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Yeah mate the price of eggs have gone right up over the last couple years 😬🤣 I haven't used any of it yet but I have seen I can get 20l of frozen egg for 32.99. Has anyone used that stuff before? Also gonna have a look if there's other options I can play with 👍

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Gotta add eggs to the cost as well then you will get a fair £per kilo rate and then the biggest saving of all is Labour followed by tax lol

Yeah man I use hemp oil in my lt94 mix 👍I do think to make it cost effective and worth your time you've gotta be buying and rolling in bulk lol I tried doing it all by hand with tables etc and 9 times out of 10 I'd just end up going out and buying a few bags of boilies because I couldn't be bothered with the hassle 🤣

I was going to add chilli hemp oil I forgot to add it to the list 😳 Tbh I was just thinking what the cost saving would be, for the little spare time I have presently I think I will keep buying it for now. Just wanted to see what it would cost compared to buying it, I wasn't going to add it all but it was £22 for 5ltr so I would use the spare for glugging etc

Dont think you wanna use 5l of any liquid lol

Tbh I haven't used any flavours yet, with yours I would probably try a small batch of how you've already got it and take it from there mate 👍 I could be totally off with this but I haven't really bought into the idea of these flavourings, i like to think if you've got a bait full of goodness in front of a carp, they are most likely going to eat it regardless of the flavour🤣 Only thing I might add is a little bit of oil to help with rolling 👍 best of luck mate let us know how it rolls 👌 I might have a dabble with some flavours when I start rolling some pop ups, but that probably won't be until summer. One thing at time for me 🤣

I was bored last night so I put together a mix using AA base mix to see what it would cost lol. Hnv Super red mix 85% premium attract + 5% hydrolysed liver powder 5% spirulina 1% garlic powder 2% Chilli powder 2% 5l liver hydro Not sure if I would add a flavour maybe chorizo or something meaty but would certainly work out cheaper 🤔

I'm just kind of winging it mate lol. I'll read bait making pages on social media, websites etc and then put a recipe together myself with what I think will work. I'll download the spec for each ingredient and have a look then just have a read online about what it contains. The sheets you can download when viewing an ingredient. I'm using aabaits for my stuff, I'm not sure if other suppliers have them available to download/view👍 I also have a book about baits by Tim Paisley which has some cool stuff about absorption rates of different proteins etc. It's a little too technical for me at the moment as I'm still learning, but I do find it fun 🤣

Another nice mirror for January 21lbs Could've had a few more if the misses would've swapped swims. They were showing on her swim all day

Used Premier Animos for 20+ years, since swapped over to CCMoore Odyssey XXX - very happy to continue on those 👍 Everything they make is quality IMO - liquids, powders etc etc and good prices

Lovely... I have a 314 and a 324 both nifty little reels

Do you have a sheet that you use for base mix formulations? Would quite like to have a play with one 😂

Yeah mate so from i can pull from the spec sheets the mix will contain: Vitamins: vitamin a, vitamin c, vitamin d, vitamin e, vitamin b1, vitamin b2, vitamin b3, vitamin b6, vitamin b9, vitamin b12. Minerals: calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, selenium, copper. 👍

2 new arrivals top is a nice Mitchell 324 and bottom a very old 304 these were gifted to me by a very generous member of another forum

I think a good edge might be adding vitamins and healthy good stuff to a bait, might not make it anymore attractive but would certainly add longevity to it and be good for the fish. One ingredient that has to be in any bait I buy nowadays is liver of some sort, just a confidence thing.

in theory, a proper home rolled bait with good levels of the good stuff will still be more attractive than a commercial bait over time.

Nothing I don't think mate, I just like the idea of using and catching on a bait I put together myself and knowing there's a really high chance no one else is using it lol. Also being able to roll a lot of bait cheaply, on a week session on my res in the summer I'll probably be doing 20kg+ 🤣 Some of the main ingredients are wpc80, calcium caseinate, tigernut flour and a few more dry ingredients, liquids are nothing fancy, gonna be using a nut oil and one of the nutty liquids from aa baits 👍 I've got a recipe ready but no idea how it's gonna roll with the machine so might have to adjust when the time comes 👍

I was running a village pub and restaurant, and another Marina restaurant near Ipswich, 5miles from home, so easy to get to. I was supposed to have Mondays and Tuesdays off as when I was taken on at the marina, it was closed Monday and Tuesday, but the village pub was 'given' to me after the manager there left. Even on Monday I often ended up going in to get change for the weekly float, but the owner refused to let me know the bank details so I would have to pay the post office to get change, and I would sort out my weekly bar stock orders. I discovered the 'area manager' was using her credit card to swap payments from card to cash as I started doing an 'x' reading at the start of shift when cash and card did not add up. I then had two of my waitresses in the pub had both been given holiday at the same time by the area manager and she had not arranged any replacement, so I ended up hiring someone out of my own pocket. The Marina restaurant I was lucky as I had an assistant manager who could run that while I was at the busy village pub. I don't have a problem with hard work, but when you have proven the area manager is fiddling and stealing cash from the takings I was not going to take the blame with an owner who wasn't interested. The second one was just after Covid. I was assistant manager at a 20 bedroom hotel. We'd had a Christmas party and had used plenty of stock, so Sunday morning I did a full stocktake before the Sunday Carvery and mid service the manager came in swearing "I can't order that, we don't sell that", complete with expletives. Wednesday as I was due to be in, I got a phone call asking me to go to MY cash and carry and buy the stock we needed as she hadn't placed a spirits order. It took 3 weeks to get my money back from petty cash as there was a £100 weekly limit. I was having to deal with things my overall manager had 'forgotten' or not done, customers not had a return call, bookings, and her spending more time off site. Next few weeks over Christmas I was rostered lates on Friday and Saturday with an early Sunday 12 hour or longer shift. I can finish at 3am after a party, but can't start at 8am with a 45minute drive either side. We still had covid restrictions in place, and I was losing staff to illness left right and centre, and despite having staff, the rotas were continually being cocked up. I had enough just after New Year when every shift was a reverse, late early, late early rather than able to catch up.

What are you putting in it to make it stand out from the rest of the milky nut baits?

I've been there! After working for the same Company for 30 years, my job went to India. In the next 15 years, I must have had 20 different jobs including 2 years running when I had 4 different employers. I've been at the same place for the last 2 years and haven't even looked for another job. Luckily I'd paid off the mortgage years ago and had a bit of a redundancy cushion to fall on but it is liberating to tell a manager to stick his job - I think I quit and left 3 jobs the same day. There are good jobs out there, you've just got to kiss a few frogs before you find it! Good luck.

I've done my order and gonna go with a milky nut bait and If I've worked it out correctly the finished bait should give roughly 39% protein 45% carbs 15% fats 👍

Yeah exactly that mate, I was paired up with a mate and we would go out delivering white goods, beds, sofas etc and would have a right laugh on the road. But they just expected too much, unrealistic expectations. Routed so its only tumble weeds blowing down the road 🤣 It didn't really go the way I wanted and I'm now doing my final week as I was booked in for it. Suppose really it will work out better so I can get a order of base mix ingredients in and have them rolled up for next week 👍

For me that lovely feeling of getting the car back on the road after it was stuck on the snow and ice for a week, set of to work and got a front blow out on a tyre

I've been in the same position myself, a couple of times. An absolute pig of an owner /boss and long hours can really grind you down. What is sad is that I loved the place I was working at, loved the people who came into the establishment, but the owner or overall manager really screwed it up.