day, seven days a week. That cannot go on forever, or I will keel over.
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In reply to Post #1515
Roe Deer mate
Last out in the draw, ended up picking La Plage first then moved to Roe Deer on the Tuesday, and it paid off almost instantly.
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In reply to Post #1510
Lee, is that Dredgers point
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In reply to Post #1511
I hope some of you find them interesting. Both of them will get posted on here at some point. They will 100% help you catch more carp, whoever you are.
Looking forward to these
I would keep the real gold dust to yourself though otherwise it will be raped and pilfered
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In reply to Post #1511
There's a key to ordering your gear...do it well before the spring when all the fair weather lot appear
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In reply to Post #1511
Look forward to reading them mate 👍
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S3 crushed cork pop ups in 13mm & 16mm, in both standard red & white.
Pink S2 balanced, in both 13mm & 16mm.
GPB1 & GPB2 16/12mm bottom bait barrels.
GPB1 13mm crushed cork pop ups.
These are being added to the website over the next few days.
We now have a two week waiting time on all orders. We will always do our best to get your orders out to you much faster than this, but when we go out of stock of a certain product.... We cannot simply knock up a ton of pop ups for the following day like everyone else can. Real quality, takes time to produce. This means, that during exceptionally busy times, we can often be out of stock of a certain product, for up to two weeks. We currently cannot make GPB2 16mm balanced fast enough for example. That is just one variation, of one product.
Please, please, please until I am blue in the face stop PMing important questions about orders on here. I never ever see them in a suitable time scale. We have messages disabled on Facebook and Instagram, because we used to receive far to many inquiries on a busy day to reply too.... If I could disable PM's on here, I would too. We have a mobile number on the contact page of our website for our lucky customers.... Use it. You will get your reply rapidly and we will always do whatever we can to help. The contact email is also being removed from our website today. A simple message is being added alongside the mobile number, requesting customers to text or WhatsApp message the work mobile regarding order queries or delays. Never to ring, because the phone is always on silent and is never answered or we would get no work done. The mobile number is there for customers orders. It is not a free big carp tuition line.
While I was away at Easter... As requested, I came up with a business plan.... To offer UK carp anglers the kind of products which they have never been able to purchase from us (or anyone else) before. I also wrote a couple of very extensive articles about bait mechanics on the beach. The second one, specifically about hook baits. So many confused carp anglers regarding carp bait. Confused by YouTube/social media experts, who in reality, don't have a clue themselves.
I hope some of you find them interesting. Both of them will get posted on here at some point. They will 100% help you catch more carp, whoever you are.
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Forum member Im_smashing_it (Lee). New pb 59lb. Second year running Lee has gone to France and bust his pb with our S2.
S2
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We were completely up to date with all orders, up until Tuesday midday. We literally sent out tonnes of stuff Easter week. By far our busiest ever Easter, by a long way. We now have a two week waiting time on all orders unfortunately going forwards.
I was asked to come up with a business plan by someone I trust, but I’ve had no time to do so. For something incredibly important for the future. But no time. I finally have a few days off now to do so.
46lb8oz S2. Clint can’t stop catching big carp.
42+ new pb Yateley GPB2
S2
GPB2
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In reply to Post #1505
Just done my first order👍
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In reply to Post #1506
Thanks Mark. That’s PBs at home and abroad now using the s2.
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I’m quite sure Dan is a member of this forum. If not he is looking in as a guest. Well done Dan 💪🏻
65lb+ Gigantica, S2.
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In reply to Post #1501
Everything is still going out quite fast at the moment Dean.
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In reply to Post #1498
They are good enough for either, I do normally fish them over a bit of bait though just like you normally would bud
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In reply to Post #1502
Thanks for the reply
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In reply to Post #1501
I ordered a pot at the weekend and they arrived today
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In reply to Post #1497
Just placed another order. I just wondered what the current lead times are? Cheers
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In reply to Post #1498
Both. They are fantastic in either scenario.
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In reply to Post #1498
I do both tbh but mainly over the top of a baited area
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just a quick one here guys, are you guys fishing these as singles or putting your usual bait in and fishing these over the top...
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Ben with a January 44lb+ & 36lb+ from Brooklands in the Medway Valley. GPB2
Mark with a Frimley 38lb+ from weekend. S2
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In reply to Post #1495
It’s all gravy Rich. Thank you for the kind words. So tired currently, working far too much. Makes it to easy to bite like a bream. I’ll still pop in every now and then and post a few photos, but I’ll be having an online rest pretty much for the next few weeks.
I was wrong when I posted the big Wingham mirror was caught three times last year and every time on one of our hook baits.
It was actually caught four times, and every time on one of our hook baits. Gary Watton had it twice, then Ricci caught it twice. Once on. GPB1 & three times on a GPB2.
62lb4oz GPB2 Photo by Dave Whibley of ‘famous five’ fame.
58lb4oz GPB2
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In reply to Post #1483
Forget what others think your customers (me included) results speak for themselves, I’ve tried other companies and other Hookbaits before coming across yours and my fishing has been transformed, yes I did catch before but nothing like I am now with the results I’m having doing the talking !
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Clint Miller at Sandhurst for a social. Both S2.
I really am gone for the next few weeks or so now. I will not be about online at all. We are so stupidly busy at work now. If you need to get hold of us regarding an order you placed on our website. Don't email, don't pm on here, do not ring us, the work phone is always on silent and never gets answered for calls. WhatsApp or text message is the way to speak to us. It gets seen fast. Always include the full name on the order in your message. The work mobile number is on the contact page of our website.
I hope you all have a great spring and catch loads of big carp. You could never imagine how jealous I am of you.
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Chris, Swan Valley yesterday. Ancient looking carp.
GPB2
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In reply to Post #1491
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In reply to Post #1490
Better mate... It's spring... Big carp time. Sod em seriously.
Ricci with the first fish he ever caught on one of our hook baits, a decade ago next month. Days after he got his hands on our S2 for the first time. Smashed his PB, caught one of the most sort after fish in Ringwood.
The Horse.
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In reply to Post #1489
deleting coming
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In reply to Post #1484
Give carp anglers something that really makes a difference to their angling, and you simply can't fail. That's the bottom line that these blokes will never understand. I certainly never sat online crying at other people when SHB started. I went out there, and done things to show other anglers that I had something that could make a big difference. It's not my fault these blokes are not capable of doing the same thing for themselves. It's not my fault they cannot sell their bait.
If it makes them feel better to hate me for that... I have broad shoulders.
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In reply to Post #1483
I’m sure you’ve said this before and it is still true. It’s similar to your Sunday league footballer blaming Messi as the reason they aren’t playing in the champions league
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In reply to Post #1482
I think that although they may publicly hate me, secretly, they all love me at the same time too Joss. I think, that really, they are just a little bit confused about it all. It's all a little bit to much for them to take in.
They have every single 'reason' in the world why all of these fish were caught on our hook baits apparently. The only 'reason' that they cannot ever seem to find.... Is the 'reason' why they cannot come up with the photos of their own happy customers, with fish like this below. But that would involve looking at themselves. It's far easier, just to blame me for all their woes.
That is what really upsets them... Not me.
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In reply to Post #1480
I think your baits do plenty of talking mate to upset inferior baits.
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In reply to Post #1480
Stunning
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Two days ago I said I had to disappear, and I really do. The only reason for yesterday's post, and now today's... Is specifically for some former bait buff members of this very forum. I am told, they have been spitting the dummy right out online about both me, and this forum very recently. That thing I wrote recently may have ended in "I am not a scientist"... That had zero to do with any of you. I don't give any of you's a single thought. I was just trying to explain that I may not being explaining myself with the absolute correct terminology, because I am not scientist.
This one is just for you boys. Don't be bitter about others. Strive to do better yourself.
This is Chris. This photo is from a decade ago, 2013. The spring SHB very first started. Chris is a PE teacher in Hampshire. Proper stand up guy. He works hard, five days a week. He'd had a Roach Pit ticket for 4 or 5 years. He'd never been able to catch a carp out of there. He fished with two mates. Both also worked full time, both had their tickets for a couple of years, both had also never caught a RP carp.
Chris caught thirteen in 2013. Nothing at all in four or five years... Then, he got his hands on our hook baits and he caught thirteen in 2013. The one he is holding here, is one of the best looking big carp that the UK has ever produced IMO.
Chris's two mates both caught plenty too, including two of the best fish in the lake.
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Ground went heavy, not great for punting now and better left alone. Sorry lads, he had no luck yesterday at the false starts, or during the race itself... But he was a proper gamble alright.
A photo of another big UK carp that I have spoken about on here very recently. Although this capture, is not actually one of the ones that I was referring too when I spoke about this fish. This was another S2 addict. Not sure exactly how many times this particular fish was caught on an S2 over the years, but it was loads. I know of at least seven or eight captures (including by a member of this forum). But then the lake went no publicity, so I'd imagine it was a whole lot more than that, which I never got to hear about.
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In reply to Post #1477
That’s it if it come off we’re laughing but how it goes. Thanks anyway mark
Had 2 1sts , a placed and that one so wasn’t far off
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Going to have to cancel those flights to Barbados
I apologise, it was likely my fault as any horse I touch turns to glue!
Appreciate the tip though Mark, it was certainly a mover but that's horse racing.
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In reply to Post #1475
And me lol. Not much better at that though
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In reply to Post #1474
Well that was disappointing lol I'll stick to fishing
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In reply to Post #1473
I’ve got it with 3 others. Had 2 winners including an 9-1
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I e had a couple.of.quid in this horse too...not 2k riding on it on it but it will be nice meal out saturday
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In reply to Post #1470
2 wins from 2 so far. Need that horse to come in now lol
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In reply to Post #1470
I certainly did but only managed to get 18s , started well yesterday , 2 2nds and 2 1sts in a 4 way accumulator. Got 3 today and that one so fingers crossed. In for a 2K payout if they come off.
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In reply to Post #1460
Quote.... "But one at a price worth backing for a pound or two each way is 'Sa Fureur'. It runs in the Coral Cup tomorrow at 14.50. It's 25-1 with bet365 right now who are paying 7 places for the e/w. 14-1 with most other bookies who are paying 4 or 5 places. That is big value. It's the horses handicap debut, but the shrewd trainer G Elliott would not be bringing a novice for this race, if he did not believe the horse was extremely well handicapped. Best jockey in the race onboard. 25-1 is well worth a pound or two of your money right now. Back it e/w. This horse, will very likely get gambled I'd imagine."
I hoped you backed it Carl. That horse, is now virtually favourite at 17-2 with Betfair sportsbook and shortening by the hour. I have a lot of money on it at 25-1. I am now being offered a 41% return on every bet I have placed on this horse, without any risk, before it even runs. That will only rise as it shortens even further. 41% ROI in 24 hours (if that's your thing) is massive. It takes A LOT of money to move a market at Cheltenham that much. That race will be in the top ten betting turnover races of the year.
The stable clearly fancy this thing massively, and the bookies are worried. Game on. Now the horse just needs to do its part.
I really am going to disappear now as mentioned yesterday. I hope you all catch bundles over the coming weeks
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In reply to Post #1468
Nail on the head Paul. I said at the time I wished they had claimed the record, for exactly the reasons you stated... That was long before I even knew that it was one of our customers who had caught it too.
But I salute the lake owner and the captor, because clearly neither of them wanted all the hassle that goes with it. I've never physically spoken to either man about this. So to a certain extent I am only guessing... But they clearly for whatever reason did not think that the fish should become the British record. You can't argue with an angler having principles. You can't argue with a lake owner having principles. Some don't.
Who really needs a list anyway? We as carp anglers all know.... That is all that matters. That capture, is the heaviest/biggest carp ever landed in the UK. It was witnessed by many people. It was a very special carp, from a proper lake.
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In reply to Post #1467
I don't get it Mark. Yatesy's redmire 51 was spawn bound and everyone seems happy with that? The two Duncan Kay's records (same fish) were also spawn bound. A fish weighs what it weighs. It's just facts, not merit or even opinion should come into play. The current record committee came into being as the previous one rejected Chris Yates' record and now this one sits as judge and jury. I think the fact it wasn't claimed is a shame. This fish would have smashed the record away from holme fen and the avenue and put it out of reach for a long long time. They're coming up with weird rules now around banning claims for fish being fed solely on anglers baits and stuff. They're a joke. Like all these things it becomes political.
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In reply to Post #1466
I have no clue if would be accepted or not mate. They did not even try though. I salute them for that. What is right, is right... What is wrong, is wrong.
That code of ethics, is ingrained into carp fishing, and it should never be forgotten.
It was the heaviest carp ever caught in the UK. But it is not the British record.
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In reply to Post #1465
I remember that happening I just didn’t realise it was that carp, now you mentioned it I definitely recognise it. Very good of him not to claim it though, when it happened I’m sure I read somewhere on Facebook that it wouldn’t be accepted anyway because it was spawn bound?
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In reply to Post #1463
That is the fish, that a few years later was to become the biggest carp ever banked in the UK Rich at 83lb4oz. It was called the 'big plated'. It was spawn bound, and unfortunately died not long afterwards. The captor, was also one of our long term customers, who has never wanted any publicity. He never tried to claim the British record. He never hoisted it up for any photos. The fishery never pushed him to claim the British record. That carp, was absolutely incredible and so hard to even put on the bank... It would often go missing for years on end, it was without question the hardest carp in the lake to catch.
Remember what is written above, if the British record ever gets broken by anything dubious and was accepted. 83lb4oz was actually the biggest UK carp ever caught on rod and line.
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In reply to Post #1458
Hope you spank the bookies this week 👍🏻
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In reply to Post #1462
That kent scaly is genuinely the best looking carp I’ve ever seen 😍 that is absolutely stunning
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In reply to Post #1448
Photos of some of the captures I was talking about in this post which I have replied too.
I am quite certain this angler below Rob, holding the big Kent scaly, caught the CV fish above first on an S2 as well. But I never saw that photo.
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In reply to Post #1460
Legend cheers pal
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In reply to Post #1459
A few.
But one at a price worth backing for a pound or two each way is 'Sa Fureur'. It runs in the Coral Cup tomorrow at 14.50. It's 25-1 with bet365 right now who are paying 7 places for the e/w. 14-1 with most other bookies who are paying 4 or 5 places. That is big value. It's the horses handicap debut, but the shrewd trainer G Elliott would not be bringing a novice for this race, if he did not believe the horse was extremely well handicapped. Best jockey in the race onboard. 25-1 is well worth a pound or two of your money right now. Back it e/w.
This horse, will very likely get gambled I'd imagine.
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In reply to Post #1458
Any tips for the week mark
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In reply to Post #1456
We live in an internet age of 'influencers' James nowadays. Before that, the mags were not that much different in reality, not when you really think about it. Marcus and Lee are behind the two of the biggest selling freezer baits of all time. They helped so many young carpers achieve PB's over the past 20 years. A lot of young carpers would not even know their name.
Both safe enough in their own accomplishments regarding carp bait though, to publicly acknowledge someone else.
We are now so stupidly busy, I've been told I am not allowed to say another word on the internet... Not ever. I was working flat out until 23:00 on Sunday night. I have not had a day off for three weeks now, I really need it, but it simply ain't going to happen .
This week, is also a pretty important week for me in my 'other' work. I have to combine the two. I was up making mixes and liquids at 4am this morning, just to try and work around Cheltenham.
I am likely to disappear for a few weeks again from online. Don't email, do not ring us, the work phone is always on silent and never gets answered. WhatsApp or text is the way to get hold of us if you are chasing an order.
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In reply to Post #1456
Did quite well last winter soaking my freebies in his active CSL for a couple of days before i went. Don’t know why I haven’t used it this winter
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In reply to Post #1452
Awesome - there's a name you don't see banded about much and spoken about in quite circles - "Marcus Watts"... that guy knows his onions.
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In reply to Post #1451
Wades 38+, S2
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26lb, what a lovely carp. Well done slayer.
I have a sneaky feeling he is going to catch a monster tonight or in the morning.
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Leeroyjenkins from the forum again… Walking on water currently. 💪🏻
39lb12oz white S2
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Some nice words from Lee Walton on that fermenting your freezer baits post from the other day. If you do not know who Lee is, I bet most of you will have used one of the freezer baits he's designed at some stage. Lee formulated the Krill for Sticky baits. Before his time with SB, Lee was a very integral part of Nutrabaits, when they were among the market leaders.... Over the past decade, the bait Lee formulated, has probably been in direct competition with our hook baits more than any other bait... On a lot of the best syndicates in the country. Loads of respect for Lee. He's a great angler, who has nothing at all to prove regarding bait. The Krill, is likely the best selling freezer bait in the country these days I'd imagine. His words mean a lot.
Marcus Watts who formulated The Source, was one of the first people to like that post on Faceache. Massive respect for Marcus.
Mutual respect all around. What a shame it is not always like that.
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Another young bloke I’ve been posting loads on here is Wade. He just had 6 to 38lb on a 48hr session on his syndicate. Including this new PB common. Well done Wade.
37lb2oz S2
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In reply to Post #1449
The words "old warrior" get thrown around in carp fishing way top often on fish that dont deserve it.....but that fish really would fit the description.
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David again. This bloke is catching so many lovely carp recently. Well done David.
Pink S2 32lb4oz
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In reply to Post #1447
What I said yesterday about social media sales not being the be all and end all. Here's a great example of that. This photo is from around five years ago. It is the 50+ that Terry Hearn later caught on casters, it featured in the ESP video. It lives in a low stock, incredibly tricky little pit in the Colne Valley as you likely already saw yourself in that video.
Before Terry's capture on caster, for the previous five or six years, this fish only got caught on an S2. It was banked four times I think it was during that period. There were only three of them using S2's on the syndicate. Imagine how many hook baits that sold us. Imagine how many sensible carp anglers from the Colne Valley found out what I just told you and purchased hook baits off the back of it.
In a similar vein, to the anglers who have had the now legendary results at some of the busiest syndicates like Wingham, Frimley or Dinton over the last decade. These working blokes, are outnumbered monstrously by teams of anglers from the countries biggest bait firms on these types of pits.
The Wingham 60+, similar to the fish in this photo below, if you were not using our hook baits over the last decade... You were very likely not going to catch the biggest fish in the lake. They all pay a lot of money for their tickets. The target for everyone came out three times last year, once on a GPB1 & twice on a GPB2. The big scaly that blew up in there and smashed the british record... Was actually caught by one of our long term customers... Who does not publicise his captures as far as I know. For a five year period, long before that... That fish only came out twice in five years, something like that... Guess what it was on both of those times?
There is a pit being discussed on this forum right now. One of our customers and a couple of his pals, caught the two biggest fish in this syndicate/club lake multiple times on an S2 between them. These fish and the rest, had been caught many times previously by others on an S2 as well. The syndicate/club leaders got the right ump and banned cork balls as the story was told to me! One of the proudest moments of my life I can tell you! They actually banned cork ball hook baits, just to try to stop these lads incredible catches on S2's! The lads used crushed cork S2's instead (which we were just about to release at the time). The lads themselves, were eventually banned for something else one of them told me.
We really don't need to show the world the photos anymore to sell the hook baits. Results like those above, sell the hook baits on their own through word of mouth quite well. The anglers who see or hear this themselves, and then all their friends... They all become long term customers. It spreads like a web.
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In reply to Post #1445
I tried to explain it on here a while ago mate.... I get to see.... Even if the fish are not publicised and I never even get to see the photos.
I get to see, just from the amount of stuff we are sending to Devon and the surrounding areas every single week. It goes in waves all around the country... When anglers are having it right off, every other sensible sod for miles around finds out what they are having them on. Trust me, they all find out soon enough. That has a far bigger effect on our sales, than anything else. They are very different customers to, Insta or Faceache gained customers too generally. A flashy advert sells product. But carp anglers seeing another angler having incredible results with their own eyes, is far better though. They become long term repeat customers.
The same thing is going on in Manchester and its surrounding areas right now.... But unlike Devon, I have no clue whatsoever what's been caught. But I know damn well from previous experience, that the ongoing surge in orders over the winter we have seen from Manchester means only one thing... Someone, (or like Devon, a whole number of them) have been having it right off, and everyone else found out what they are up too.
We may now live in the age of constant social media, but the more secretive big carp grapevine is also still alive, and very well. I have so many photos from the last decade, that would literally make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. Fish, mainstream carp fishing does not even know exist some of them. From massively loyal customers, who cannot, or will not show what they have caught. I get shown the photo, and asked to never show it to anyone.
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In reply to Post #1443
Absolute chunks Leroy - Well done mate.
Also thank TCarper for the heads up ref base mix.
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In reply to Post #1444
There’s a few others using them (and catching on them) on there as well 👍
Same as a few of us on waters close by as well. And thats just the people admitting to using them, i think i said last year, saw a tub on someone’s bivvy table and he tried to say it was an old pot with his “sponsors” baits in it 😂
Just fantastic hookbaits 💪
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In reply to Post #1443
Don't be so modest, luck has zero to do with anything. Last night was the coldest March night on record. What's that, three over 35lb & a 45lb near PB in the last few days... You went back, because you knew they were there. You put something you now know they love, close to them. You caught them. Luck had nothing to do with it.
Between yourself and Clint, you have both hauled on that place this winter. Seriously well done.
I know most things about what makes the hook baits work, because I created them. But I have never got to the bottom of why the S2, is so much more lethal in the Winter and Spring. They catch stupidly at all times of year... But they should literally be illegal in cold water. I knew that 15 years ago. I still do not know why though.
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In reply to Post #1442
Cheers mate, I seem to have cashed in a bit of luck recently
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In reply to Post #1431
Leeroyjenkins (Sam’s) 45lb from yesterday. He also followed it up with a 36lb this morning in that bitter horrible weather. Absolutely slaying them Sam! Well done again 💪🏻
45lb8oz pink S2
36lb8oz pink S2
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You're very welcome. I hope it gets you all thinking about your bait a bit more.
Nature is far better at its job of attraction than we are. Nature has its very own way of making food attractive. Chemical investigation triggers unquestionably work, but there are other better forms of attraction in a food based bait like your boilies. Think of it in a slightly different way to how I tried to explain it yesterday, and forget about fish.
Take two bananas instead. One is green on the skin, one is yellow with black spots starting to appear all over it. Take the skins off, the actual food looks pretty much the same... Both are pale yellow, just one will be slightly darker than the other. They taste incredibly different. We all know, from a very young age, the yellow skinned one is the one to eat. Nature made it far sweeter, as it ripens (another word for breaking down). It tastes completely different... Nature makes that food, far more attractive to us and other animals. A natural signal, to eat that food now.
Throw those two bananas in front of a monkey twenty times. The monkey will pick up the ripe one first, every single time.
A couple years ago, I revealed how we had always hard coated our hook baits in powders, utilising gelatine (on this forum first). Did you notice how many bait companies, all came out with an active/coated boiled bait over the following year? Yesterday was a eureka moment, for far more bait makers than will ever publicly admit it.
Suddenly, S2 ('sugars' 2) starts to make a little bit more sense.... It's been a decade, it's good to give a little bit back. It's not giving away 'everything'. Just a little bit.
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In reply to Post #1438
thx for reply!
yeah will make small 4oz batches and experiment, to start...
my mix does have Brocacel, however there is a heavy ingredient (highest % of total mix) in it, that should help avoid it floating.
re *Many carp anglers will read what I wrote today, and it will go straight over their heads. Anyone who is into their bait, it should get them thinking a bit more.*
IMO, thats simply cos the majority that got into this game say over the last 25 years have just taken the easy route & bought shop/commercial baits, i started 40 years ago, EVERY Carper back then made there own SECRET SPECIALS , cos their was bugger all ready made available, only a few powered mixes!
who here remembers duncan kay slyme baits and the famous black magic mix?!
HAPPY DAYS indeed!
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In reply to Post #1434
Love it
Edit
If you have yeast in there
I was going to ask that to speed things up a bit
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In reply to Post #1436
Water, instead of real egg will def speed things up. You will need to have a play yourself regarding times. I never make bait with powdered egg and water so I would not even know.
It might be even better!! If you have yeast in there, you will need to be slightly wary of going to far and it all floating though.
Many carp anglers will read what I wrote today, and it will go straight over their heads. Anyone who is into their bait, it should get them thinking a bit more.
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In reply to Post #1431
Sam went back after work this afternoon, same swim as they were obviously about. Within minutes of casting out, he’s had a mid 40. Well done Sam 🥳
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In reply to Post #1433
Mark many thanks for this - looking forward to giving this a go on me 'ol faithful homemade mix of 20 + years!
quick question regarding the below..
re* Because we are using egg, and no water in our dough, things happen slightly differently*
i do NOT use eggs in my mix - instead i use 1/2 oz egg albumin in my mix + water, can this 'fermenting' been done with that OR ....would i need to change over to just using eggs?
TIA 
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In reply to Post #1434
Nicely written Mark.
As per article, Your Quality results take time. You cannot rush mother nature doing what it does best.
That will get people thinking, and rolling home bait
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In reply to Post #1433
Fermenting your freezer baits at home.
What I am going to share with you today, is such a simple thing to do when making your own freezer bait at home. You do not need to buy any expensive additives, you do not need to change your favourite boilie recipe. With just one extra ingredient, time, you are going to immeasurably improve the bait that you make. In the photograph, there are two S2 crushed cork pop ups, side by side. One, is slightly darker than the other. The darker one, also smells slightly different to the human nose. Despite being made with identical ingredients, identical base mix and liquids, all from exactly the same batch... One of them, is slightly darker than the other. The darker hook bait itself, has an almost olive smelling twang to it. If you tasted the two pastes before they were rolled, the darker one has a much richer and more intense taste to it. But they were made with identical ingredients. The darker one, is in fact, far more effective... It will actually catch you more carp, than the lighter one will. The lighter one, has been made just for the purposes of what I am writing now. Just to show you a visible difference, which you can see with your own eyes. The lighter, less effective coloured one has been made, in exactly the same way in which you have always been told to roll your boilies, since you first took up carp fishing. In exactly the same way as freezer baits are made everywhere that carp fishing is practiced. Eggs in a bowl, add your liquid additives, add your powders form into a paste, put into a bag for ten minutes and roll. Standard procedure.
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The darker, more effective one has been made in a slightly different way. The paste itself, was cold fermented, before it was even rolled into round balls and cooked. In a similar way to how the fermented base is made on a more expensive pizza, by fermenting the dough first. This produces a far richer tasting base to the pizza itself. You can do a very similar thing with your boilies, and it has a massive effect on the effectiveness of the bait itself. The darker, more effective hook bait in the photograph, is made in exactly the same way, that every single hook bait made by Specialized Hook Baits has ever been made over the last decade. Our hook baits are made of 100% food and natural cork. The food content, gets fermented before it is even rolled and cooked. The darker more effective hook bait, was made in a slightly different way. The eggs were put into the bowl, but NO chemical additives whatsoever were added, these are actually preservatives in the main and will only inhibit the fermenting of the food we want to commence. Just the eggs. The base mix is added and the dough is formed. Exactly the same base mix, but with no liquid additives. Just eggs. Now the paste has been made, wrap it tightly into a plastic bag and twist as normal. Now this needs to be placed into the fridge for twelve hours. After twelve hours, take the paste out of the fridge, turn it up the opposite way and put it into your microwave for a further twelve hours over night at room temp. The first time you ever do this, you can do your own experiment to observe the difference in the two pastes yourself. Make half of your paste the way you normally do, make half of it 24 hours before, following the instructions I just gave you. When you put the two pastes side by side, there will be big differences. The fermenting one, the food content itself will smell stronger, and slightly different. It will be darker. As you roll it, you will smell a big difference with your nose. All of the lovely food content of your base mix has started to react. This is super attractive to a carp. Cooking, and later freezing, will stop this reaction and lock it in.... But once you put the finished baits underwater and the egg content starts to break, the process will resume. You gave your bait a big kick start from mother nature so to speak, before you even rolled it. If you want to add your liquid attractors, do so now. Once your bait is rolled and dried, place it into a bucket. Measure out your liquid additives. Mix them with a touch of water from the kettle, and pour them over your boilies. As soon as they have sucked it up, put them in the freezer as normal. The additives which you added, are now no longer locked in by the eggs as they usually are. You have added them into the bait in a more free form. They will flood out from the bait like a bomb going off. You have improved the attraction massively. The food content of your bait is now actually giving off different signals under water to the carp too. It's not just giving off a food signal like the angler in the swim next doors freezer baits are... Now, your freezer baits are also giving off a 'food which is breaking down' signal to the fish. This is incredibly attractive to a carp. Natures form of attraction. It's slightly different to a strawberry, or a squid and octopus chemical signal. There are better ways to attract a carp to your food baits, which they are going consume in quantities. The taste of the food through the water, is far more important to the fish than the chemical smell. By fermenting the paste, you are enhancing and increasing the taste of the food naturally. Not with man made chemicals.
If your bait contains active yeasts, you will need to reduce the fermenting times. Because we are using egg, and no water in our dough, things happen slightly differently. The reaction is slightly slower and can be controlled better. If your bait contains lots of things that are high in simple carbs, starches and sugars, all the better.
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As promised, I have written something out to help you lot who roll your bait at home. I have not done anything like this for more than ten years now. I had a bad experience with things I wrote on the internet to help carp anglers many years ago. Things being reproduced by others in magazines and at carp shows. So I stopped any of that caper for more than ten years and just concentrated on work and carp drugs. I have constantly been asked over the years to write articles about bait. More recently appear on podcasts about bait etc. Just this last week, a prominent long time magazine editor has been messaging me again, as he has done so many times over the years. (Don't take it personal, you were one of my heroes growing up). I know he will be reading this. Apart from one Carpworld I done with my arm up my back, and SubSurface Vol 1 when SHB very first started (neither were about bait), I have always shied away from this stuff.
As a friend recently commented to me, things are very different now. What I post on a forum, I can go post to 250k carp anglers on faceache as well... So it's far easier for anyone who reproduces this stuff for their own financial gains, to be called out by the masses now.
Carp fishing has given me everything I have pretty much, it's good to give a bit back sometimes.
I have no doubts that the very simple procedure I am about to share with you, will also be incorporated into many commercial bait firms over night. There will be many who will proclaim... "We've been doing that for years". That's life.
This procedure is so simple, but it will immeasurably change the effectiveness of your home rolled bait. I will post it on this thread later.
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Sam also had a 35lb+ common as he was packing up yesterday. Pink S2 again. Well done Sam 🥳
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In reply to Post #1428
Thanks mate, it's all because of the hook baits
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In reply to Post #1428
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Forum member Leeroyjenkins with a 36lb12oz from the weekend out of his syndicate. Pink S2. Well done Sam, you have caught some big carp this winter 💪🏻
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David with some recent S2 captures. Biggest two 45+ & 37+.
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In reply to Post #1425
We have loads of pink S2 balanced in both 13mm & 16mm ready this week, as well as GPB1 & GPB2 16/12mm bottom bait barrels. All will be ready to send out with Thursdays delivery.
For pink balanced S2. Order any colour S2 balanced in 16mm or 13mm from our website, to cover what you need in pink S2 balanced. Message us on WhatsApp or via text after placing the order, with the full name on order and details of sizes etc. Anything else on same order will come as normal.
For GPB1 or GPB2 16/12mm bottom bait barrels. Order S2 balanced from our website to cover what you need in GPB1/2 bottom baits. Message me straight away on WhatsApp or via text after placing order, with full name on order and details. We will make sure you get sent the bottom baits. Anything else on same order will come as normal.
Mobile number is on contact page of our website.
WhatsApp me about round ones Rich.
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In reply to Post #1422
If you can mate I’ll have 2 tubs of the round GPB2 bottom baits, also want some pink s2 balanced aswell if your doing them please mate?
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In reply to Post #1421
No sorry Matt not in the immediate future at the moment. April is when things start getting really busy for us for the Spring.
I would loved to have released them last Summer. But that would put us into a position, where it is hard for us to keep up with demand. For the past 18 months we have been completely on top of our waiting list. Even at the very busiest times of the year, no one waits more than 10-14 days. 95% of our orders go out in under 7 days. We want to keep it that way too.
It never used to be that way. Before I was a member of this forum... We used to often have very long waiting times in the Spring/Summer. 2-3 months when we first released the GPB1.
We released the GPB2 in late 2021, but it was 2022 that it really took off. Last Summer, we were selling a large amount of GPB2 all year. Then we started supplying two of the biggest tackle shops in the country before Xmas as well. It's that, which has stopped us from releasing the Cheese yet. They will come as soon as we are in a position to release them, don't worry. I know from previous experience, exactly how much stock we now require, to release a new hook bait. It's a lot.
I keep getting messages on the work phone asking for them. I think that some anglers think that maybe some sneaky tubs are being sent out.... But that is not true, no customers at all have them. I should never have mentioned them. I have only ever mentioned them on this forum.
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In reply to Post #1420
We have always sold S2 16/12mm bottom bait barrels mate. S2 page, in the corkball drop down menu. S3 bottom baits we can do as a special order.
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In reply to Post #1416
The bottom baits are heavy Ron. They are 16/12mm barrels, which we have nearly ready in GPB1 & GPB2. We will also be rolling some round ones this week.
The bottom baits, we do not count into the tubs like everything else we sell. We just fill the tub up as much as possible. Thus there is around 45-50 hook baits in the bottom bait tubs, rather than a counted 35 in all the balanced and pop ups which we sell.
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Any news on the cheese hookbaits?
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In reply to Post #1419
I’m NOT buying any more hookbaits this year, but let me know when you have S2 and S3 bottom baits (and maybe the new cheese) as I’ll make an exception 🤣
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In reply to Post #1418
Sinky, wafty, floaty?
There’s probably an article there how stars use the new “sinky wafty floaty” baits
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In reply to Post #1416
"bottom" is the clue in your question
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In reply to Post #1416
The bottom baits are bottom baits, the balanced are wafters, and the crushed cork are pop ups
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In reply to Post #1415
Are the bottom baits wafters or 'heavy'?
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In reply to Post #1412
Spot on cheers for the reply mate I’ll order a few tubs next week then from you
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In reply to Post #1413
I bet his heart skipped a beat when that one rolled over the net especially on there. Impressive creature none the less.
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Got sent this photo today. It’s a late 2022 capture from Burghfield, one of the older originals the Saddleback common, at 47lb+. I know Jim’s a member of this forum too. Well done Jim.
S2
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In reply to Post #1409
They will be ready to send out middle, to end of next week. Beginning of Feb as I promised mate. We have loads done and drying now in both GPB1 & GPB2. We will start taking orders for them after the weekend.
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In reply to Post #1404
That's some fish.
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In reply to Post #1408
Any news on the bottom bait GPB2 Hookbaits mate?
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In reply to Post #1406
As J Vedder said the GPB1 will last a week no problem. The GPB2 contain a monstrous proportion of pre digested fishmeal in the basemix, which is Uber soluble. If you want to leave those out for three days, then I would mesh them in tights or similar.
Your biggest problem, will be keeping a GPB2 in the water for three days without something eating it. 😊
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In reply to Post #1406
GPB1 you won’t have a problem with the GPB2 I use the cray fish shrink wrap on them to make them a bit more robust as their a bit softer
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Can anyone tell me what the rough breakdown time is on the GPB1 and 2 is, I like to leave the rods out for 48/72 hours sometimes. And I wouldn't want to be baitless.
Cheers
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In reply to Post #1404
😯😯 cracking common that.
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Mark Harris, 50lb10oz, white S2 💪🏻
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In reply to Post #1402
Joe with a February 30+, GPB2
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Louis with a new pb, S2 💪🏻
GPB2
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In reply to Post #1399
I do.
You were too busy catching them to 'suffer' like the rest of us
Specialized hauling mate.
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In reply to Post #1398
I would not know about the ‘suffering’ bit mate, caught it on my third day as a member if you remember 😂🥳
My life has changed massively since back then mate as you say. Monstrously so. 😊
Thank you as well for the kind words mate, I hope you’re well x
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In reply to Post #1397
History fish.
That fish made many anglers very happy, or very slightly mad trying to catch, and not managing it in true Sutton suffering style!
Your life has changed a bit since then Mark this thread is a testament to your bait experiments and findings
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Had the sad news that Suttons Big Fully popped up and was buried today. Stocked in 1973, she was more than 50 years old. She was one of my first 40+ captures, more than 20 years ago. She made many carpers happy.
An iconic Kent carp.
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In reply to Post #1395
Hello Ned.
