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I believe there are a handful left according to Yates/Walsingham, but we will never know where they are!

I use a lot of AA products to be fair. Hydros or liquids mainly. Decent value on pellet too. I do rate them as a brand, been around for years and trusted by a lot of bait makers for ingredients. youd probably be better splitting some basemix with a pop up mix to get a better wafter tbh. you’ve still got the matching waters and pop ups to make too!!

Nah they are current models 🤪

I just went out to smell them, I mean move them about so they continue dry well. The scopex is strong in the garage. I think they should work well. I'm not selling them though, I barely have time to make my own.

Hi Elmo . I would offer to be a field tester for you , but that would mean I have to get off my bum and actually go fishing 😁 . Your pink boilies look very tempting . 😃

Were they from a time when people would get burnt as a witch for being left handed. 😂

I wanted to buy a couple of the penn 525 mags but they dont make them in left hand wind. it is a multiplier though. wouldn't have thought that would be allowed now adays.

That can't be left hand only can it surely there hasn't been a reel made since bluelabels era tackle that isn't ambidextrous?

Just had a look on their website doesn't seem to be on there. I didn't realise Richworth were still going tbh not seen them in a shop for years.

Hi all ,the sonik turbospod reel is a great spod reel at a good price, but be aware that it is left hand wind only it is not ambidextrous though it does not make that much difference. right lines Graham.

I always used the richworth pop up mix when I rolled bait. Not sure if its still available but it was good in my opinion.

I've used a few AA Baits products now and they all seem decent so far. The fishmeal tropaminamino base mix smells like a real carp catcher. Adding the fishmeal base mix to the wafter mix made it a much stiffer mix and while I may have lost a little buoyancy from adding it they still waft a bit and will act more naturally than a traditional wafter I think and have a slightly more open texture.

Will say having used a couple of pop up mixes in the past, the best I found was BAF before they stopped selling it. AA would be my choice if I ever make any more though.

I know a few waters that did have Leney fish in, or one that more correctly Redmire progeny, but once stocked they reproduced with other strains, so a mix of Italian, Dinkselbuehl and Galicians/Leneys. Sadly old age and otters may well have made them extinct in Taverham Mills. This one was caught back in the 1990's, and comes complete with porn star moustache... It was one of the fish legitimately bought from Redmire when there was a successful spawning. You would have to see the Chris Ball and Chris Yates diary of stockings that they got from Donald Leney to see. As you say, not many originals around now, and quite possibly they have regressed. The ones that became records in Redmire were original stocked fish.

I decided to start making bait for myself recently, now I've got a lot of the bits I needed I thought I would start with some hookbaits. Not perfectly round but good enough 😂 1egg, liquid preserve, 5ml creamy scopex, Betaine, milk B and butterscotch sweetener. Pop ups are mainline polaris dyed yellow and wafters are AA Baits pink wafter mix + a bit of tropamino basemix as I run out of wafter mix whilst mixing. I think the wafters turned out better and actually came out fairly round, both do what are they meant too when attached to a rig so that's good, now air drying and will give them a splash of extra flavour once they are dried,then all I've got to do another time is match the hatch hookbaits and start rolling kilos and kilos of boilies. Don't think I'll buy polaris again though will get some AA Baits pop up mix next time. I've also been using Copilot to make up loads of recipes, I've got 20kg of tropamino basemix to use up first though. But I've started down the rabbit hole.

I am assuming not many (any) waters have these now? If there are they are deff under the radar now I suspect. I did have the pleasure of catching some of the beauties back in the day from Horseshoe 😀👍 Apparently this guy is still trying to keep the strain going: https://www.leneycarp.com/ Does it matter? probably not tbh, but fair play to the bloke 👍

small update corus are still selling 1kg packs of nut cluster on ebay so picked up 3 packs, i still have about 5 kg in store so this will last me a good few sessions, i only do days as a rule and dont tend to put a lot of bait in

Tell that to Charlie Dally.....lol

Just fork out £20 for a tub of magic beans mate..... all your worries will be over! 😂

Bait…. the most argued part of fishing apart from “what’s the best alarm” welcome in

To be fair I'd rather be on fish with a tub of black foam than be miles away from the carp with the best bait in the world!😁

Bait – by far the most important aspect! What use is location and presentation if they won’t actually pick up your enticements?

Welcome to Carp.com Bait, guaranteed to do your head in, send you round in circles and up your own....

Hi Dave, welcome, get stuck in on here it's always good to have some fresh topics

Welcome. Its a bit quiet lately, but there's a few good gents that have helped me out over the years. @elmoputney is all about bait atm