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Co pilot is brilliant for this sort of thing 3 minutes and bang I've got a recipe.

They are still drying now as it's cold in the garage. The scopex comes through a little more each day but will probably make up a little scopex bait spray at some point. Definately more pleased with the wafters this time they should work just fine for my pva bag, I might add some black pepper as i think it's missing something. I have planned to add this previously but forgot to buy some I have gone with 5ml to start with in the hookbaits and thought i might start with 3ml a kilo in the feed baits. As I will be adding plenty of liquid hydro.

2 versions also https://www.soniksports.com/product/turbospod-carbon-14000/ https://www.soniksports.com/product/turbospod-14000/

Are you sure of that? It got me looking and on the first search got this page come up which I screenshot. In the advert it does say it is ambidextrous.

I used to use the BAF and Richworth pop-up mixes, they were consistent and worked, whereas the Mainline Polaris was not consistent, you could get a good batch that popped up brilliantly, or another tub that was awful. Those baits do look like good baits, but you may need to test and redry them before adding the dash of extra flavour. I found a single egg mix usually gave me enough hookbaits for a season. The other thing with hookbaits is you can get away with higher flavour levels, the same amount of flavour in a single egg as you would use for a 4 or 6 egg mix.

This mornings 5am to 10am session

Nothing exciting, but the boy and I managed a few commons this morning to start this years captures. now have to find a tip eye for a fox warrior 2.75lb rod (any ideas?)

Water temps shot up to 7.1C last week after the really cold weather disappeared. Yesterday I popped a handful of food in and the "stockies" i.e. smaller koi ate it all. The temps were so good I went fishing on Friday night. Blanked, obviously(😅), but on Saturday morning the sun came out and I saw carp with their backs out! Chucked zigs at them for an hour but was already late for home. Always next time.

There is a fb group called Leney Enthusiasts, according to that I've caught shed loads of them 😂

It wasn't a deliberate choice to add the fishmeal, more a happy accident tbh, I thought I would have enough for a 1 egg mix but it was still like angel delight when the bag run out. So to make something other than a mess I added a handful of basemix😂. I am going to do match the hatch ones, I want the option for once I've got them on the bait. I've got some cork dust for those wafters and will probably use the AA Baits fishmeal pop up mix for the pop ups as people have added 30% basemix to those successfully, I might try 50/50 and add cork dust if required. I don't want to make cork balls What essentially will probably happen is that I will make a load of hookbaits to add to the collection of hookbaits I will probably never use 😂

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.