Just the website is all you need Ned. WhatsApp is there to get in contact about any problems to do with orders etc. All orders are still going out within 7 days currently. The next delivery day now will be Monday. Any orders before then will be going Monday.
Thank you for the kind words mate.
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What an incredible thread!
A stunning collection of fish, the pictures alone make a strong case for purchasing some of the baits but the detail and support provided is another level
I am aware you are away at the moment but is the best way to order using the website and whats app number?
thanks
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In reply to Post #1389
Perfect I’ll end ordering both anyway 🤣 can’t wait for them buddy 👍
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In reply to Post #1391
End of February we will have loads done mate 👍🏻
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In reply to Post #1391
A Frimley 40+ for Mark in February. S2.
I hope it’s not too cold in Blighty… It’s absolutely schorchio here…. I raised a glass for Mr F last night. RIP Paul 🥹
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In reply to Post #1390
Looking forward to the GB bottom baits
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In reply to Post #1388
None whatsoever mate. We will do a load of round ones as well don’t worry. 😊
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In reply to Post #1386
Is there a reason your only be doing barrels mate? I’d like some normal round shape bottom baits
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In reply to Post #1386
Can you do me 10kg of freebies
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In reply to Post #1384
We will have loads of the bottom bait barrels done for the end of February, in both GPB1 & GPB2.
It was impossible to get anything resolved over Xmas, because of trying to keep the Tackle Box & Fish On stocked as well as building some stock for ourselves. Normally in the winter it is easy, but this winter because of how much those two shops have been selling, it has been much much harder. I opened my mouth stupidly about them going on the website, but then the shops sold out immediately and needed loads more stock.
I’m away for a couple of weeks now, that’s why I’ve not been about. We have loads of regular stock, and orders are going out rapid whilst I’m away. As soon as I get back, we will get a load more bottom bait barrels done I promise.
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In reply to Post #1379
When are the GPB2 bottom baits coming out mate? I’d like to have some of them
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In reply to Post #1383
(having a chat with myself here )
Gave them a try last night and managed one, only a double but it was the only fish out on the lake to 12 rods, so a nice result. Solid bag of pellet/crumb and a single spod of corn over the top.
@TCarper any chance of doing a pot of bottom baits?
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In reply to Post #1382
...and received, 3 day turnaround
They are much "nicer" smelling than I thought they would be (GPB1), must get out and try them
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First ever order placed.... Looking forward to trying them out.
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Ordered Tuesday late PM, arrived yesterday - quality service, looking forward to using them when the lakes wobbly again
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Just took delivery of some new pots of S2s. Ordered Sunday as well so brilliant service there.
Only realised I was down to my last one last week.
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Forum member Leeroyjenkins (Sam) with two cracking winter captures.
January 42lb+ S2
31lb+ S2
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January Frimley brace for Mark, S2
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Russ Burley caught the biggest resident in his southern club lake for the second time in a matter of weeks, this time a January capture at 55lb12oz.
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In reply to Post #1375
Thank you
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In reply to Post #1373
Hi Christian
No that is completely normal mate. It's good moisture/condensation from the baits liquid cure themselves. Not water condensation, which would make them go off. We heat the baits up numerous times during the curing process. Then we heat them up again whilst drying them back out too numerous times. They are constantly subjected to heat, long after they are boiled in water and dried. When they are counted into tubs after the last dry, often there is still some heat in the centre of the bait... That can create a touch of condensation inside the tub after the lid is screwed up tight. That's what you can see there. It only happens in the winter. In the summer you will not see it at all on new baits from us. It's just a consequence of our curing process and the cold weather. Keep the lid screwed on, give them a few swirls, it will disappear completely. It's only goodness from the baits themselves, which they will suck back in.
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In reply to Post #1372
Splendid, thank you
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In reply to Post #1372
Hi TC
I ordered a pot of 13mm CC S2s and CC GPB2s the other day. They turned up nice and quickly, thank you.
The GPB2s appear to have a tiny bit of moisture in the pot, I'm not going to be using them for a few months, is that natural or should I leave the lid off for a bit in the house? It's such a minut amount I wouldn't normally consider it but just remember reading something in an earlier post about moisture and the baits.
Cheers
Christian
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In reply to Post #1371
They will be absolutely fine mate, they will be even better and more effective than the day you got them.
Two questions I get asked virtually daily. Ovbs this bit below is not directed to you Bey.
"My hook baits are a bit old now, will they still work?"... Or.... "What boiled baits should I use with your hook baits for best results?"
The second question, I've been asked twice already today regarding our GPB2, which is a heavy fishmeal.
The hook baits all get better with age. They are undergoing a controlled fermentation in the centre of the bait itself. It's all real food, and essentially only the outside is really preserved. In the centre it is not really preserved at all. There is stuff going on the inside of the hook baits as a consequence, which fish can detect very well. This means in practice that they get more and more effective, the older they get. They will lose some smell to your nose over time.... That is when they are just getting really lethal.
I personally use Poacher Baits SV1, which is a very, very heavy fishmeal based bait with our GPB2. No time to roll my own. I use their T&M freezer baits with our S2, just like I used to before SHB was even a thing. Can't show any photos of anything at all what I have caught, until I get the one.... Been there before.
Our hook baits will work with any good quality freezer baits. Regarding specifically the GPB2, use them with heavy fishmeals. SV1, Hydra K etc etc.
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Hi Mark,
I bought some of the early batches of your GBP1 baits. Probably know the answer to this, but they are getting on a bit now, look fine, still good to go?
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You may remember Russ Burly from a few weeks ago. He was one of the two blokes who won some free GPB2 in a Faceache comp and both caught a 50+ on them. Well he’s caught loads more since Xmas on very limited time short sessions. He’s also smashed his PB again, but I’m not allowed to show you that one yet…. But there was three 50’s caught on those free GPB2 now. That’s at least 15 UK 50’s caught in November & December alone. Gawd knows how many 50’s in 2022 😊
39lb+
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32lb+
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A nice write up from Ricci about his fishing in 2022. The big Wingham mirror was the biggest UK carp I know of caught on our hook baits last year at 62lb4oz. The big mirror was landed three times as far as I know. All three times on one of our hook baits. This has become a common theme with this particular carp. Over the last ten years it must have been banked 20 times now on our hook baits. 2022 was the year it discovered the garlic 😊
🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧 UK 60lber!!! 🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧
At the beginning of the year I set my self a target of trying to catch a 30lb plus Carp every month and of course, my target of the huge Common from my Kent syndicate.
I must say it has been a amazing year on the Carp front, fishing lots of different venues, fishing different styles but ultimately catching some amazing fish along the way.
I managed to catch a 30lber every month apart from November, November was a extremely tough month, I’m blaming it on the amount of rain we had, or at least that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it 😅
I caught 30’s from 6 different venues and that’s certainly something I love, fishing different lakes, constantly learning and fishing like this keeps you motivated and it’s something I will continue to do.
I had a amazing summer on my Kent Syndicate, limited to 18 nights I had 20 bites and landed 18 fish. On one of my last trips, my last ditch to try and catch this common, at 9 in the morning my middle rod went into melt down. I couldn’t lift the rod as it stripping my braid from my spool at such a rate, with no weed out there it done a 50 yard run before I slowed it down and turned her. My heart was in my mouth. It felt heavy, I prayed it was the one. Eventually I got her close, I saw the massive yellow body plod pass me, I knew it wasn’t my ultimate prize but I knew I was attached to the big mirror again only it looked ginormous! This fish fights so hard, it would be up coughing water then flat rod you on 20/30 yard runs. It would do this constantly! Eventually after what felt like an age I guided her into the net. It was massive! With my Mrs on hand help this time we carefully weighed her and the wheel of fortune settled at a whopping 62lb 4ounces! A joke of a carp, born and bred in the lake.
My normal tactics applied, loads of @stickybaitsofficial krill, our in house mixed particle with @specializedhookbaits hookbaits fished over the top… the ultimate combo that never lets me down.
I didn’t catch the Common, it hasn’t been out for over 16 months but One day… One day…
More targets set next year, keep motivated, stay positive and enjoy the journey.
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Mark Harris, Frimley S2. Weekend just gone.
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In reply to Post #1366
Everything loves them mate.
Always get asked if we have any hookbaits that tench & bream don’t love. It’s impossible to make a bait that carp absolutely love, and tench & bream do not.
Roach are the biggest problem with the GPB2. They attack them like piranhas.
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In reply to Post #1361
I've hardly ben carp fishing since I bought GPB2's back in may but I did have seven tench one night in the pooring rain fishing two rods on the same baited spot and five were on your bait with two on corn and I was fishing over a bed of hemp and corn.
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In reply to Post #1364
Cheers Mark!👌
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In reply to Post #1362
They would have gone early this morning mate, should be there tomorrow, or Thursday latest.
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Ordered myself some pink S2's the other day,to go with the gpd's.
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In reply to Post #1333
Happy new year all.
Quote Goose.... And be sold out by the end of the week, anyone going in there is going to have a sniff and get their cash out.
Graham, you are Mystic Meg. They sold an incredible amount just before and over Xmas, and ordered loads more last week. That's why I have not been online. I have loads of fish pics to post when I get a chance.
Pretty worrying for me, exactly how much they sold and how quickly, at the slowest time of the year.
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In reply to Post #1353
They will be absolutely fine mate, as others have said.
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In reply to Post #1357
Is that the yellow chocolate one? If so I had a few fish last winter on it and sure I had one on it over christmas.
I’m a sucker for a pot of hookbaits and reckon I must have close to 30 pots of Marks baits 😂 I usually just chop and change between all his various baits as they have all served me well over the years
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In reply to Post #1357
Not used that one but been doing very well on the GPB2 this year I do like the s2 and the gpb1 tho aswell done well on those
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Been a s2 and gpb1 user for some time now... Has anyone had much success on the s4?
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In reply to Post #1355
They will be fine mate I’ve had a couple pots since early last year still and they are as good as the day I bought them, going to be ordering more next month to stock up for the year (only Hookbaits I use)
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In reply to Post #1354
Thanks!
They still smell amazing, but I just thought I'd check, as I don't know much about them, or what preservatives are used, but I'm sure they're fine.
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In reply to Post #1353
They will be fine. I’ve got tubs I’ve had for many years now and they are still just as good
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How long do the S2s last for, I bought a tub of 12mm popups and some 17mm balanced, back in March - I assume they're ok just stored in a dark, dry environment?
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The gpb2 cc, ferrero rocher of the Christmas carp. Once you’ve eaten one you gotta have another mmmmmm………. Yum
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Merry Christmas all…
Lake was frozen solid on Tuesday. Weds & Thurs Ricci managed five bites on the GPB2. Best one 37lb+.
Mark S2 Frimley
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In reply to Post #1349
Nice one, can’t beat doing a job that you are passionate about
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In reply to Post #1347
I literally don’t care anymore mate. It used to bother me a hell of a lot… But now I don’t care. I get to make my living from my life long passion, what’s the point in worrying about stuff like that? It’s a good thing right?
Of course it’s still going on and always will be. A good angler is not going to give up his edge. But as my friend the shopkeeper Gary Peet kept telling me… Just take the money and smile.
Ever since SHB started there has always been a pattern regarding sales. If we post something on social media that gathers 2000+ likes and gets seen by say 120,000 anglers. That will bring a noticeable surge in sales.
But there has always been something that brings a far greater surge in sales. An angler will have a special set of results. We might not even get to see the photos… But we see the surge in sales from the part of the country where those results came from. It has been happening from the start. It’s got more and more regular. When an angler starts getting incredible results on a proper lake… Everybody else finds out pretty quickly, they tell their mates, and we get that surge in sales.
The big carp grapevine actually brings us far more sales, than a post that gets clicked on by 120,000 anglers all across Europe on social media. Long May that continue too.
I’d say we still get sales anyway from the anglers from other firms you mention. Everybody knows. You can’t keep nothing like a hook bait secret on a proper lake when someone is hauling. I’ve been told so many times over the years by customers “yeah he actually had that on an S2 I was there when he netted it” 😆
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In reply to Post #1346
He’s not going there. To be fair to Sticky, we get no problems with them anymore regarding any of that. I personally think that situation was very dependent on who the current media manager is/was previously. There were times in the past, when that position was filled by anglers I was actually fishing the same lakes as. There was ovbs a certain amount of bitterness there because of when they had their arses handed to them in an angling sense.
Plus back then, they wanted the Manila, to have actually been the S2. But that would have involved me selling out before we had even started. People involved closely with Sticky, knew exactly how devastating the hook baits were first hand.
Good luck to Dan seriously. I hope it all works out well for him. He’s moving to France to open a lake, he will no longer be fishing places that require the hook baits anyway to be fair.
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In reply to Post #1344
Tell you what Mark, I’d like to know how many are using your baits and claiming not to be, especially now they are available elsewhere
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In reply to Post #1345
“ The newer breed of carp anglers can all be fooled by sticky advertising. Good anglers know the score.”
Corrected 😘
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Russ Burly was one of our competition winners on Faceache recently, he won some GPB2. First trip with them he landed the biggest and most sort after fish in his syndicate ‘moonscale’ at well over 50lb. Two of the five competition winners (including a member of this forum) both caught 50’s on their free GPB2.
That sort of thing, is by far the best advertising and brings in far more/loyal customers IMO.
Results on the ground. Social media, ‘teams’ and the like is a monstrous part of carp fishing now… But still, results on the ground are far more important… The newer breed of carp anglers can all be fooled by slick advertising. Good anglers know the score.
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In reply to Post #1343
Unfortunately that’s the last photo I’ll be getting from Dan though. He’s been offered money by another bait firm and a different hook bait company to promote their gear. Best of luck to him. I always get asked when this happens, why we don’t just pay anglers ourselves rather than lose them…
Over the past decade… This has happened many times to us, with many different anglers who done well for themselves using our products. We have ALWAYS stood firm, that anglers use our products, because they are the best… Not because they are paid money to say they are the best. It only attracts the wrong kind of fickle/problem punters anyway that kind of caper.
If we wanted to go down that route, there would have been a Terry Hearn hook bait released donkeys years ago.
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In reply to Post #1342
Well done to the chuckle brothers lol
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60lb+ from France yesterday, great photo of Dan and his Belgian mate. S4. They used a whole pot of 35 hook baits in four days. A lot of bites, they both caught loads 💪🏻
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In reply to Post #1338
Thanks, I’m glad I found these baits. Looking forward to a restock in the new year.
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I am away with my missus for the whole of December, I will not be back until the new year now. All orders are still going out within days while I’m away (allowing for RM strikes). We have lots of stock. If you need to get hold of me regarding an order… Please WhatsApp message our work mobile (WhatsApp is free international). Don’t PM on here, don’t email… The mobile number is on the contact page of our website.
I hope you all have a fantastic Christmas… And hopefully England can win the World Cup for us… I’m praying for an England-Brazil final. We are off to watch the England-Senegal game on the beach later, KO 4pm here 😍🇧🇷🏴
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Gary Peet is a nauser Mart, he’s been trying to get me to put stickers on the tubs for ages…. We are having some stickers of our own produced over Xmas for the tubs 😊
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In reply to Post #1336
Well done Bob, some crackers there 🥳
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In reply to Post #1336
Take a bow Sir!
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I did post a few before the forum melted not so long ago.
Here’s a few I’ve managed to winkle out using S2
Cracking hookbait, which fills me with confidence
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Nice, posh stickers too! :-)
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In reply to Post #1333
😊
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In reply to Post #1332
And be sold out by the end of the week, anyone going in there is going to have a sniff and get their cash out.
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This morning, I dropped off lots of stock for both the Tackle Box & Fish On tackle.
Both should have them on their shelves/websites in the next day or so.
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In reply to Post #1330
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In reply to Post #1329
those baits should be banned lol
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In reply to Post #1300
Clint Miller had another incredible session this weekend on his Devon syndicate. This time 2 x 40’s & 2 x upper 30’s 👀.
All S2 crushed cork pop ups.
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GPB2 balanced
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Last year, the old man in Portugal who made all of the quality cork balls for UK carp fishing unfortunately died of Covid. Ever since his death, obtaining large quantities of quality 12mm cork balls, which we use in our 16mm cork ball hook baits has become impossible. For months this past summer, they were literally impossible to obtain in the quantities we require. All year our cork supplier has been promising us that the situation would be resolved... But it has not been. Prices are increasing at a stupid rate now because supply is very limited. Between myself (who speaks fluent Portuguese) and Gary Peet of the Tackle Box, we have been trying every supplier of cork in Portugal ourselves too, all to no avail.
I have made the decision that we are going to stop selling 16mm cork balls. These are all being removed from our website this week. The crushed cork pop ups, are a far superior hook baits anyway... We can get far more of our liquid cures into them than we can the cork balls.
The 12mm cork balls will remain on our website in all variants, because we have a very large supply of the cork balls required to produce these, that will last a long time. But unfortunately the 16mm are all being removed now. In comparison to crushed cork pop ups, we now sell a fraction of the amount of cork balls anyway. Although the 16mm cork balls are being removed from our website... There are some new versions of our products being added.
S3 page... Red S3 crushed cork pop ups to be added. White S3 crushed cork pop ups to be added.
GPB page... GPB1 13mm crushed cork pop ups to be added.
These above, are being added this week, or early next as soon as the developers can get it done.
After Xmas, balanced S3 in both red and white, pink balanced S2, plus GPB1 & GPB2 bottom bait barrels are being added as well.
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In reply to Post #1323
I don’t really get enough runs to notice patterns like that
But last summer at a runs ish water garlic won 9 - 2
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In reply to Post #1324
See I find GPB2 always out does anything else I put out, I like using the s2 and the gpb1 aswell but the GPB2 always seems to do more for me
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In reply to Post #1322
Interesting to put different SHB baits on the three rods. I have done that a few times and found that on any particular day the bites tend to come from one bait, even when fished in different parts of the swim. Last time out it was S3, while others baits didn’t get a beep. Is that your experience too?
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In reply to Post #1322
Will get it online and make an order. Thanks again
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In reply to Post #1321
No problem. Personally at this time of year I’d go pink or white s2, or an s4, in warmer weather I cant resist either GPB1 or 2…..my mate only buys s3 and occasionally nicks my s2’s.
They are all very good, I tend to fish 3 rods with a different hookbait on each as I can’t decide my favourite.
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In reply to Post #1320
Very kind of you to offer some Thankyou, but I think your right I’ll just buy a pot and stop being a tight arse! What have been your favourite crushed cork out of interest
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In reply to Post #1319
I’m not sure if they do samples but I would say just buy a pot, once you see them you will want them. I currently have pop up’s, wafter’s and bottom baits of all the varieties in various colours apart from the S3’s. At one point I had 22 pots.
If they don’t do samples, I expect they may as they are very helpful, PM me ur address and I’m happy to send a mix.
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In reply to Post #1318
Hi does anyone know if you can pay for a few samples of these hookbaits? Having never seen any in person don’t really want to spend £40 on a couple of pots before having a look. Times are hard😐
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In reply to Post #1317
Great help, many thanks.
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In reply to Post #1316
No mate, there is absolutely no need to change after every fish, or every 24 hours. The white S2 you have ordered will last days in the water and remain attractive. I've had so many fish on the hook baits, after they have been in the water for 3 days. I know many, many customers fishing incredibly tough venues who leave them out for 72 hours plus and are still catching. That 55lb+ common I caught from Theale Lagoon last year came on a hook bait that had been in the water for 48 hours plus.
One of the biggest advantages of our hook baits is the natural cork, and how we utilise that cork. It is not just about buoyancy, it is also there to retain liquids, and leech them out at a much slower rate than the base mix does. It's kinda like a two stage release of the liquids. Long after there is no smell in the bait to your nose, there is still liquid in the outside edge of every bit of cork inside the baits.
I cannot stress enough, they were never created to be sold to you. Think about that for a minute because it is very important. No one here decided one day.... "I'm going to start a business selling pop ups"... And ten minutes later created a range to be SOLD to you as a punter. Our hook baits were purposely designed for fishing on the toughest of venues in the UK. Never to be sold. That was just a natural evolution, because they caught so many more fish than anything else, and good anglers notice these things. Whilst fishing venues like the Ocean in Kent twenty years ago, long before SHB was even a thing, I needed a hook bait that could be left out for days on end, and remain attractive. That was the S2 which you have ordered, it just did not have a name back then.
Leave them out for days if you have too. Even when every bit of liquid is long gone, they are high grade food... Not some two bob milk protein crap mix, that goes into 99% of pop ups on the market. Which needs to roll like a dream en masse, float and remain like a rubber ball... Powders, that you would never put anywhere near a quality freezer food bait as a bait maker. Feed them filet steak, but cast out a baked bean. Never made any sense to me. But they are big money spinners with big profit margins for the bait firms. Roll em for pennies and sell them for big profit margins.
Leave any of our hook baits out for days in confidence mate. Fishing a prolific venue I would expect to catch two or three fish on every hook bait personally.
Later when I get a chance I will replace the photos lost in the recent forum crash.
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In reply to Post #772
Hi, I've just ordered a pot of these and wondered how long each bait would typically last.
Is it a case of changing after each fish or 24hrs etc.
Thanks in advance
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Tony kindly just sent me a photo. He’s also had 5 x 30’s up to 37lb+ since he won some GPB2 a few weeks ago.
52lb6oz, ‘Mikes Pet’ from Wraysbury, new pb GPB2. Well done Tony 🥳
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In reply to Post #1313
Yesssssss Tony! Bloody well done.
PB's on freebies... It does not get any better than that. That's just madness, two of you comp winners catching new pb's and both 52lb+
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In reply to Post #1308
You must of put something very special in those Hookbaits mark…
I also won some on instagram and 2nd trip out with them had a p.b of 52lb 6oz. Some kind of voodoo me thinks 😂
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In reply to Post #1309
Nice fish and a cracking night shot
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In reply to Post #1309
Lovely fish
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In reply to Post #1309
what a fish mate
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In reply to Post #1291
Quote… Hi mark , just wondering if you could do your GB2 as a bottom bait rather than a pop up or wafter?
Forum member Currymuncher had been asking us all year to make him some GPB2 bottom baits for his barbel fishing. You may remember a few weeks ago we done some. First trip using them, 15lb14oz barbel… Well done Chris!
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We gave away some free GPB2 hook baits in a Faceache promotion a few weeks ago. One of the winners, very first trip using them… New pb 52lb+.
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In reply to Post #1306
The Tackle Box in Dartford will have stock of our hook baits on the shelves in the next couple of weeks. This has taken all year for us to resolve... It should have happened back in the Spring, but we have simply been far too busy all year to be able to sort it.
Fishon Tackle shop in Kent had a large amount of stock from us five weeks ago.... It was a very large amount of tubs too, GPB1, GPB2 & S2 in three colours...All in both sizes, both balanced and pop ups. I had to tell them that we were so busy, we would not be able to provide anymore stock for a while. That is why they initially took so much. Yesterday I contacted them to ask them if they needed anything....
They had sold the lot, all of it gone. They sold out of all the GPB2 they had within the first two days.
They have had to promise returning customers begging for more, that they would hopefully have some more stock before Xmas... Being able to view our hook baits on a shelf, alongside all of the standard pop up mix hook baits clearly works very well indeed.
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In reply to Post #1305
I was going to say they look like Viv's fish, ive got some in my lake, not quite as big yet
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In reply to Post #1302
Yeah he sent me the photos last week Rich... But I was not posting anything at all online until we were completely back square again with our orders. I have eight more 50's I could post and a shed load of 40's, some incredible fish that were caught while I have not been posting online. But putting all them up at once on social media would just put us back in that manic place again.
The breeder Viv Shears posted these ones on his social media page a couple of days ago, he stocked that pit originally. That is where you would have seen them. Lovely looking big carp.
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In reply to Post #1300
Clint
Parkie’s had a few stunners from just up the road as well. Winter syndi starts next week…….
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In reply to Post #1300
Wow, Devon knows how thay make them so big
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In reply to Post #1300
Seen it on Facebook as well already seen it on a different page aswell but what a session ! They are stunning
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In reply to Post #1300
Just seen the below on Faceache
epic captures, well done that man
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How are we all doing? I hope you are all well.
Disappearing from online for six weeks had the desired effect. We are now totally back up to date with orders… Things got incredibly crazy there for a while. There have been nine premium UK 50+ caught on our hook baits during my online sabbatical... Six of them on GPB2.
I’m quite sure Clint Miller is a member on here, so I’ll post this one.
A Devon 50+ is an achievement… To catch a Devon 50+, 40+ & 38 in the same session is a right feat. All S2 crushed cork pop ups.
50lb12oz
42lb4oz
38lb2oz
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47lb+, new pb for David GPB2 cc. Lovely carp 💪🏻
GPB2 cc
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In reply to Post #1297
39lb6oz, new pb… S2
35lb S2
S2
GPB1
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In reply to Post #1296
So many incredible carp in this thread.
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Mark again, 40+, one of the old girls from Frimley a fish called Lilly. S2.
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Love getting these messages. I’m quite certain this is a forum member, first order last week… First time he’s used them, he’s absolutely smashed his pb. Well done again fella. White S2 balanced.
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In reply to Post #1284
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Andrew Parkinson, 59lb8oz. Caught from a wild 450 acre public venue in France on one of our S2 crushed cork pop ups. He only fished our hook baits on one rod... Double 30mm snowmen on the other rods to combat the bream. The one rod with one of our S2 on, produced his fish of a lifetime for him.
Andrew fished our S2 over Baitworks creamino freezer baits.
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In reply to Post #1291
Yes Chris, I will get some sorted out for you, as I promised previously. WhatsApp message the work phone at some point soon.
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Hi mark , just wondering if you could do your GB2 as a bottom bait rather than a pop up or wafter ?
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In reply to Post #1288
You will have them mate, get near the carp and you will catch them. Simple.
I am lucky to use a boat for the majority of my angling. I myself and so many of my customers, have often observed that over a large baited spot... After a bite, not one item of food will have been touched. Our hook bait ALWAYS goes first normally.
It's not PC in a world where companies need to sell boilies for me to say this... But it is a cast iron fact. Although they are 100% food based hook baits, they contain things, at levels that would be impossible to put into freezer baits which actually get consumed en masse. Thus, they are FAR more attractive to a carp, than any freezer bait. That is why they go first.
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Great insight Mark, no doubting that your hookbaits have taken some incredible carp!
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In reply to Post #1284
Hi Mark
Thanks for taking the time to reply and a very interesting and thought-provoking reply it is…! I got my delivery of S2’s 3’s and 4’s yesterday by the way so thanks for that.
I am a firm believer in wanting my hook-bait to stand out and be the main source of attraction in my swim, the one thing the Carp home in on….be that colour, flavour, size whatever…..so it is interesting that a good proportion of the lads you have highlighted use little or no bait when actually fishing.
Of course there is no definitive answer and what works on some waters may not on others but it certainly is food for thought. My syndicate is a big fish water, 70 plus acres with a big head of fish and it is generally a huge “bait and wait” water….lots of anglers turn up and do the same thing, Spomb out kilo after kilo, (it’s a boilie only water and some will think nothing of using 20K plus over 48 hours), and sit back in the hope that they turn up on you. It works and some have big hits whilst some obviously blank but it that scenario, using whole boilies, chops, crumb, round baits, barrel baits, more often than not soaked in litres of liquid food you may as well use anything on the hook as you are simply playing a numbers game…?
I have decided to experiment a bit and go the other way, introducing little or no bait and relying on the attractor profile of the hookbaits to see what happens….chances are I will be fishing over or near to other anglers old bait but it will be an interesting nonetheless….and not to mention cheaper!
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Because I have a day off today, I have some time, which I very rarely get. A nice story, which I hope it will be okay to tell now... His book has been out for a couple of years.
This is Terry Hearn's father Barry, holding the big fully from Frimley. A few years ago, he caught this on an S2, along with a few others, which he had taken from Terry's fridge. I was not allowed to show this photo at the time, because it was being saved for his upcoming book.
Barry has always helped himself to cork balls from his sons fridge that Terry had made. Terry had some S2 that I had given him, but he had replaced the lid so none of his mates who visited his home saw them. Barry took the tub, which contained just five S2. His first session on Frimley, he caught a few fish on them, including this one, which he had desired more than any other for many years. When he asked Terry to desperately to make some more for him rapido... Terry had to tell him that he could not, as they were not made by him, but by me. I sent his father some more.
Due to commercial reasons for him, and his upcoming book... I always kept this story a secret for him. And... No... I am not trying to imply TH uses my hook baits. It's just a nice story, about a fish that his father had wanted to catch for many years. He caught it the very first time he used an S2. Made me very proud at the time.
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In reply to Post #1285
Dans fish is from Rowneys on the Wasing complex Ian. A very impressive looking big UK carp indeed.
The fish Ricci is holding, is the big scaly from Wingham that later smashed the UK record (unclaimed) when spawn bound. A very elusive fish when it was alive. In earlier years, it was caught just twice in five or six years, on an incredibly busy syndicate. Both of those captures were on an S2.
The fish John is holding is Son Of Tripe Row from Dinton White Swan. Johns amazing results on the incredibly tricky White Swan, will go down in Dinton history.
The fish Mark is holding is one of the Frimley big mirrors.
The two fish Ben is holding, are the much coveted Wood Common from Spitfire Pool, and a poaching lake special. In my opinion, that is one of the greatest captures ever in the UK. It's from a VERY large pit, which contains just two carp.
James's fish is the big fully from Frimley.
Gary fish is Black Spot from Wingham, a UK 60+ at certain times, and one of the biggest carp in the UK currently.
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In reply to Post #1284
Some cracking fish there Mark picture 6 is rather naughty, lucky man what a fish, mind you any one of them would be welcome in the photo album, some special fish.
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In reply to Post #1282
Hi Spod.
They all use different freebies pretty much. Some of them fish over a minimum of, or no freebies at all, some fish over a lot of freebies. I'll run through some of them for you now that I know of, I got back to London yesterday and I have a day off today, so have some time.
Ricci Connolly uses a mix of Sticky Krill active, and his own shops particle mix. He previously used ABS gear. Ricci fished on Roach Pit with me, this was where we first met, the first year SHB was formed. He watched me devastate the place with garlic hemp and the hook baits. Ricci has used lots of particle in his fishing ever since. Ricci's a heavy baiter.
John Cash uses Pure Bait Concepts freezer baits, previously Sticky Baits. John also uses a lot of particle for his baiting up. John is slightly different in that he uses a lot of bait to prime spots, but during actual fishing time not much free bait or none at all. John's a heavy baiter.
Mark Harris uses Wraysbury Baits freezer baits. As far as I know Mark prefers a boilie only approach and does not use a lot of freebies.
Ben Jeffery uses them as singles in the main. He is an incredibly gifted & secretive angler. Ben has caught so many big UK carp that I am sadly not allowed to show you.... They would absolutely blow your mind. If he rocked up on your syndicate, no one would know who he was... But his list of special carp captures, is so impressive that it defies belief, proper ones. One day when they are all dead, I will be allowed to show them all. It will blow everybody away, that these big fish fish have all been kept secret from the public. Simply jaw dropping. Ben was also the captor of that incredible unknown/uncaught big common from a large no fishing pit, in the photo where his face was blacked out.
Dan Chappell uses Tails Up freezer baits, previously Mistral freezer baits. As far as I know Dan also does not use masses of free bait in his fishing.
James Sherman uses Mainline freezer baits, James smashes everywhere he fishes.
Gary Watton uses Active Bait Solutions freezer baits, and again is not a heavy baiter.
We literally have customers using every single bait companies freebies going. Our customer base, stretches the length of the UK. These days, we sell just as much bait up north, as we do down south. That has not always been the case. They all have very different approaches obviously. Our hook baits, are being used constantly, in every situation that you could ever imagine. I know that a lot of the fishing industry is suffering quite badly at the moment, especially bait companies. Luckily for us, we are having our busiest ever year. Our customer base has increased every single year since we started a decade ago. For one reason, and one reason alone. Results. A customer gained from a flashy Faceache or Instagram advert, is a very fickle customer... A customer gained, whom watched his mate that used to catch f all, suddenly turn into a carp catching super hero... Is a customer for life. One of the best lessons I have learned. SHB has changed my life, I am a very lucky man indeed. I get to make my living, from my life long passion. Nothing gives me more satisfaction, than the 1000's and 1000's of UK anglers who have caught their PB on my hook baits.
When we first started, it was said constantly that it was not the hook baits, it was in fact only because I was a good angler myself. That I could catch them on anything. I barely get the chance to fish these days. We barely advertise on social media anymore, we do not need to. Our customer base increases by word of mouth. The truth is, this thread is only here in the first place, because I was challenged by a former member of this forum, that our hook baits did not actually catch many fish. It will not be here forever, if I stopped posting on this thread tomorrow, it would make zero difference to our business in reality. Already there is now another hook bait company paying to advertise on here. Good for the forum. I think I have personally proved all of these detractors wrong after a decade of incredible results for our customers. Look around, at how many hook bait companies there are now. Every single one of them was watching us first before they started, and that is a cast iron fact.
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In reply to Post #1281
Sweet
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Would be interested to know what bait these guys are fishing over with the hookbaits...?
There's no doubt the hookbaits work but the overall Baiting scenarios must play a part....for example, heavy Baiting with boilies loaded with liquids would surely affect the standout attractiveness of the hookbaits...are they more effective over particle....dull flavoured or washed out bait?
Rhetorical questions really as I am sure each angler has his own approach but it does intrigue me!
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Last weeks trip to Frimley, Mark caught 10, this week ‘just’ the 8, topped by this lovely mirror. Incredible results, S2.
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Baits that work
Love it
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Ricci with another big common from Wingham. Half an S2 balanced & half a GPB2 balanced fished on same hair.
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Lovely photo, GPB1
Big Frimley common, part of a 10 fish haul, S2
S2
S2
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GPB2
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New pb for Steve, 43Lb GPB2 balanced
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Lush Frimley scaly. S2
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Target achieved rapidly, 40+, GPB2
Couple of Welly 40’s, S2
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GPB2
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In reply to Post #1272
Nice one lol i had just travelled back from Portugal long ass day 😴😴😴
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In reply to Post #1269
Was it the Specialist Sharpened hooks post you saw?I had a look on faceache and there was a post about liquids on theirs.
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In reply to Post #1269
Zero posts been removed from Faceache and nothing posted about liquids Matt. This was our last Faceache post on Friday and it’s still there. You must be thinking of something or someone else.
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In reply to Post #1268
That dark common is something special, that is stunning!
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In reply to Post #1268
Has a post on Facebook just disappeared on about liquids?
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In reply to Post #1262
that mirror, how nice
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In reply to Post #1263
47k 
Life’s good
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In reply to Post #1264
Thanks mate. I am trying my hardest honest 😂🥳
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In reply to Post #1263
Good for you mate, enjoy
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In reply to Post #1259
Quote… Nice.
Never been in the middle of summer before. I luckily for me won £47k+ at Royal Ascot this year and thought sod it! I worked like a nutter for two months so I could come. Work is in a great place currently.
Only live once and the scummy bookies are paying for it all too 🥳🥳🥳
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Frimley leather S2.
Lovely carp, GPB2.
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I'm pretty sure Ricci could catch in a empty puddle! That is an amazing session.
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In reply to Post #1257
Some nice fish there
Some selfie that. Quite a frame on that. Result
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In reply to Post #1256
Nice
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In reply to Post #1257
no words needed really mate
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Not a bad session on Wingham 😳. All caught on half a brown S2 balanced and half a GPB2 balanced. To put that in perspective… I was told the rest of the summer syndicate (very good anglers) have caught 10 between them all. Ricci rocks up and bashes 8 on his first trip of the year.
58lb4oz new PB. Self takes in dark.
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👀😳😍 GPB1
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In reply to Post #1254
I did not Nick no I’m in Brazil 🥳
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In reply to Post #1250
Yeah he was on the north wasnt he?
Did you see that sophie carp catching kid girl? she was brilliant gave all these big names a proper spanking in the south lake had like 8 fish I think lol
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Ricci returned to Wingham, his first trip back he has absolutely smashed them. It’s fished very hard this year, apart from deaf Gary’s incredible results in the spring on GPB1, not to much has been coming out apparently. Fishing half an S2, and half a GPB2 balanced, he’s just landed fish of 34lb+, 33lb+, 28lb+, 28lb+, 24lb+, 23lb+, 23lb+, 18lb & a new UK PB of 58lb4oz. This is the first time he has used the GPB2 on Wingham.
There is one big fish in there he is after, he must be so close to catching it now. Photos at some point later, will let him post them up on social media first.
