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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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