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In reply to Post #340
Because there is no food ingredient that withstands the same manufacturing pressures and has the same specific gravity, and genuine curious
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In reply to Post #341
Evening lads
Wow what a busy few days it has been. I always feel knackered that first week back after living in my pyjamas and underpants on the sofa for 10 days over Xmas😂😂
I am always open and honest about our baits but there are several things that must stay behind our closed doors for various reasons.
Our Hookbait technology is not something that belongs to me personally so I won’t comment but I just want to say it’s safe, edible and used in many things we all handle every day.
I am very pleased with those pop ups and Wafters we sell and it is an area of bait making I focus on heavily.
Thanks again for all of nice feedback…….the phone is full on at times. I hear that many other companies are having a good winter on bait sales so that’s a major positive during a time when many companies go under!
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In reply to Post #340
They could hold up a house
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In reply to Post #339
Genuine question, why are you asking a fellow bait maker what his bait contains on an open forum? I don’t know the answer but I can hazard a very good guess. What I do know is that they are bloody good and do exactly what they are supposed to do😎
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In reply to Post #338
But does it not contain the spheres then?
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In reply to Post #337
Makes your poo float 😂
You shouldn’t really eat any fish bait or hookbaits as I dread to think where it’s all been. I’ll make an exception on the nut bait. I literally like the taste of the tricknut freezer bait.
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In reply to Post #335
I’m pretty sure they don’t as people have been eating the buggers, and that includes Gav😂 especially the Peanut Pralines.
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In reply to Post #321
Well done on your fish. Nice to see the herb has continued to produce in the winter. I must admit that I have personally kept it on at least one rod this winter and that was simply to see if it honestly does work in the cold. I had doubts that maybe it was too heavy on the fishmeal front but judging by my results and those of the customers it still seems to work.
My last few big fish have fallen to either herb Wafters over crumb or super squid and Nutriplex Wafters.
One of may lads landed 4 fish in a night fishing over 4kg of whole boilies at the weekend and then ran out of bait!!
Crazy weather last week!!!
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In reply to Post #329
Are you telling me you're mixes contain no spheres?
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In reply to Post #332
I was told mark did the mix you did the flavours and additives? If I’m wrong I’m wrong
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In reply to Post #332
Hello Kev, hope you are well buddy. Good old forum, the place for myths and facts 😂😂
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In reply to Post #327
With regards to: I believe you work with mark and thus have struck gold “as he did proper jobs mix”, without him, its a different ball game.
Mark is a good mate of mine! The first time we met, we struck it off big-time and we fished together for many years. As for pop up mixes, to give credit where credit is due, Mark helped me out with some pop up ingredients. However, as for your claims that “Mark did my mixes” this claim is simply not true.
Mark knows a little about the makeup of my mixes but neither of us know the exact makeup of the others mixes (and that’s a fact).
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In reply to Post #329
So do you use something buoyant whose name starts with an E or has there come some new stuff the last few years?
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In reply to Post #328
Absolutely…….and they are very popular!
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In reply to Post #327
Mozzi, I think you have completely misunderstood everything here. I’m not saying in any way cork is bad! We use cork, everyone uses cork in Wafters and cork balls etc. it’s a way of making things float! I’m a huge fan of food in my hookbaits via cork, or whatever means necessary as I rely heavily on hookbait attraction a lot of the time.
You refer to air ball mixes…….the air ball mixes you are thinking of are so old and obsolete that we have never used them. They are not buoyant enough to be combined with anything and still float.
Pop up technology has moved on and Pidge is the man behind it. What looks like your old air ball mix is now something made out of edible items. Fishmeal, Milks, glm, fruit palatants all can now be used but you are left with something very edible and attractive.
The fact we can make Hookbaits containing heavy hydros, is game changing but the biggest factor of all is that they are user friendly…….and……..you can add whatever liquids you want (if you so wish) which I think anglers really like (goo, minamino, sprays etc).
Some people won’t use corkballs, some hate air ball mixes, some can’t bring themselves to cast out a bottom bait!! I try to look at the overall picture and listen to what anglers want.
Making 12mm ultra buoyant pop ups is an art…….making them out of real food can only be done by a handful of people in the U.K.
A hookbait made out of fishmeal, liver, garlic etc will always catch loads of carp but let’s not forget that attraction comes from solids, liquids, essential oils, and other forms. Harnessing it all into a ball that’s easy to use is the tricky bit!
You all have to cast out what makes you confident.
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