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In reply to Post #1251
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In reply to Post #1250
Wow, all stunning but second 1 down
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James Sherman has been fishing a non publicity venue for the past couple of years so I can’t show any of the incredible fish he catches on our hook baits anymore… But this weekend was the Lucy’s bowl charity match at Wraysbury for guide dogs. James won the match with fish of 37lb, 35lb2oz, 29lb4oz & 24lb2oz. All on S3 13mm crushed corks.
Ryan, GPB2
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In reply to Post #1248
proper one that
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S2. What a stunning carp 😍
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I have been in Brazil for the past week with my missus. I’m here for the next four weeks until mid September. Anyone who needs to contact me regarding any problems with orders, please use WhatsApp to the work number. It’s free. Work is completely up to date with all orders, up until 20 minutes ago. Work is holding 6-8 busy weeks worth of stock, for whilst I’m away. All orders will be processed rapidly the entire time I am away.
I’ve worked like a dog this year. Time to relax for a while and spend time with my better half 🥳🥳🥳
S2
S2
GPB2
GPB2
GPB1
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In reply to Post #1244
Fantastic service ordered Saturday night received this morning thanks mark
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In reply to Post #1244
TC dotn forget me 18mm'ers, i got o MP in mid sept
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Done a quick overnighter last night had 4 on the gpb2glm bal and 2 on the s2 bal so impressed i had to order some more,
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In reply to Post #1240
Lovely mate
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In reply to Post #1240
Well done Cam, that's a lovely mirror
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In reply to Post #1240
Nice
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As per Catch Results thread
32.04lb from an overnighter last night.
A small SHB GPB1 in a bag with The Bug Stick Mix, some H Salt and DNA Mini Mix pellets.
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In reply to Post #1236
You won’t be disappointed mate best Hookbaits I’ve ever used by a long way, it’s completely changed my fishing around
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In reply to Post #1231
Fantastic... Thanks for the quick reply Mark.
Stunning set of captures by the way, some absolute corkers in that bunch... testament to you and the baits!
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In reply to Post #1234
Oh wow. That’s the height of stupidity 🤦🏻♂️
Received today. Thanks so much. Can’t wait to give them a whirl.
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In reply to Post #730
Just a big thankyou. My GBP2's arrived in todays post. I've got a particularly tricky venue in mind for them, and they smell amazing!
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In reply to Post #1232
Well done on your fish mate
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In reply to Post #1233
It did go to our junk mate. Please, please, please, text the work number, never email.
I found your house name on an old order today, they should be with you tomorrow.
I just went and dug out the email from our junk folder... Guess what, in the email, to tell me about the lack of your house name on PayPal.... You wrote out the supposed correct address in the email... But you AGAIN left out your house name! I could photo it to show you.
Anyone else reading this.... Always text or WhatsApp the work number regarding orders, it is on the website. Never call, the work mobile is always on silent and NEVER gets answered. It rings all day long. Do not email... TEXT message. Your text or WhatsApp will get seen quickly. It is also a written reminder of what is needed for us.
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In reply to Post #1231
I guess my email went to your junk again? My house name didn’t register on my order again
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Been catching some lovely fish recently on the GPB2 CC. Everyone I’ve shown it to is massively impressed with the quality. 👏🏻
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In reply to Post #1230
You picked a good time to order. We are totally up to date with all orders up until 12pm today. If you had ordered before 12pm, instead of at 4pm, you would have had them tomorrow.
As it is they will go on the next delivery on Thursday. Should be with you Friday.
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In reply to Post #1229
whats current turnaround on orders? Just placed one today
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Ricci has literally gone through the bigguns in Masons, like a hot knife through butter this year.
GPB2 balanced.
S2
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In reply to Post #1227
If you're only going for a week then you don't need to buy shelf life baits. It's not hard to keep bait fresh for a week, so just use what you usually do
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What bait are generally people fishing over with their SHB I need to purchase some shelf life bait for France (no freezers) I’m using S2, GPB2
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In reply to Post #1221
Superb collection of Thames carp you have there, well done that man. You simply can’t beat them from the river
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In reply to Post #1222
Just no words👏👏👏
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In reply to Post #1223
I tried 2 pick a 😍 fav
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In reply to Post #1222
Behave mate
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And a few fav photos from the river Thames…
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I posted an old capture on Faceache yesterday.... A CF member pointed out to me, that despite there being so many photos on here of my customers… There are zero photographs of my captures on my own hook baits in this entire thread, apart from the two fish I had from Theale Lagoon last year.
I have my first day off in 24 days today… So, here are a few of my favourite catch photographs from pits.
Poach pit
Englefield Lagoon
Sutton 2
Johnson’s Ocean
Johnson’s Road & Island
Roach Pit
Milton Pan
Burghfield
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Ricci went to Ashbury fisheries in Essex for a birthday trip. 40 degrees, he’d never fished the lake before. GPB2 balanced.
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In reply to Post #1218
Cheers mark, had an 8month break and them s3 doing the business within 8 hours i had both of them fish👍
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MunkyFunk from here (Richard) 43lb & 36lb12oz, the best of 4 from Welly. Red S3
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In reply to Post #1216
Super 1
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In reply to Post #1213
Trust me, that beats writing lengthy Animal Welfare reports mate 
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In reply to Post #1209
Cracking picture that
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In reply to Post #1212
Proper one mate
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In reply to Post #1211
Ricci had another lush one on his birthday yesterday apparently. Went to Ashbury fisheries in Essex for his birthday with his missus and caught one of the lakes good ones 🥳
Meanwhile I’m about to write on loads of poxy lids 😂 White lids GPB1, black lids GPB2. After that, boxes of S2 lids to write on too before it’s all gotta be out the door at four.
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In reply to Post #1210
Gorgeous mahogany mirror eh mate 👍🏻
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Bottom one looks lean with a big tail, proper fighting machine.
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In reply to Post #1209
That top one
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41lb6oz GPB2
GPB2
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In reply to Post #1206
I love that common, top left, such a lovely looking fish! Too be fair though, they are all cool fish
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An epic collage of Dinton royalty, John Cash, S2
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Gary went to Baden Hall this weekend for a deaf match, and caught this gorgeous 37lb3oz common, GPB1 balanced
Frimley 35lb+ S2
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In reply to Post #1203
Bangers, think that's what thay are called these days
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Forgot Ricci’s 🤦🏼♂️. GPB2 balanced.
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GPB1, 33lb8oz
S2, 29lb
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Gary had three in the end. First weekend trip on Wingham with the GPB2. All three bites came on the 2’s.
39lb11oz, GPB2 balanced.
42lb12oz GPB2 balanced
35lb8oz GPB2 balanced.
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In reply to Post #1199
No problem at all! Was just simply asking, thank you for the reply.
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In reply to Post #1198
I wrapped up your parcel about fifteen minutes ago Andrew, they are going tomorrows delivery should be with you Tuesday or Weds. Sorry for the small delay, we are stupidly busy.
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In reply to Post #1195
Awesome stuff! I ordered some GPB2's on the 22nd June any idea when they will be posted out? I understand you're extremely busy.
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In reply to Post #1196
Stupid hosting companies. It works straight away on my phone, but not on my Mac
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In reply to Post #1195
Good vid, awesome fish, had to download it to veiw but worth it.
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Gary Watton again and a beautiful big common. He continues to slay Wingham this year on the garlics. First one on a GPB2, 16mm balanced (he only got the 2’s last week) 39lb11oz. I’ve mentioned it before, but Gary is totally deaf. Does not stop him in the slightest!
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In reply to Post #1190
I would not even fridge them mate. In your bag is fine. They are food baits, and moisture in any form is the enemy.
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In reply to Post #1188
Thanks a lot for replay mate.
WIll get in a re-order soon
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Storing hook baits, what do you do? I've just kept mine in the fridge, take them with me and just put them back when I get home regardless of how long they've been out. Never glug or spray them.
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180lb+, these Siamese carp are even more addicted to the S2 than UK carp I think 😂
S2
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In reply to Post #1187
Yes mate they will be absolutely fine.
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In reply to Post #1186
I have just found a full tub of S1’s (crystallised outer coating) in my shed from when you first started putting them out commercially on scale.
Rather the search this thread will they still be ok to use?
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In reply to Post #1183
They just keep coming and coming
Brilliant
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In reply to Post #1183
Super fish, nice to see
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In reply to Post #1183
Proper
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Roach Pit GPB2 balanced
Roach Pit S2
Roach Pit S2
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In reply to Post #1180
Stunning.
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In reply to Post #1180
MEGA fish
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That will sort it mate.
Mark Harris & a simply jaw dropping big Frimley mirror. S2.
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In reply to Post #1178
I’ve got some old fox armamesh, I’ll give that a go.
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In reply to Post #1176
I butchered a pair of tights yesterday afternoon, done 8 or 10 baits and put them back in the tub. Can’t get out until after work next Friday anyway. I did see the shrink wrap option.
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In reply to Post #1172
I've probably been fishing for longer than he has been alive but if he turns up on my water think I'll leave my kit kit at home and just stalk him, he's obviously learnt something I've missed.
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In reply to Post #1175
Korda super wrap is only £5.75 mate that would work I do have some but never needed to use it so can’t say if it works or not
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In reply to Post #1174
I’ve been through my garage this morning as was sure I had some tights in the, nothing kinky, now considering going through the mrs drawer in the bedroom. 12 quid for armamesh seems a bit much.
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In reply to Post #1173
I mesh my GPB2's in tights, and found it works well, and no difference in catch rate between the two. I use a large hairstop too. The lake I currently fish is full of silvers.
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In reply to Post #1171
It’s not known for them, and ive never caught one, but they’ll be some for sure.
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Ricci with another one of his new syndicates A team. GPB2 balanced.
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In reply to Post #1170
Are there eels in there mate?
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In reply to Post #1168
No weed, it can only be the other fish I reckon.
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In reply to Post #1155
Getting high quality cork balls that are cut from one lump of cork has become a real problem since this bloke died mate. Glued together cork balls are no problem, loads about (tiny lumps set in resin), but these are terrible quality/buoyancy... And full of horrible glue.
The S3 CC are much better anyway...
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In reply to Post #1156
Hi mate, is your lake weedy now? The GPB2 do go soft as previously warned, but I have never reeled one in incomplete. One situation where cork balls struggle is after they have been out all night, once they are soft, reeling them in through weed strands will cause the paste to be pulled off.
So many times I've had anglers who have used cork balls all Winter and all Spring on their lake, but cannot understand why they start reeling in bare cork balls at the start of Summer. It is simply because the bait has been reeled in through weed which acts to rip the soft outer from the cork ball. This is likely what is happening with your GPB2.
Either that or silvers, or even eels. The trouble with having so much pre digested in the bait, is that not only carp find them irresistible, but everything else does as well. Small roach will be observed like Piranhas around a GPB2.
We can easily harden them up a touch, but this will involve making them less irresistible to all fish. That is the bottom line in reality. I am really loathe to do that, as anglers are catching such crazy amounts of fish on them.
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In reply to Post #1160
The S2 are a much harder bait though..
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In reply to Post #1164
I reckon this is the problem I had last week, lake is full of tiddlers. Maybe time to invest in to armamesh or similar. The s2 next to it worked though.
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In reply to Post #1164
Must be what it is as there are no Crays in the lake.
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I’ve had a bit of problem with roach eating mine down to next to nothing a couple times, funny enough though it only happens in one peg in the lake I fish, every other swim it’s fine but this one after about 4/5 hrs it’s all but gone. I no it’s packs of small roach because I’ve watched them attacking it in the margins very strange it don’t happen elsewhere on the lake though
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In reply to Post #1156
Crayfish in your water ? They are in mine and I’ve had to stop using them.
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In reply to Post #1156
Crayfish seem to be well in to the gpb2s. Whittled my CCs down in a few hours!
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In reply to Post #1156
I'm no bait expert but try leaving a couple on a widow sill for a day to dry out and harden a little bit more see if that helps.
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In reply to Post #1157
Don’t think so. I was using the s2 cc on another rod at the same time & that came back ok.
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In reply to Post #1158
my estate lake is full of silvers, ive had no issues
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In reply to Post #1157
I was using the balanced gpb2 last week for the first time and they came back in perfect after 24 hours so I'm guessing you had silvers or something nibbling them away
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In reply to Post #1156
Silvers pecking away ??
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In reply to Post #1154
Can I ask - after a couple of hours in the water, my gbp2 balanced are coming back with a tiny bit left or totally missing, almost as if they are dissolving. Is this intentional? The s2 cc don’t do the same.
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In reply to Post #1154
Shall I save the ones from my 16mm S3's and send them in when I need a top up?
What will they be worth? Will they end up as the same as old skool Solar tackle?
On a serious note I hope you get this rectified sooner rather than later but as you say, the CC's will be just as good if not better.
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Unfortunately we have run into another 12mm cork ball problem. The 12mm cork balls which we use to roll the 16mm finished cork balls that we sell are again out of stock. This is becoming a real problem now.
Last year, the older man in Portugal who made all of the the cork balls for Siesta cork, and consequently UK carp angling, died from Covid. We were without 12mm cork balls for a period of time. They (Siesta) assured us that the problem was resolved, and that a new supplier had been sourced. Between us and the Tackle Box we could not source high quality CB's ourselves... It would seem that this gentleman who died, was THE cork ball producer.
They currently cannot source any 12mm cork balls. Any cork suppliers that I have contacted in Portugal over the past week (having a Brazilian missus and speaking Portuguese helps) who advertise that they retail cork balls, have mainly not even replied, those who have, are all out of any stock. I can see a point very soon, where we stop selling cork balls altogether. They are simply becoming too hard to obtain in great quantities, and also far too expensive when we can source them. We currently have 30,000 on back order from Siesta, but absolutely no idea when or if they will ever arrive.
10mm cork balls are no problem currently, so we can still supply 12mm finished cork balls. Who knows how long that will last though.
All customers up until the last few days who have any 16mm cork balls on an outstanding order with us have been contacted, we will be contacting newer orders over the next few days. All customers have been offered the crushed cork equivalents, or a refund. So far every single customer has requested the CC versions. We do not even sell that many cork balls anymore in reality, CC's outsell them at least 5 or 6-1 for us. They are a vastly superior pop up. If this situation does not get resolved soon, we will be removing all cork balls from our website and no longer selling them.
Siesta cork & tiles cannot even say when they will have anymore currently. This will filter through to the shops soon, who's manufacturers all use Siesta too. ESP, TA, Gardner etc, etc. 12mm cork balls have become very hard to obtain. If you make your own cork balls at home, stock up... Because very soon, you will not be able to purchase any I would imagine.
We have knocked up loads of red S3 crushed corks, in both 13mm & 16mm to cover all red S3 cork ball orders.
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In reply to Post #1152
thats some CV of captures you have mate
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How mad is this. The Wingham biggun Black Spot that Gary Watton caught two weeks ago… He caught it again last night… Again on a GPB1 balanced. This is about the 12th or 13th time this normally 60+ mirror has been caught on our hook baits.
If that was not mad enough, the Kent syndicate that Ricci has just started fishing recently, he’s had two of the biggest fish twice in past three weeks. He has had that Strawberry fish again on a GPB2 balanced again. They don’t just catch them once, they catch them twice rapidly 😂
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In reply to Post #1148
Thank you Toddy for the kind words.
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In reply to Post #1140
Wow, thank you for the kind words Glen. That's a very nice of you to say that.
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In reply to Post #1129
No Joss never, I've meshed loads but never had the need for shrink tube yet.
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In reply to Post #1140
I’ve fished with Mark a few times, he’s a terrific angler. Very forward thinking, outside the box. Also stuck me in the better swim on the Thames - we had nine fish in three nights (he still managed four of them despite being in second choice) six went 20+, and a 29 each. Whether folk agree with him or not, there’s absolutely zero arguing with results. 👍
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In reply to Post #1146
Read post no1123.
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In reply to Post #1143
Any update on the cheese?
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In reply to Post #1141
Did you mean "extrolling"
Time for a clean up
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In reply to Post #1141
no one asked
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I've said before the catch pictures in this thread speak for themselves. Not so obvious from the pictures but many of these stunners are from hard waters fished by some very good anglers and these guys have total confidence in Marks hook baits which speaks volumes for the bait. What sets Mark apart from some of the very knowledgeable bait gurus is that he is also a very good angler with the ability to assess his work himself and tweek it until he is happy to release it for the customer.
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In reply to Post #1138
If you had your own bait company bait thread, it would be fine instead of posting on other firms threads
Have a word with Karlos, im sure he'd be happy for you to sponsor a thread
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In reply to Post #1137
I’ve got a huge level of experience with that ingredient and gave an ambiguous example of amounts for a feed bait that might compliment the hookbaits ( if customers are so minded to do so ). But then again you seem to not like contributory posts on this forum anymore Joss.
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In reply to Post #1136
then turned it into a freebie oh so wonderful formula, of which TC isnt about.
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In reply to Post #1135
look on y labels its always had cpsp90 on it lol. was commenting positively on someone packingit into a hookbait
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In reply to Post #1134
watch out TC...Mozzi know the secret
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In reply to Post #1130
Its actually ( with respect to mark, he knows I rate his knowledge ) quite easy with hookbaits, feed is another matter, but it all depends on what else is in there, with hookbaits you aren't taking up the large proportion usually attributed to dietary requirements, you can balance the binders and solubles more to make a bait perform how a hook bait should.
CPSP90 is a very very good additive one of my favourite predigested fishmeal's, its brilliant at 50% in hook bait paste wraps and will be equally effective in a hookbait.
for feed baits I tend to recommend 5-25% depending on the other ingredients used and intended application.
more more complex and attractive ( in my opinion ) than most ingredients.
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In reply to Post #1132
ive been doing it for yr in france for the reasons i mentioned, but also in winter on shallow estate lake, stops the coots pulling hookbaits off.
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In reply to Post #1129
Interested in the answer to this. I have some shrink on my but wondering if I should get some pre-wrapped...
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In reply to Post #1125
2nd
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In reply to Post #1123
Getting that level of CPSP 90 into a boilie and still have it be usable as a bait is worthy of a Nobel prize nomination, nothing less.
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In reply to Post #1128
Have you ever shrink tubed the baits TC?
I tend to do that when in france. Slower leakage i know, but more confidence when leaving rods out for longer periods of time when crays etc are present
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In reply to Post #1126
Quote... So best to mesh them, Mark?
Only if there are very large amounts of small silvers in the water Ken. I leave them out for 24 hours on the river Thames... This is always my barometer to a hook bait being durable enough in a 'lake' situation. If they will last 24 hours in flowing water with small fish attacking them... They are good to go on a lake.
Small silvers & naturals attack them like piranhas to get at the pre digested & garlic cure. I would only bother meshing them, if I was ever to lose them off the hair. I've not lost one off of the hair before, despite leaving them out in the river all night plenty.
They do wash out incredibly quickly though, I would recommend larger than normal bait stops, I tend to use the extender stops on the Thames which have a very large top to them. Small bait stops are not the one for the GPB2.
I gave some to Gary Peet of the Tackle Box early last year, he used them on a southern river all year long and caught loads on them. He did not lose any off the hair either, but did comment to me how soft they go, and how much the silver fish love them, exactly the same as I have found.
After 24 hours, I still find you will have a harder core in the centre. We have sold absolutely tonnes this year, and have not had one single complaint, only messages of incredible catches being made on them. It's just something that needs to be considered mate, they do soften very quickly indeed. Far quicker than our other hook baits. Bigger hair stops will be fine though.
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Received my GPB2 through yesterday. Looks and smells incredible. Taking them to France with me tomorrow, fingers crossed I get results like below 👀
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In reply to Post #1123
So best to mesh them, Mark?
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In reply to Post #1124
That common 
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Dinton black swan 47lb+
Dinton black swan 47lb+
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In reply to Post #1119
The pre digested makes them go a lot softer. In reality mate, you should not 'really' be able to put that amount of such a soluble additive into any hook bait.... And still expect it too hold together after a few hours in the water. 10% is the recommended levels in a freezer bait for those exact reasons... We are using 33% added to the GPB1 base mix. One third of the total GPB2 base mix is constructed using pre digested fishmeal. Uber soluble.
The only reason we can get so much into the GPB2, is because of our curing process post boiling. This enables us to harden the bait up sufficiently enough to be able to do it.... But they do go very soft after a night in the water. This has always been a big reason in why all of our hook baits work so well. The more soluble something is... The easier it is for a carp to detect in water. It's a fine balancing act.
The results have been absolutely incredible... And if I am honest, a little bit scary for me personally.
They are catching far too many carp to put it simply. We are taking on new customers at an unheralded rate currently. Everyone is buying GPB2's. The reason I have not posted on here for a little while, is because I am currently working 7 days a week often 15-16 hours a day just trying to keep our waiting times down to as low as possible. I get messages every single day asking when the cheese will be released... But there is absolutely zero chance of that happening any time soon.
We simply cannot make the GPB2 fast enough at the moment.
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In reply to Post #1118
Thanks Ken, I am much better now.... Just far to much work to do
Well done Cam!
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As per the post in Catch Reports
The carp seem to liking The Bug and S3 combo!
22.00lb last night on a overnighter.
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In reply to Post #1119
I’ve found the gpb2 to be much softer than the gpb1. Must leak loads of attraction out. Had four fish on the same white s2 last weekend, was about 6mm by the time I caved and got a new one from the tub.
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Managed to squeeze an afternoon session in last Friday, first time out on GBP2 on a tricky pressured lake.
The result was a 29.12 and 24.8, this was on the hottest day of the year with everything on the surface and nothing out for a few days and I could have added to the tally but had been done on all rods and bait had gone.
The predigested fishmeal potentially makes them softer, but carp can't seem to swim past them.
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Glad to hear that you've got over that stomach virus. Nasty things.
GPB2 look and smell fantastic.
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In reply to Post #1113
Got my pop ups thanks for the freebies mate 👍
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In reply to Post #1111
Congrats on new PB.
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In reply to Post #1111
Congrats Cam
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In reply to Post #1112
Fingers crossed for you mate
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Ricci with one of his new lakes A team, a 40+ known as the ‘Strawberry fish’. Mad red colouration by the tail. GPB2 balanced.
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In reply to Post #1111
Yes Cam, top angling mate well done on your PB and first 40 🥳
I’m doing my first night fishing of the year tonight on a river. One of them will do me too!
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Sorry for ***** photo of the 40.
S3's over a spread of 15mm Bug, both fish from the same spot.
26:00
40.00lb on the nose. A new forty for the lake. New UK PB.
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39lb12oz for Gary this weekend GPB1 balanced. Wingham has fished hard this spring apparently… Not for Gary though.
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In reply to Post #1105
Perfect. Thank you
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Placed order for 2 pots of s2 cb mate
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In reply to Post #1106
What's the turn around on s2 cb mate
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GPB2 balanced 30lb+
GPB2 balanced 30lb+
GPB1 balanced. 35lb+
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In reply to Post #1102
Going on Monday Carl.
Sorry for the very small delay... We are busier than we have ever been right now, and as mentioned I was out of the game for ten days with a horrible stomach virus.
They should be with you Tuesday. We should be pretty much up to date with all current orders by Monday/Tuesday.
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In reply to Post #1101
Really? I thought it was a pretty mild fish meal didn’t think they stunk at all
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In reply to Post #1102
Don't worry. just taking a bit longer as Mark has been unwell, I ordered mine on 30th May not got them yet but they always arrive.
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In reply to Post #1101
I ordered mine last week and not received a confirmation email and not received the bait? How long ago did you order?
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In reply to Post #1
Received today thanks….
The GPB2 stink to high heaven
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In reply to Post #1095
Following on from Gary’s new PB yesterday, last night he landed this 39lb5oz & 27lb6oz. Both GPB1 balanced again. Tearing up one of Kent’s trickiest syndicates 💪🏻
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In reply to Post #1097
Just placed first order of s2s looking forward to giving these a go after looking through this thread 👌👍
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In reply to Post #1097
No worries I knew they would take on time I just didn’t get the usual email.
Get well soon
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In reply to Post #1096
Yes Chris we got your order mate. Will be going this week. We are so incredibly busy now, luckily I’m back to work today after a week in bed.
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In reply to Post #1
@tcarper
Can check your PayPal orders?
I ordered some more bait but didn’t get a confirmation email.
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Gary with a new UK pb 52lb7oz, GPB1 balanced. Great angler, being totally deaf makes no difference to Gary.
35lb6oz GPB1 balanced.
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Mia Cash, new pb 26lb. S2.
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In reply to Post #1090
I’ve taken 5 Covid tests in the last 7 days and all negative Wayne. The flu I had to start with was all nasal/head. Not coughed once. Now it’s all in my stomach. Feel rough as.
Really bad again today. 🥹
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Get well soon Mark
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In reply to Post #1088
You sure it’s not CV mark???
Yes or no…….get well soon fella and get knocking up some cheese……
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In reply to Post #1082
Craig followed up that new 42lb pb with a 32 mirror & mid twenty last night.
52lb+ Belgium mirror. GPB2 balanced
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Thanks all. Feeling a bit better today. Just had some soup, my first food since Saturday. Never had anything like this that stopped me sleeping for so long. I got my first sleep this morning after four nights with nothing at all. I’m certain that was making me feel so much worse.
Thanks for the kind words it’s appreciated.
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In reply to Post #1086
C'mon man. Get it together and bring on the cheese.
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In reply to Post #1080
You best hurry up and get better fella, you've got some S2's to roll for me. I'm having it right off up here on some 8 year old cork balls I found in the cupboard.
And wash yer hands before you send them, don't want any of that what you've had. 😆😉
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In reply to Post #1080
FFS could you actually wait until winter before you pop your clogs..... bloody inconsiderate.
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In reply to Post #1080
Sounds bad, get well soon
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In reply to Post #1082
It’s like bobbing for apples ffs
Get well soon mate
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In reply to Post #1075
Quote Noj… Bloody hell, 2 days between his last catch report and this.. is that technically a dry spell
Just for you Jon, direct from my festering death bed 😂
Craigs first UK 40+, GPB1 cc
Ricci’s 2nd night on a new lake, GPB2 balanced
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In reply to Post #1080
Hope your feeling better soon mate 🙏🏽
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I’ve been literally dying for the past week. So many messages to the work phone, I’ve tried to answer a lot of them this evening but still have tonnes to reply too.
I had flu (not Covid) for four days, that was bad, but now it travelled down into my stomach… And for the past few days I’ve literally been laid up permanently in bed. Can’t stop being sick, can’t even keep water down. Terribly dehydrated & not slept at all in the last 72 hours. I hope none of you get this crap, it’s absolutely vile.
If anyone on this forum is waiting for a reply to a message, you’ll get a reply over the next two days.
As long as I Don’t actually pop my clogs.
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Another trip out on the gpb2 only hookbait I took and I had 5 fish out to 24lb 4oz, to put that into context in two trips I’ve had 19 fish out now on a lake where the owner said your do well to have 3/4 fish a weekend if that, there has been at least 4/5 other members on each time and next one with the most amount of fish is on 5 in those same 2 trips I’ve fished different pegs aswell so not like they have been held up in the same area
Might just have been very lucky but I’ve got complete confidence in this bait now and feel like if I’m on them I’ll have a few fish
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In reply to Post #1063
Just ordered some GPB2 16mm CC. Etang le fays slaying in less than 2 weeks!
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In reply to Post #1069
indeed, my yearly trip out
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In reply to Post #1074
my koi feed out my hand so might be slightly cheating
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In reply to Post #1067
Bloody hell, 2 days between his last catch report and this.. is that technically a dry spell
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In reply to Post #1069
MP = my pond
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In reply to Post #1
Ignore me I’ve found them
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In reply to Post #1070
Any update on the cheese?. Would like some for 9th June- any chance?
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In reply to Post #1
How do you order the gpb2?
I can’t see it on the website?
@Tcarper
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In reply to Post #1066
All my used pop ups of Marks get crushed up and put into stick mixes. I even use the corkballs to for rolling “match the hatch” ones where I'm allowed to use balls rather than dust…..
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In reply to Post #1068
Marpeche?
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In reply to Post #1067
im looking forward to trying these at MP TC
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In reply to Post #1066
Well done Chris 😎
Ricci’s first night on a new water, GPB2 balanced.
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In reply to Post #1
Absolutely rinsed a lake in France on 12mm s4’s they caught 3-1
Crushing up the used pop ups worked amazingly well
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In reply to Post #1063
I’m not surprised from the results I’ve been having on it I can see why it’s selling so well
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GPB2 balanced
Belgium S2 pink cc
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In reply to Post #1060
Sorry Matt I’m away until Monday. At least you got them mega rapid. To be fair the freebies are a first order thing too… I’ll Chuck you in something next time. Pearbo asked for mixed colours (which we do not do) so he got thrown in a free extra colour on a large order 😊
We can’t do any special orders now for the next few months, as we are far to busy trying to keep waiting times ar rapid.
The GPB2 is now outselling everything else we make by some way. People ovbs like them a lot 😊
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In reply to Post #1058
13mm balanced I’m pretty sure Nicky.
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In reply to Post #1060
I was awkward and asked for mixed colours of s2
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In reply to Post #1059
Mine came today i didn't get no Brucey bonus! 😭😭😭
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Just opened my baits, thanks very much for the little Brucey bonus.
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In reply to Post #1056
S2. Wafters or pop ups?
Pink or white.
Just wondered :0)
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In reply to Post #1056
Those Dinton fish are stunners, would love to give the gpb a proper go on there but the waiting list is closed.
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Another one of the Dinton A team from white swan, ‘Johns Common’ 43lb6oz. James Pails has been doing the do over there this spring big time. S2 again. If one of them would use the garlics over there, they would clump them. But year after year the big Dinton fish get smashed on S2’s… So literally none of them will even try anything else, not with any confidence.
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Pink S2 corkballs ordered hopefully bag me a chunk at Etang le Fays 🇨🇵🎣
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In reply to Post #1051
I think they need to change the name from Snake linear to Terry's chocolate orange what a fish the colours are outrageous.
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Hook baits arrived I think last Thursday but been away so only just got them, cheers for the extras, they smell awesome.
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In reply to Post #1051
Nice
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Another of Dintons A team, the snake linear, S2 13mm cc…. 42lb10oz
Boo from the forum last night, GPB2 cc. Lovely carp mate.
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In reply to Post #1048
That’s a very nice compliment, thank you very much 😊
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In reply to Post #1047
Isn’t it just… The bottom one is one of Dintons A Team also.
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In reply to Post #46
The GP1 is perhaps the greatest hook bait of modern times. I've caught on the rest of the range but I always revert to the garlic.
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In reply to Post #1046
That is a stunning fish that Ricci has, he can't half catch them!
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GPB2
S2
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In reply to Post #1044
TBG the BIG cheese.
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In reply to Post #1043
Bring on the cheese!!
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In reply to Post #1042
I'll take them all
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In reply to Post #1040
And the next one up
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In reply to Post #1039
Got my order today thanks mate 👍 out again next weekend on the syndicate if I can have even a quarter of what I had last time out I’ll be happy
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In reply to Post #1039
Bottom one, love the long lean ones.
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In reply to Post #1037
Cheers for present dad received order ready for acton and France in next few weeks fingers crossed
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In reply to Post #1028
Cheers I’ve just got a couple of pots, I will no doubt have some of the cheese ones once you’re sorted.
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In reply to Post #1035
Perfect mate thank you
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In reply to Post #1034
If you just order the normal crushed cork balanced baits and make a note that you want pink ones Mark would sort that for you 👍🏻
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In reply to Post #1029
Do you do those pink s2 in a balanced bottom bait like the others? I can’t find them anywhere on the website just corkballs
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In reply to Post #1031
Going Monday Glen & Shane 👍🏻
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In reply to Post #1030
Very nice but for me the one on pink s2 has it all stunning shape and colour.
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The view from my ‘shed’, is pretty lush today 🤪 🤡
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White S2
Pink S2
GPB2 13mm balanced
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In reply to Post #1024
Mate we are now so stupidly busy, I would not wait. Waiting times are just around the corner at the current rates orders are flooding in.
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In reply to Post #1021
Yes Frenchies order as usual, we have a pretty fail proof method for sending to Europe. We send very regularly.
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After watching this thread for a couple of months I've just put a order in for 13mm S2's
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In reply to Post #1023
The area of river I'll be on its more likely to be a carp, the chub are much further up river.
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In reply to Post #1022
On the boarder line of needing some more but going to give it a couple of weeks as I’m going to have to try these cheese ones. No pressure but going away for the weekend of the 10th June…
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In reply to Post #1022
If the chub don't get there first!
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In reply to Post #1019
Couple of pots ordered today but eagerly awaiting the release of the big cheese, believe it will be a killer big barbel bait.
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In reply to Post #1020
I would want to give a try to those baits, but im from France, do you send to my country or it's not possible?
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In reply to Post #1018
No worries mate was my fault I didn’t even say who I was haha yeah mate was a cracking session that 36lb that I had had only been out 3 times in 4/5 years apparently according to some of the other members they was wondering if something had happened to it until I had it out
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Not caught for 2 years. S2 as a single hook bait cast at a showing fish.
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In reply to Post #1017
Sorry Rich, when you text me I did not realise you were from the forum mate. Rich’s new PB 36lb, GPB2. Good angling mate that was some session 😎
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Put another order in today mate so I can stock up a bit after having that crazy session this week ended up with 14 out including that new 36lb PB I sent you in the end, definitely going to be my number 1 choice from now on with that sort of result I had, I even tried it against some others and it out fished them easily didn’t get a bite on other Hookbaits put yours back on and started catching again. Reason I stocked up this morning 👍
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In reply to Post #1012
i've just ordered a pot
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In reply to Post #1014
Nice one bud 👍
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In reply to Post #1013
It's on their website
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In reply to Post #1012
Would someone please pm specialised hookbaits contact number for ordering please
Thanks in advance 👍
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In reply to Post #1011
Often get asked how long the hook baits last and are effective for. I always tell customers they get better with age, even though they will lose a bit of smell to the human nose, they are still deadly effective.
The empty tub below is over 9 years old. Paul purchased these the first year SHB started whilst I was fishing Roach Pit. He found this tub with one S2 hook bait left in it, at the back of his garage. He caught the fish below from RP on that 9 year old S2 the other day… That’s pretty mad 😆
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Pink S2
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In reply to Post #1009
Thanks Nick for the kind words, but work still has to go on, no matter what’s happening in my personal life.
At the moment my aunt is still hanging in there… They told us she only had 24 hours to live a week ago, so she’s fighting.
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Don’t want to sound patronising but well done Mark on still banging out the orders despite the hard times you’re going through with a loved one. The bait game isn’t a social one surrounded by friends all the time and can be repetitive and leave us with our thoughts too much. Very professional of you to keep going. No one would of resented you if you’d needed a break but you’ve put others first 👍🏼
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GPB2 balanced
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In reply to Post #1006
They are going tomorrow mate, will be with you Tuesday or Weds.
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In reply to Post #1005
Ordered some GPB2 last week hoping they arrive before Thursday 🤞
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In reply to Post #999
My GBP2 & S2 cc arrived this morning. Many thanks.
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In reply to Post #1003
Lovely fish,good angling
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In reply to Post #998
Was a well earned fish that one that’s for sure 😂
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In reply to Post #997
CB1 aka cheesey balls
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In reply to Post #997
TBC 1 TBC2 the big cheese.
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In reply to Post #995
I was the same with the cheezie, devastating bait that I'd almost call the holy grail!!
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Lots of messages asking when people can have the new hook baits. We are far to busy to release them at the moment unfortunately. In approximately three weeks or so, you will be able to order them as a special order. They will not be going onto the website until mid to late summer. But CF members will be able to get them first, just like the GPB2 before. No one will get them until then, so none of you are missing out.
This was my table yesterday morning. That lot is just the GPB1 & GPB2 that would not fit into the two bait storage cupboards, which were already overflowing. An hour after this photo was taken the table was empty. Until our current rush for the GPB2 subsides slightly, we can’t do anything regarding a new hook bait ovbs. We are completely up to date with all orders up until yesterday morning… All orders still going out within a week… And would like to keep it that way this year if possible.
As mentioned a few posts back, I will not be about for the next couple of weeks on here… Please contact us via WhatsApp or text on the work mobile if you need to get hold of us about anything.
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Boo (Greg) from the forum with a lovely mirror. GPB2 pop up.
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In reply to Post #996
Edamnation 🤣🤣🤣
I like simple mate. TC1 & TC2 I think. ‘The Cheese’. Fishmeal and normal versions.
