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TCarper

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#1553 8 May 2023 at 6.22am

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Thank you Andrew. It should mean I get a bit of time for myself eventually.

TCarper

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#1552 8 May 2023 at 6.16am

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Thank you Shane

TCarper

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#1551 8 May 2023 at 6.15am

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Thank you Andy

Budder

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#1550 7 May 2023 at 9.00pm

Best of luck in the new venture! Hope it goes well and you get some time for yourself!

Darkieallard

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#1549 7 May 2023 at 8.16pm

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The best of luck to you in your new venture Mark, if its anything like the quality of your hook baits you will laughing.

AndyClark

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#1548 7 May 2023 at 6.37pm

i wish you all the best in the new venture,all sounds very interesting.

TCarper

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#1547 7 May 2023 at 2.56pm

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Thank you, me too.

TCarper

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#1546 7 May 2023 at 1.53pm

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.

frothey

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#1545 7 May 2023 at 1.36pm

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Good luck with it all Mark, I hope that means you�ll get 5 mins to yourself soon!

TCarper

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#1544 7 May 2023 at 1.19pm

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.

TCarper

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#1543 6 May 2023 at 8.38pm

Mark, Frimley S2

Craig, Yateley Car Park GPB2

Ricci GPB2/S2

Forum member Sam GPB2

Forum member Andy S2

Russ S2

GPB2

Andy GPB2

TCarper

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#1542 6 May 2023 at 6.50am

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.

JamieH

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#1541 5 May 2023 at 5.23pm

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!

TCarper

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#1540 3 May 2023 at 7.11am

Russ, GPB2

Mark S2

Ricci GPB2/S2

TCarper

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#1539 1 May 2023 at 10.20am

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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