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In reply to Post #3
Years ago Suffolk Water Park was a test water for Mainline, so our baiting up was done with (pre Cell), I think 4 of their baits, Grange, Active8, Essential and something else.
Strangely enough I caught more on the bait I was using from another company than on Mainline baits. In fact although Mainline baits were regularly going in, my mate had only one fish on them, which admittedly was Grey Tail, yet I caught many more fish on the bait I was using.
Most of the time for the past 3 years I do tend to fish and feed RH Monster Crab and KMG, although most fish have come on KMG bottom baits or snowman KMG tipped with an MC pop-up.
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In reply to Post #1
Proved it to myself a couple of years again on Littleton south not an easy lake by any means.
Managed to catch 3 all on different baits in a matter of months , as long as you apply it correctly it will work.
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In reply to Post #3
It makes a lot of sense to mix a sweet bait (nut etc) with a fish meal. It’s a fact that some waters and some fish have a preference for one or another. I have found over the years that carp in rich clear old gravel pits tend to go well on fishmeal baits, whereas younger more commercial lakes do well on baits such as cell and nut baits. It’s not always this way but I have noticed a pattern.
By fishing a mix of each, and then a match the hatch of one on each rod (and normally the third on a roving high attract single) over time hopefully you’ll get an idea of what works best. This is how I will be fishing this year. Good luck 👍
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In reply to Post #3
Only two?
I fished s7, nutta and slk at the same time in a spod mix last year. With tigers and pellets thrown in for good measure. Oh and Dynamite mixed particles as well. In a big carpy soup.
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In reply to Post #2
Quite an old post but relevant(ish) to my question.
How many people use more than one type of boilie at the same time? For instance, a fish meal boilie and a nut boilie - Mixed together. Is there a huge benefit to mixing up the flavours? I’ve always stuck with one but I constantly see people comment that they use more than one.
If you do then how do you decide what goes on the rig?? How do you decide what liquids to add to your mix, sweet or fishy...probably overthinking this 
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In reply to Post #1
I’d of thought if you only fished with cheap euro trash for the rest of your life then yes you would catch, but if you used a bait from a reputable company then I reckon you’d catch more. As far as chopping and changing, I do it every few years cos I get bored, but I’m careful to only swap onto baits that I think are of comparable or better quality. For instance I’ve gone onto dna from sticky this year after a few seasons. In the past I’ve gone from Icelandic red to B5. When I was getting it cheap I used quite a few of the ABS range, I changed about each year on those but again I don’t think i was really risking changing the quality of what I was using by doing it. What I wouldn’t do is chop around onto unproven crap from a company I don’t trust.
The water I’m on now can be a right ball breaker. Last year two of my best mates, both very competent anglers fished it. One used B5 the other Sticky Krill. They fished about the same amount of sessions, roughly, and I believe their catch rates were about the same. I did a winter with a mate days only a couple of years ago, he used krill, I used manilla. Again our results over that winter evened out roughly in the end.
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I was going through some loft stuff and came across my old fishing diaries and what became is apparent is I've used lots of different boilies over the years from different companies and caught on them all... of course I've probably become a better angler over time ( I hope) but made it me think now I could happily use bait from numerous companies and be confident the bait is decent enough. I think the times I've done very well had little to do with the actual bait it's more the way I'm fishing... I've been a bit unlucky in the last few years as both companies I was using have now stopped producing those baits otherwise I would have been happy to carry on using them.
Take Jim Shelley... he's been with about 500 bait companies over the years and still catches on them all... 
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