“Smell my cheese”
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In reply to Post #992
The new bait could be so unfair on the carp you should be sent to hell for releasing it.The name could be Edamnation,sorry I couldn't resist
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In reply to Post #992
The best bait I’ve used in over 30 years of carping was cheesy pepperami. The way it’s outer layer dissolved it was just immense. I almost cried when they stopped making it, in fact I’m still not over it nearly 20 years later
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In reply to Post #992
Nice, love a good cheese powder! Incredible for big roach in a ground bait, as you say the fats help. I think big fish know a calorific meal.
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In reply to Post #992
nice
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The liquids to a new hook bait we are going to release at some point soon.
Following on from what I wrote at Xmas on this thread about our curing process emulsifying fats... This bait will be based around a very moorish dried cheese powder, sourced from the US. Plus a very expensive hickory smoke. The cheese brings oodles of fat into our S2 base mix. Fat which I can then emulsify. I think these are very special indeed.
A couple of people have been given them to play around with so far... And they have been absolutely slaying carp with them. Stupidly so. They absolutely stink of strong cheese. They have not even been named yet
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GPB2 balanced, first night on a new syndicate
GPB1 pop up, Ringwood pit
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In reply to Post #989
Thanks mate... She was a lump.
She was my first english 50+, and my PB until last year. 2013 that photo was taken, Roach Pit, the first year of SHB, four months after it had started, time flies. I was lucky enough to catch her three times inside 12 months. All on an S2 I think. She was absolutely addicted to them.
She was caught at least another seven or eight times by others on our hook baits as well, probably more... Eight times in total on an S2 alone.
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In reply to Post #988
She's nice
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Well said Joss, there are plenty of threads on this forum where you can fight as much as you want, if that is what you want to do.
It's the beginning of May... There are so many big carp coming out all over the place....
Go fishing
I will not be about for the next few weeks. Please do not message me on here... WhatsApp messenger, or text to our work mobile for anything order related.
Try not to argue too much, it's only fishing, it's meant to be relaxing, or so I am reliably told.
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In reply to Post #986
Do what you all like re DM´s, just when and if it spills over into public viewing, i´ll delete. If it then carries on, i´ll ban.
TC´s thread, no need for anything outside of it
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In reply to Post #985
Can you delete bradders please - sliding into my DMs looking for a fight.
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In reply to Post #982
ANY posts outside of TC's baits WILL be deleted
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Thanks, it's appreciated.
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In reply to Post #980
Hi Mark,
Sorry to hear about your aunt, my condolences, family is more important.
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In reply to Post #979
Quote Bluebeat... When are you hoping to have these in the TB Mark?
ASAP mate. Keeping our waiting times under seven days, and also trying to give TB & FO tackle shops stock is proving rather tricky right now, we are already so flat out as it is.
Gary Peet is away on holiday, and so is Ricci. I had told them both that they would have the stuff when they return.
Trouble is we are working seven days a week as it is right now. I have terrible family problems going on at the same time with my aunt who I mentioned being in critical care on here last week. They have resuscitated her numerous times in the past week. They are not going to anymore and she is literally going to die today we are being told. She is only 62. This is going to devastate my family very badly.
I am probably going to take a back seat from even looking at the forum for a while, whilst all this gets resolved.
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When are you hoping to have these in the TB Mark?
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In reply to Post #977
Take this to PM you two. Before another decent thread gets locked
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In reply to Post #974
Quote Scozza... Please keep posting them, I like looking at them.
Thanks mate.
I think poor Mozzi is getting a little bit of a rough ride on this forum now from a few people. I remember Nick from the old RMC/Cemex forum twenty years ago. He was just a kid then... But even back then, he openly spoke about his personal issues with autism. I have seen him publicly talk about it on this forum plenty too... So has everyone else. Since back then, he has obviously been doing his home work big style about carp bait.
Could someone please tell me, why certain people are trying to wind him up constantly on this forum? In fact do not bother, I don't really care.
Where I come from... That above, is lower than a snakes belly, you just don't do things like that. He openly admits to having some mental health issues. So leave him alone ffs. It makes you look like an absolute weasel targeting someone with these issues, just for a bite. It is not a good look at all.... For you, or for this forum. Sometimes he can't shut up, and he says random things by his own admission. If you do not agree with him, just ignore it. But deliberately targeting him whilst knowing the above, is not on in my book and needs to stop.
I do not know him from Adam... I've spoken to him a couple of times via Faceache messenger. He
comes across as a nice person to me.
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In reply to Post #972
I can remember a time… When I could just post photos of big beautiful carp, without the added aggro
Please keep posting them, I like looking at them
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In reply to Post #964
Quote Shadow… Shhhh Mark don’t tell everyone, them S2 aren’t no good.
😂😂😂 sorry mate.
I’m off to work… The rest of you.. Try to play nicely ffs 🤦🏼♂️
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I can remember a time… When I could just post photos of big beautiful carp, without the added aggro 🤷🏼♂️
S2
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In reply to Post #967
Jeez, every morning before I start work I need to come and ‘clarify’ things… seriously?
Mozzi (Nick), Steve has been a customer of ours for a decade. Now I am having to post his personal messages… To reply to you, because you are ‘implying’ things, whilst trying to win arguments with people who are only trying to wind you up. This is the messages Steve sent me. No where does he mention your bait firm, or the other hook bait firm that you suddenly threw out there. So you are publicly denouncing one of your own customers as lying mate. Lying to me, or lying to you. Your customer just caught a PB, now is not the time to upset him or cause trouble for him.
If you want to keep your customers, please take this advice in the good spirit which it is meant… You need to stop now. Trouble is following you around, but you are fanning the flames constantly mate.
I’ll be telling Steve not to send me anymore photos... Just because I don’t need this grief. It is bank holiday Monday. Yesterday was Sunday. Both days before starting work, I have to come and reply to this stuff.
I like you Nick you seem like a good guy, but please stop this now on my work. They are just trying to get a bite from you...
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In reply to Post #967
He pops up,makes snide comments and never backs them up when asked.Im sure he did it on a different bait thread.Anyway let's not ruin a decent bait thread with some truly amazing capture pics
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In reply to Post #960
I know you would of mate you’re an honest one 👍🏼
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In reply to Post #965
It actually took a snowman of a specialised and a bait room pop up, so should mark not have posted either?
Who are you anyway? I don’t recall having you on my facebook
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In reply to Post #965
Shut up  
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In reply to Post #959
Don't get this 'caught over' - caught over gravel,chod,silt, birds poo -fish took a specialised hookbait
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In reply to Post #961
Shhhh Mark don’t tell everyone them S2 aren’t no good
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In reply to Post #931
Just ordered some GBP2 & S2, can’t wait to try them out.
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In reply to Post #961
epic fish and photo
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Lovely photo I think. Another lake record. S2, uncaught for three years.
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Never had any problems mentioning freezer baits used. If I’d known when I posted it I would have said so. Steve did not mention it.
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In reply to Post #957
It's not right to bicker on this thread, I made a positive comment about a friends achievement. I really do not care how it makes you feel that I say it was caught over my bait because it was. lots of it. proper hungry young fish in that lake. it'll be mid fifties in a year or two.
I have always, and will always, speak highly of the products Mark makes, as is well documented on here. they are very decent, and if someone wants to try alternative hookbaits over my feed that don't match it he is one of two companies I recommend. highly as it happens.
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In reply to Post #957
If you can read you’ll see it says caught over nicks bait
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In reply to Post #956
Was caught on a Gpb2...
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In reply to Post #951
Lovely lad is Steve he caught that over my bait, was completely chuffed. lovely venue too!
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GPB2 13mm balanced.
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In reply to Post #951
Another belter, well done
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GPB2 balanced, new lake record 44lb12oz, his first UK 40+ in 40 years carping.
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In reply to Post #949
I would not have a clue about that, and don't really want to get involved about other bait companies, they have nothing to do with me Mozzi.
John was smashing lakes using our hook baits and particles for years, long before he was offered free boilies by anyone. Don't think he's too fussed. I have enough to deal with for SHB, without worrying about anyone else's business.
We have had a completely new type of hook bait, ready to launch for a while now. But the GPB2 has completely taken up our spring, even though that's not a new hook bait as such, as it's just a heavy fishmeal variant of the GPB1... Demand for it has still meant that we have been far too busy to even contemplate releasing another different hook bait yet. I also have the Tackle Box and Fish-On screaming at me for stock.
These are the things I worry about.
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In reply to Post #946
Johns articles are good, I do think going where he has for bait is a step down from where he was, sort of a testament to the hookbaits that results havent changed lol
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In reply to Post #924
Ordered thanks
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Nearly finished my pot of gpb1, quite looking forward to trying the 2, might have to order some s2 at the same time
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In reply to Post #936
Ginger Ricci is a God, apart from being ginger ovbs. Yeah he works full time, employs many people and he has a stunning missus too mate. Drives around in a £100k motor. He has one official day off of work a week... The ginger ninja, he's also one of the nicest people you could ever meet in life.
Ricci was a part of a truly exceptional year for my business in 2018/19 results wise, one that I am very personally proud of.
Ricci was top rod on Wingham... He absolutely devastated it.
John Cash was top rod on White Swan... He absolutely devastated it.
James Sherman was top rod on Frimley... He absolutely devastated it.
Three of the very busiest syndicates in the country. All full up with sponsored anglers who can fish when they want. Nothing exceptional about the above for us... Until you consider that ALL THREE of the above anglers work full time and have young families. All three have a successful work and family life.
All three will not go fishing without our hook baits, for jolly good reason. None of them get paid to go fishing. They earn far better money in 'real' life. None of them get paid by us.
In fact John was offered a lot of money, by the biggest bait firm around last year who were already giving him free bait... Just to not mention our hook baits again in public... He left said bait company, told them to poke their cash & free bait and went elsewhere, because he has principles. That is how important our hook baits are to his fishing.
All of that above makes me feel quite proud
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In reply to Post #942
Current turnaround is still within 7 days at the moment. All orders up until yesterday at 10am, went yesterday barring two.... We are so incredibly busy now though so not sure how long that will last now the GPB2 are on the website.
Order today, they will go out on our next delivery which will be Tuesday after the bank holiday mate.
And thank you for the kind words...
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In reply to Post #943
I’ve used S2’s for a good few years now… Ive had more luck with them than the garlics. It’s all I ever use…. Love them in solid bags or as singles…
Had fish out of the st Lawrence on them cast as singles… these fish probably have never seen a boilie.
before.
It’s funny seeing more and more anglers up in the grim carping waste ground that is the north east!
Fair play to him, his tip on supercharging maize works really well.
I’ve not dared the garlic hemp though.
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In reply to Post #938
I knew it wasn’t a criticism just thought I’d put a name to the face, nothing in your post insinuates you did know.
He’s got loads of friends within industry who’d love for them to use his bait so another testament to marks work 👍🏼
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In reply to Post #716
Hello what’s the current turnaround times 12mm S4 cork balls?
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In reply to Post #939
I have used them for years and for me the S2 always pulls it out the bag! I have had few on singles in the depths of winter so much so I always have them on one rod now…
I only fish evenings or days generally and s2 have accounted for all my pb over the last 3 years!
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In reply to Post #939
Interested in any replies, as I placed an order & received a pot of GPB1 recently after following this thread for a while and although I have caught fish on single hookbaits they have always been the bright visual ones.
Gareth
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Having followed the thread for a while I’ve just placed my first order. I only fish short overnighters, and haven’t generally found single hook baits the one at night (much better in the day) Have people found the s2 or garlic successful when fished as single baits at night, with no other freebies? Thanks, David
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In reply to Post #937
I know who it is. It was a joke. Hence the punctuation.
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In reply to Post #936
His name is Ricky and he runs fish-on tackle. Decent guy, hard working, thus fishes as much as he wants lol.
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Does this bloke ever go home?! Fair play on some lovely fish though.
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GPB2 13mm balanced
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In reply to Post #932
Great photo.
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Belgium GPB1 balanced
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The GPB2 have just been added to our website, on the GPB page. No need for special orders for them anymore.
Every hook bait on our website has unfortunately increased by £1. Postage & packing has also increased by £1. It went up 25% alone last week in cost to us, we have been losing over £1 on all postage costs until it was changed.
We are still losing a small amount on postage even after the increase. The cost of cork balls rose by 25% in one fail swoop, without everything else increasing in price too.
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GPB2 13mm balanced
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In reply to Post #924
Nobody wants a sticky rod
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GPB2
GPB2
S2
Cam the MOD, while I was in Brazil GPB2 balanced over DNA Bug freezer baits.
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New customer, seems happy 😊
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In reply to Post #922
Well in Cam 👍🏻
Two very old carp caught this morning, GPB2 16mm balanced
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Had a 22.08lb Common Thursday night using a GPB2 Balanced hookbait over a spread of The Bug.
Camera wouldn't fire so was only able to get mat shots.
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In reply to Post #919
I think you sneakily slipped it in there in post 901
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In reply to Post #914
and didnt this time either
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In reply to Post #917
Well just let me know if you do order anything and I will make sure you get something balanced chucked in.
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In reply to Post #916
👍 more of a wafter man than pop ups
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In reply to Post #912
I'll let a customer answer that for you. I am sure someone will soon.
The balanced are quite tricky for us. Our curing process adds weight after boiling which does not matter with an ultra buoyant pop up. The balanced are rolled to be just over buoyant, but then they are cured five times decreasing that buoyancy slightly.
They are by far our most popular hook bait now by a long way. We sell absolutely tonnes of them. I personally use a 13mm with a size 4 as I like them held down slightly more for big carp. The 16mm are ever so slightly more buoyant.
As far as I know you have never ordered from us. Any Carpforum member who I know has placed an order with us for the first time has been given a free tub. Order some pop ups and let me know, I'll chuck you in a free tub to try for yourself.
They are now our best selling variety of hook bait, so they must be 'alright'.
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In reply to Post #914
Deeeeead 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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In reply to Post #913
I never knew he used Poacher baits,he's never really mentioned that before
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In reply to Post #901
I flat out refuse to believe you went fishing 😂
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How do the ballanced baits do for buoyancy. Ie need trimming with a size 4
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In reply to Post #895
What a fish,wow
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In reply to Post #907
That fully scaled is wonderful.
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In reply to Post #902
I get that mate,hopefully Joss will sort it now .
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In reply to Post #897
Stunning fish
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In reply to Post #905
Today, it stops, and if it carries on on your thread, i will simply have to ban. Im not in the habit of doing that, but enough is enough now mate.
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In reply to Post #903
I'll believe it when I see it Joss. This bloke is stalking me in plain view of everyone and he is being allowed to do it on here for some reason. It's been going on for two years now and enough is enough.
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In reply to Post #902
its not going to happen from now on TC, everything will be deleted from now unless its based around your baits.
Likewise, trawling through peoples posts are rather tedious
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In reply to Post #899
Why would he do that mate? His sole intention is to cause trouble with me every day now. They tried to get me banned for being a racist for calling him a 'Euro noddy'.
A racist with a Brazilian missus.
It does not stop. I did not post anything on this forum for two months. I only returned to defend myself from yet another attack from him. I am only EVER replying to what this man writes about me.
I'm meant to be working right now... Not sitting here going through this same rubbish with the same bloke over and over again.
None of this is my choice. I am being stalked online, by someone completely obsessed with me.
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In reply to Post #900
Firstly, condolences to your families loss
secondly, from now on, anyone on this thread that hasnt got anything to do with Marks baits, customers or friends, anything that kick starts rows, i will delete.
Viking, let this be the VERY last of it please.
Thirdly, i had a 29lb mirror last night, first night ive done in 18 months. S2 pop ups over Poacherbaits freebies
happy days
be good to catch up sometime Mark
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In reply to Post #898
You wrote yesterday that I sent you one free tub and then got angry that you were trying to copy it...... This is a blatant lie. You ordered one tub of white S2... I sent you three tubs. You and your black forum enzyme friends then went on a tirade against my business on this forum. Numerous threads on this forum about my business were deleted because of you and your friends.
The final straw was when the free stuff I gave you (brown S2 cork balls), was used in tank tests, of one of my cork balls against your enzyme paste. A boiled/airdried bait v paste. Even the most basic bait maker would understand how unfair that was. These videos of your rigged tank tests were posted on the UCN baits Facebook page and on this forum. You used stuff that I gave you for free, to try your hardest to damage my business.That was truly low.
The only way to stop you lot was to post photo after photo of so many premium UK 40's and 50's. Something you and your enzyme friends could NEVER dream of. Your friends at UCN went out of business for the second time... You and your pal BB's enzyme paste plans seem to have gone nowhere... And EVER SINCE you have STALKED me on this forum. You're a VERY strange bloke.
Everyone saw this above. I know absolutely NO ONE on this forum. NO ONE despite what you think. The ONLY person on this forum I have met personally is Joss. I have not seen Joss in probably 15 years.
You continue to post absolute rubbish about me and my business. It's been pointed out to you by numerous people that you are OBSESSED with me. The people telling you this who you describe as my 'minions'... Are not even customers of mine. Let alone people I even know or have spoken to personally.
Screenshots links and quotes... This one quote shows how obsessed you truly are. This was more than two years ago now. Two years, and STILL you are banging on almost daily trying to get a bite from me. Your life must be so sad, so terribly sad.
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In reply to Post #898
Why don't you take it to pm,everyone has had enough of reading it
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In reply to Post #895
(a lot of blatant lies too).
Mark, Mark, Mark.
I don't want to post in your thread but when you lie again I do.
What I wrote was all true and on topic of the thread.
Please point out exactly what I wrote that you believe is incorrect and I will come back with the screenshots, links or quotes to prove you wrong.
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Thanks Mozzie.
S2
GPB2
GPB2
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In reply to Post #895
I’m sorry to hear of your Aunts situation, please both take and pass on to your loved ones my sympathies mate.
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Park lake stunner this morning S2….
Flew back from Brazil Friday evening. Ten hour flight to Paris, then a four hour delay onboard my London flight at Paris airport yesterday. Zero sleep on the planes, heavily jet lagged. I got a few hours sleep last night… To wake up and rush to visit my aunt in critical care at Kings College hospital. She died yesterday, they brought her back to life. She’s in a coma on life support and likely not going to ever wake up. Real world problems. Whilst this was going on, my work phone was pinging from customers on here, telling me that my stalker on this forum, had gone into one about me yet again (a lot of blatant lies too).
Exactly how much longer is this going to be allowed to go on for? It’s a ****ing joke now. It may have been deleted, but this freak is being given a free reign to attack me and my business virtually daily now, and no one seems to be interested in stopping it whatsoever.
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In reply to Post #891
Stunning
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In reply to Post #891
WOW,happy days
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Roach Pit 35lb8oz, S2. What a stunning carp
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In reply to Post #888
Juan, and two
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This morning GPB1
Last week, same angler self take dongle broke so only a mat shot of a gorgeous big carp. S2
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In reply to Post #887
Yes I have 😂😂😂
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In reply to Post #885
Jesus have they even followed you there,have you named them
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In reply to Post #885
GPB2
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In reply to Post #883
Hi son. If you order GPB1 16mm from our website to cover what you need in GPB2… Message me back on work mobile with the full name on the order and what you actually require in GPB2. They are available in 13 & 16mm pop ups, and 13 & 16mm balanced. All are the same price as our 16mm GPB1 which you will be ordering from the website. Anything else which you purchase on the same order will come as normal.
That’s how people have been ordering them James. They are going onto the website proper this weekend, I’m back Sunday if the vultures outside my apartment don’t eat me first.
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In reply to Post #881
That deffo looks better than the U.K. lol
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In reply to Post #881
Dad do us a pot of them greenlip garlic please let me know how ya want paying
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In reply to Post #881
Nice one mate enjoy it while you can bud
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In reply to Post #880
Absolutely roasting Greg. Been quite a bit of rain this time (it’s their rainy month)… But still had a great time thanks mate. I’m not looking forward to returning to Blighty next weekend that’s for sure 😂
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That mirror is mint mate how's Brazil 🇧🇷 been mate
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I will not be around for a little while on here. If any of our customers need to get hold of me, please text or WhatsApp the work number. Do not PM messages on here, as they will not get seen.
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I’m in Brazil for the next two weeks. If you need to get hold of me, WhatApp is free. All orders are going out within a week. Not sure how much longer that will last, as we are getting mega busy now spring is nearly here. The GPB2 are going onto the website when I return in two weeks.
GPB1 this morning
S2 new lake record
GPB2
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In reply to Post #875
Well done Phil!!
I just replied RichP. Sorry for the late reply I’m just sitting on a plane in Paris waiting to fly home now. Please contact us on our work mobile regarding GPB2.
I’ve got lots of other pms to reply to over the weekend. Sorry for the delay, I’ve been away on holiday. Anything urgent please always contact us via text message or WhatsApp on our work mobile number (contact page of website)
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I posted earlier in the thread about the GBP1 wafters i bought being too buoyant...anyway ive managed to sort this by drilling a small hole and adding some putty to balance them out.
Ive fished 2 overnighters this week (7pm - 7am) on a fairly tricky little water where i have a winter ticket. 1 bite every couple of trips is good going this time of year -
Using the GBP1's - 2 nights, 6 bites, 6 landed, biggest 28lb common.
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In reply to Post #872
It's the growlers themself that give you goop. Maybe just a bad batch poor quality or old stock you were using.
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In reply to Post #872
You can get Corn Syrup off Amazon, and add Fructose powder to it - have a search back through the thread.
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In reply to Post #871
Oh ok don't know what changed then, I just couldn't get it to go gloopy like it did, I just ended up with tigers in what appeared flat cola , where as before I had a thick brown syrup all over the tigers.
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In reply to Post #868
I believe Coke made over here never contained Corn syrup. But in the states I believe it's used widely in the drinks industry.
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In reply to Post #869
I have pm’ed you mate about this
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In reply to Post #868
GPB2
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In reply to Post #857
I used to swear by tigers prepared in full fat coke, however around 18 months to maybe two years ago they didn't seem to be the same, they just didn't go as gloopy as they had in the past.
I asked the question on here, and someone suggested that due to pressure over health issues, that the recipe had changed slightly and that high fructose corn syrup had been replaced with another sweetener.
After reading Marks advice in relation to high fructose corn syrup, and how much the carp love it, I tried to source some and found it nigh on impossible in the UK and several posts from the US with health concerns, adding some weight to the theory that it may have been removed from coke cola.
Anyone else found the same ?
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In reply to Post #859
I copied and pasted to my mail and downloaded, info is transient.
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In reply to Post #865
happens all the time mate
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In reply to Post #863
Yeah and I’ve finally tracked him down after all these years on the missing list. Wish I could track down his Thames spots
I honestly can’t get my head around how people have the front to earn a living from ripping off peoples ideas in an industry as niche as carp fishing (was).
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In reply to Post #861
mark Holmes i take it
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In reply to Post #859
stalker maybe
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I’m back in England next weekend. Keep getting messages asking how long waiting times are. We are completely up to date with all orders up until Weds just gone, and all orders are going out within a week.
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In reply to Post #860
You have a good memory. This one for cokey tigers, the salt cured boilie thread, and the rotting garlic in hemp threads were all Christmas giveaways. At the time I was recovering from cancer (pheyocromocytoma) and stuck at home for 18 months when I joined that forum. I’d always been a successful plasterer who carp fished before that.
Unfortunately all three Christmas giveaways were ‘robbed’… The salt cured boilies and the fermented hemp both ended up in Carpworld articles written by an absolute northern noddy. Both taken from those threads I wrote… He made himself a nice little niche for a while at shows etc and in mags. The bloke is a total fraud.
The cokey tigers I’ve seen claimed as others idea many times over.
Luckily I kept my mouth shut about those CW articles, started SHB whilst absolutely on my arse… And let our S2 do the talking.
I’ve been in paradise with an absolute sort for the past five weeks… While the northern noddy sells his bum for some free boilie stops and bait at any and every opportunity.
I’d say history proved ‘what was what’ in that little situation many times over. Talk is cheap… Facts are facts and they don’t lie.
Ever since, I have been far far more guarded about what I write or say in public… That is a great shame too because I actually have a lot to say, I also know soooo much more now…. But I cannot speak about most of it.
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In reply to Post #859
It was quite strange that I remember years ago deciding to give it a go and being disappointed the thread had disappeared from Cemex. Then forgetting all about it for a good 10-15 years, joining this forum, seeing your name and suddenly remembering that post from all those years ago
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In reply to Post #857
Wow, it’s quite mad reading something that you wrote nearly twenty years ago, that you have not seen since.
Thanks for posting it for him.
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In reply to Post #857
Brilliant mate thank you much appreciated
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In reply to Post #856
As recommend by an ex member cheers for the tip.*As its Christmas.......Tigers are such a lovely bait, go really well with hemp as everyone knows. Been around for a long long time, caught so many carp its untrue. Never normally have the need to add anything to them apart from a bit of sugar. Except maybe....Take some dry unprepared Tigers (i like mini's the best). Place them in a bucket and add enough Coca-Cola to cover them by at least 6 inchs. Proper Coke is best, not the cheap stuff. Leave these to soak for a couple of days. Drain the coke off into something and keep hold of it, put tigers into boiling water and boil for 20mins. (if you do it with the Coke it just gets messy, and the tigers take longer to cook). Soons the tigers are fully cooked drain all the water off and put hot tigers back into bucket with lid on. Tip the Coke you've saved plus a fair bit more bit more into the now empty saucepan and heat up. Then put this hot coke into bucket with the hot tigers. Add a fair bit of sugar, stir it all up and seal the bucket. Normally takes a few days sometimes longer, what your looking for is the liquid to have turned into a VERY sticky spunk like substance lol.What when you drink it makes you want another can straight away? One of the worlds biggest companies uses the most potent stimulators known to man to ensure you do. Bet theres a few bait companies who'd love Cokes budget when it comes to making sure their product is addictive.The spunk that is produced is pure dynamite, and makes the stuff sold in the shops look like muck. It sinks like a brick intact when watched from a boat. Its the ONLY thing ive ever seen that can provoke a responce similar to hemp. Carp will dig the bottom over long after the spunk has gone. Ideal in the margins with a spoon on a pole or best when able to use a boat. 1 mash spoon of mini Coked up tigers (little is more) with 4 spoons of tiger/coke spunk dropped from a boat is a meal that few carp ive seen can resist, and if you add some salted up hemp OMG
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In reply to Post #854
Mark I don’t know if this is off topic so apologies if so, but I don’t suppose you would be able to post or pm the instructions for cooking tigers in coke you put up on Cemex years ago would you please?
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In reply to Post #853
Craig with a 36lb8oz common yesterday. He’s also had a 34lb mirror and another smaller one this morning too. Well done Craig.
GPB1
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In reply to Post #830
Well done on your fish Dave 😎
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In reply to Post #850
Only 53,you're slacking
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In reply to Post #844
Is that meant to be a cheeky slide into my DM’s?? If so, I’m waiting…….
Had another last night, nice scaley one on an S3 snowman. Pics on the usual 53 sites 😉
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In reply to Post #848
more banter
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In reply to Post #847
In the words of Charles Dickens; ‘naturally wicious’
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In reply to Post #846
its in my nature
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In reply to Post #845
Don’t tease us Joss..
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In reply to Post #840
nope, but i can delete you
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In reply to Post #841
I want to see a photo of your bag and tackle.
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In reply to Post #842
You know that Ian…….
Dave, that CSL looks very good…….
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In reply to Post #837
leave the negativity out or go to another forum where arguments are the norm.
this is the carp forum bait section. Literally the most negative and argumentative section of any forum on earth.
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In reply to Post #836
Yep, on an s4. Mark doesn’t make freebies, so it would be over another bait wouldn’t it? Want a pic of my bait bag and the rig?
Blimey, you try and be honest what you use - Jays freebies soaked in really good 2 part CSL (Mirage), and Marks hookbaits. What’s the prob with that? Or should I use bags of maggots and say it was caught on a “big” brand like a lot of others do lol.
Some people 🙄
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In reply to Post #838
👍Well said
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In reply to Post #837
Thank you for joining and then in your first post dictating to those of us that have made thousands of posts on here what we can and can’t say and suggesting we might want to try another forum.
I’m sure I speak for quite a few long term users on here when I say you might want to try another one yourself. Cos if that’s gonna be the standard of your contributions I can’t see you lasting long with an arrogant attitude like that.
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In reply to Post #834
I use these awesome hook baits Mark produces and have caught a lot of fish including my UK PB at 57.8lb on GPB1. I seldom go on forums but did so as this seemed a positive area for catches and tips. Please guys leave the negativity out or go to another forum where arguments are the norm. Well done the guy catching this fish on an S4 and I don't really care what other bait he used or that he posted on their FB pages. Just a polite request guys
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In reply to Post #834
You said this was on S4, haven’t been honest have you? Just want a bit of internet fame and back patting over a 29lber
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In reply to Post #833
I like to support “small” companies. At least I’m honest and not saying it’s all on brand x!
Don’t forget bait bros 😘
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In reply to Post #830
Nice carp. Bit surprised to see the same photo posted on Facebook under Mirage Baits and A Bait. You covered the pop up, dip and freebies well, but I was disappointed that you haven't mentioned any particle or pellet providers, as then you could have had a famous five of bait companies with your pic. Still a hat trick is a decent effort...
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In reply to Post #830
nice work mate
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In reply to Post #829
If you trim them, make sure you take lumps of cork out, not boile. Otherwise they’ll get more buoyant
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In reply to Post #828
29+ just after dark. Scaley ones are the best….. On the S4 with a mild case of hat hair.
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In reply to Post #828
Says GBP1 balanced. I think I Might have been send pop ups
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In reply to Post #826
My balanced all sink with a size 6 mugga. What does it say on the lid?
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In reply to Post #826
Bore out some of the middle and add putty
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In reply to Post #823
I’m not sure even a size 2 would balance them. I must’ve trimmed off more than half the bait and they were still pulling up a size 5 with a micro swivel. I’m wondering if I’ve been sent pop ups by accident
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In reply to Post #824
Which in a week usually
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In reply to Post #823
Quick question on delivery times, not that I’m in any rush but just wondered approx how long it takes once you’ve placed an order?
Thanks
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In reply to Post #822
You're right , I don't see a problem with uber buoyant hook baits. It just means you can use a bigger hook. If it's balanced a size 2 shouldn't be a problem. It's only in you're mind where it doesn't work.
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In reply to Post #820
Pull out lumps of cork, that’s where the bouyancy is.
Or use it to your advantage to use a bigger, heavier hook……
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From my understanding the whole point of the curing process with the crushed cork baits is that it penetrates rather than coats. You should be fine cutting down a bit.
Another option could be low diameter bait drill and poke a bit of lead wire from your leadcore in.
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Hi All - i have some of the GPB1's cork dust balanced baits, but theyre much to bouyant to be balanced out by my usual size. Any tips for the best way to balance them out - i dont really like cutting pieces off as all the coating is removed
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In reply to Post #818
Cheers, that's a good analogy. I didn't think there'd be any issue but just wanted another opinion.
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In reply to Post #817
Yup think of it like a cherry on top of the cake
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This is a general question for anyone really. I've gone from using my regular foodbait to a fruity fish meal,
Generally use S3 & S4, would you be all still happy to use these over fishmeal, I'd say absolutely no problem; but I'd like some feedback if possible.
GP.
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I have worked every single day for the past six weeks… Only day off was Xmas day…. But now … I have 5 weeks in paradise with my missus. Yeee haaa 🤩🇧🇷❤️
We are completely up to date with all orders… And have enough stock done to raise the titanic whilst I am away. All orders will be going out as normal while I’m away.
If you need to contact us for any reason until the end of February… WhatsApp and WhatsApp alone is the way forwards. (Free).
I hope it’s not to cold in Blighty… It’s 32 degrees here today 🥳
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This morning, with half of the lake frozen. GPB1 balanced.
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In reply to Post #811
Great effort.
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In reply to Post #810
There is no plan to mate. But we can do them for you no problem as a special order, if you contact us via message on the work mobile.
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In reply to Post #811
Yes Dave! Well done mate!
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Bit on the chilly side last night, but S2 Crushed Corks ftw
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In reply to Post #650
Will you be producing these in cork balls?
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In reply to Post #808
'Sea salt plum' and 'Sea salt bacon' mate.
I think that will be longer than three years ago... More like 5 years ago at least. They should be absolutely fine.
Please, please, please anyone that ever needs to contact us... Always contact us via WhatsApp or text. The work mobile number, is on the contact page of our website. Email or PM via this forum, is likely to see you waiting days for a reply.... A WhatsApp message or text, will see your query answered so much quicker, normally within minutes.
We currently have 15,675 unread mails on our work email account. More spam than Tescos.
The work phone, is always on silent for calls, or we would never get any work done all week. Sending a message to the work mobile, is always the way to get hold of us. If regarding an order, please always include the full name on the order in your message.
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In reply to Post #805
Just put and order in now. Looking forward to trying the GBP2 as well as the faithful originals.
On another note, I have some really old SSP and SSB I think. I can’t for the life of me remember what that are exactly. Can you shed any light on what they are?
Also will they still effective after 3 years sitting in the shed?
Thanks
MH
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In reply to Post #805
Hi Mark - i sent you a PM if you have 5 mins to check?
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Got my order mate thanks for the free pot much appreciated 👍
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GPB2
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Mark Harris with Charlie’s Mate from Frimley, 53lb. White S2.
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In reply to Post #796
As Dave kindly said, they are made using the same base mix and liquids as the GPB1, with the addition of 33% pre-digested fishmeal and GLM being added to the base mix.
Put simply....The GPB1 contains no fishmeal whatsoever, the GPB2 contains lashings of the finest fishmeal.
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In reply to Post #798
Thank you!
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In reply to Post #796
A lot of GLM and pre-dig fishmeal in the 2's.
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Just had my first order. Came within two days. What a smell and taste on the GPb 1. Cant wait to try them now. Great service, thank you
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In reply to Post #793
Hi - I had a look on website but couldn't see it, can you tell me what difference between gpb1 and 2 is?
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In reply to Post #793
Nice one mate will place a order now
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In reply to Post #792
Rapid Greg. Where we cleared all of our Christmas orders yesterday, anything ordered today/tomorrow will be going out on our next delivery, which is Monday.
As before... Order 16mm GPB1 cc from our website, to cover what you need in GPB2… Text message or WhatsApp me on our work mobile as soon as you have done it, with the full name on the order, and what you actually require in GPB2. Anything else on the same order will come as normal.
We have loads of everything including GPB2 in stock, we have those in 13/16mm pop ups & 13/16mm balanced.
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What's the turn around on gpb2 cc and s2 cc mate
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In reply to Post #790
Well done Greg! Hopefully you'll be on for a few more in that case
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Thanks Mark. Seem to be in a bit of a purple patch at the moment. Think there’s been 8 fish out since Monday and I’ve managed 5 of them. Supposed to be going home tomorrow but been given permission to stay til Friday 😃 so hopefully have a couple more
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In reply to Post #780
Greg again with a beautiful carp from today. One of five so far. This time S4, fished over Bug & S7. Well done again Greg 🥳
Our first delivery after a very busy Christmas period went this morning. We are completely up to date with all orders.
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In reply to Post #786
As Jim said a small bit of lead wire from inside lead core, a couple of tuns around the shank and trim to perfectly balance. We have to make them buoyant enough for a range of hook sizes from 2 up.
Also though, the base mix has zero buoyancy, it's food, not pop up mix. Hacking away at that will only make them even more buoyant. Trim visible lumps of cork that you can see from the outside. This will also reduce the buoyancy for you mate.
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In reply to Post #786
Lead core wire your hook Andy
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what size hooks are you using for the balanced baits?? I've made a couple of rigs tonight,slip-d size 6 gardner mugga and the balanced baits are sitting like a pop up,ive tried trimming them down but they'e having to be whittled right down to get then balanced
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In reply to Post #784
Some great winter fish well done all
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36lb8oz day ticket Christmas cracker for forum member Keebs. One of our new 13mm GPB2 balanced fished over a very light scattering of B5, black snail & tricknut boilies.
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In reply to Post #782
Thanks Ken
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In reply to Post #778
Cracker, 'Leroy'. What a beauty of a PB.
