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Many premium brands as @yonny has said are pop-up mix and flavour, that could be any brand, although there are some that have that something.
Garlic is one of those additions that can really put fish on the bank, but it is finding the garlic that works; in pop-ups I never found powdered versions work, possibly not enough smell, and I am not scientific enough to work it out, but in a food bait they may work well.
 
Oh those coatings can be fun to make, can be as simple as rolling dried baits in egg, then rolling in powder.
 
 
 
Funnily enough I have caught far more on a food bait equivalent than on a yellow pop-up on most waters. The yellow pop-up produced fish on 'small fish' waters, but not on big fish venues, although the past couple of years did produce stocked fish rather than original fish on the syndicate.
Thinking back to various 25lb+ commons I have caught, none came on yellow baits, all but one were on snowman baits, food bait with an identical coloured pop-up (not necessarily same flavour), the one that didn't was on a single 15mm food bait.
 
 
As an add, I did remove the 'disagreement', not going to have it get nasty. Express an opinion, give your point and don't have a go.

That's where I used 50% base mix and 50% sodium caseinate to have a matching pop-up to the base mix. 
The base mixes I used that ratio with were New Concepts Mariner mix and Nutrabaits The Biollix, which were both fairly heavy base mixes.
Usual procedure was make a 4egg mix of normal baits. While the base mix was out I would put around 1eggs worth of powder to one side for the bit for pop-ups and I would sieve the base mix to get rid of larger lumps and then add the same amount volume of sodium caseinate. So if I had 1 measuring cup of base mix, I would add 1 cup of caseinate. One egg in a bowl, add the required flavours/liquids if using any at 1/4 of what 4eggs took then mix as per normal.
I usually had enough pop-up mix left over for another 1 eggs worth of pop-ups.
 
A mate did the same when he used Enervite for his pop-ups, and that must be sieved!
 
 
 

Heard of 50kg pop ups that went on a trip to France with some mates once 😂😂 can’t remember which ingredient did it though. 

I can't say I pay too much attention to branding. The value of branding is down to one's individual perception based on the product and, I hate to say it, marketing. Most of what I would consider to be 'premium brands' offer their fair share of stuff I'd never use but I'd not want to devalue any brand based on that fact (apart from Nash, obviously 😂). 
A brand is just a name for a company imo.
Do I think SHB make decent/premium hookbaits? Yes, absolutely. I only use them for certain applications, but I've done so for probably 10 years + now. They have caught me some very special fish and that breeds confidence. Confidence is as important as anything in carp angling imo.

Many premium brands as @yonny has said are pop-up mix and flavour, that could be any brand, although there are some that have that something.
Garlic is one of those additions that can really put fish on the bank, but it is finding the garlic that works; in pop-ups I never found powdered versions work, possibly not enough smell, and I am not scientific enough to work it out, but in a food bait they may work well.
 
Oh those coatings can be fun to make, can be as simple as rolling dried baits in egg, then rolling in powder.
 
 
 
Funnily enough I have caught far more on a food bait equivalent than on a yellow pop-up on most waters. The yellow pop-up produced fish on 'small fish' waters, but not on big fish venues, although the past couple of years did produce stocked fish rather than original fish on the syndicate.
Thinking back to various 25lb+ commons I have caught, none came on yellow baits, all but one were on snowman baits, food bait with an identical coloured pop-up (not necessarily same flavour), the one that didn't was on a single 15mm food bait.
 
 
As an add, I did remove the 'disagreement', not going to have it get nasty. Express an opinion, give your point and don't have a go.

Many premium brands as @yonny has said are pop-up mix and flavour, that could be any brand, although there are some that have that something.
Garlic is one of those additions that can really put fish on the bank, but it is finding the garlic that works; in pop-ups I never found powdered versions work, possibly not enough smell, and I am not scientific enough to work it out, but in a food bait they may work well.
 
Oh those coatings can be fun to make, can be as simple as rolling dried baits in egg, then rolling in powder.
 
 
 
Funnily enough I have caught far more on a food bait equivalent than on a yellow pop-up on most waters. The yellow pop-up produced fish on 'small fish' waters, but not on big fish venues, although the past couple of years did produce stocked fish rather than original fish on the syndicate.
Thinking back to various 25lb+ commons I have caught, none came on yellow baits, all but one were on snowman baits, food bait with an identical coloured pop-up (not necessarily same flavour), the one that didn't was on a single 15mm food bait.
 
 
As an add, I did remove the 'disagreement', not going to have it get nasty. Express an opinion, give your point and don't have a go.

You made the discovery that cork dust absorbs water, and expands allowing the bait to break down.
I pretty much just stuck to pop-up mix, or with standard base mix adding around 50% sodium caseinate after sieving it.

Don't I know it. Another series of trades with no new apprenticeships, plumbers, plasterers, electricians, carpenters.
The top 10 building companies in the UK already own the 1.5million plots required by this government to reduce the housing problems, yet don't have the tradesmen to do it. In addition those building companies have the cash reserves to do the builds but won't unless they can sell for a profit, meaning local authority properties are not being built in many areas.
Forcing tradesmen to go self-employed has not helped.
 
The 'cash reserves' were often because the companies were given the land by previous governments, as far back as Thatcher, and it was 'sold' to pension investment and hedge fund companies as investment opportunities under a 'buy back' scheme once building started.

That's a great build, well done.
 
As @jh92 has mentioned, please private message him if you would like to help with the development.
 
 

Nice 1 @ouchthathurt
Looks like it's got mouth issues, similar to the little fella I had.
It could barely get the pop up in its mouth

Mate, spent so many days on there in the summer holidays and a few overnighters in the snow lol
Loved it, seemed massive when I first looked across and bottomless lol
Mostly fished in the edge, watching them come and go it was mega.
You could hear Tom coming for his money from his house 'Mr TAYLOR' he'd bellow in my ear - happy memories, he was like a fishing dad to about 50 local kids over the years probably more, legend!
My first 20 from there would have been an original leeney 😎

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?) 

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

If its Gardner its good...

If its Gardner its good...

Sorry it has taken so long, but after we have managed to get server sorted there is now a section for videos:
https://forum.carp.com/forum/51-fishing-videos/

I'll have a look see if I can transfer them

A new section has been added to Non Carp Banter.
Sorry it has taken so long, but after we have managed to get server sorted there is now a section for videos:
https://forum.carp.com/forum/51-fishing-videos/

Sorry it has taken so long, but after we have managed to get server sorted there is now a section for videos:
https://forum.carp.com/forum/51-fishing-videos/

Don’t forget the carp anglers prayer… 
 
“dear lord, when I die, please don’t let the wife sell my carp gear for the price i told her I paid for it” 

I've somehow managed to lose 3 butt rests and banksticks from my pike gear so just had the joy of purchasing 3 more of each.
As an edit, I just realised exactly where I lost them; I was fishing at Beccles on the quay, where there is no way of pushing sticks into the tarmac path, so I put them underneath the bench I was sitting on, and at the end of the day forgot to put them back into the unhooking mat as I folded it up. 
 

It's for washed out baits only. 

Not sure the air dryer behind is a good idea...
🤣

Just scraping in the December report with a cheeky little 8lb mirror carp, caught it on a 12mm pink Mulbz pop up from club lake

Thank you