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I don’t think flavour matters too much when fishing over food bait, once they are feeding well they pick up everything in the area. I agree with Elmo it’s worth putting a different colour on each rod, if one particular colour gets more bites then change to that colour on all rods

Personally I just use whatever, and try different things on all rods, will maybe switch another over if I catch on one, but not too bothered about flavours being the same or different colours, if they work as they should, and stand out a bit I'm happy I want my hookbait to be noticed, I will usually have a matching pop up, and a banana one and usually a brown black pepper + proper job to start with, I think you have 3 different rods try 3 different things, one thing I have noticed I can't find a favourite hookbait that seems to really stand out above all the others, it's usually the one you least expect that rattles off 😏

The interesting one most definitely, but the head and shoulering can be on the way in to the food, or on the way out, I have seen both. For some reason on a few waters I fished, carp would always approach the spot from the left or right, always the same side at a particular time, go down on the food, then head and shoulder on the way out, before going around again. In one case, always swimming around an island from right to left. It didn't have to be an island swim though, the feeding in this manner occurred even in open water.

Could be a curveball to hide the truth 😉 But I'm not that clever and I don't really know that much 😅

For the members who are not aware of this tip ( hope it’s allowed Mods ) When your looking at a item you got a interest in hit the ‘watch this item’ button it’s under the Add to basket. Some times you will get a message back from the seller offering you a discount

Yes I've had both of these on my Ebay. The private offer message I've had a few of those and I got the fiver off but didn't use it. 😁👍

No I haven’t seen that... I don’t buy on there often tho.

Thanks , Elmo , helpful as always . 😃

I'm still trying to eat healthily on the bank, although I do drink far too much real coffee. Breakfast, a proper porridge and tonight's offering is couscous with stir fried lamb, onions, mushrooms, ginger, garlic, black pepper and coriander.

Second hand Nash Titan Hide... brill bit of kit, goes up on seconds sturdy and I got it with groundsheet, front infill panel and overwrap for less than £200 And I recently picked up a Korum Day Pack for short sessions on the river or for general fishing... fits all my kit in it nicely

I'm of rather different views on flavours and essential oils, I found some very good combinations, and that iso-eugenol could improve the attraction of a number of baits. The obvious essential oil that got lots of note was a proper genuine full Black Pepper oil. Some baits were a whole lot better with the addition of flavours, The Biollix, not bad, but my Cinnamon EO with Peach Nutrafruit knocked it even better. Then we have Enervite Gold, with Julian Cundiff's favourite Strawberry and Cream Elite with Bergamot EO. Plain Enervite Gold with Multimino never caught as much as the flavoured version. Another combination I played with was Eucalyptus EO, Cherry Elite and 2drops of Iso-eugenol. As a bait it smelt like your chemist's sore throat remedy, it had its own Tune... Boy did it work! Taking some of these combinations and trying others, some complete pop-ups I bought, (some same flavours or similar from various manufacturers), not all were the same in terms off effectiveness. Nutrabaits Pineapple N-butyric (plain yellow) were as effective as Mainline Fluoro Yellow Pineapple. Dynamite's Fluoro Pineapple were not as good as Solars Pineapple, in terms of fish caught. My own Garlic Oil and Megaspice pop-ups have produced fish from various waters. I gave the recipe to a bait company, they hated making them, they stink, yet on a water just down the road from that company, locals couldn't get enough of them, they produced loads of fish, and now I make my own, continue to do so. Maybe I should come up with a catchier name and they'd sell... I go through my bait bag now and find I seem to have got a collection again: Monster Crab, KMG in base mix and Fluoro colours, a pale pink Raspberry and Black Pepper, little yellow Aniseed and Bunspice and my own Spiced Garlic (is that catchier?) Some are for merely using as top knot on a snowman bait, some as I heard a pale pink pop-up is a catcher on my lake, some to match the baiting and feeding and obviously one because I have complete faith in it.

I keep it to exactly same flavour (Manilla) , but in 2 colours, White and Yellow, and have 1 VERY VERRY Pink Smelly fishy 1, (Krill, Crab n Squid).

What about orange tutti lol

I've just finished creating these Defiant mps heads Iceatope ice green 3x15mm Cygnet pivot arms (also have chains) regretting not getting 3"a bit though but 6"will do for now 😂 Just need some stainless hockey sticks to complete the look now

Just lately i have been going back to quick pasta meals, pot noodle and those packet things, few tins of rice pud and some porridge, simple and quick. Used to take a double burner with grill and a big camping gaz bottle, can't be bothered with all that silliness these days.