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Well done Greg! That’s a pukka photo in the winter fog. GPB2 as well 🥳
All I told Greg to do was cut the top quarter off of one of our 16mm crushed corks with a serrated sharp knife. To fish them flat side up on a suitable pop up rig. To fish them over half baits. This has always been a proper edge. Carp only see round pop ups. A round pop up in a carp’s mouth, is incredibly easy for them to deal with. Putting a flat edge on a pop up makes the mechanics of any rig work so much better. Pressured carp will often pick up halved baits with gusto, even when they are slightly wary of round balls. When a flat sided bait is on the rig… When they try to spit it out, it flies at weird angles in their mouth, unlike a round ball which flies out of their mouth in a straight line. One will get you far more bites. It’s not the round ball either.
All of our 16/17mm crushed corks are suitable to do this with. They will still hold up a big hook forever. I’d much rather trim a 16mm flat than use a 13mm personally.
Well done Greg 🥳
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In reply to Post #775
Managed to catch a nice common yesterday morning whilst packing up thinking I’d had a blank while people around me were catching 😂 used the GPB2’s for the first time and also how you said to fish them 😃 just whatsapped you some pics
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Sam (Leeroyjenkins) 46lb personal best…. S2.
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Frimley yesterday 30lb+. Mark Harris S2.
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In reply to Post #774
F1's mate. We made a load last winter. Been far too busy this winter to make anything like that unfortunately.
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In reply to Post #773
Yes mate we have loads done in both 13 & 17mm. Add white S2 balanced to your order (same price), and then WhatsApp or text our work mobile number, with exactly what you require in the order.
That is what folks have been doing to order the GPB2 as well, simply ordering GPB1 from our website (same price) and then texting our WhatApping us with the sizes and variant they require the GPB2 in (13 or 16mm pop ups/13 or 16mm balanced).
Anything else on the same order will obviously come as normal.
It's very important to message me as soon as the order is placed, adding the full name on the order too. So I can pull it straight out, and make sure the correct items get sent.
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When was the last time you made F2s mark? I have tub of those plus balanced ones I bought of someone on here.....
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In reply to Post #771
Good to know, thanks Mark.
Do you have any pink balanced S2 at the minute?
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In reply to Post #764
Quote… Took delivery of some 12mm S2's yesterday. They have always served me well when it gets cold and bleak.
Lovely PM from Sam (Leeroyjenkins)…. If you can’t read the text it says “No joke, lake has not done a fish since 23rd November. One of those S2’s I just had delivered, flicked out, 10 mins later, 46lb mirror”.
Bloody well done Sam!!!! I just see on another post it’s your new pb too 🥳
Show us a better photo when you get home. Bloody well done mate 🥳
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In reply to Post #770
They will be even better than fine mate. They will have lost their smell to your nose. But that has only all been sucked inside.
They will be super effective. I have customers that would pay you double the value for that older tub
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In reply to Post #768
Hi Mark, how long would you say the 'shelf life' of the S2 CC would be? I have a couple of pots about 2/3 years old that have started to turn a bit. Sounds like these would actually still be good to use?
Thanks
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In reply to Post #768
Thanks Mark. Really fascinating insight.
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In reply to Post #767
Part 2
That fat, and the emulsification of it, is one of the greatest reasons our hook baits are so effective in my humble opinion. We are doing lots of things, that no one else in our industry has been doing over the past decade. Many speak of 'curing' or 'culturing', or any other variant of a similar theme since we first started... The truth is though, they have never had the first clue what we are actually doing, or more importantly, why we are doing it. That's the other reason I have to be very wary about what I have always let out in public... It's a dog eat dog world out there, as I have found out so many times along the way.
Our company logo, has always been a hook bait, with whirlwinds surrounding it. I have often spoken over the years of our hook baits getting substantially better, with age... Here is the reason why. We do not add preservatives at the rolling stage of our bait, or any liquids other than fresh egg whatsoever. None of the liquids are harmed/damaged by extremely high temperatures (100c). The shelf life, is added via the outside of the bait, once they are finished being palm rolled. The very centre of the bait, does not ever see this preservation, and this is very important, as in exactly what I am referring to now. They are pure food, made with fresh eggs. The preservation is done using natural products to the very outside of the hook bait. Air is not allowed to get near that food inside, thus keeping the hook bait preserved over long periods. But inside the hook bait itself... Just like our company logo... There is a whirlwind slowly going on, a whirlwind which increases over time. They are actually 'ripening' with age.
I hope that some of our customers found some of that interesting.
Have a wonderful Christmas with your families all of you.
Regards
Mark
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I promised you all a while ago that I would write something about fats on here when I got the time. Here it is, I hope some of you bait enthusiasts on here enjoy it and glean something useful from it.
The great attraction of fat to carp, emulsifying those fats.
The fish which we all desire to catch (carp), love fat and are very highly attracted to it. If you think of things, which really attract carp better than anything else, fat is always normally involved very highly indeed in the whole equation. Peanuts are around 50% fat. Hemp seed is between 30-50% fat. Trout/halibut pellets are covered in fish oil, fish oil is virtually purely made up of different fats. 30% omega 3s, the rest is made of other different types of fat. Even maggots, are made up of 25% fat. That's just a few things, that we all know carp love... A few natural things, which attract carp better than anything else. All of them, are very high indeed in fat. Emulsification of fats, is a very important part of our own human bodies workings. Our digestive system relies heavily on naturally produced glycerol, to break those fats down, when they get into our lower intestine and are digested.
A carp has a much simpler gut than a human being. But in a similar vein to humans, also similar to every other living thing on the planet, they rely heavily on salts, sugars & fats to survive. They find these things incredibly attractive for that very reason. I will now let you into a very closely guarded secret of mine, a secret which I have kept to myself for well over a decade. For commercial reasons I had too. I am not a scientist, and do not purport to be. But 1000's of UK anglers personal bests using our hook baits, gives me a small basis, with which to share some of the secrets as too 'why' exactly those 1000's of anglers caught their personal bests using our products.
Our hook baits are made of pure food. Very highly attractive food. We do not use inferior pop up mixes like everyone else does. We use pure food in every single one of our hook baits. That food, is very high in fats. I purposely will use ingredients that are extremely high in fat, in every single one of our base mixes. The reason for this, is because with our curing process, I can drag that fat out of the hook bait, and highly emulsify it. Break it down, and then put it back inside the hook bait again alongside our own liquids. This is incredibly attractive to a carp once these fats are more soluble. These fats do not have a smell; these fats do not even have a taste which I can determine. But carp find them absolutely irresistible. The liquids that go into our hook baits, have always contained glycerine. No big secret there. For over a decade anyone who knows anything about bait, would correctly assume we add glycerol to our cures, to help harden the hook bait, and aid with shelf-life properties. That was always my initial intention too. The glycerine serves a very different extra purpose to that as well though. In exactly the same way our own intestine uses glycerol to emulsify and break down fats... That is the same as what I am trying to replicate with the first go of our curing process which all of the hook baits go through... The high fat base mix, once palm rolled with fresh eggs and cork... Is boiled as normal just as you would imagine. Once boiled, the hook baits are dried, but not dried totally to a bone for this first go. This is important. Our cure is added, in a pressurised, heated situation. Because of the way the glycerine in our cure, reacts with the still damp (h20) hook bait, once heat and pressure are applied, all of the h20 in the hook bait is pulled out immediately. With that h20 from the bait, comes all of the lovely fat from the base mix. The glycerine does this. This reaction, leaves far more liquid in the container than the sum total of the cure which was first added added. Normally around double. As more heat is applied, the fats, h20 and cure, are all mixed up together, and pulled back into the bait. Once the hook bait has absorbed all of this liquid, this time, unlike the first time, the hook bait is dried to a bone to remove all of the h20 completely from the bait. The fats are now back inside, but they are now molecularly different, to how they were before. They have been highly emulsified, and are consequently now far easier for a carp to detect. Think of it, in a similar way to a pre-digested fishmeal. It's now far more soluble. Our hook baits go through our curing process another 3 or 4 times, depending on the hook bait in question. Now though, every time they go through that process, there is no h20 in the bait at all. Now so nothing is dragged out of the bait anymore. This only happens when h20 is part of the equation, it is needed for this reaction to take place.... Liquids are only pumped in to the hook bait now.
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In reply to Post #764
Standard winter/spring devastation material mate. You’ll clump them.
Please PM me your name you order with, if I knew it you would have likely got an Xmas gift maybe. 🎅🏻
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In reply to Post #763
Princess Roxanne says thank you Lee. 😍
More parcels than Santa everyday 😂. That’s it, we are totally up to date with all orders up until this morning now. Our last guaranteed delivery for before Xmas is tomorrow morning. Any orders before then will be going out tomorrow, any after that will be going a few days after Xmas.
Have s great Xmas all of you.
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Took delivery of some 12mm S2's yesterday. They have always served me well when it gets cold and bleak
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In reply to Post #762
Nice dog 👍🏻
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If you are waiting for an order of GPB2 from us (or a normal order), everyone will receive their orders over the next few days. We have been so crazily busy this Christmas, mainly because of special orders for these GPB2. This lot went out early this morning, more than this left us on Friday just gone too. Loads more are going early tomorrow & the same Weds. We will be completely up to date with all orders, both special orders for GPB2 & our normal orders from the website, before Xmas delivery finishes for us on Thursday afternoon.
Please be patient, Xmas post always slows things down slightly.
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In reply to Post #760
Thank you mate, that's exactly what I done yesterday.
Over the years I've never forgot... This year is the first time... But it has cost me. Two years ago I paid for two years, and this year it completely slipped my mind after not paying last year. Because I was at the very end of my holiday, I did not see the emails.
Put it on auto renewal yesterday, three years was most they let me pay for at a time.
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In reply to Post #758
Best thing we did at work was buy a few years at a time and put it in an auto -renewal! Saved us all trying to remember the various renewal dates through the year.
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Website is back up on mobile for me now, but not yet on my computer.
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Right I've just come off of the phone from a 45 minute call with the hosting company... It's lucky I called them to scream at them. The settings had been changed they tell me where the site had been down for more than 48 hours. They have just had a tech guy changing the settings whilst I was on the phone... They have promised me that the website will now be back up within the hour.
They said that this would be different for people in different parts of the country & Europe as they are all on different main servers.
I'm completely useless at this sort of stuff and have always paid others to do it from the start... But I should be able to remember to pay the bloody hosting fees!!
Apologies again for the aggro.
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In reply to Post #754
Exactly the same, barring 33% pre-digested fishmeal, and GLM added to the GPB1 base mix.
They are basically a heavy fishmeal version of the GPB1. Which has zero fishmeal in.
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In reply to Post #753
Yes a proper school boy error mate, one that has cost me a fair few quid even this time of year!
I paid the hosting at 09:30am yesterday morning, they assured me that the website would be back up within 24 hours (but in reality a couple of hours).
I've just woken up from 18 hours kip, and it's still not back up. Currently sitting on hold, waiting to scream at someone at the hosting company
Thank you Ian.
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In reply to Post #754
See post 735.
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In reply to Post #753
Having settled on the GPB and being perfectly happy, what changes have been made to make the GPB2? Does it smell the same?
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In reply to Post #750
Knew I should have ransomed the domain for a pot of the GPB2s!
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In reply to Post #751
Doh
That will be the sunstroke Mark affecting you
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Thank you for alerting me!
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Sorry lads like an idiot where I’ve been flying back from Brazil over night via Paris… I’d missed paying the hosting fees for the website 😳. I’ve just paid it on my flight from Paris. Should be back up within a couple of hours.
What a div!! To busy enjoying the sun and missed the reminder emails 😂
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In reply to Post #748
Thanks for that
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In reply to Post #747
Yep, same problem. I would like to place a special order. Hopefully fixed soon.
Number is +44 7568 159960
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Hi anyone else experiencing the website down? Trued for a couple of days was hoping to get the wats app number for some pink S2S?
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Anybody on here that ordered GPB2 via WhatsApp last week… We are starting to send them out tomorrow. Please be aware, we were absolutely inundated with orders for them… We will never be able to get them all out this week unfortunately. They will be going every singe day from tomorrow in the order that they came in. I’d imagine we will not get the last sent until the middle of next week.
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In reply to Post #742
Yes we have caught several zander on pop ups on a french public lake, they may have been drawn in by smaller fish attracted to particles
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In reply to Post #741
Everything loves them mate…
In the last three days I’ve spoken to literally 100’s of anglers on WhatsApp who were placing special orders for the GPB2… What has amazed me, and also made me REALLY proud is the amount of those anglers who have commented how much the GPB1 has absolutely transformed their angling.
Tench bream & carp adore them. They far outsell the S2 for us now by a long long way… I NEVER thought that would ever be possible with any hook bait.
Keep plugging away with them mate, when you get near the carp they will have the same effect.
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In reply to Post #742
Yes, sort of, on the drop fishing bury hill, it was a white pop up though so likely the movement and colour worked like a lure?
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In reply to Post #741
Let's face it. If it will attract a Carp, it will attract most fish. We've all caught Pike and Eels on carp baits. Has anyone caught a Zander on a carp boilie. Honestly?
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In reply to Post #740
The bream dont half love the GPB1.
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In reply to Post #739
Hopefully start catching some lumps like this when my pots of GPB2 come
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German customer & CF member Sven, with a great big German mirror caught on our hook baits. Sven told us he has been doing ‘very well indeed’ since using our GPB1 & S2.
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In reply to Post #737
You're a gent.
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In reply to Post #727
Your order went this morning Brian and work added a tub of freebies. Should be there tomorrow or Weds latest.
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In reply to Post #734
Please WhatsApp me on our work phone next time you place an order Alex and work will stick you in some pinks 😎
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In reply to Post #733
Hello mate. You want our GPB2. They are not on the website yet. They are our GPB1 with 33% pre digested added to the basemix and lashings of the finest GLM on top too. We can only get so many solubles in there, because our curing process enables us too. They are dynamite. Apart from the cork, they are 100% top notch food.
I’m back in the UK on the 7th. Simply order GPB1 for what you require in these from our website and text me your full name on the order… Letting me know what you require in GPB2. We do them in 16 & 13mm pop ups and 16 & 13mm balanced.
These will also be available from the Tackle Box & Fish On Tackle shops from mid December.
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In reply to Post #730
Gbp2….intrigued, there’s something moorish about the gpb’s. Didn’t realise you did the s2s in pink until I’d already put my first order in.
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Been watching this thread for a long time, I really like to fish with a good fish meal krill or s7/slk 50/50 mix from looking on your website i can’t work out which would be best to fish along side this mate, can you help suggesting some? Thanks in advance
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In reply to Post #731
Same here
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In reply to Post #729
Can confirm the below 👍
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In reply to Post #729
I hear you mate… But as many will testify… If I knew your name and you had put in a decent order… I would have stuck you in some freebies as a CF member… So your dislike of postal charges cost you really when you would have got a £14- £16 tub for free most likely 😘
Tackle Box & Fish On will both be carrying a decent range, including the GPB2. These have gone down a bomb & they are not even on our website yet. Since I’ve been on holiday, I’ve had sooo many people who have seen their mates GPB2 begging for them.
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In reply to Post #724
Good news, I’m a tight arse when it comes to paying for shipping. The number of times I’ve filled a basket then not bothered 😂
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In reply to Post #727
There was mate as we was waiting for corkballs. Tonnes of orders went out on Thursday. We will be completely up to date by Monday’s delivery.
Please WhatsApp me your full name on the order and I’ll check it for you. Number is on contact page of website.
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In reply to Post #726
Hi, are there any delays on orders at the mo?
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😂🥳🇧🇷
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Mark Harris, Frimley in the freezing cold last night… 36lb+ white S2
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From mid December, The Tackle Box Dartford & Fish-On Tackle shop near Maidstone will both be stocking a range of our hook baits.
Any other shops who see this information, sorry but it will only be these two shops.
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I’ve just replied to 9 private messages on here. Apologies for the late replies.
Please, please, please, for the next three weeks contact us only via WhatsApp. Our work number is on the contact page of the website. It’s free.
Once again there are no special orders being done until I’m back in the UK.
We are completely up to date with all orders… Except some containing cork balls. We have had a small problem with corkballs recently. Everyone in carp fishing gets their cork balls from the same supplier, siesta cork. Two months ago the Portuguese man who supplies them died suddenly. They have sorted a new supplier now, but the first shipment had been stuck at customs. We had been begging and stealing for the past two months from a couple of shops that had stock. That ran out last week. They had promised us we will have them for weeks now. We had 50k+ on order. They finally showed up last week. Crisis averted.
I honestly thought that we would have to stop selling cork ball pop ups. Between us and the Tackle Box we had been on the case in Portugal. The cheapest we could get the correct grade was double the old price, making them an unsellable price commercially.
Luckily Siesta came through for us… There has still been a 25% increase in cost… But that’s better than 100%. When I return the prices of our corkballs will have to increase slightly unfortunately.
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In reply to Post #721
Nice one
👍👍👍
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Cannot show you anymore of the photos unfortunately, as it’s no publicity. But Andrew Parkinson has been tearing his syndicate to bits on our S3. He has pretty much caught every single carp in the pit on them now.
In the two slings and the net are fish weighing 31lb12oz, 36lb5oz & 37lb4oz. All three rods rattling off in quick succession at first light.
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In reply to Post #719
Wow!!!!
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49lb6oz & 33lb… S2 balanced… Roach Pit.
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Well done Richard! Absolutely slaying them mate!
White S2 balanced. 35lb
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In reply to Post #716
First session after that brace mark and a mid 30common in the bag👍
S2 again 👏
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In reply to Post #714
Thank you Ian mate.
Andy got hold of me within five minutes today when he WhatsApp’d and got a phone call back.
Once again, I am out of the country for the next month. The only way to get hold of me is via WhatsApp… It’s free. If you don’t have WhatsApp email.
I am not checking the forum so will not see PM’s. Orders are still going out whilst I am away.
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In reply to Post #713
See post 681.
"If you need to contact us about an order, please WhatsApp, don't text or call or it will cost plenty. The work phone will be out of the UK for a month and will be on silent. WhatsApp is free.".
Mark has posted just about everything you need to know about stock, shipment, contact etc right here on this thread lads.
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In reply to Post #712
Text the work phone mate
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In reply to Post #711
thanks for that,I've Message tcarper on here and sent a enquiry on the website,no answer from either yet.
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In reply to Post #710
WE HAVE TONNES OF STOCK DONE. ORDERS ARE GOING OUT AS NORMAL WHILE I AM AWAY.
Would appear so.......
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In reply to Post #707
doing my bit for the environment ...going start giving them names
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In reply to Post #706
What a pair of tree huggers you are
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In reply to Post #705
bit sad when one remembers what 2 tree stump are
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In reply to Post #704
Haha I thought you might mate
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In reply to Post #703
i recognise those trees
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Another CF regular. 58lb+ PB from France this week. White S2.
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So many messages on our work phone and pm's, from people asking if orders will still be going out while I am away. I could say it until I am blue in the face I think, and people would still panic. Anywhere that I have written that I am going away.... I have also written, that orders are still going out as normal, whilst I am away. If anything faster than normal.
Again... WE HAVE TONNES OF STOCK DONE. ORDERS ARE GOING OUT AS NORMAL WHILE I AM AWAY.
That's it, I am off today.
Have fun all of you... See you in December  
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GPB2 13mm pop up, first time out with them.
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In reply to Post #699
You sir are a gent...
look forward to using these..
many thanks
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In reply to Post #698
Thank you mate. I found a little gift for you in my fishing bag, that I thought you might like. They will certainly be more use to you, than they will ever be to me for the next month. 😂
They are going tomorrow will be with you by Friday. Happy hauling this weekend.
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In reply to Post #697
enjoy mate
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Now... Pretty please... With cherries and icing on top. Could you all stop catching 50's and 60's until I get back from my holiday.
If you do... Keep them quiet, at least until I return in December
I have personally worked 14 hours a day, 7 days a week for the past 6 weeks straight, to build up stock for whilst I am away. Others have done their bit too. No fishing, no days off. I am now having to wear runners calf sleeve supports, to even be able to stand for periods...As I have given myself mild shin splints by being on my feet constantly for far too long.... But we have tonnes of stock to for-fill orders while I am away.... So I was happy and raring to get away. They are only legs, they will heal
Just as I'm about to sod off... You all start mega hauling 50's and 60's. Now I'm slightly worried about my holiday timing and stock levels
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In reply to Post #695
session to remember for sure mate.
first fish first time out on the s3 corkballs, and the ever faithful s2 white balanced.
take em anywhere...
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Richards 50+ Welly brace from Saturday. Bloody well done mate! A 108lb UK brace is a bit special.
52lb
56lb14oz
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In reply to Post #692
Bloody hell mate well done that's incredible! Send me some pics please for sure. I just replied to your PM, I've sent the work number.
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In reply to Post #692
Come on the irons
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In reply to Post #682
Hi
52.00 mirror on an s3 corkball 07.30 am saturday.
What i didnt tell you was saturday night 56.14 mirror on the ever faithful white s2 balanced.
These have done me some good fish this year.
Pure confidence in a tub.
Will send you over the photos after we hopefully beat villa👍👍👍
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In reply to Post #686
Oh, I know. It’s the way that he was trying to say he doesn’t use them when there was a tub on his table, and I saw one on the hair when he landed a fish, and the bait he “actually uses” is a dark red fishmeal 😂
Mind you, being on the other bait didn’t stop him taking the last of the plan b off me when I packed up either lol……
Amazing fish below 😍
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In reply to Post #689
Thank you very much for allowing me to show the photographs.
This is a Carpforum regular, who does not normally share his photos... He has caught loads on our hook baits in the past few weeks. That common is the 2nd biggest UK carp landed on our hook baits. The biggest ever UK common landed on our hook baits.
Well done mate!
62lb4oz
48lb2oz
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I just got a PM, from a CF regular. It's not often that I get astounded by carp pics.
I hope that he reads this (he will), and lets me show you the photos, or even tell you the weights. At the moment he would rather they were not shown.
Always respected this. Always will. If he continues to say no, they will never get shown, like so many other photos before. Not to anyone.
Not sure that he even realises though... He has just caught the second biggest UK carp, ever landed on one our hook baits.
Well done mate!!!
I'm about to have a month off.... Could you lot stop catching monsters please... Wait till I get back
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In reply to Post #687
Whey hey! Well done Jamie!!
A 30lb+ carp is a big carp. Period.
TCarper is short for Thames Carper. A 25lb+ carp from the river is a big fish. A 30lb+ carp is a monster.
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First trip out on Tuesday with the GBP2’s I had a 31. Again nothing compared to the fish in this thread but the lake ain’t doing a lot at the moment.
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In reply to Post #683
Standard practice mate.
He pays full price for our hook baits... To advertise for someone else, and get £1.50 off per kilo, for some truly crap bait. But he is part of the 'team', that's the bit that matters. It's all part of the new strange carp fishing game. As long as he is happy. He believes that he is on his 'journey', final destination YouTube and worldwide fame and fortune.
It used to bother me a lot. I find it's best to just smile these days.
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In reply to Post #684
Well done mate that was quick!
You'll slay them this autumn.
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Doesn’t stack up with the Calibre of fish mentioned recently but I did have a 21lb mirror on the white S2 last night. First time user so I’m looking forward to a few more fish before the autumn is through.
I’ll for sure be ordering som GPB2 in the new year.
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In reply to Post #682
Pretty sure on the lake I fished during the week the only 3 fish that came out were on S2’s. 2 to me, and the other bloke had a pot in his bivvy, tho he denied using them as he’s on another bait. I said “oh, you’re on Marks hookbaits”, but he said he hadn’t used them for years 😂
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In reply to Post #681
I've had two lovely PM's from carpforum members today via the forum. One has landed a 58lb mirror from France on a white S2... The other has landed a UK 50+ on an S3, from I'm presuming Welly, but I might be wrong.
I am sure they will tell you.
Bloody well done to both of you
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That's it... We are officially on holiday for the next month. Yeeeeeeee haaaaaaaaaa
All orders will still be going out as normal, we have plenty of stock. If you need to contact us about an order, please WhatsApp, don't text or call or it will cost plenty. The work phone will be out of the UK for a month and will be on silent. WhatsApp is free.
There will be no more special orders, including GPB2, until early December now. Only items on our website.
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Ricci again. The Zoo.
GLM/Pre-digested Garlic. Which will now be called GPB2.
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Dropped you a pm Mark
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In reply to Post #657
Great service got them today thanks mark and thanks for the
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In reply to Post #674
Hi Mark, appreciate your reply, i'll contact you later nearer the time 👍👍
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Just under 50lbs, an incredible looking, and very rarely landed UK common carp.
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In reply to Post #672
Hi Anthony, I am sure I replied to a text or an email from you yesterday mate
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In reply to Post #671
Hi Chris.
I am away during November. Ovbs orders will still be going out whilst I am away, but there will be no special orders done. Unfortunately I will not be able to get them sorted for you until the beginning of December.
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In reply to Post #672
Yes they will hold up a size 4. And no glug or booster is required...
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In reply to Post #671
Hi does anyone no if the 13mm cc hold up a size 4 hook?
And is there a s2 glug /booster as looking to get an order in
Thanks
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In reply to Post #669
Hi Mark is it possible to do the Gpb in an 18mm bottom bait , im curious to know if Barbel will take a liking to them ? Cheers
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In reply to Post #669
That’s one of those pictures isn’t it. Initially it looks like a ‘fail’ but it’s the type of atmospheric shot that keeps catching the eye. Quite an enchanting looking place.
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Theale Lagoon.
This photo/capture has not been shown anywhere before. Gary is the bailiff, his captures/photos don’t normally get shared. He has fished Theale for a long time. He had three years away from fishing the big pit… He returned this summer. He caught this very black 36+ common straight away, within a few nights on a GPB1 pop up. First time using them, after three years away from the venue. That’s a pretty incredible result, considering it’s less than 1 carp per 10 acres.
Gary was previously an S2 user. The garlic ended up being responsible for 5 bites, from the incredibly low stocked big pit within a few weeks this year. 😎
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Black Swan
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In reply to Post #659
Well done Joss! You'll be back out before the weeks out now I bet, that bug will creep back
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In reply to Post #664
I bet you stood shouting Do You Know Who I am,I'm the Moderator
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In reply to Post #662
It is for some.
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In reply to Post #663
exactly buddy.
I might go again in 12 months
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In reply to Post #662
Easy peasy and no drama Joss......
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In reply to Post #660
its not rocket science mate, cast out, sit back and chill
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Am down to my last 2 original GPB baits.......added GLM sounds interesting.......
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In reply to Post #659
You still remembered what to do then Joss
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In reply to Post #658
i actually went out for 2 hours yesterday afternoon with a rod!!!!
few handfulls of my trusty TnM freebies and a garlic TC pop up....20 mins in, a 20lb old warrior laid safely in my net ...
happy days
i might go again now
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In reply to Post #657
Thanks Mark
I have ordered some
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In reply to Post #656
You have two options Dave. To use as a snowman with 15mm live system, go for 13mm crushed cork pop ups mate. These will balance out a 16mm bottom bait lovely. With a 15mm you may just need to trim the pop up ever so slightly. The crushed corks are perfect for this though. Just snip at a visible bit of cork to reduce buoyancy (or at a bit of base mix to increase buoyancy).
Or you can go down the 'balanced' option. Where they will already come completely weightless. So a decent sized hook will sink them.
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In reply to Post #654
Hi Mark
I would like to order some s2 and glmgpb1
I normally fish snowman rigs with 15mm live system and 12mm northern specials
What would be the best way to use your baits with snowman rigs
Thanks
Dave
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In reply to Post #654
I still have half a tub from a previous order a few months back, your right they are a bit special.
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You're both very welcome.
You both placed double orders, paid postage twice, and ordered a fair amount. It's far easier to stick you in some freebies, than to go through the rigmarole of refunding you £4.50 for double postage on PayPal. Easier for me, better for you too.
Those GLM Garlics are definitely a winner Richard. Wait until you smell them when they are wet... You will really smell all of the pre-digested in them, once they have been out in the pond.
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In reply to Post #650
I also received mine today. The garlic/glm smell fantastic, the smell stays up your nose for ages.
Also thank you very much for the white S2, really appreciated. I now need somewhere I can fish 6 rods as I have no idea how to choose which bait to use!
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In reply to Post #651
Order all recieved.
Many thanks for the bonus tub of garlics mate.
Really appreciated, lucky smiley face on them 👍👍
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In reply to Post #650
Cheers mark 👍👍
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In reply to Post #649
Your orders from last Weds are going tomorrow Richard... Should be with you Friday morning. Keep slaying em mate.
Everyone who ordered GLM/GPB1 this week, they are also going tomorrow, and should be with you Friday.
Lots of messages asking if these will be available at a later date, what with Xmas coming etc.
YES, they will ALWAYS be available from now on. No need to buy them now if you're not going to be using them. They will not be going onto our website until next Spring though. If Boris and co had opened up international travel a day earlier, I would have never have even mentioned them on here either until next year. The garlic base mix, had 33% highly soluble pre-digested fishmeal and the finest full fat GLM added.
So you Carpforum members have a big head start with these. They are exceptional. If I was you, I would keep them hidden. Don't let no mofo see them when you start hauling.
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In reply to Post #645
S2 white balanced. Pure fish catching magic in a tub.
Cant put a foot wrong this season.
Hurry up with my next order down to my last 4 baits 😂😂
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In reply to Post #647
They are not actually on the website mate. For you and anyone else that requires some.
The extra options are...
13mm standard GPB1 crushed cork pop ups...
13mm/16mm GLM/GPB1 cc pop ups, or 13mm/16mm GLM/GPB1 balanced.
All are the same price as the standard GPB1 on the website. Add as many tubs of standard GPB1 from our website to your basket, to cover the total number of tubs from the above that you require. Then just pop us a text on the work mobile number (on our website) letting us know exactly what you require in the order. Anything else on the same order (S2 etc) will come as normal.
Please make sure any of you include the full name on the order. Please text, do not call, the work mobile is on silent all day and does not get answered.
They are ready to be sent out this week.
Matt & his son Alfie are still out in France having a whale of a time. All public venues. S2 & GPB1.
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In reply to Post #646
Are they the ones on the site at the moment Mark? If I just add them to my basket like normal will that work?
Some cracking looking fish there!
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In reply to Post #645
We have loads done mate. I’ll make sure you get sorted don’t worry.
Another angler who has been catching loads recently. All S2.
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In reply to Post #641
I'll be interested in grabbing some of the 16mm balanced Mark
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In reply to Post #643
Be lucky mate… You will be.
My mate Matt is out in France with his son Alfie. They are doing a little tour of public only lakes, culminating at Cassien. All days only, the lake where they were today has a granite reputation, up in the mountains. Young Alfie had two wild 40’s on a garlic, within two hours of casting in this morning. Poor lad has a broken arm too currently. Bet they cheered him up today. Superb Alf!
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Order jut received Mark, many thanks.... ....had the S2 before but those GPB1's are something else...
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In reply to Post #641
cracking fish, top angling
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Lovely fish isn’t it Joss. There’s another stunning big common there and another 40+ mirror too. Ricci absolutely slays them, works full time too.
A small heads up for any of our customers on here. We have loads of 13mm GPB1 crushed cork done. Also loads of a special edition fishmeal GPB1, in 16 & 13mm cc pop ups, and 16 & 13mm balanced. We wanted to put these on sale a few weeks back, but we’ve just been to busy.
They will be going on sale next weekend as special orders. I will post on this thread when they do.
They are essentially our GPB1, blended with pre digested fishmeal and lashings of GLM.
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In reply to Post #639
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Ricci again. All garlic or S2 balanced. Top one is 47lb12oz, caught yesterday. 👀
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I had a lovely email from a customer Ashley. He just broke his PB again, with this lovely 42lb+ common. If you are on here Ashley, bloody well done. I hope you don’t mind me posting your email. Thank you for the kind words.
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In reply to Post #636
No worries mate. Going on Monday Dave, I just scrolled your name on here. Should be with you Tuesday.
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In reply to Post #635
Cheers for the reply mark 👍🏻 order was placed sunday evening i think 🤣
Look forward to recieving and then using
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In reply to Post #632
Roughly a week to 10 days Dave. We are getting the waiting time back down every week now. I'd hope by next week, that we will be back under 7 days.
This year has been a great one for out waiting times, we have had by far our busiest year since we first started orders wise, yet I'd guess 95% of customers had their orders inside of a week all year. It's only been the last few weeks, that our waiting times have crept up.
There is always a mad rush during September.
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In reply to Post #633
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In reply to Post #618
The carp grapevine & word of mouth, is strong enough to overcome that. If anything, it probably helps us, stuff like that. People are not stupid.
Agree with that, most people, especially experienced anglers know
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Hi mark
Returning customer was wondering what the turn around was on s2 corkballs?
Cheers
Dave
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In reply to Post #625
Ok mark you win Certainly looks a challenge that place, I wouldn’t know where to start on such a big water hats off to you mate bet every fish caught out of there leaves you with a buzz that lasts a while. I used to fish graviers years ago when bream were quite bad it’s soul destroying when you’ve just got your rods out stuck a load of bait on it and got a snot bag hang it’s self even at less than half that distance! Can relate to the last bit too I always come home from fishing more shattered than when I went even though I’m just camping half the time I end up awake most of the night looking for leapers and killing rats out my swim the mrs just thinks I pin Chuck the rods out once when I get there and have a 48hour nap
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In reply to Post #628
The triple row was one of the finest fish in the country.
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In reply to Post #626
bit special they are
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In reply to Post #627
It is insane mate. An incredible looking fish. I think a lot of them are dead now.
Triplerow was the Frensham Leney! I could not remember the name before.
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In reply to Post #626
That common's ridiculous mate.
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In reply to Post #621
Scott is a legend Yonny. He caught so many fish on our coated S1 & S2 it was obscene. He ALWAYS promised me, that when the last of them died... He would give me photos of all the Frensham Leney's that he caught on an S2. I never got the photo of the really special one. If I recall rightly, he caught that one more than once on an S2.
He got the job with Thinking Anglers, obviously part owned by Sticky, I nearly cried when I saw the photos pop up on social media a couple of years ago. Especially that really special one.
Good luck to him. It never used to be his job, it is now. He is the nicest bloke you could ever meet. I think the ones below were Mill Lane fish. I have loads of great photos of Scotty K.
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In reply to Post #624
Worse, trust me John
I had a double figure bream, fishing at 500m+. I did not think there was anything on, as I pumped the weed bed in the first photo back. I had to walk it backwards all the way to gain braid. That's 1km walked, along with arm breaking pumping, to get that weed bed, and monster bream back.
Then I thought that I would pack up before the heavy rain came yesterday. Put the bivvy away, the sailing club were about, so I had to reel all the remaining three rods in from 500m+. All had to be walked. It took me over an hour and a half to get those three rods in. Another 3km of walking backwards and forwards, and my arms literally ruined... Just too reel in three rods. It's far easier when there's a carp on, straight in the boat out there on speed 5. Cannot do that to retrieve leads though with an active sailing club about. I was absolutely drenched when I finally got into my car.
The second photo, is a different weed bed to the first. Each rod had one the size of a small car attached. Getting that back from half a km away is brutal. My arms are broken.
Today I feel like a need a holiday. Fishing is meant to be relaxing
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In reply to Post #623
Cheers mark just ordered some balanced and pop ups of each whilst questioning everything I know currently camping over at farlows for one more night so hopefully the fish turn up. How did you get on mate better than me I hope
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In reply to Post #622
Hi John, sorry for the late reply, I managed to sneak off fishing for a couple of nights.
Any of them mate. The S2 works particularly well with Cell, but then they work with absolutely anything. Try the S2 and the Garlic. Both will work really well with both of the baits you mentioned.
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In reply to Post #620
Hi mark just come across your hook baits and can’t make up my mind which to go for I usually fish over cell or krill is there any flavour that compliments either of them well?
Cheers
John
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In reply to Post #620
Lovely. Scotty K's shots of that fish are something else. All those lins in there are
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In reply to Post #617
That one is Spike Ian. 2015 photo of it. Yateley (fat) Al, S2
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In reply to Post #617
No mate that one is the Saddleback.
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In reply to Post #614
Quote... Now how many bait company’s would name that, I like a bit of honesty.
We have never had any problem whatsoever naming any bait company... That is never reciprocated though.
I'm actually blocked from one of the countries largest bait firms social media pages... I only noticed earlier this year. This, despite having NEVER made a single comment on there, ever. The sole reason I am now blocked at a guess... Is because literally so many fish posted on their page, are caught by our long term customers, using our hook baits.
Gave up caring long, long ago... Learnt to just take the money and smile.... The carp grapevine & word of mouth, is strong enough to overcome that. If anything, it probably helps us, stuff like that. People are not stupid.
