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I've actually made my MO to be largely yellow beds of bait, I've used maize flake, sweetcorn and yellow pellets, all doused in yellow smart liquid,

Interestingly I've been using this bait all year, and I don't recall being plagued by wildfowl at all,I've had grebes diving but they tended to quit quite quickly.

That's why I do fish a fluoro, I want my hookbait to stand out, I want my hookbait to be the most attractive bait in the area. The main thing I look at in the edge is contrast, you have to think fish don't see the same things we do. I just think if it contrasts the bottom then they will be more likely to see it. My faves are yellow and washed out pink. I can totally see why you do what you do though, makes perfect sense,there are no right and wrongs though, if it works it works.

Things I forgot this time Thermocell pads Camera Micro hook ring swivels. And how to catch a fish. My dinner and breakfast were lardon omelettes with rocket, cos I'm on a health kick presently. I did have a savage take and before I had even got off the chair it had yanked the rod so hard my buzzer bars were all over the place and somehow my line snapped, it was either, clutch too tight, I had forgotten to take it out the clip or when it jolted the line got caught on something. Needless to say I didn't get another chance and blanked.

That is a mega fish Kev. World class 😍

I tend to not be so paranoid tbh, I prefer a fluoro boom on my spinner rig, I nearly always fish a pop up. Mainly bright yellow pineapple this season. I use an unleaded leader (whatever colour I have) knowing it will sink well and it works well with my chosen lead set up (PB Hit n run) And I never back lead or pin the line down. Most people on my lake use a bait boat, so I try to spread the baits out, so the fish have to move between mouthfuls. I like to think they don't really know what rig components are and just see them as detritus but I will slacken my line and get it to sink properly if I can. Although if I need to fish with a bow tight line, I have no issues doing that either. We are all different though and I'm not saying I am right, anything that makes you more confident is a good thing it's just not something I worry about too much, I did use coloured kickers for a while on my spinner rigs and I still caught fish,

Thanks The most stressful thing is PFT (PRE FISHING TENSION) Will it be busy? Will I get a decent swim? Will I find some fish? Will I get stuck in traffic? Will I remember everything? No 12:15 I leave work and then it's full on PFT. I've smashed the work out this morning to make sure I can chill though so come on the carps.

Don't want to rub it in but I'm doing a half day today and then I'm going home and packing for a overnighter. Come on the carps.

That sounds nice, i want to go back to France, my family aren't so keen on a fishing holiday again though, would need to be a special venue to convince them. Otherwise I think I've just got to wait a few years and go by myself 😂

Yeah same as, kind of why I like talking about it 😉

A lot of people visit, only a few ever post these days.

Yeah I will just get a 5kg bag of base mix and small amounts of additives to play with before scaling it up. I've got a manual gun for now, but if I was going to start rolling more think I would want a luxury electric caulking gun or something similar. I'm too old for manual labour 😂

I think It looks alright on paper, if it rolls, smells OK and sleighs any water it goes in, it will be just fine 😂

More like this 👍 Powders 92.5% HNV Super Red mix 5% Blue Cheese Powder 2.5% my own spice mix (garlic, fenugreek, chilli powder and more Milk B powder 10g per kilo Liquids Egg Fermented chilli extract 50ml a kilo Scopex flavour at 5ml per kilo

Thanks for the positive comment I've become obsessed with it this last week 😂 The spice mix was something I thought might be too high tbh I could just start at 2.5% as recommended and add a little more basemix, I could also add more of something else like yeast or an attractor powder but I really want to leave that unless is doesn't work or I feel it needs a tweak. I'm only going to be testing with small batches to start anyway.

Hi guys over the past few weeks I've got into the idea of making my own baits rather than buying shop bought. I've tried to think of a mix that should be soluble, and leak attraction quickly and work all year round, for some reason I've wanted to go spicy and creamy at the same time. I am going to use the AA Baits base mixes for now in order to keep it a little more simple. I am starting with the HNV Super red mix which contains: Large amount of Kingfisher Red (Natural), Red Meggablend, Genuine CLO, Hemp Powder, Mixture of Nut ingredients, Combination of high end Milk & Egg proteins and Betaine to name just a few ingredients in this mix. Powders 90 % HNV Super Red mix 5% Blue Cheese Powder 5% my own spice mix (garlic, fenugreek, chilli powder and more Milk B powder 10g per kilo Liquids Egg Fermented chilli extract 50ml a kilo Scopex flavour at 5ml per kilo Do you think that is good? I am trying to not throw the kitchen sink at it presently,

Total fishing tackle and Johnson Ross both have Complex T in stock. There were quite a few others if you Google it. Johnson ross even do a bulk discount offer. https://johnsonrosstackle.co.uk/dynamite-frozen-boilies/18538-dynamite-baits-complex-t-bulk-frozen-boilie-deal-5kg.html

I found this short vid on pillows, they do look pretty decent to be fair, he used a 16mm sausage on a 14mm table for this. Dumbells seem to be the opposite 14mm sausage on an 18mm table for example.

Very sensible investment.

I really didn't say about boiling it twice, I just meant like nick said where you boil the sausage and then cut it. I'm trying to avoid having to roll them for speed it would be good if I could just line up all the sausages and chop once and boil.

I think I might not have been clear enough lol, I don't want to boil them twice, I would just prefer to cut the sausage first when it's still a paste so I can boil it afterwards. So I can get a full skin on the baits, I would also like to keep them kinda cylindrical The main reason I don't want to boil them first and leave some unsealed is because of the Rudd, they would destroy them in minutes. I might some and treat them as pellets but the bulk I want to seal. I think if I am going to do it it's got to be easy, so i want to just mix, sausage, chop and boil, pillows might not be so bad but I would like to try and keep them dumbellish, so I am trying to think of a way to cut the sausages with minimal deformation.

Billionaires?

Yeah best to not venture down that rabbit hole 🐰🕳️😂 Capitalism would have taken it in other ways. Like now if you want to get popcorn at the cinema it will cost you nearly £100 for a family movie. At least you can still look at your fishing stuff even if you don't have time to go.

I had to work it out it was frying my brain lol, it's just over 20kgs a day of baiting, doesn't seem so excessive that way, but that's a lot of spodding. He must have arms like popeye,i would have to use a bait boat I think.

If it wasn't for fishing we would all be millionaires