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I couldn't resist buying those hair raisers at the top they smelt lovely squid and octopus fruit and black pepper,banarama hairaisers and choco malt jaffa pop ups, well happy with my bait collection, proper carp anglers, proper baits, reaper nut mix smells and tastes great, not heavily flavoured quite soft mmmm😋 the fix is a little firmer but looks like a proper red fishmeal and has a nice low level peachy flavour, all shelf life too, 😳 I think I did well, hopefully I can catch some nice fish on them now and if I need bait in a rush I can just pop in the car and get some, happy days

Coming on along with @elmoputney 's post as well. I think that the only ready-made baits around when I started were Richworths. I went through Honey Yucatan, which I caught more on than Tutti-frutti, and Salmon Supreme. Then came the joy of upsetting my mother with homemade specials. Chappie dog food, semolina, ground pond pellets and eggs, stunk to high heaven but caught. I then started playing with Nutrabaits, but Brian Hewitt and New Concept Baits Mariner Mix really caught me, and loads of fish. I'd love to get that recipe back. I was rolling bait for him and myself with a concrete mixer! Shame Brian sold the company. Back to Nutrabaits I saw how Enervite really turned on the carp in Weybread Number 1, and then how The Biollix caught on Barham and Taverham. I was using that more than BFM. The switch to Trigga though, absolutely amazing. I ended up getting B&F to make it up for me I was rolling so much, probably using 10kilos a month. They also started selling my 'tweaked' Trigga baits as using Nutrabaits ingredients. They asked me to test their baits when I moved onto Ardleigh and I caught the first fish on the 42 range. Weird, for some reason I missed a few years 'session' fishing, probably due to the love of my life, only doing the occasional night, but still had input into the next test baits, Smokey Bacon which I took onto Nazeing, followed by Smoked Mackeral. I also came up with the combinations on a few of their pop-ups. In fact only 1 bait I could not catch on, no matter how much I saw the carp eating it in the snags. Then as they say, B&F fell apart at the seams. Kind of left me holding a paddle but the canoe had a hole, so I started using Solar, again testing for them, the original Seafood Takeaway in frozen and shelfie. The move workwise for me to Gladwells, meant I could get my hands on Crafty Catcher and Rod Hutchinson baits as the factory rolled both, (they also roll the Ringers Match baits). While I like Crafty Catcher, especially King Prawn and Crab Meat and Sea Salt, I seemed to do better on RH, the KMG produced loads on Alton, and both Monster Crab and Infusion have produced on the syndicate as well.