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In reply to Post #616
Is it that Spike?
I know there's a few of those crazy lins in there. What a stock.
Absolutely mint fish either way.
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In reply to Post #615
That's one of the best fish in country, it's from Dinton black swan. It's a pretty elusive 50+.
It's been caught on S2's numerous times. Loads, and loads.
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In reply to Post #612
That orange linear, WOW!!
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In reply to Post #599
New PB. Pink S2 cc and Manila snowman.
Now how many bait company’s would name that, I like a bit of honesty
Some cracking pictures below, baits that deliver, no doubt
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Harvest moon last night, rising over Theale Lagoon.
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Furzebray lakes owner Tony has used our hook baits since we first started. Hes on here a couple of pages back with a Dinton 50. He’s a consultant for a couple of other companies now. Could not be more happy for him. He’s always honest and says a custom hook bait on their advertising. The custom hook baits have always been S2.
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In reply to Post #610
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In reply to Post #608
Cheers Mark - great service, quick delivery
I've eaten most of the S2's .
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Sam moved onto one of the Hollybush pits. He’s already had the second biggest in the lake, on just his second trip. GPB1.
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In reply to Post #607
Mwah mwah mwah.....
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In reply to Post #605
Gonna be disappointed if I don't get a tub of Anthrax or a nailbomb instead of the hookbaits
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In reply to Post #605
Thanks mate will do
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Our work number is on the contact page of the website. Text or WhatsApp your full name to that number. They will have gone missing that long ago. We have a two week waiting time as indicated on the front page of website, but in reality 99% of people are getting their orders within 7-8 days.
Everything is tracked, but every now and then the odd parcel does go missing, but it’s rare. They are likely at your local sorting office and the postman did not leave a card. Text the work number with full name on the order, the sorting office will only hold them for 14 days.
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TCarper what's the easiest way to ask about an order I made mate? It's been a fair few weeks now.
Looking forward to getting these!
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In reply to Post #601
At least get some of the garlic baits, they really are something else
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In reply to Post #599
What a cracker.👍
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In reply to Post #599
Wow what a fish,might have get an order in for some of these baits
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In reply to Post #596
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In reply to Post #597
Quote… As Mal would say Peace and Love.
And big carp. Don’t forget big carp.
48lb6oz. New PB. Pink S2 cc and Manila snowman.
The very lovely Spencer (fermented maize bloke, dodgy subject) has also caught a load more on S2s and that dodgy maize. Unfortunately I can’t post anymore of them on here, but one of them was absolutely immense. He has battered that lake in a few trips over the past few weeks.
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In reply to Post #597
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In reply to Post #596
and Cam thats fair enough but I thought it was relevant as its Tcarpers thread and it's him who seems to be getting the brunt of it from the trolls.
As Mal would say Peace and Love
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Thanks Cam & Joss.
Tony (Bradders) Don't get yourself in trouble for me mate. I appreciate it very much indeed. Sometimes things cannot be resolved though. My life has never been any better. That is not the case for everyone.
Fishing, and this forum should be about happy stuff, something that we all love. Negative shizzle is better just walked away from. Smiling. xxx
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In reply to Post #594
That's not a question for this thread Tony tbh
if it's something you really need answered, maybe create a thread in the feedback area.
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In reply to Post #592
Yes we do all have opinions and generally share them respectfully.I know I haven't always done so but I'm learning .The one thing I want to ask is why banned members can just come back on with a different user name and be allowed to continue to carry on
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I have tidied this thread up from last night as we want to keep it on the forum.
Joss's post above/below still stands..
Keep the thread relevant and it will stay, if not it goes, along with any users that get it to that point.
Start a "Science in Bait" thread by all means, that way if you are interested you can post in there, if not...then don't.
Remember opinions are like A$$'oles, we all have one.
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In reply to Post #577
everyone...PLEASE dont make me spend hours of my time trawling through posts and delete.
Mods job can be difficult at times making decisions and not wishing to upset anyone.
TC has every right to post up on his thread regarding captures and questions etc.
I will however delete posts by ANYONE who turns it into material that provokes a row.
I dont want to, but i will
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In reply to Post #567
He has caught some seriously nice fish on your baits with that maize
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In reply to Post #571
Sorry. PM me your full name on the order mate I'll see what's gone on for you. They normally pick up from us on a Weds, but did not end up coming till Thursday. It might just be that. I've had a couple of others saying their stuff had not come too this week. We'll get it sorted don't worry.
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In reply to Post #288
Hi mate, my order still hasn't arrived 😭 just thought I'd let you know ok
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In reply to Post #569
Hi mate, you'll ave them by Friday, they would have gone today.
Sorry for the small delay, we are so incredibly busy at the moment. I could not even go fishing this week (sad face). Our turnaround time for most orders has still been 7-10 days, but the odd order is now getting up to 14 days like yours.
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In reply to Post #206
Hi
Ordered two weeks ago but not received yet ☹️ any idea when?
TIA
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In reply to Post #566
Cheers fella.
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Spencer is on his first trip since that haul of 40’s. In the first 24 hours he has caught these. This time he fermented the maize until the pressure inside the sealed bucket forced its shape, from rectangle to round, till eventually the pressure blew the lid off of the bucket.
S2 balanced, with a bit of either HFCS fermented maize or tiger on top, fished over a couple of pouch fulls of the fermented maize.
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In reply to Post #564
No it will not. Like the S2 they definitely get better with age. The only thing you might find is the balanced could need drilling. The pop ups can never get too hard, the high proportion of cork chunks in there keeps them needle friendly, however air dried out they get. The balanced will get really hard.
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In reply to Post #563
No mate, none. Just keep them in your bag.
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In reply to Post #562
Morning Mark.
I've got some of your GBP1 balanced, not had chance to use them yet as too busy working.
I've got a couple on the side drying out and getting firmer as a test. I'd like to mesh these babies up and leave them out. Question I'd like to ask you is, would air drying them for a week or so harm the precious garlic bacteria that you refer too? 🤔
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In reply to Post #562
I’m looking to order some GBP1 & s2 Cc. How do they need to be stored - any special requirements?
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In reply to Post #561
Fish them in any situation mate. As a single, or over bait.
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In reply to Post #560
What are you guys fishing these baits over, spread of another boilie? Particle? With bags? Singles?
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Ah sorry I stupidly read your original question wrong, I did not realise you wanted something different made. We will not be able to do any special/custom orders until at least October. No problem sending our normal products before then.
Sorry mate we are to busy until then to be able to do anything like that.
Regular European orders of 3 tubs or more, there is no extra postage, just order as normal from our website.
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In reply to Post #557
Nice, what is the Best way to contact you for an order ?
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Sam & Craig again. I imagine the blokes on their Yateley syndicate are wondering what the hell they are doing to be catching so many.
Both GPB1
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In reply to Post #556
Hi, we are still sending parcels to Germany yes (3 this week). We have only had one problem where an employee marked the customs form wrong and said it was bait. That was returned.
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Hi,
Custom hookbaits with EU delivery woud be possible at the moment ?
Thanks
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What’s the wait like now, put an order in on the 11th?
Cheers, Alex.
Edit: scrap that they’ve arrived today. Many thanks, they’ll be on the rods Saturday.
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In reply to Post #552
It’s definitely going to get bigger. It was 55 before spawning last year. 55 after spawning this. It has been a 6-7lb dropper after spawning previously. Everything in there is piling on the weight so fast. Im convinced this common was over 60 a few weeks before. Brutes, is a great description for the fish in there.
There’s two mirrors that have always been bigger than her. All putting on a steady 5lb+ per year.
Incredible.
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In reply to Post #551
That's a brute of a common! Looks like it could easily go bigger too.
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Looking at some recent photos today on a rare day off this year where I'm not working or fishing. Some photos of that common off of my phone, that I’ve not even looked at previously.
The unhooking mat, is a Cotswold Aquarius Le Graviers XL mat. It’s 4ft x 2ft. That common is def wider across the back than 1ft.
23lb scaly Thames fish laying in exactly the same mat for comparison.
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Turns out I am allowed to post these after all.
All balanced S2, with a small fermented tiger on top from last couple of weeks… All since he first tried the fermented maize, tigers & peanuts using the high fructose corn syrup I recommend on the fermented maize thread. This is only the biggest ones he has caught. He’s absolutely ripped a pretty tough lake to bits to be fair.
40lb4oz
44lb15oz
41lb14oz
36lb15oz
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In reply to Post #544
Yes mate. We always do loads of special orders from around the end of October.
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In reply to Post #543
That sounds really interesting mark
What's the crack with custom orders? Is it possible to get different shapes?
I like to use pillow shaped bottom baits on the rivers, when you just squash the sausages on the table rather than roll them, is that something you'd do at a quieter time of year?
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I've written a quite extensive piece for our bait page.... It's coming up to a decade now that the S2 has been on sale. It's literally decimated lakes all over the UK, over and over again.
I spoken about the S2, the sugars, blah blah blah in the past. But there are still many secrets about the S2 that have never been mentioned. I've never spoken about the fat content in the S2. How those fats are made water soluble.
It's actually one of the biggest secrets, of the S2's success. It encompasses why hemp, tiger nuts, peanuts, fish meals and natural oils are all so attractive to carp. I stubbled across this long before SHB was ever created, by the curing of hook baits for my own fishing. One of the greatest byproducts of this process, is fats being made water soluble. Although it was never the intention, it was the ultimate prize.
Did you know.... Hemp contains virtually 40% fat. Peanuts are nearly 50% fat. Two of the most attractive things there are for a carp. Carp love fat. The tricky part is making that fat more water soluble.
I might post it up on here now things have calmed down in this bait section.
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You’re welcome mate.
Sam is still clubbing them. A common he really wanted to catch. GPB1 crushed cork.
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In reply to Post #540
Cheers for the detailed answer, I have put in an order today for a couple of pots, look forward to giving them a go.
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In reply to Post #537
As Gregg said you can trim or pierce the crushed cork.
First off, we only made cork balls. Being a 4mm skin of food around a solid cork ball. You cannot really pierce them, and if birds attack them constantly, being a 4mm skin they are susceptible when softer.
That was the whole reason I came up with the crushed corks. They still need to be individually palm rolled like a cork ball, as they are full up with 5mm lumps of cork, which as you can imagine is a nightmare to roll. What this produces though, is a solid ball, which can be pierced or trimmed... But retains all of the long term buoyancy of a cork ball, which is durable enough to be left out for a week if needed. (cork dust is rubbish).
Like a super cork ball as such.
They outsell the cork balls 5-1 now. The only people who still use the cork balls, are our older customers. I can see a time eventually when we stop selling cork balls altogether. The crushed corks are vastly better IMO.
For a start, they take on nearly twice as much of our liquids as a cork ball does. Twice as much goodness.
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In reply to Post #538
Lovely ta, that makes sense
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In reply to Post #537
Crushed Cork you can trim down were as a Cork ball you can't
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What’s the difference between the crushed cork baits and a cork baller?
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In reply to Post #529
Sam, who I posted all the photos of the other day, is on a Stoney & Friends charity social on the Car Park lake at Yateley. First ever night on the lake... Lovely fish. GPB1 crushed cork pop up. Sam is absolutely buzzing.
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In reply to Post #534
Yes mate. It's granite, but there are some cracking fish in there. He'll have them now I rec. He only started back over there a few weeks ago.
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In reply to Post #533
Sam's I gather was the first carp out of there for 14 months too. One hell of a capture!
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In reply to Post #532
To be fair, the lad at the bottom has been absolutely clumping them since Spring mate. The next bloke up is his mate. Sam & Craig. They fish one of the Yateley pits not sure which. All GPB1. They seem to catch tonnes every weekend, both have smashed their PB's this year.
Top photo is my close mate Sam. Him and his Dad stocked Mary, Mallins etc into Wraysbury... He's the same bloke who had that 32lb pike from the Thames with me. That fish is from the same poaching place as I caught that 40+ ex Thames fully four years ago. That fish of Sams is ex Thames too, they all are. That top one is 45+, again GPB1. The pit is not a poaching pit anymore, there's a very small syndicate on there now.
As far as I know that fully has not been caught since.
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In reply to Post #531
Busy month Mark for customers
Very nice.
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In reply to Post #525
Roughly a week mate at the moment as a general rule... Our next delivery goes out Weds. Get it done before that and I'll try my best to make sure it goes out on that delivery for you.
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In reply to Post #1
What your turnaround times at the minute?
I’ve run out of s2’s
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In reply to Post #522
Thank you. Yes, on our 13mm GPB1 balanced.
I was finding it incredibly hard to use anything other than an S2... I've caught so many big carp on them over the past fifteen years... So when faced with a challenge of just 35 carp residing in 100's of acres... It was still all about an S2 for me. Since we introduced the garlic a couple of years ago, I've not fished at all. Work mainly, but a new missus, lots of travelling, means I'd only been carp fishing once in the past two years.
I planned to fish Theale every week this year from early spring if I could. When I lost my first two bites from the lagoon, the first was on a GPB1. I had three rods on a very tight spot at long range. Two S2, one garlic. All 13mm balanced. Second bite the next morning, again I had two S2 & one GPB1 out on the spot. It was the garlic that went again. That was enough for me... That day, even though I'd just lost two and was ready to string myself up... I'd found something... All three rods had garlics on when they went back out.
It feels totally alien to me to have had four bites, and none of them came on an S2. At a guess I'd say all of the carp in the lagoon, have been caught on an S2 over the past decade at least once before I got my ticket... Some like the biggun numerous times. They definitely like the garlics. Bodes well for me going forwards.
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In reply to Post #516
Well done sir......
That is praise indeed for a product as they do not come out very often.
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In reply to Post #521
May I just say what wonderful fish you have been catching Mr TCarper......
Bravo sir......All on your hookers naturally yes?
Top Draw.
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Top draw carp them Mark.......
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In reply to Post #518
Thank you
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In reply to Post #509
Smiles says it all well done on a top bit of angling.
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In reply to Post #515
Nice, love a big zip
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In reply to Post #474
Most of my carp from wingham came on s2👍
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Thanks mate. I will try my best
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In reply to Post #512
Perserverance paid off M, cracking fish those, 60 next no excuses
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Thank you.
I lost two, two weeks before too.
The first carp I lost to a hook pull, after a long protracted battle out in the boat. The following morning I lost a second in the pouring rain, when a 30lb fluorocarbon boom section was cut like cotton by zebra mussels in the weed. Both were very very large carp. I have a nasty feeling one of them was the 60+ mirror, as it had been guarding the spot before I lost the first fish. It only done four bites all of last year to the whole syndicate... So I was ready to top myself losing two!
The following week was even worse for me! I watched a fish show on me (anglers go ten years on there without seeing a carp show), but two nights running just before dark sailing boats trailing ropes wiped out all three rods. I was camping for two nights with no rods in the water at bite time when there were big carp on the munch.
I went home after that trip completely beaten. I really thought the chance would be gone.
View post on imgur.com
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In reply to Post #509
Cracking fish - well done Mark!
Great to see them looked after in the Cotswold Aquarius mat too
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Thank you
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Yes.. well in Mark. Couple of proper ones them..
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In reply to Post #498
well in fella
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In reply to Post #498
outstanding.
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In reply to Post #500
Yes mate
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Thank you
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In reply to Post #498
Brilliant Mark
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Mint them like mate is that with the garlic hemp to
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In reply to Post #498
Well in mate two absolute crackers 🎣
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In reply to Post #496
No problem thanks for the reply
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In reply to Post #495
Apologies Dean, I've been running around like a lunatic this week, I did not see your post.
They will be absolutely fine mate. I actually prefer the S2 and the Garlics when they are a tad older.
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In reply to Post #494
some lovely fish there, quick question Mark, whats the 'shelf life' of the GPB1's? Had some just over a year. Had some cracking fish on them last year just checking they are good to go again this season
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In reply to Post #492
Well done mate.
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In reply to Post #490
Had my first of the year on a garlic zig at the weekend.
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In reply to Post #489
Google as per thread title
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In reply to Post #489
Yes mate very good pop ups and waters
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Just read this thread and i can see some incredible fish 👏👏👏
Are all the mentioned products still for sale?
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In reply to Post #484
Baits that work
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In reply to Post #484
Top angling, fantastic picture, what a lovely memory.
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In reply to Post #485
Loverly stuff
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In reply to Post #484
Well done to all the lucky captors out there doing it
Great first picture. Ace.
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In reply to Post #479
Hi Rob, they went on Thursday, so should be in Holland with you Mon or Tuesday I'd guess.
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I have an almost full pot of the garlic for sale if anyone wants them, only used 3 or 4 max and been kept chilled since new..
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Hi Mark, when does my order comes?
Kind regards
Rob
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In reply to Post #470
Much as I’m embarrassed to admit it; I find that the Ridge Monkey eezeknot works a treat with my putting pop ups on with floss even if though it makes that bell in my hat sound shriller than usual.
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Cheers
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In reply to Post #475
Yeah will be fine
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Im just about to run out of my S2 corkballs.
I’m going to go for the smaller ones this time. Will they hold up a size 5 hook ok on a multi rig?
Would the crushed corks be more buoyant?
Maybe I should get the CCs and trim them down?
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Ricci again, with Blackspot spawned out at 54lb+. Second time he's had it, it's something like the eighth time the biggest fish in there has been caught on our hook baits (7 x on S2). First time it's been caught on the garlic as far as I know.
View post on imgur.com
His work mate Charlie had the big common out of Larky at 50lb+ on an S2 cork ball a couple of days later. New PB's for both.
View post on imgur.com
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In reply to Post #470
Tie them on with floss maybe?
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In reply to Post #470
Bait drill be your best bet mate
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In reply to Post #469
found a pot of s2 corkballs In the shed and I’d say they are 18 months old.
They are rock hard to the point I am seriously struggling to get the bait screw into them.
Any tips to soften them up a bit?
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In reply to Post #458
If you have lost your sense of taste?
Seriously I’d get a covid test done ASAP for peace of mind.
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In reply to Post #467
Your not from Leicestershire are you?
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In reply to Post #462
Like that the day I unwrapped them.
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In reply to Post #458
Never had a problum with the s2 cc or cb smell nice and taste lovely and done well on the gpb1 the 1st batch i had of the gpb1 what started turning were evan better spoke to mark about them turning and he sent a new pot out straight away as he forgot to put the stabilizer in the 1st pot haha
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In reply to Post #463
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In reply to Post #458
You haven't got a dry cough as well have you?
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In reply to Post #458
Mate if your S2's don't taste of anything there is something up with them. S2's taste lush!
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In reply to Post #460
I’ve used the S2 for a while, so not new to the baits and they have been consistent. I bought the Garlics when they were released and never really gave them a chance, but I see they have a strong following on here. They have been in the sealed tub with all my other hook baits no moisture. Maybe I’ll buy another pot to compare.
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In reply to Post #459
Just to add the S2 have a sweet caramel taste and a reasonably strong smell.
Have you had yours open in moisture?
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In reply to Post #458
I wouldn’t be putting the garlic ones into my mouth.
It’s all I use now, I’ve found the S2’s work well with and in bags. The garlics seem better over bait.
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In reply to Post #456
My CC S2's don't taste of anything, not much smell either, still not caught on them.
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In reply to Post #456
I was thinking with all the talk of how revolting the smell from the fermented garlic hemp was they might kick up a bit too. Perfectly willing to accept that my nose may have no relation to what a carp senses, was just curious as to others experience.
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In reply to Post #455
Mine have a very subtle but "weird" smell, couldn't begin to compare it to anything and it certainly doesn't make me want to eat them! S2 on the other hand... 
They (GPB) do seem to work though
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Now I know I’m not a carp, but do the garlic baits that you guys have smell/taste of anything? I bought during the rush when they were first released but never had a fish or much confidence in them. They have a very faint smell of the S2 baits and if I pop one in my mouth, pretty much nothing. S2’s on the other hand smell like caramel and taste very sweet.
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In reply to Post #453
I’ve used old ones on a runs water and had runs.
I still change them daily on my syndicate buts just down to confidence I’m sure they would be fine.
I usually crush the old ones up and bag them
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In reply to Post #451
Thanks Yonny.
Main reason I ask is I’ve just got the rods out after a week in the rod bag.
Both baits still on and look slightly washed out but smell is there, just wondered how effective the probiotic ingredient still is....
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In reply to Post #450
I throw mine once they're reeled in but I'm happy to leave them out 48 hrs+ if appropriate.
I've reeled in after 48 hours-ish and the smell is still there, but obviously a bit washed out.
I don't doubt they'll catch if re-used, but I prefer to go fresh each time.
EDIT - must have missed that Yonny
Question for Mark then - just dry them off with kitchen roll & back in the tub?
Need to keep the rest dry right?
This won't go for my bottom baits either - no cork!
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In reply to Post #450
See post 247 mate.
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In reply to Post #449
Couple of questions on the Garlic crushed corks....
How long do you think the flavour is effective for?
Would you leave the same hook bait out for a week say?
Would you use the same hook bait over two sessions a week apart?
Be interested to see what people think....
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In reply to Post #444
Hi Dan, your order from last Thursday has gone this morning, should be there tomorrow, or Friday morning latest.
We are still getting all orders out within seven days currently.
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In reply to Post #443
You too Christopher, well done mate good angling. Your whites went this morning.
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In reply to Post #442
Well done Dean, good angling mate, keep smashing them.
Thank you for the kind words too.
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In reply to Post #444
Text him on his phone and he will get back to ypu mate
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Anyone know what the lead time is at the min? Orderd some hook baits last week and wondering how long till I get them? Doesn't seem to be easy to contact him.
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In reply to Post #441
Well pleased with the hookbaits thanks Mark, cant say what i actually had due to publicity rules but managed 5 fish in 2 nights on the garlics on a water where 15 fish a season is a right result....
Just ordered some S2 whites to try hopefully theyll be here by next weekend when i am next out...
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Just want to say a big thanks to mark done 3 sessions on the s2 13mm pink crushed cork recently which I bought off him ages ago and never got round to giving them a proper go.. bad mistake on my part as on my first session I had a 35.4lb mirror and a 33lb common. Next time out I had a 31.12lb common and my latest trip I had the big common out at 49lb. Sent mark a picture of the big common this morning but due to a publicity ban on the water I cant post them up. The lake in question is full of old leneys and the mirror I had is as old as the hills and a very rare visitor to the bank. If you've not given Mark's specials a go then your missing out
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In reply to Post #438
Hi Tony, sorry for the late reply, I replied just now.
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In reply to Post #435
Hi Mark,
I dropped you a pm the other day. I appreciate you're exceptionally busy, but just let me know if it didn't arrive, otherwise I'll just wait for your reply. Thanks mate
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In reply to Post #435
Thank you Sir, still a really fast turnaround especially considering how busy you must be! I look forward to using then.
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In reply to Post #433
Hi Chris, they went today, should be there tomorrow/Thurs. We are stupidly busy now, but at the moment everything is still going out of the door within a week.
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In reply to Post #431
No mate, the virus has made a lot of plans have to be put on the back burner for now.
I was meant to be getting married in two weeks time in paradise... That along with so much else has had to be cancelled till a later date. Some fishing that I've been trying to get sorted out for over a decade now, has also suffered because of the poxy virus. And now work is incredibly busy indeed.
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In reply to Post #428
any idea on lead times at present? Ordered some garlic last week just wondered when i will likely recieve them? I guess you are snowed under at present
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Just brought all my kit to start making my own bait please don’t tell me a s2 freezer bait on the way Hopefully they will do a basemix. If his hookbaits are anything to go buy they will be winners.
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In reply to Post #430
Any news on the S2 freezer baits ?
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In reply to Post #424
It’s cleared me a spot in days on my local lake
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Some incredible looking carp getting caught!
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In reply to Post #423
Sorry Joe I've not managed to get on here for a while, we've been so stupidly busy at work for the last few weeks, so I did not see this post. Yes the bucket needs to have an airtight lid mate. It's very simple to make, keep at it, it's so worth it mate.
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In reply to Post #425
I gaffa taped mine as well... sinks like a brick and by god it works
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In reply to Post #424
better start again 
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In reply to Post #423
Yes, air tight, anaerobic fermentation
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In reply to Post #406
Hi I have tried making some tiger slime following the guide below but for what ever reason I can’t get it to work? Does the bucket need to be air tight, as this is the only thing that I can think off that might have caused the issue.
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In reply to Post #381
These tigers are looking good day two and they are getting proper gloopy
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In reply to Post #407
Nice bit of light reading Mark 
Keep safe.
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In reply to Post #415
Insane looking big carp. The best I have seen for a long time. Magnificent creature.
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In reply to Post #415
Incredible is the word
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In reply to Post #415
That’s a beast 👌🏼
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In reply to Post #411
Loving that first one
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In reply to Post #411
Wow. What amazing creatures.
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In reply to Post #411
That top one 
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In reply to Post #408
Yes mate. I use it to prepare my tigers with.
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In reply to Post #408
Perfect thanks for the tips
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In reply to Post #406
Worth using this corn syrup in with particles when in soak? I always use molasses when soaking maize but looking that extra bit
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Ripped from a US diabetes website...
How High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) Is Made
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is, as the name implies, corn syrup whose glucose has been partially changed into a different sugar, fructose. To make HFCS, you start with corn, then mill it to produce starch -corn starch. Starch, the most important carbohydrate in the human diet, consists of long chains of glucose. To make corn syrup, you mix the corn starch with water and then add an enzyme, produced by a bacterium, that breaks the starch down into shorter chains of glucose. Then you add another enzyme, produced by a fungus, that breaks the short chains down into glucose molecules. At that point, you have regular corn syrup.
To make the corn syrup into high fructose corn syrup, you turn some of its glucose molecules into fructose molecules by exposing the syrup to yet another enzyme, again produced by bacteria. This enzyme converts the glucose to a mixture of about 42 percent fructose and 53 percent glucose, with some other sugars as well. This syrup, called HFCS 42, is about as sweet as natural sugar (sucrose) and is used in foods and bakery items. HFCS 55, which contains approximately 55 percent fructose and 42 percent glucose, is sweeter than sucrose and is used mostly in soft drinks.
HFCS is a ubiquitous sweetener in America because it’s so cheap here compared to sugar. The government placed production quotas on domestic sugar and an import tariff on foreign sugar in 1977, but it subsidizes corn production by paying growers. Consequently, the U.S. and Canadian prices of sugar are twice the global price, while corn syrup is cheap.
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In reply to Post #401
Hi Christopher. High fructose corn syrup is quite hard to get hold of in the UK mate... It's use in food production is pretty frowned upon in Europe, as it's considered far more 'addictive' than other sweeteners, and it's use is also linked to diabetes and other health problems.
The Americans and Asians love it though, it's in so many sweet US food and drink products. Maybe why they have such an obesity problem
It's the sugars from maize production. I've always got mine off of Amazon, but you can also get it from your local Asian wholesaler as Rabs mentioned. Daesang corn syrup off Amazon is good stuff. Comes in a 5KG bottle for around £15 delivered I think it was. I always add a bit of extra fructose powder to this, as the American stuff which we cannot get here has a higher fructose content. (Hence the name).
Carp absolutely love it.
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In reply to Post #404
I take it my 1KG jug of Golden Syrup won’t work
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In reply to Post #403
It could well be I'm not sure, I use the chung jung one brand and it's worked well for me.
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In reply to Post #402
but isnt the corn syrup for sale in the UK flavoured with vanilla and 'light'?
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In reply to Post #401
You'll find the corn syrup in most oriental grocers.
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In reply to Post #400
Just putting together the ingredients for the tigers. Is the high fructose corn syrup banned in the UK?
All I can get is the golden syrup type stuff?
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In reply to Post #399
They will be absolutely fine Rob.
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In reply to Post #397
Hi Mark,
I’ve just found a pot of GPB1 baits that I mislaid last year, will these be ok to use later this year ( not too late hopefully!) ?
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In reply to Post #396
Great stuff Barry, they look good!
A bit of liquid flavour/hydro into that gelatine, just not to much to stop the gelatine from setting. I bet you can get quite a bit of liquid into it though, without any problems.
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In reply to Post #390
Thanks Mark, I'll leave them in the cupboard, not like I'm in a rush to get out..
While I was doing it i thought I could add pretty much anything to the gelatine mixture, I'll experiment further next time.
These were some seasoning, betaine and pdfm.
These were the same but with added crayfish powder which gives them a coarser finish, it was my last batch and i was a bit low on powder so they aren't covered quite as well.
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In reply to Post #394
Nice one mate will put a order in next week probs go for white and yellow will let you know soon as av sold me gear i have on ebay👍
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In reply to Post #393
I thought it was you mate. We had someone order a shed load of S3 as a special order yesterday, 66 tubs of various colours. So we'll have some in dark red, pink and yellow, as well as the whites now mate.
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In reply to Post #391
Yeah was me mate havnt got round to ordering them yet mate got a few bits and bobs on eBay just waiting for them to sell then al be putting a order in for some next week will text mid week to see if any are left 👍
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In reply to Post #386
Sorry Tim I did not see this the other day we have been really busy this week. Glad it is all sorted for you now.
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In reply to Post #382
Hi Gregg, was it you I spoke to about this via text the other day? I know I spoke to someone about white S3's.
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They will dry fine Barry, just keep them somewhere away from kitchen/bathroom steam/moisture, so they fully dry out. They will look dry mate, but then when you put them into a tub and do up the lid... The coating will become soft and gooey again after a couple of days if they are not dried out properly. They really need thoroughly drying out for a long period. If not using a radiator I'd leave them out drying for 7-10 days at least in that cupboard. When I used to make them for myself on the radiator... I would leave them for at least 48 hours with the radiator on all day long both days.
I've been sent loads of photos over the past couple of days from anglers who have made some up like you. A Stoneacres angler sent me a bunch of photos of his, they looked the ********. He had added flavours to the gelatine as well, which is something I never tried myself.
You're very welcome Barry.
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In reply to Post #378
I’ve had loads of tench mate.
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In reply to Post #375
I’ve just made a batch of these for the first time, thanks for sharing this
I’m not in a position to be leaving plates of hookbaits on radiators unfortunately, however half an hour after the cooling stage they seem fine, plenty of powder seems to be welded to the baits, I guess if they are left to dry further in a dark cupboard they should be fine?
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In reply to Post #386
Marks hookbaits are second to none. I've had the same problem with the odd corkball /pop up that didn't perform.
I generally pop some foam under the hookbait to balance it how I want it.
I'm a big fan of two pink 13mm s2's on a ronnie.
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In reply to Post #385
All sorted! Tested 3 other pop-ups in the tub and they all seemed perfectly buoyant, very odd.
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Had no probs with any i have had the not balanced you have received or orded are they
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Just taken delivery of some 13mm S2 CC's and was just wondering how buoyant most people found them? Just tried them out on a Size 6 Krank on a ronnie with a micro hook ring swivel, no putty and they couldn't hold the hook up at all. Just wondering if I've got a dodgy batch because that doesn't seem buoyant enough to me?
Cheers
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In reply to Post #382
going to be giving the coating process a go next week!
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In reply to Post #381
Alright mark hope ya well ya got any s3 white cc pop ups specials ready
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In reply to Post #380
Thanks Tim, you take care too mate.
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In reply to Post #359
Mark,
Thanks for sharing the ‘Dry Tigers’ guidance. I have been quietly been using Coked Tigers to sometimes devastating effect over here for a while. Like the upgrade potential!!
Hope you and yours are well, take care these next few weeks, mate.
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In reply to Post #378
Received mine today.... cheers
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In reply to Post #377
Had a few tench on the F1’s awhile back hadnt caught tench from water for about 5 year before this.
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Any one had tench on the 12mmers
Thinking of getting some of them for ireland
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In reply to Post #375
Tell you what Mark, you don’t **** around, the tips that you offer people and the baits you sell must make a lot of people happy. Taking people’s fishing to a completely different level
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In reply to Post #373
I really liked the Dunns River Caribbean BBQ seasoning personally Stephen for warm water use, which I mentioned in that post. It's very high in salt (37%) plus a load of herbs & spices, which give it a nice tasting kick. It worked very well for me straight off the bat too at Burghfield. It also made a nice coating in practical terms, one that lasted well when immersed. The rough outside of one of our crushed cork pop ups, holds the coating exceptionally well, better than a cork ball does I found with these BBQ S2.
In cold water, I'd personally be wanting a milks/betaine/fruit enhancer mix of powders myself. The world is literally your oyster though. The more the merrier! Milkshakes, powdered desserts, loads of stuff in the supermarket you can incorporate into a coating.
You could try mixing some BBQ seasoning, with powdered betaine... That will work mate.
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Toffee or caramel on s2 melted over and left to dry will be good i think I think gunna give it a go next time i do a shop
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In reply to Post #370
Hi mark if you was to coat your s2 baits what would be the one powder you would use if you was only going to do it once and wanted to make sure it was 100% bang on?
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In reply to Post #370
Sounds great! will definitely be giving it a good go with a few different mixes. Will take some pics and get them up once done.
I think I am mixing up what you do to get the goodness into your hookbaits with the coating stage
If others are going down the coating route - we should get a thread specific for that setup, exchange coating recipes, successes and failures
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In reply to Post #366
S2’s are great, I’ve had bites on them on every lake I’ve fished UK and abroad
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In reply to Post #368
Hi Neil. You could try mate, all you could mess up is a few hook baits if it did not work. I've never tried that myself, I have always just coated them the once. Doing them once does not affect the buoyancy to much, the coating also lasts a long time when placed into water anyway.
They pick up an incredible amount of powder just doing them once. (You'll be surprised just how much powder you actually use.) They pick up the bulk of it obviously when first placed into the bowl of powders... But they will pick up a lot more when on the baking tray before and after the oven treatment, and even more for the first hour which they are drying on the radiator.
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I only just noticed, that the copy and pasted post I put onto here, was to many words for one post... Consequently the last couple of paragraphs of text were missing from the original post. I've added those paragraphs, to the top of the following post, which contains the photographs.
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In reply to Post #353
Hi Mark,
Very keen to give this a go, rolling some hookbaits this weekend to coat in Liver Powder.
1 question - can this process be repeated 2,3,4 times to build up layers of coating?
I am sure I have read from you before about doing this several times to get the best effect?
Oh and some lucky bugger on a Shefford water has a free pot of Garlic popups, where i left them there first time out with them 
Thanks,
Neil.
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In reply to Post #366
they definitely work
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In reply to Post #365
looking at giving specialised hookbaits a go. seems that s2 does quite well so going with that one
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In reply to Post #359
Thank you Paul
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In reply to Post #358
Hi Tom, we can do them for you as a special order. We have some white 17mm S3 balanced already done. No 13mm left, but we can do them for you. Send us a text on our work mobile mate.
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In reply to Post #362
Sorry just read it’s time critical thanks all again.
Stay safe and well
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In reply to Post #361
One more question... would freezing kill it?
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In reply to Post #359
Thanks all
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In reply to Post #353
Thanks for this - excellent post and generous of you to share.
Got some Chinese salt and pepper seasoning from Home Bargains that I'll be playing with
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Take some dry tiger nuts. You need some high fructose corn syrup, some raw cane and Demerara sugars. No Cola, no energy drinks. All contain to many other man made nasties, to reach fermented nirvana with a tiger nut. It's just not happening with these things. I wrote about cola tigers donkeys years ago... There are much better ways though. Here are two of them. One way is dry after cooking, similar to the maize. The other is wet, to produce tiger slime. Real tiger slime. Both are deadly. For hook baits, I prefer the dry after boiling way. For baiting purposes, the tiger slime cannot be beaten. It's solubility, and draw power is hard to match. Prepared correctly, it sinks like a brick. It will permeate into the bottom, and they will dig for it long after no food is present. For tiger slime. Take 1kg of dry tigers. Soak in warm sugared water from the kettle, for twenty four hours. Not to much raw cane sugar for the soaking/boiling purpose. Once the tigers are full size. Boil them for twenty minutes. Place the tigers, and all of the water into a large bucket. Add more boiling water. The water should now cover the tigers by no more than three inches. Whack a load of cane sugar in. Whack a load of Demerara sugar in. Whack a good slug of high fructose corn syrup. Stir it all up. Place next to a radiator for three days. What you are looking to achieve, is a very thick slime. This will start to develop after three days. By day four or five, they will be at their very optimum. This slime, is absolutely electric. It's full of fermenting tiger goodness. I use the slime and some of the tigers for baiting purposes. I freeze the rest of these tigers. I like to produce more slime for my angling, than I need tigers to use. They get used on the river at some stage for baiting. The slime is where it is at, with that one though. It's very time specific, and you cannot control that slime, with salt or preservatives.
For hook bait tigers and free bait. Follow the same process, exactly. After boiling, drain all of the water away. Place back into the bucket steaming. Add a load of raw cane and Demerara sugar. A big old handful. Add some high fructose corn syrup, just a couple of table spoons. Shake it all up. And place onto a radiator with the lid on tight, for three days minimum. Keep shaking them whilst on the radiator. The sugar and heat, will help create some of mother natures magic inside the nut. The corn syrup, will coat the outside of the tigers with the sugars. This stops air getting to them, and allows magic to work inside of the nut far better. This is fermentation of a tiger nut. After three days, I like to add a handful of natural salts to them. These are now electric, for another five days. After this they will start to smell of alcohol. They will work well still, but are no where near as effective in my eyes after five days. I do not freeze them. I make them, when I need them. A very small handful of these, less is more... A small handful of electric maize, is really all that is needed. Use these on top of your normal feed situation with freezer baits. They will improve it, massively so.
In the photographs, is a 40lb+ fully scaled. In it's mouth, is a pink crushed cork S2 17mm pop up. With a turbo charged tiger nut on top. Holding up a size 4 hook and metal work. A snow man, on a stiff hinge rig... Great rig mechanics, two different hook baits, charged with electricity. This fish was caught from a totally natural UK pit. It has no silly name. From a gravel bar, cleared of all weed, by tiger slime mainly, and big carp. They ripped it to bits. Dug it out. Pretty simple to catch, when you drive them wild first.
Good luck, you will not need it, not if you prepare those particles correctly above. 😎
Mark
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In reply to Post #357
T Carper - out of interest do you do the s3 in balanced? on the website you only have the pop ups
Cheers
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In reply to Post #356
I'll find it for you mate. I should have it somewhere on my computer, or on our Faceache somewhere. I'll have a look for you today after work.
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In reply to Post #355
T carper... you once put a guide on marking tiger slime on here but i can’t find it.
Any chance you can add it again?
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In reply to Post #353
I always rated the S1, had a double hook up on them on a syndicate lake that had otters on it 300yards away at the time, when you first marketed the 1+2. It was unheard of
Thanks for posting the advice and tips.
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In reply to Post #353
...Place the plate on a warm radiator. For the first two hours that the plate is on the radiator, you need to swirl the plate around every twenty minutes or so, making sure that none of the hook baits are stuck together, or to the plate itself. They will still pick up a touch more powder. If you do not have a double radiator, that a plate will sit on, use a coffee table and stacking on the table with something suitable to be able to rest that plate onto of the radiators top. After the first two hours swirling, you can just leave the hook baits to dry over a 48 hour period. The ceramic plate acts like a small warming table once it warms up, it's important to use a real plate to dry the coating and not a plastic one for that reason.
Once the hook baits are fully dried, put them into a tub, and they are ready to be used whenever you need them. The coatings will not come off inside the tub, you have literally welded them to the outside of the hook bait, with a pure natural protein, fully water soluble gelatine mixture. The moment the coating is wet, liquid transfer from inside the hook bait itself is immediate, through the coating. The coatings, depending on the coarseness of powder used/ water temperatures, will last from eight to twelve hours out in the lake. Test one in the edge, or in a bowl of water at home.
Try to keep the lid screwed up tight in damp weather, as the coatings do not react that well with moisture. If you ever fish on a foggy night and the coating gets damp in the tub from moisture in the air whilst opening... Just pop them on a plate and dry them back out on the radiator when you get home. They will be as good as new again.
Something to do whilst stuck at home... When you can get out and finally go fishing again... You'll get a massive buzz catching loads of fish on something you made yourself, whilst stuck at home.
Take care of you and yours, and stay safe all.
Mark
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Something for you all to do to avoid boredom whilst stuck at home.... Hard coating your hook baits in the powders of your choice.
I posted this on social media yesterday, it's very simple to do... With items you will all already have at home in your bait making kits. Gelatine can be got from the bakery isle of most supermarkets, or for pennies delivered to your front door from auction sites. I'll pop some photographs in the following post. Any powdered coating you so wish can be used, absolutely anything at all... From Betaine, to GLM... And anything at all in between. The first hook bait we ever sold alongside the S2, was the hard coated S1. We only stopped selling these various coated hook baits last year, as the time consumption of the drying process of this coating, on such a grand scale... Became to much of a time constraint to us, in as far as for filling our orders in a timely manner. Since we stopped selling our coated hook baits, our time frame for deliveries, has been in a much greater place because of it ever since.
That does not stop you from doing it yourself, on a much smaller scale at home though. Applying powdered coatings to your hook baits, can really give them an extra edge. Depending on the powders used, this will last up to eight hours in warm water, or up to twelve hours in cold water. Slowly pinging off particles of your chosen powder.
What you will need. Some hook baits. These will need to be quite buoyant, if you are wanting to coat pop ups, as the coating will add a small amount weight, until it eventually dissolves. Any shelf life hook bait can be coated, bottom baits, wafters or pop ups, as long as they are shelf life. You will need an oven, some powdered gelatine, standard small packets from the baking isle of the supermarket are fine. Really cheap on the auction site too, and delivered to your door. A baking tray, some tin foil, a saucepan, a couple of bowls and two small plates. There is nothing complicated, it's a very simple process indeed. The powdered coating, is completely down to you. Any powders that you have at home... Appetite simulators, powdered sweeteners, savoury seasonings, milks... The list is absolutely endless... Your kitchen already likely contains a few hidden gems in the cupboards! I hard coated some S2 crushed corks, in a Caribbean BBQ seasoning a few years ago, just for my own personal fishing... A very salty, strong tasting seasoning in a jar from the supermarket. I choose that particular seasoning, simply because it just tasted and looked right to me. The very first time I tried one of these BBQ coated S2 on one rod, I caught a 43lb mirror from Burghfield, within just thirty minutes of the coated hook bait being in the water. Lots of the coating was still on the bait, even after playing the fish in from distance. (First two photos). You get to pick what mixture you coat them in, and when you catch on them for the first time, it will give you an extra buzz.
The hook baits which you are going to hard coat, need to be thoroughly dried before you start. First, you need to mix up some gelatine powder with water. Do this in a bowl, with boiling water underneath it in a saucepan. This stops the gelatine from burning, and allows you to heat the gelatine back up gently, if it starts to set whilst you are preparing your hook baits. A couple of inches of water in a saucepan, with a ceramic cereal bowl placed inside the saucepan sitting in the water. Heat the water in the saucepan first, then mix your gelatine solution inside the ceramic bowl with boiling water. You really do not need to go crazy with the gelatine. It only takes a small amount to set a pint of water. You will only be using a fraction of this amount of water to coat a few tubs of hook baits. Add the gelatine until your water just starts to thicken slightly. If you add to much, you can always add a bit more boiling water. Have your powders already mixed in a bowl that you wish to coat your hook baits in. Place your hook baits, a few at a time into the gelatine solution and stir them around with a spoon, ensuring they are completely covered. Take the hook baits out with a spoon, draining them on the side of the bowl as you do so. These wet hook baits should be put onto a clean plate, and swirled around to remove excess gelatine. Then simply tip the hook baits into your bowl of powders. Use a clean spoon to move the hook baits around in the bowl of powders, ensuring that all the hook baits are completely covered in the powders. Transfer these hook baits to an oven tray, which is covered in tin foil to avoid sticking, and has a thin layer of your powders on. Never fill the tray more than half full with hook baits, or they will stick when placed into the oven. Swirl the oven tray around, ensuring that the hook baits pick up even more of the powdered coating. You will find that once they have sat on the tray for a few minutes, they will become damp on the outside again, and more powder can be picked up by swirling them around. Your oven should be pre heated, at a temp of 120 degrees with the fan on if your oven has one. Place the baking tray inside the oven for approximately 40 seconds to a minute... All you are looking to do at this stage, is remove a touch of the water from the gelatine. If you keep them in the oven for to long, they will stick together and turn into a horrible stuck together mess! 40 seconds-one minute, then take them out and swirl around on the oven tray... They will pick up even more powder. Transfer these hook baits to a small ceramic plate or similar, and apply a bit more powder. Put them somewhere cold, like just outside the back door for five minutes. These are now 'set', but still need to be dried thoroughly. We have a drying unit at work for the hook baits, but when I first started making these coated hook baits for my own personal use... I used a radiator, just like you can at home. Place the plate on a warm radia
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In reply to Post #351
Well done James!
The yellow ones are the S4 mate. You're right. There is nothing you can buy off of the shelf that compares to them. Mainly because they are not a bulk standard pop up mix, the base mix of every single hook bait we make, is high grade food. We only use natural cork for our buoyancy, which allows us to use much heavier, entirely food based base mixes. The corks buoyancy also allows us to cure them repeatedly in heavy liquids, without affecting the buoyancy.
I had a lovely PM from another member yesterday, telling me he himself had bagged a couple of 40's and a mid thirty fully scaled. Messages like yours and his, are a great distraction to all this mess which is going on around us at the moment. So thank you again.
You'll continue to slay them mate.
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bit of a coincidence this but I brought some of your pop ups around 6 months ago but due to my little girl being ill I haven't had the chance to do any fishing until the last few weekends. My syndicate has been fishing tricky no fish out for a few weeks at a time I started of on some high attract pop ups (yellow and white) couldn't get a take despite fish being active and right on me. I then switched over to your garlic pro biotic and your yellow pop ups sorry I cant remember the name the pen on the lid has rubbed off in the rain. same spot as before same colour and the yellow went twice couple of low twenties first fish of the year.
went for a night Friday lake was very busy all the best pegs taken no fish out that week despite the fish being active. both of my rods on yellow chucked to showing fish a hour later first 30 of the year and only person to catch the last few weekends. never giving much thought into bait I have been quite happily picking my pop ups of the shelf but there is clearly a gap of some distance between the off the shelf pop ups and the ones you offer so much so my fruity ones have been demoted back to the cupboard. only problem is that i have just ordered a load of flavours to start rolling my own pop ups and wafters for the first time. when i should of just brought a years supply of yellows
there so unique i dont even think i could get close trying to roll my own. but credit where its due i will be using them alongside my homemades this year
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In reply to Post #349
Thanks Wayne.
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In reply to Post #348
Welcome back Mark.......
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How are we all?
All good I hope and no one has this disgusting virus. I've been in Brazil for the past three weeks. I came home on Thursday to armageddon in the UK. I travelled via Paris/GDG... I've never seen anything like it. A completely empty airport, all duty free shops and stores in the airport shut. No one about at all (which I was very pleased about to be fair). My flight from Brazil to Paris had just twelve passengers on board. My flight from Paris to London had just five passengers. Heathrow was completely empty. Far less passengers than you would normally expect at our busiest airport.
I was sorely tempted to ride this out in Brazil, which is one of the last countries to be effected by the virus. But even Brazil as I left had a massive spike in cases, and panic was starting to set in there too. I was advised by the British embassy to try and get back if I could, which swayed my thinking in the end. It was very hard to know what to do in reality, stay with loved ones in Brazil, or get back to loved ones in the UK. My thinking was that we had enough stock to keep things running in the UK for around a month. But I was advised by someone from the embassy, that a world wide travel ban was likely coming, and would last from three months, to a year. I had to get back in reality under those circumstances.
As I'm sure all of you who have been ordering well know, all orders have been going out for the past few months in around a week currently. Ever since I stream lined the products that we sell last year, order times have been in a much greater place. We are still ticking over with orders currently, but after an incredibly busy start to the year... Things have slowed down considerably orders wise over the past week understandably with all this chaos going on.
My son is a paramedic in Berkshire, so I've been hearing first hand from him how badly this virus has been hitting our country over the past two weeks. (None of which reach the official figures). It's been scary hearing the cases he is attending daily going up and up every single day. His mother, my ex wife was diagnosed with the virus last week, and has spent ten days in isolation in hospital since first diagnosed. She is 46, with no previous medical conditions... But was hit very hard by this. For five days she was on a ventilator, unable to breath unaided. Luckily she has improved massively over the past few days, and they are talking about letting her go home within the next few days. While I have been in Brazil, I've seen so much stuff on social media, talking as though this is all some conspiracy, when nothing could actually be further from the truth. My son has been attending so many cases on a daily basis, all with the same symptoms and a great difficulty breathing.
I had to visit the supermarket yesterday, I went at 7am when they first opened. I've never seen anything like it, absolute carnage at 7am. Very little stuff on the shelves, and all of that had gone by 7.15am. I managed to get some food, and very luckily I had brought back 15 toilet rolls in my suitcase from Brazil because there was nothing like that at all on the shelves. No sugar, no pasta, no tea bags, most of the food I managed to get were the last or close to it items on the shelf. What really surprised me, was no one in the supermarket (100's it was packed) apart from me and a few others were wearing face masks.
All of our current orders from the past week will be going out on Monday. Hopefully this will all pass soon. I'm meant to be getting married in June, already that is looking very unlikely to happen in this current situation. Stay safe all of you, and keep your loved ones safe too.
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In reply to Post #343
received my order thanks for the extras ya sent with them the look and smell spot on just need to get out and use them now 👍
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In reply to Post #345
Well done Perry
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In reply to Post #344
31lb 10oz Storm Ciara Common on the S3's you chucked in as a freebie...
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In reply to Post #342
You're very welcome Ian. Your current order went yesterday afternoon, and should be there today for you.
The Spring rush has started very early this year, we are incredibly busy at the moment for early Feb. All current orders apart from seven, containing white S2 13mm cc or GPB1 went out yesterday. All of these will be going on Monday morning.
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In reply to Post #341
Monday they will go out mate.
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Just put another order in for some S2's and S3's this morning Mark.
Forgot to thankyou for the yellow S2 samples you sent with my previous order. 👍
Regards,
Ian.
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In reply to Post #340
just put order in mate
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The same price as the GPB1 mate.
We had an incredible time thanks. 32 degrees most days, the only bummer was I got so burnt on my head/shoulders on the second day... My eyes swelled up and nearly closed, it looked like I'd been ten rounds with Tyson. . I was like this for five days... From then on the hat and shirt had to stay on permanently.
It's such a beautiful country... One day I will sod off and live there. It will have to be Marlin fishing instead of carp.
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In reply to Post #338
how much are they mate how was Brazil
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In reply to Post #333
Type specializedhookbaits.co.uk into your browser mate.
We currently have a shed load of GLM-S2 & GLM-GPB1 crushed corks on their final cures. These will be sold as special orders from next week when they are ready. Both are fishmeal variants of the S2 and GPB1 CC, with pre digested and GLM added. We have them in 13 & 16mm crushed cork pop ups, and 13 & 16mm balanced bottom baits.
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In reply to Post #335
No worries Stephen, just remember to text me when you have done it.
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In reply to Post #334
Ok, thanks. I wasn’t sure if it was via pm on here or Facebook etc.
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Yes mate it was me, I’ll get that order across tomorrow been a cock up with my wages today
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In reply to Post #333
Go on the website and order them...
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In reply to Post #331
How do I go about ordering some of these s2 crushed corks?
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In reply to Post #331
Some cracking looking fish there!
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I've been away for the whole of January as Pooter so kindly wrote, I hope that you are all well. I still cannot access this forum from my iPhone. For some reason the username and password do not work on there, only on my Mac at home.
I got back yesterday morning Stephen, is it you that I spoke today via text mate? I'm assuming so.
While I have been in Brazil all orders have been going out. We are totally up to date today.
James Sherman has been having them whist I have been away, here with a couple of nice January Frimley carp. The big fully again at 43lb+. White S2 13mm crushed corks as always. He really has ripped Frimley this season at weekends.
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In reply to Post #323
Nice one Ian.
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Topped up on S2 Crushed Corks today...
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In reply to Post #327
27th
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In reply to Post #326
cheers mate, any idea when he's back?
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Mark is unable to sign in so he's sent this message ;
" Hello mate I hope you are well. I just see the CF post. Would you do me a massive favour and go on there and tell him we have a shed load of F1 crushed corks drying right now. They will be ready next week. If you could also put that all orders are going out while I’m away. "
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In reply to Post #324
He's in Brazil chap.
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Hi mark, just wondering when the F1s are available to order
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Haven't been out much at all lately managed a few nights after Christmas and bagged a nice 25lb common on an S2 as well as a near 6lb Bream,  nobody on the syndicate thought there were any bream left in the pond there hasn't been any caught for donkeys years.
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In reply to Post #319
Same to you and yours Mark. Hope you keep helping angler's put fish that matter on the scales.
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In reply to Post #319
You to mate av a good en 🎅🍻🥂👍
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In reply to Post #319
And you Mark
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Merry Christmas all.
I hope you and yours all have a fantastic Xmas and new year.
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In reply to Post #317
I recently took the plunge and recieved my baits from Mark very quickly. Put them on all rods for a weekend session and blanked... because I lost two fish. 
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In reply to Post #315
Hi Stephen. Sorry mate we have no F1 left now, we sold out of all we had made. We will be doing some more just after Xmas.
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How i got mine you txt him in his work phone what you want then he will tell you what to order off his site then they get posted just put a order in for a pot ad s2 balanced mark👍
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In reply to Post #314
Hi Mark,
how do i go about ordering some f1 balanced baits?
thanks,
stephen
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In reply to Post #313
Less than a week Greg. We were completely up to date with all orders bar one, as of Monday just gone... Everything from this week is going out today and tomorrow. You'll have them in plenty of time for Xmas mate.
Now is the time of year we are able to do special orders for people. A lot of that at the moment.
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In reply to Post #310
What's the turn around at the min mate after a pot or 2 for Xmas presants
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In reply to Post #310
That’s a stunner
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Stunner that like mate proper lump
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James Sherman again. He had three this weekend from Frimley, including Charlie's Mate at 51lb12oz. White S2 crushed corks as always for Jim. The bloke has had a truly incredible carp catching year.
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In reply to Post #308
I did not see your post before you deleted it Bristol? Anything interesting?
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In reply to Post #305
Sorry Jim for the late reply, I've been in Brazil for the past two weeks on a last minute birthday trip to see my fiancee. I hope you're all well.
Any of the S range are lethal in the winter Jim (S2, S3, S4), but the Garlic should surpass even all of those for cold water form this winter. While I have been away in the sunshine, I saw that Cam the MOD has been catching some nice cold water carp on the Garlic alongside DNA freezer baits.
Gary Watton (who's completely deaf) has been having some lovely fish on our S4 alongside ABS freezer baits since the temps really dropped, as he always does. One of these photo's it had been - 4 that morning in England with heavy frosts.
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Before the S2's release to the public, I caught more cold water carp from Walthamstow than anyone ever had before over a few freezing cold months, I was told by the people who run it. I had an extraordinary amount of big carp, when the temps were absolutely bitter. (Best day was eight stunning twenties and two thirties). The S2 has exceptional cold water form...It's almost not fair on the fish using S2's in late winter/early spring. But any of the S range are just as good. As I said before, the GPB1 will be even better. I have always loved my winter carping, so any hook baits we make has to produce the goods in the winter.
I just want to be back in the sun . I left Brazil on Monday, where the temps were a constant 32-40 degrees all of the time I was there.... I got a massive shock to the system landing at Heathrow Tuesday morning, where it was bloody freezing!
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Hi,
I am sure Mark will reply in a bit, but the S2's have always been great for me in the winter. This will be the first winter for me trying the Garlic's alongside them.
Cheers
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In reply to Post #304
Mark which in your range as best winter form
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In reply to Post #303
Sorry Paul, my mistake, I thought they were all on the garlic.
Top stuff anyway mate
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In reply to Post #302
For the sake of truth...
The fully-scaled was actually on an S2 CC + B5 (double bait)
The other 2 were GPB CC + B5 (double bait)
Both fished over about a dozen B5's.
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Carpforum regular Keebs, has very kindly allowed me to show these. It's not about the size with these fish, it's all about where they were caught from. A notorious monster ressie in Southern England. Great captures from Paul... I've been willing him to have a proper chunk all summer... It will come mate!
GPB1 crushed corks over shellfish B5.
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In reply to Post #300
Will do mate.
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In reply to Post #299
Top man cheers mark. Pm me with details
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In reply to Post #298
We can do them for you mate.
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In reply to Post #297
Mark do you do any pale yellow wafters ? Like the S4
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In reply to Post #294
Happy days Greg
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In reply to Post #292
Had a realy good year on the s2 top bombing
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Steve Ackland with a beautiful Hampshire mirror, part of a five fish haul on GPB1 crushed corks.
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Another weekend, another Frimley pit 3 'A team' fish for James Sherman. 45lb4oz. 13mm white S2 CC.
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In reply to Post #287
You're welcome Pete.
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In reply to Post #286
My order of F1 has arrived including some freebies Many thanks Mark it's much appreciated.
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Wicked Mark all the Best moving onwards and upwards.
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Glad you all like them. May the force be with you all.
When we first started SHB, we were the very first company to hard coat hook baits in this way. Quite a few others tried to replicate this, and failed. Hence they sold the coating in a kit form. Putting the emphasis on the angler to do it themselves... Unfortunately these kit form coatings, would fall off as soon as the bait touched water.
We are moving to much larger premises soon, which will give us the space, and the man power to put these coated hook baits back onto the website permanently. We have a BBQ hard coated version of the S2, which has never been released, which are absolutely deadly. The chocolate/betaine coated S2 were also a real winner. Unfortunately, we just got to busy to be able to do these en masse where we are currently. Since removing the coated hook baits from the website, we have been in a great place with our waiting times all summer.
Some F1 13mm balanced, that had just been coated, and are about to get oven cooked.
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Post oven cooking... About to go into our drier for another forty eight hours.
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In reply to Post #283
Lucky they have cork in them otherwise I'd probably have eaten one by now
Don’t let that stop you
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Mine were waiting for me at home today its funny, the F1s smell pretty much how I imagined the S2s would smell from reading descriptions... Like sugary sweet. The S2s smell pretty much like caramel to me... Like a melted brown sugar....
Lucky they have cork in them otherwise I'd probably have eaten one by now
Cant wait to give them a go!
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Hopefully that means mine are at home waiting for me when I get back from fishing tomorrow or Friday 😃
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In reply to Post #280
Same here. Cheers mark
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Hi t carper I received my hook baits this morning.👍 I’ll look forward to using them in the coming weeks. Cheers again.
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In reply to Post #278
Spot on mate 👍
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In reply to Post #277
Yes mate, bundles. Even recent prestige 50's going up on other bait firms pages... 100% caught on our hook baits the utter scoundrels.
Your F1's and everyone else's F1's & pink balanced etc are going out today Greg. Will be there Weds latest. I'm quite shocked at how many of our regular customers contacted us over the weekend, looking for F1's. Seeing as they have only been put up on here so far, there would seem to be a hell of a lot of non members, looking in at CF. So much so, we have nearly sold out of what we had done already.
Gary Howes again with a 32lb+ Larky common. Gary has been smashing them. GPB1 13mm balanced again.
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In reply to Post #276
No bother mate av got a few pots to tie me over plus the ones I orded the outher day some nice pics there like alot seem to be coming out on the garlic lately 👍
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We are going to hold them back now mate until the Spring. With pre digested and GLM added, they will be more of a warmer water bait. The plan was to get them out at the beginning of September, which did not materialise due to us being to busy. The Garlic, has not had a winter yet, as they only came out Spring 2019. The S2 has always been regarded as a truly exceptional winter bait... The GPB1 should in my mind, be even better in cold water than the S2. So to sell a fishmeal/GLM version now, in late October would not be the one really.
Sorry for opening my mouth.
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Gary Howes with two absolutely ancient 30+ Kent carp this weekend. 'Not Another Scaly' is one of my all time favourite old carp from a very pressured pit. GPB1 13mm balanced.
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In reply to Post #271
When are the gpb1 glm coming out mate
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Got mine, quite accidentally they really match the flavour profile of my current boilies, so I am looking forward to using. Showed a mate and he is going to order some too. Cheers
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In reply to Post #270
Be lucky David.
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In reply to Post #268
yay - hookbaits turned up today.
ordered on the 8th - great service thanks again Mark.
david
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Put my order in looking forward to giving thease a try if the out like the s2 a gpb1 its gunna be a good winter had a few out the last few seasons i have been out on them looking forward to getting them 😁👍
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In reply to Post #266
These below in the photographs are being sold as special orders. None of them are on the website. If any of you would like to order any of these hook baits, please TEXT us on our work mobile number first (contact page of website). You will be told what to order from our website. Please include the FULL NAME which will be on the order, and please include what you would actually like to order all in one text message. You will get a reply (within twenty four hours), please do not text a second time, or you will lose your place in the queue.
We have shed loads of all of them, all ready to send out on Monday/Tuesday etc.
The pink balanced S2 are self explanatory, they are available in 13mm & 17mm. The white S3 crushed corks are available in 13mm & 17mm CC pop ups, and 13mm & 17mm balanced bottom baits.
The F1 (fruits) are available as 17mm CC pop ups, or 13mm & 17mm balanced bottom baits. They are a white CC, cured with various fruits with tangerine oil, which are added to our S series liquids. They are then hard coated, in an excellent milk powder, which is combined with four fruit enhancers and citric acid. They were originally designed as a single winter/spring hook bait, with a real kick. We only took these from the website earlier this year, because the hard coating is such a PITA to sort out on a large scale, and very expensive time wise. Not a week has gone by since, when I do not get someone moaning at me about when the F1 would be back... So here they are. The hardened coating, will last up to twenty four hours this time of year, slowly dissolving particles of goodness. The F1 are the same price as our garlic, but you get 30 baits in a tub, instead of 35. The S3 & pink S2 balanced are standard prices.
All, will be sold on a first come, first served basis. When they are gone, we will roll some more through the winter, so there is no need to panic buy them. They will be put on other forms of social media from next week, you lot have a head start.
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In reply to Post #265
Cheers Mark I appreciate it
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In reply to Post #264
👍 Al wait till later on then to put a order in al be after some of them to 👍
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In reply to Post #261
Just fish with them as you normally would Pete, as others have kindly explained. Don't put to much free bait out after a bite, as it will all still be there normally.
They are lethal as single hook baits too.
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We will be completely up to date with all orders, right up until yesterday, by this afternoon Greg. It's a good time right now, they will go out very early next week.
I'm going to take some photographs of the hard coated F1 (Fruits 1) balanced and crushed cork pop ups we have ready later when I get some time. We also have tonnes of white S3 in both CC pop ups & balanced, and a load of pink balanced S2 all ready to go.
When I get a chance later I will put some photographs up on here, plus how to order any of them as special orders. They will not be going on sale on Faceache etc until after the weekend.
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In reply to Post #261
I use the CC pop ups and corkballs on a spinner rig and the CC Balanced baits on a German rig
I’ve used them both as singles and over bait (for the pop ups and corkballs) and the balanced baits I always fish over a bit of bait
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They are hookbaits mate, use them like you would with any other.
I personally use them over a scattering of my selected boilie (pop-ups and balanced bait). I have also used them as a single hookbait (pop-up).
My small success with them (had a slow year anyway) has come over the scattering of boilie.
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In reply to Post #260
How do you present these hookbaits, do you fire out just a single with nothing around it or with a pva bag with pellets? Never used them and want to know how other users have found the best results. All replies appreciated.
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In reply to Post #259
I ordered and received in 5 days. That was about 2 weeks ago
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What's the waiting time about now mark after putting a order in for some s2 pink n white cc
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In reply to Post #257
Brilliant thank you
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It's further down at the bottom of the page in a different box
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This has probably been asked a lot already but just about to place my first order, there doesn't se to be an option for s2 crushed Cork, only Cork balls.... Am I missing something?
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In reply to Post #249
....and that's why I asked the expert.
Great answer Mark, many thanks, inforamtive and well explained.
Now I know my last two 3 hour blanks were probably down to me not the bait I can leave the hookbaits on for a few more goes!
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In reply to Post #248
Yes I would have thought that too, although washed out baits can be very effective. But I thought it best to ask the expert.............
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In reply to Post #251
Spencer and his mate Paul are both top blokes Ian.
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In reply to Post #250
I know Spencer. He's a lovely bloke. Good angler too.
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If any of you ever go to Thailand fishing... Our S2 (and now Garlic) are absolutely lethal for the Siamese carp. We have known this for a long time, every time one of our customers that has gone to Gilliams etc... They always do VERY well and come back singing the same tune.
This customer Spencer, has just come back yesterday. He said the lake has been fishing very hard, everyone blanking for five or six days. He caught loads on the Garlic and the S2. He ended up kindly giving away all of our hook baits that he had left, to the guides when he left.
The Siamese carp seem to REALLY adore the S2. Mad looking things...
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In reply to Post #247
Hi Paul. I would definitely leave them on between trips if you are only doing three hour stints. Natural cork, acts as a vessel in every one of our hook baits. Our curing process, gets our liquids right into the cork. It takes a lot longer to leech out of the cork, than it does the surrounding base mix. They will be effective if you leave them out for three days... Let alone just three hours.
So much so, if you were to use some hook baits for a day, and pop them back into an empty tub... They would regain a lot of their smell, which they did not have when you placed them back into a tub. The cork to a certain extent, refills the baits with the liquids.
Here is an example for you mate. When we first started, three anglers went to Abbey in France. One of them had half a tub of S2's, and it was all they could get a bite on. The three anglers ended up catching an extraordinary number of big carp, on those few hook baits. They were leaving them out for a night, then drying them back out in rotation.
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In reply to Post #247
I think it goes without saying that if you use the same bait over and over again all that goodness is being washed out buddy.
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In reply to Post #246
Hi Mark, just a quick question if you don't mind.
I have only managed a few very short sessions since getting my S2s and managed a fish a trip on the first two but nothing the last two, now these trips are very short, not the 'quick overnighter' or 'short' day session, I'm talking about 3 hour visits maximum, and being spur of the moment I have had the same bait on each trip.
My question is will using the bait and then effectively air drying it before using it again reduce the effectiveness (I suspect so), if it does then I will have to stop being lazy and tie on a fresh bait each time!
Cheers in advance.
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In reply to Post #243
Yes mate, pink and white S2, yellow S4, white S3.
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In reply to Post #239
We have a large amount of pink balanced S2 already done and ready to go this week mate, others have been asking They are being sold as special orders this week as soon as our order list is clear, like the F1's and S3 CC.
No need to keep them in the freezer.
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In reply to Post #243
Pink s2s.. already out there..
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I’ve had an amazing summer on both S2’s and the garlics, but it’s coming into single pop up time for me.
Do you have any plans for a coloured bait?
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In reply to Post #236
Is that Mick Nolans machine Mark?
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In reply to Post #240
Ty Gregc :0)
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In reply to Post #239
No need to put in freezer just cool area
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In reply to Post #237
My hookbaits have arrived as well, I thought I was getting 1 wafter and 1 pop ups but they both seem very buoyant, Im not worried though. Do we need to keep them in the freezer ? Also can you do the S2 pink in a wafter version, there doesn't seem to be that option on you website?
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In reply to Post #236
I’ll start saving up now
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In reply to Post #235
Perfect mate thanks, hookbaits arrived cant wait to give them a go 😁
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In reply to Post #231
The photo below is from 2015. It's white S2 freezer baits, made for me while I was fishing Englefield lagoon. I caught the fish below, fishing over ten of those. It had not been caught for a long time. I caught it first trip using them frozen S2. They were oddly shaped, because I did not need or want them round. Our hook baits go through a curing process. This happens five times. It would be financially unviable to try to apply this amount of work to an S2 freezer bait. There is not enough income, in a KG of freezer bait to warrant it. They do not need to be done five times though, they are not hook baits. Putting S2 freezer baits through our process twice, short term preserves them. Doing them three times, preserves them indefinitely. The ones in that bag had been 'done' just twice.The problem comes slightly, with doing this process on a much larger volume/scale than with hook baits.
The garlic pro biotic is slightly different being rolled as a free bait to the S2 though. It's so active, it needs to be frozen between fishing trips. They are still short term preserved. Putting them in and out of the freezer between trips is not a problem. They would easily last a couple of weeks in the sun, on a French trip for example.
We have had certain customers for a long time, who crush up S2 barrel bottom baits into a PVA bag while match fishing. Expensive and slightly crazy to me doing that with hook baits.... But I'm told it works amazingly well by those who do it.
We simply have never been in a position to be able to offer freezer baits Jamie. Or bulk liquids, anything like this. Time and space. So we have always concentrated on hook baits, solely. We have a very wide customer base now though, we sell to every bait companies customers, all over the country. We know from our customers, that they would love to be able to have S2 freezer baits, or a bottle of GPB1 liquid cure. So it would be crazy for us not to do it really. I had a very important meeting two weeks ago. It went very well indeed. That's where the video of the machine came from. I have another meeting in a week or so's time. We will have the space and the hands which we need, to be able to do all of this stuff soon.
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As Ian said they should sink with a hook Matt. If you do get one hook bait which is to buoyant.... Simply trim a piece of cork from the outside of the hook bait. Where they have 5mm lumps of cork inside, it's quite simple to adjust buoyancy, by trimming a visible piece of cork. No need for putty etc, and you can get the exact buoyancy which you require. Takes seconds with a pair of scissors.
One of the very best things about out crushed corks, both balanced and pop ups, is the ability to change the buoyancy quite easily. Taking the top off of a 16mm crushed cork pop up with a serrated knife is a real winner. Fish it on a chod or SHR etc, with the flat side facing up. It improves the rig mechanics no end having a flat side, when they try to blow it out of their mouth with force. They so rarely see a 'chop' on a resetting rig. Fished over chops, it's a winner.
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In reply to Post #229
Replied mate. Sorry I missed yours, I had loads.
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In reply to Post #232
Had a little play with the 13mm I ordered recently they slowly sank and sat perfect with a Drennan super specialist barbel hook in a size 4 which is what I mainly use in the UK so I was happy with that, I haven't tried any other patterns yet that was the first one I like mine to sink without all the extra putty or tungsten beads they were spot on, I've yet to stick one out in the pond as I was waiting until after my trip to France at the end of this month but I'm popping out for a 24hr tomorrow so will be my first time trying out the hookbaits.
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In reply to Post #231
I'm sure someone on here will know this.. do the balanced gbp1 baits sink under the weight of a hook or do they require a little split shot like the s2 wafters
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In reply to Post #227
Hmm interesting. I thought I read somewhere once that you deemed it financially unviable to roll the S2 as a “feed bait” ?
This has interested me a lot. My eyes shall be kept open.
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Ordered some after reading on here and looking at FB. Looking forward to getting them
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In reply to Post #225
No reply to my PM
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In reply to Post #227
Ooooh that’s naughty Good times ahead
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British design and engineering at it's very best. Hopefully this machine should be churning out S2 & GPB freezer baits in the not to distant future.
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I just caught up on some PM's. Quite a few of them were asking to order F1's. We can't put them on sale though, until we are totally clear of all current orders. That will be in the next few days. We have been so incredibly busy the past few weeks, and it's not slowing down much. All orders are going out within a short time frame still though. I really do not want to mess that up. We have shed loads of S3 white crushed cork pop ups/balanced ready in both 13mm & 16mm. Loads of hard coated F1 white crushed cork pop ups/balanced in 16mm & 13mm too.
As soon as our current order list is clear, we'll put them on sale via special orders. I'll say on here, before anywhere else... So there is no panic, you will all get what you need.
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In reply to Post #222
Fish of a life time that is!
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In reply to Post #222
What a fish.
If only you could post a few pics to back up your baits Mark
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My friend Scott has been after this fish for a decade from Roach Pit. It comes out pretty rarely. It can go years between captures. When he caught that big beautiful simmo earlier in this thread around a month ago, I sent him some garlics and told him, that he would catch his target on one of those before the season was out. He laughed at me, scoffed that it had already been out in the Spring, so there was absolutely no chance. Second trip with them he caught it this weekend. It's nice being right sometimes
41lb4oz, 13mm balanced garlic pro biotic... It's such a stunning carp.
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In reply to Post #215
I have literally died this week mofo... Horrible, horrible flu. 
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In reply to Post #216
Going on tomorrow or Tuesday Dennis. Yours went on Thursday Richard.
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In reply to Post #218
Hi mark, will you be doing anymore of the cell hookbaits this year?
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In reply to Post #213
Arrived today Mark
I seem to have a surprise too??
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Hi mark, I placed an order on the 15th September. Any idea when it will be dispatched?
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In reply to Post #213
Thanks Mark. New order placed
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In reply to Post #212
****ing man up will ya, if you lost a stone you’d go down the plug hole 😳
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In reply to Post #213
Hi Mark, I placed my order last Wednesday any idea when they will be being dispatched?
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Yours went yesterday Bren, be there today or tomorrow. No problem Thrilljockey, I just saw your PM. Text me on that number when you did what you wanted to do, and I'll make sure that it is sorted for you.
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In reply to Post #210
Thanks Ian, that's very kind of you mate. I'm still absolutely dying of Amazonian flu. Lost a stone now in the last four days. I actually thought I might die two days ago.
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In reply to Post #209
That's brilliant Mark. Thanks. PM sent.
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Hats off to Mark, I ordered 3 pots last Thursday and 4 pots were delivered this morning cannot fault that for a bespoke hookbait service, better than normal service has been resumed even though he's feeling under the weather.
Mark being a man of his word has included a freebie which I forgot to thank him for in my PM so thank you for those Mark much appreciated.
Removing the lids I didn't know what to expect especially sat in the office a few feet away from the wife who has been subject to some appalling smells from some of the baits I have opened over the years, as well as my bowls, I was pleasantly surprised by nice subtle natural smells to all of the baits S2's,S4's and GPB's, Garlic is one that can be overdone in a bait but not in this case though. hopefully give me a little edge going through Autumn into winter.
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In reply to Post #208
Hello mate, PM me your full name on the order. They will get replaced for you, like everyone else's did. Sorry for the late reply, I had an important meeting for SHB Friday evening which I went to, although feeling pretty rough... But I've been absolutely dying of flu ever since I left that meeting.
It's seriously knocked me sideways all weekend. Having great trouble lifting my head up off of the pillow at the moment. I must have brought it back from South America with me. 
Well done on the new PB.
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I read earlier on in this thread about the GPB1 turning white, but that they were fine to use. Well mine did exactly that, and I actually manage to up my pb mirror with a 46 pounder from an extremely low stock pit so they certainly are effective in that state.
However they now seem to have turned for good as they have now gone from white to a mouldy green and have a definitely mouldy smell to them. I certainly reckon they have lost their edge by now. Luckily, I still have 2 pots of s2´s to see me through the foreseeable future so all is not lost. Has anyone else had this happen with their ´white´ ones?
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In reply to Post #206
Thanks mate
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You'll have them next week Brendon. We are a little bit snowed under currently.
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In reply to Post #204
Just ordered a tub of gpb1 what's the delivery time like?
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In reply to Post #203
I have no patience. Get back on that big pit, you'll get a big special one soon Paul. Good luck mate.
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In reply to Post #202
Too busy earning a crust mate!
Away working until end of October now too
Only been for 2 short overnights since the last one, one of those was wiped out with weed-bergs!
And last weeks holiday trip.
Patience young Padawan
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In reply to Post #201
Completely the opposite to Stuarts findings on his clay pit Paul.
You had anymore from that other lake on the garlic? I've been waiting to see a massive lump from you
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In reply to Post #187
Interesting re: the clay Mark.
Just back from a lake which is all clay, and my only take was on an S2, the other 2 rods on GPB.
Of course it could have been the only one in the right place!
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Spot on mate will put a order in at end of the week 👍😁
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In reply to Post #198
We already have loads of them done Gregg. They are not being put on sale until we have cleared our current orders list. It went crazy whilst I was in Brazil. Should be end of next week approximately.
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Any news in the gpb1 glm and the f1 when they are ready for mate 👍
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In reply to Post #195
They will work for you Ian. You will have it. PM me your full name on here, I'll make sure something nice gets put in extra for you
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In reply to Post #194
Well done Cam!! That's a lovely one!! You'll have plenty more
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Just placed my first order for my winter syndicate which is difficult at the best of times, not back on there until my French Trip at the end of October.
I'm hoping this year should produce the first 40+ it came close last January at 38+ it's one of the originals of the dozen or so that's in there, they tend to disappear for long periods previous to this the fish went on the missing list for over two years and it weighed 27.4 at that time, only two more have been out this year one that hasn't been caught for 3 years that went 24.12 which prior to that it was 19.2 which for an old male fish is a nice steady gain and another that was last out again over 3 years ago at 20 went 27.14,
Quite a few of the stockies I wouldn't mind catching as well VS fish knocking on the door of 30lb stocked at 6 to 8lb five years ago, the water is crawling with naturals which is why they are pumping on the weight, it does make them difficult to catch all part of the game though, hopefully the little balls of magic can make something happen for me.
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Had this last month from what has been a bit of a tricky water for me.
GPB1 over a scattering of SLK.
21.00lb
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In reply to Post #190
Thank you Boycie.
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In reply to Post #189
Well done on the new PB Stuart.
I think last week was a record breaking 'PB' week for us. So many people broke their PB last week using our stuff, it was unreal.
It's almost as good, as me getting to go fishing myself
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It’s taken a while but I’ve finally got round to ordering some GPB1 looking forward to getting out on the bank with them
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In reply to Post #188
Good to see some proper evidence to backup the claims Mark. You always deliver no Frenchies or pasties either!
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In reply to Post #187
Cheers for the detailed reply Mark, in my own mind i had came to the conclusion that different ph values between the lakes i fish might be something to do with it.
I thought my own half baked theory had been debunked when i saw your post about the White and Black catches as i would imagine with both lakes being so close together the PH values would be pretty similar and so one bait in your range would work better than the others in those lakes. I hadn't considered angler pressure and you recommending he try the others, which was a bit daft of me.
Long and the short of it is that your baits work, new pb last week for me from the clay pit on the Garlics, so well happy.
cheers
Stuart
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In reply to Post #186
Hi Stuart. In simple terms mate, because he trusts what I tell him I'd like to think. For a few years, John used nothing except our yellow S4 12mm cork balls, whilst he was still a secretive angler. He never wanted the general public knowing the amazing results he was getting on our hook baits, and wanted to keep his edge to himself, only telling friends what he was up too. It was only when he moved onto White this year, that he started using the S2 really. He's only been giving us photos for three months now. We do not have any 'sponsored' anglers as such... John is one of only a very small number of anglers who now get our hook baits for free, whatever he wants. When we had that conversation earlier this year... He likes a 12mm cork ball, which we do not roll in the Garlic. I sent him some GPB1 12mm cork balls which we had produced especially for him. I also sent him one tub of white S3 12mm corks, and told him no one was using these to my knowledge on White or Black Swan and he should try them. He only went for a two night guest on Black... So it was the perfect chance for him to try them. I'm sure he was pleased with the results.... The entire 'Sugars' range of our hook baits, are based on the same base mix, and although they smell and look different, it's the same magic that makes them all work so well. The S2 is only so popular in my eyes, because they smell nice to the human nose, and they were the hook bait that 'made' our business what it is today. White & Black Swan have been ripped to bits on the S2, long before John got on there... The bigguns in both pits have been caught over and over on the S2, despite the pits being dominated numbers wise by anglers from another bait firm. I told John he should try the white S3 I sent him, that he would be pleasantly surprised. Also, we added the dark liquid from the original brown S2, to the white and pink S2 a few months ago. This leaves a dark stain on the outside of the hook bait. It makes them better, but they are not bright white in the tub anymore until they have been in the water for a while. The white S3 are bright white from the off. We are currently making John some white S2, without the dark liquids in, as he has more confidence in them being the original bright white. I am going to ask our customers on social media soon, if they would prefer us to keep the pinks and the whites with the dark liquids in, or return them to how they were before without it. I personally know that they are much better with that dark liquid added from the original browns, and always favoured the browns for my own angling for that reason.... But it does stain them, which is why it was always left out previously from the coloured S2. Confidence is everything, and the customer is always right though. If our punters want them returned to how they were, then we will do that.
As to why you struggled for a bite on the S2 on that clay pit, and then caught on the GPB1... They have a totally different PH... As do our S range of hook baits from each other. Certain lakes seem to respond better, to different PH baits. There is an area in the SW, where the anglers all use the S3, as it is more effective than the S2 on those pits I am told. More likely in my eyes, is the fact that your clay pit has most likely been battered by other anglers on the S2 previously lol. The S2 has been turning lakes over, for seven years now, catching the bigguns over and over again. So I'd personally go more with it just being used on your clay pit a lot in the past and they liked the change to the Garlics. The Garlic had most likely not been used there before, as we have only been producing it for a few months. The Garlic is a different base mix to the Sugars range as well.
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In reply to Post #174
Hi Mark,
Any idea why he switched from the S2's which he has been doing really well on to the S3 and GBP's when he moved to a different lake? I would be very reluctant to switch hookbait after the results he has been having on White Swan.
I have total faith in the S2's on most waters i fish but couldn't buy a bite on them from a clay pit, switched to the GBP1 and got bites on my first trip with them. Just thinking out aloud as to why different waters respond differently to different baits.
Cheers
Stuart
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In reply to Post #183
Line, tied to the dorsal? Coming from his mouth? Here's a different shot of same fish.
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In reply to Post #183
Tripping I reckon, think you might need specsavers if not I do.
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Is it me tripping or is there a piece of line coming out his mouth to the stuck up dorsal on the mirror? I'm not knocking anyone but I do notice the slightest thing wrong in a photo so I Can't help but say haha
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Keep them coming Mark and thanks for sharing. Good angling
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James Palis, with a stunning 35lb+ Dinton common, one of a number of 30+ James had had the last few trips... White S2 13mm CC.
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In reply to Post #178
They were all using something 'special' Dean
Yes I got back this morning. I smashed Ladbrokes up so bad last month, and we were totally up to date with our orders... So I thought sod it, splash a little of the winnings on another two weeks in paradise with the missus. I got burnt to a crisp... It was 40+ degrees most days. That breeze was a godsend.
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Theres some stunners. Quality bait
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In reply to Post #177
Fook me well done that man.....
He must be using something special
You been back out to Brazil again then Mark?
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In reply to Post #175
Oh yes mate, I most certainly do.
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In reply to Post #168
Got Anymore photos like this mate
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I've already posted a lot of photographs of John Cash on here, the bloke has ripped Dinton White Swan to bits this year. He has very likely caught more from the very pressured lake, than anyone ever has before in his first season on there on our S2. He's a working man with a young family too.
This weekend, John had a two night guest session on Black Swan with his friend. What he caught on our S3 & GPB1 was just absolutely mind blowing. Anglers at Dinton are shaking their heads in disbelief at what John is doing over there right now.
Ten big carp in two nights, on a very big pit, that he's never fished before. Some of the best ones.
46lb6oz
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In reply to Post #168
Top picture, simply stunning
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Josh Sandars with two consecutive new PB’s from Nash Church lake. 40lb6oz & 47lb10oz, S2 12mm cork balls. The scaly one was un caught for over three years and presumed dead. Aptly named 'Houdini'.
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In reply to Post #169
Ricci Connolly, from a different Kent pit. 47lb12oz (mirror) & 46lb (common). Caught along with a 39lb+ mirror, and a 28lb common on same two night session. GPB1 balanced 13mm all of them.
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Gary Howes, 51lb6oz. From a very historic Kent pit, close to my heart. GPB1 balanced 13mm
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Hello all, I've been away to Brazil again for the past two weeks on a last minute impromptu holiday (paid for by Ladbrokes). If you are waiting for an order from the last two weeks, it is going out in the next couple of days.
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I've been having the odd look on here as a guest from my mobile, I can't log into the forum from my phone... My password is saved on my Mac, but not on my mobile and I cannot remember the log in.. Jeez it really kicked off whilst I was away... I see poor Josh got banned. A bit of a shame that is, I thought he was a stalwart of this forum in the short time that I have been a member and an all around good egg. To be honest, when we launched out Garlic hook baits earlier this year, I got into a fair few tangles with the same crew, all from another forum who turned up en masse. The same crew all seem to be connected to a certain liquid sold by Dean and Pete. I have nothing against Dean or Pete, and wished them both well with their new product and still do now. But some of their scientific based followers from that other forum, got stuck right into us about our GPB1 when it was launched. Many threads were deleted, because I will admit I took offence at the same gang having a slight agenda. In the end I just answered them with photos of big UK carp because I could not be bothered. I personally think it's very unfair that Josh was banned. I could not see that he did much wrong. It would seem that while I was away, most of the folks who were very vocal about our products, are all from the same 'other' forum, and all wrapped up in this E liquid now. I would never dream of going and questioning them on that thread, like they did me repeatedly. Have no need. We do not have any 'team', or need anyone to come fight our battles for us on here, or anywhere else. It's a shame that it kicked off so much whilst I was away, and a big shame that Josh got banned because of it. Why can't everyone just get along eh? We all love the same thing, carp fishing. I'll say it again, I have nothing against Dean or Pete, and hope their business does well for them. I repeatedly said on here Pete should be un banned. But some of their followers need to calm down just a touch. They talk like they are quoting the gospel most of the time, with very little to back it up results wise. Talk is cheap...
I wanted to post this a week ago, when it all seemed to be kicking off, but could only access the forum as a guest from Brazil. I am not a MOD, so it is not up to me who gets banned or not. I got back to England this morning. So I've said it now, a week to late
There has been some incredible fish caught on our hook baits while I was away, now I am back I can share some photographs on here.
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In reply to Post #166
No problem Phil. Good luck with them.
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In reply to Post #165
Really appreciate the response Mark - I'll try to get hold of the dry base mix. Thanks again
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In reply to Post #164
Hello Phil.
You are very much best off, starting again from scratch mate. You can make up a solution and try to work the egg alb into your paste... But it's not going to be as good as it could be mate. Get some base mix powder from your supplier. The paste you have will not be sieved, it may well have a bit of preservative in there to, and the whole egg will have been used (if it's real egg). Start again Phil.
Sieve the base mix you get through a fine sieve, to remove the larger bits. Depending on what your mix is, fish meal or nut etc, will determine how much egg alb you should add. Approximately 5-1 is a good starting point. So 5 spoons of base mix to one spoonful of egg alb. Mix that up in a bowl. Soak whatever cork balls you are going to use in egg white for a couple of hours, then dust with egg alb and allow to go tacky. This will weld your paste to the cork ball when you start rolling them. Only use the egg whites to make your paste, dispose of the yolk. Once you have made your paste, pop it into a bag and leave it on the side for an hour tightly sealed up.
When you boil them, bring the water to the boil, then knock it off the boil before you put the cork balls into the water. You are most likely to 'mess' them up at the boiling stage, when you first start, it's very easy to over cook them and pop the paste from the cork. 15-20 secs in water that is approximately 90-95 is perfect. As soon as the water stops bubbling, pop them in. Keep them rolling in the water, it's easiest to use a chip pan insert or similar to do this.
Job is a good un Phil.
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Cheeky question for Mark - (or anyone else who can help for that matter )
I need some advice - I do own some of your baits so please don't think I'm just punishing you for information haha!
I have some paste that matches the boilies I'm using this year - how can I use this past to make corkball pop ups?
A couple of folk on here have said about egg albumin and whey gel - but further reading leads me to think that these ingredients need to be added at the dry stage - can I knead it into my paste?
Cheers
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In reply to Post #161
Yes mate, but not yet. We have been very taken aback by the demand for the garlic this Summer... We are in a great place at the moment though and cooking on gas... I must not muck that up! Yesterdays and todays orders, have just gone out for delivery.... Next day service for those who ordered this morning. .
We will be moving to much larger premises this winter... Then the liquid cures will come too.
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In reply to Post #160
Are you doing the liquid cure you mentiond on here a while ago to mate
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In reply to Post #159
I'll say on here too Greg, you'll get what you need. No need to pay now mate.
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I'm not on fb mate is there any way I can pay now for when they are ready 👍
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In reply to Post #157
Hi Greg. Neither are being put onto the website mate. Both will be available second half of September, as special orders. We are in a much better place with our waiting time, since we narrowed our range. For the past couple of months despite being incredibly busy, every order is going out within a week. We'd like to keep it this way.
The hard coated F1, 16mm white crushed cork pop ups & 13mm balanced bottom baits. A pre digested fishmeal/GLM version of the Garlic will be available in 16mm crushed cork pop ups, plus 16mm & 13mm balanced bottom baits. A white S3 crushed cork in 16mm & 13mm CC pop ups, plus balanced bottom baits in the same sizes.
We have done very large batches of all of these hook baits above, they will be sold on a first come, first served basis during September. When they are gone, they are gone, until next time.
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In reply to Post #155
Alright mark when at the new gpb fishmeal being put on the website and the f1 pop ups and are you still going to be selling the liquid cures aswell👍
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In reply to Post #155
Certainly a stunner
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In reply to Post #151
Good to go. I prefer them as old as possible myself for my own fishing.
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In reply to Post #150
Just found a pot or two of the corkballs from a good while back I'd forgotten about in the back of an old rucksack from when they 1st came out.
A tad dry as expected. Worth a lick of liquid Mark or good to go?
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Well done Christopher & John. Also Keebs again. Keebs, the slippery mofo...
Members of this forum, have landed some proper carp in the past couple of weeks. It's almost as good as me going fishing myself... Almost
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In reply to Post #146
That's because they have not gone off Carl. It's only fermentation. They will smell nicer now, sweeter. When they smell 'off', chuck them.
You will batter fish on those furry Crystal Palace ones
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In reply to Post #147
I had my first runs of the year from my syndicate with garlics and and s2’s In soldi bags last weekend.
5 runs 2 landed after a load of blanks.
I’m certainly sold mate!
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In reply to Post #145
I've been using S2 corkballs in both 12mm & 16mm on my syndicate with with very good results.
Inside solid bags and on lead clip arrangements, as singles or over bait. The carp certainly find them and eat them.
I'll be ordering some more very soon Mark.
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In reply to Post #144
Mark you didn’t have to mate I’m Happy to use them. was just double checking.
Still smell spot on just look like white pop ups now lol. Top man Mark thank you.
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In reply to Post #143
Yes they are crack cocaine for mice as well as carp Rab. They will leave anything, and everything else to get to an S2 the little ****s
Our big problem with the garlic, is blue bottle flies. It brings swarms of them, whilst it's drying. Never seen anything like it
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In reply to Post #142
Hi Carl. They are still great to use mate until they turn green and smell. As long as the spore is white and they smell great, they are lush. Sent you some replacements just now anyway.
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In reply to Post #141
Perfect, thanks Mark. I haven't used the new ones yet as I still have a few of the bright pink's left. Had pb's on pink s2's last couple of trips.
I still have half a pot of the original s2 corkballs too. They've got to be about 8 years old now! A mouse had the other half. 12 pots of pop ups and it decided th eat yours ....
Cheers, Ian.
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In reply to Post #141
Mark me one Tub of garlics are now Pure white. I no you said the spores are fine but are they ok in this state?
Not looking for a replacement at all. I’m happy to use them if all is Ok
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In reply to Post #135
Here you go Rab, here is a pink S2 CC cut in half. It's only on the very outside that stain. Just under the surface, they are bubble gum pink.
It will wash out rapidly that stain to leave a bright hook bait... But you'll have had a bite by then anyway
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In reply to Post #139
Isn't it just mate, big too. Tim's one was even better IMO.
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In reply to Post #137
That’s a stunning common
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In reply to Post #135
Hi Rabs. The white and the pink S2 are still the same colour under the surface, it's just a stain on the outside of the hook bait. They will turn brighter white/pink once in the water. The original brown S2, contain a very dark coloured liquid. When we first started doing the whites and the pinks... This dark liquid was left out of the whites/pinks, to avoid staining them. Now we have been in business a lot longer, and anglers trust us far more, the dark liquid is now added to the whites/pinks too. They are still exactly the same colour as before, the dark stain, is pure goodness which will wash out once immersed.
They are far better hook baits for having that dark liquid added to them Rabs, but unfortunately it does stain them for inside the tub to look at.
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In reply to Post #136
Not allowed to show Tim's big common... So you ain't seen it from me
Ricci had a very nice big common too on a balanced garlic
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And well done Keebs the slayer as well
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In reply to Post #133
😂 wait till you get a laydown out there your going to wish you hadn’t gone 😳
Heard about that big common well done fella
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Hi Mark,
Do you still do the s2 13mm cc in bright pink ?
Had a look on your website and can only see pink but think that's the darker pink as per the 17mm I ordered from you.
Cheers, Ian.
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In reply to Post #128
Jog on nauser I'm still having nightmares about that Brazilian prison documentary!!
Big well done to Tim from this forum, a monstrous/epic common mate.
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In reply to Post #130
You can tell a lot about a man from his trainers.
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In reply to Post #127
Like them mate. These tramps here have no class
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In reply to Post #125
Tart
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In reply to Post #127
Snides
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In reply to Post #124
https://www.hugoboss.com/uk/hybrid-trainers-with-bamboo-charcoal-lining-and-lightweight-sole/hbeu50412232_401.html?cgid=27250#wrapper
Would you believe I've managed to figure it out myself and have just ordered a similar pair. .
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In reply to Post #123
He even get takes on his Specialist post office run, high attract trainers now
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In reply to Post #122
What trainers are they ?
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A little heads up. Bar four orders, which are going out on Monday... We are completely up to date with all orders on our books, right up until 7am on Friday just gone. People who placed orders early Friday morning, received them today.
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In reply to Post #106
Do you always post your orders out in a red and white striped apron?
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In reply to Post #116
Will do Joss
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In reply to Post #115
All good buddy, glad everything going well for you, say in touch mate
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In reply to Post #113
I am really well thank you Joss. It has been a very long time mate. I hope you and yours are well too.
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In reply to Post #111
Thanks for the update.. and I'm fishing from Sunday, perfect
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In reply to Post #112
Mr Casper...long time my old friend...hope your well fella
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In reply to Post #110
Yours from 24th went out today James, will be there tomorrow or Sat latest.
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In reply to Post #109
What's the turn around time please?? Placed an order the other week
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arrived safe. look forward to using them
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have decided to give these a go finally after looking at some of the social media pics of the fish caught. placed my order today, hopefully they may help me finally land one on my local river.
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In reply to Post #104
Thank you. If you have already text us mate, text again please.
That Dinton fish is a peach, there are some incredible big fish in White and Black Swan. John has got among them from White Swan in no uncertain terms this year. He's had over thirty carp, in thirty nights on our hook baits, which really is some going on White Swan. He's caught some of the rarest visitors to the bank among them too.
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In reply to Post #105
They should be there today for you Scott with the postman, they were in one of those bags from yesterday.
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Hi mark. glad you had a good holiday, whats your turn around time at the moment? I placed a order on the 8th July name Scott Carpenter. not pushing you just making sure the order went through ok
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In reply to Post #103
Fair play to you Mark, glad you had a good holiday and you bought the sunshine with you.
Had a small issue with one of my orders, I’ll text you the details, not the end of the world at all.
That Dinton fish is a peach.
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In reply to Post #101
Looks amazing.......Glad you enjoyed it.
Back to reality mate....
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In reply to Post #99
I had an amazing holiday thank you very much Dean. I needed it so very badly too.
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Final of Copa America's. When the Brazilians done the Argies in the semi final, the whole city went mental. 50+ channels on the TV, more than half of them have football on all day long. Even the women are all completely football crazy. It's an amazing country.
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In reply to Post #97
Thanks Mark, super!
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In reply to Post #98
Nice fish there Mark....
Did you have a nice holiday?
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In reply to Post #85
Replacements went out today Rob. Sorry I was away on holiday. Do not throw those ones you have away. They have not gone off, if you smell them you will see this. Although a mistake of mine, what you have there are actually very very effective. Everyone who had some from that faulty batch, has caught sooo many fish on them. In an ideal world, that is how they would be sold. Until those spots turn purple or black (which will take months)... Those are the most lethal hook baits you will ever put your hands on.
The replacements you have coming, have a small amount of a certain liquid, which stabilises the GPB1 enough to live in a tub. They have so many active ingredients in there, they need it, unlike all of our other hook baits. I left the stabiliser out of one batch of liquid. But you must still use them, it is only fermentation. They will not smell off, they will smell sweeter than they did when you got them is all.
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In reply to Post #94
Same here
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In reply to Post #91
Had 7 up to 34lb my last 10 over nights i have done and had a few on s2 aswell
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In reply to Post #91
Only had 4 or 5 day sessions, but yet to have a bite. More to do with fishing a really hard Low stock water than the bait I think
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In reply to Post #92
That's good progression then
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In reply to Post #91
Yep - had 8 out of my lake since May 1st on them. Think I only had 3 last season (without them).
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In reply to Post #90
Anyone having any joy on the garlic popups?
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Ordered some S2 and the garlic ones on 25.06, and today everything arrived perfectly plus a little extra (continental delivery). That's fast enough. Licked the S2 and they taste sickly sweet:-)
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In reply to Post #86
I’ve been halving crushed cork garlics and S2’s albeit not on long sessions and I’ve been smashing them in solid bags.
They were fine and I kept them on after every take.
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In reply to Post #86
Absolutely fine.
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In reply to Post #85
GPB - on website says it’s ok to pierce them. People done that? Had issues?
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In reply to Post #84
Thanks!
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The 1st batch he made didnt have any stableizer in them if you contact him he will replace them but he is away on holiday at the min you can still use them like mine are the same just dry them out and it will stop them turning
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Hi Mark,
My gpb1 getting white spots, is that normal?
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Sorry Dean,
Was trying to post a link to the website...struggle badly using a tablet
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Thank you Dean, Chris and Carl. Much appreciated.
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In reply to Post #76
Have a good holiday Mark well deserved.
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In reply to Post #75
Thanks mate,
A busy boy you are. Keep up the good work Mark.
Thanks for the good wishes.
Be Happy
Dean
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In reply to Post #76
Have a great trip mate, I'll hopefully be placing an order when your back.
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I've been working since 5am. That is every single order on our books from the end of last week and the weekend. Right up until 1am this morning, when the last one was placed. This lot are all going tomorrow morning, they are just waiting for GPB1 pop ups, or GPB1 balanced bottom baits which are ready today.
We are now officially on holiday. We have not had a single break/holiday, since SHB started. This year has been absolutely crazy, I have not been fishing for six months. When I return from holiday, I have a meeting, that will ensure the future is going to be very bright for SHB. Hopefully I'll be able to go fishing again.
Have fun all of you.
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In reply to Post #69
Sorry Dean, I've been a bit busy trying to get everything sorted before I go away on holiday.
December 2012 we started. So six and a half years. When we started, the S2 was £13 per tub of 35 hand rolled cork balls. They are now £15 per tub. The GPB1 crushed corks are £16, they are the most expensive.
Good luck with the enzyme liquid.
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In reply to Post #73
Lol no worries I would have told you the prices but I was being to lazy to look as well ha ha
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In reply to Post #72
Thanks Weaver, i was just being lazy..... I will go to the website with my tail between my legs.
Enjoy the sunshine
Dean
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In reply to Post #69
Hi Dean, not sure how long he's been going but he's got a website with all prices on.
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In reply to Post #68
Mark
How long have you been going for now my friend? It would seem a good number of years when we last spoke, allbiet virtually?
And also may i ask what your baits are per pot price wise please?
All the best
Dean
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In reply to Post #35
Keebs, 'blurry man', has caught more completely unknown fish to die for on our hook baits, than is 'right', for someone who works five days a week every week. I had to beg him, to let us show this photograph... There are other photographs of him, that make this common look very much second rate. He has caught very big, totally unknown mirrors, that would make anyone who has ever picked up a carp rod look twice, and then weep.
I am only allowed to show the photographs in the future, when the fish in question have passed away. They are very old, and the best looking carp that I have ever laid eyes on. Half of them have already passed on... When the last one is gone, the photo's will get shown. They are not from the same pit as this common.
'Blurry man' is not looking for any free boilie stops, or any sort of 'fame'. He goes fishing, because he loves fishing.
Lot's of talk on social media from local anglers, that this fish is from Wraysbury diving pit... It is 100% not from the diving pit, or even the CV. Anyone telling anglers that it is from the diving pit, is talking complete rubbish. They do not have a clue where it is from. It's not from there.
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Morning Jim, happy 50th. The F1 is most likely, the best single hook bait, that we have ever produced Jim. Fruits, on an S2 base. Hard coated with fruit powders, the finest milk powder, and citric acid.
The GLM range, and the F1, had to be removed for a while. They will both be back. GLMF (frankfurter sausage), GLM-S2 and GPB2, which is the GPB1, with pre digested fishmeal added to the base mix, and GLM added to the base mix and liquids.
I am away on holiday now.... Good luck all of you.
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In reply to Post #65
Morning dad
What flavour is the f1 also what are these greenlip ones I keep hearing about
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In reply to Post #64
I just see your PM Scott. Yes, they went on Tuesday. If they did not arrive yesterday, they will be there today with the postman. They require a signature.
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In reply to Post #58
Sorry Mark, I ordered on the 13th .
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In reply to Post #62
Thanks buddy , I can use them on Friday
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Went yesterday morning mate. Should be there today for you, tomorrow latest.
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In reply to Post #58
Ordered mine on the 11th Mark any idea when they are due please .
Sent you pm with details
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In reply to Post #57
I think I found you. 17th, Zoe? Is that the one Scott?
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In reply to Post #55
Not until I get back from holiday Greg. They will no longer be a cork ball though, they will be a 16mm crushed cork. And they will be white under the hardened coating, not brown.
Same F1, different colour. Fruit and milks coating as usual, white crushed cork underneath the only difference. Pink S2, and yellow S4 crushed corks, will be available as a balanced bottom bait, and S3's will be available as a white crushed cork, and a white balanced bottom bait.
The F1 will be back. We are getting begged for them daily. But nothing will happen, until I am back from holiday.
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In reply to Post #57
We had no orders on the 12th, from anyone called Scott. Did you order them in your name? If your name is Samuel, yes they went yesterday. Both orders were combined, and a tub of freebies put in. That was the only order on the 12th, with a first name starting with S.
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I ordered a pot of the garlic ones on the 12th, are mine in that bag?
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In reply to Post #52
Cheers Mark, have a goodun
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Any conformation when the f1 is back online for sale
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In reply to Post #53
Thank you Cameron. I've bloody earned it too!
Where's Wally
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Can't help thinking 'Where's Wally?"
Just stuck an order in for some S2's Mark, that'll be me sorted for a while now.
Have a good holiday fella
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I am on holiday from Monday Wayne. Every order will be cleared before I go. Do it before the weekend mate. Things had to be put into place, to up production substantially after the release of the garlic. We are cooking on gas now. In this delivery this morning, are orders from the weekend just gone.
Yours will be there tomorrow Ian.
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Must order some more this week too with that turnaround ......
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In reply to Post #49
Cheers Mark
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Like Cam, you ordered at the right time Ian. You'll have them this week mate.
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In reply to Post #47
What's your lead time at the minute mark? Ordered a pot of the garlic to add to my collection last night
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Top man Colors!
In your bag Cam, as Colors said. No need to fridge or freezer. Just avoid leaving the lid off of the tub in damp weather, or they will suck up moisture like a sponge.
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In reply to Post #45
Ok in your bag mate no need for any special storage, I’d prob keep em out of direct sunlight for too long.
I’ve just had 4 fish on the garlic on a 2 day session. 20,22 then 30 common and 36 mirror. The two 30s came within 20mins of each other. If you add the fact that the lake is fishing super slow as they still haven’t spawned. there was only the odd fish out around the whole lake which is 26 acres and was pretty rammed I’d say it’s decent going.
I wasn’t doing anything fancy, I’m no Darrell peck and the fish weren’t just in my swim so personally think the bait gave me a bit of an edge
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A question about storage. When not on the bank does the GPB1 need to be kept in the fridge or are they ok in my usual place in my bag?
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Well done Greg. You ordered at the right time Cam.
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Well, no complaints here regarding delivery, my pop-ups arrived today.
Now to arrange a chance to use them.
Thanks Mark great service that
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Was out last night on my club water and had 10 carp out 6 on s2 and 4 on gpb1 fished over bait works royle Marine the biggest was a 21.05 common
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Just had another pot of S2's and my first GPB1 pot turn up :-)
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In reply to Post #1
As I fish the silty meres of Cheshire and Shropshire its the S2 for me.
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In reply to Post #38
That's what I thought Wayne, basic really
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In reply to Post #36
I have been fishing them over the top of SLK and S7......there a very similar colour to SLK once in the water for a few hours.....
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In reply to Post #36
I had the rare Ghostie on first trip years ago off my syndicate using the GLMF over a bed of hemp, had plenty of fish using the S4 over the years but have noticed a difference with my recently purchased S4 compared to my originals colour is different and buoyancy is too as tried a S4 with a size 4 ronnie and wouldn't sit up so tried my last original one and straight up
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Took the plunge and ordered a pot of GPB1 yesterday.
How are you fishing them, singles or alongside bottom baits?
Asking you specifically Wayne as I know we are using the same bait (SLK?) but also how's everyone else using them?
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In reply to Post #31
Sweet Jesus - that common
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In reply to Post #33
I've had a few good fish on the S2 this year 😜
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In reply to Post #32
I incorrectly ordered the naturally coloured s2’s, but after using them and seeing the washed out colour I’m sold on it.
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Had a 20lb common but found my own bait out fish it on the one occasion and had three to 31lb to be fair it’s another great bait The fish below look cracking.
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In reply to Post #28
Well lads just done a week on open access Acton burnell and came out last in draw of 15 anglers so ended up on black dicks lake or bottom Acton in the deeps the fish just wasn't there. I kept seeing fish move down the shallow arm across from me nothing massive as majority of the units was in the pads in the shallows other end of the lake. I tryed all sorts of tactics and bait for these fish and as every peg was full my only option was a bit of stalking In the shallow arm across. Now in the arm I tryed beds of bait fish spooked off it comin in taking one and moving out. I tryed casting to showing fish they spooked off it. more than a single line in the water you guessed it these fish spooked off it. These was no mug fish these was fish that had seen it all. So after watching and learning there patrol route and watching anglers on the far side where the fish moved I worked out they was fishin it all wrong and at 2.45 every day a pod of fish would work there way up that side of the lake the sun was on that side. So naturals must be more prevalent there. Id tryed nealy every bait pop wafter i had with me.So desperation was calling having cast a single tigernut to a spot id seen fish to no avail I was running out of ideas. in my bag I had a second hand pot of marks s1 corkers so though why not. I waded out in the arm and placed the rig quietly as I could paying loads of the 18lb sensor to hug the contours of the lake I placed my single bankstick in the long grass and led down 3 hours later full on one toner I was made up worked very hard for that and took 3 days of messing but got my first fish and like buses every day was the same biggest fish was just shy of thirty but dropped a serious fish. Ended my week with 5 bites 4 fish all thanks to the s1 marks baits. So all in all these saved my week deffo worth a try
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In reply to Post #25
Deleted them for you
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S3s are my favourite , dark aniseed / spicy sort of smell but go a lighter colour in the water.
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In reply to Post #26
S3 or S2's? I've only used s2 in winter, says it should be about 18 this weekend though
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In reply to Post #25
I’ve not tried them yet, are you using them in warm water? I read somewhere they work better when it’s red hot.
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I've had a lot of fish on the S3's (it's S3 that's the spicy smelling one yeah?)
I need to give the S2's a proper go, but I like the spicy smell so much myself I just keep using those!
I have suppressed the useless posts below.
For those who are on the site more than me, please let me know if anyone is a 'serial dickhead' and I will suppress the user too.
I'll delete the posts at some point to neaten the thread
Thanks,
Karlos
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In reply to Post #23
A lot of my fishing is short sessions and overnighters casting at showing fish. They seem to be perfect for that.
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In reply to Post #1
Didn't catch on the s2's through the winter but no one caught a thing, I've been doing well on worms on a new water so I'll put 2 worms on two rods and one on s2 fish the same spots that I've caught from and let you know how it goes this weekend
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In reply to Post #21
I’ve been hammering them out of my local and also picked fish up on singles in Canada on both S2’s and the garlics.
Thumbs up from me.
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In reply to Post #20
I have had similar results since they arrived too.....
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I never post my catches but I think Mark could probably do with the occasional positive input!
Besides, although thoroughly inconclusive, it's an impressive turnaround in fortunes if not a bloody coincidence.
Been trying my luck at a new water. Quite a large water.
Done about 7 short blank sessions, then my SHB's arrived.
Did one more short overnighter last weekend as work is mental right now, BANG 25-8 mirror.
Only thing I changed was added a GPB1 snowman style to the end of my usual B5's.
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Hi guys so as we all know Mark is a awesome guy that makes some good products. so this is the new thread where we can share catch reports ask questions and all things positive and bait. Hope this is ok Mark as it is your company. any hints and tips with bait are welcome.
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