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Having a sale is probably quite a good tactic in getting people to switch to your bait company tbh, a couple of weeks of discounted bait will boost sales get rid of old stock, boost turnover and hopefully get you some new long term customers, if they choose to cut quality then they are probably doing themselves a disservice as they won't be as likely to retain new customers,

Well I've bitten the bullet and ordered 40kg from innovate baits, bit of a gamble but they do seem to catch some good fish, I had a few messages with them and they seemed decent enough, and I will go and collect it so I can find out some more when I pick it up 20kg of reaper nut mix +20kg of the fix Plus some bananarama hell raisers and some chocolate orange pop ups, Worked out at £5.56 a Kilo with black Friday discount usually £6.95 if buying 20kg, I don't like to pay above £7 a kilo tbh, so that suits me and should last at least til summer 😳

The rudd would eat 10mm boilies where I fish, they are like bream on steroids 😀

Thanks,I think I will stay with the pair of them and see what happens, I tend to mix my hookbaits around about a lot anyway it's rare I put them all on the same bait

I've been looking at innovate baits again and they have 20% off means I could get 40kg of bait and 2 tubs of smart looking hookbaits for £232, which I think is a bit of a bargain at present, but which one or ones Fishmeal vs nut bait, they do some awesome sounding fishmeals tbh, 3 that I could probably use quite happily, I'm leaning towards 2 the fix The Fix is perhaps the ultimate red fish meal. Containing nearly 40% of various fish meals including solubles and Antarctic Krill, with Oyster shell and Kelp meal to aid digestion, we have given the base mix a kick with a generous helping of Chilli powder and have also used Asafoetida as a natural stimulant. The liquid food and flavour package includes a soluble fish extract and Salmon oil with a lovely Peach flavour and rounded off with a pungent Garlic oil, making it super attractive even in the coldest water.A firm favourite with some of the guys working in the factory, The Fix certainly has that X factor!q And squid 2t Not much of an introduction needed for the legendary Squid-2T, it was the first steamed carp bait put together by Steve Slater over 14 years ago and to this day is still the most popular in the 365 Range. Still dominating the same waters where it was first introduced back in the day, the Squid-2T has built a reputation as one of the best carp food baits of all time!It is difficult to put a label on the base mix, however with nearly 20 dry mix ingredients ranging from fish meals including Krill and soluble variants, purified blood powder, Robin Red, WPC, Yeasts and our awesome 3 sweet spice mix with Spirulina which is classed as a super food within itself. The liquid package includes our special Ethyl Squid and Ester Tutti Frutti coupled with a pure Black Pepper oil. Add Minamino to this and you have perhaps the most digestible carp bait available today! Does anyone actually mix 2 baits regularly or should I just pick 1 the fix and go for it?

Yes was very sad, I just hope it all works out for him, I never met him but had some good chats with him and we shared some ideas and he made me some special concoctions the last bait he made me was going to be our little secret for a while,as we both felt it was a great tweak and a bit special, and it did work too, but yes great angler, he seems to be loving the barbel fishing these days, and he's caught some mahoosive monster chub recently too, As for me I'm sure I will find another boilie that will work, but I will miss having the chats and doing the tinkerings , that's the bit I will find hardest to replace, that's what made it that bit special, all his baits I used caught first time out as well, put in the right spot they couldn't resist them, made me look like I knew what I was doing 😀

Thanks for the recommendation, I don't have to use a shelf life tbh, it's just for ease really, will take a look at the game again, I did get another recommendation for handcraft baits as well which I had looked at before also, quite like the sound of those too lol, too much choice, I did look at trent baits too I probably would go with them but the only thing is they dont take PayPal, I quite like to bulk buy and then pay it off in installments lol, just means I get a better deal usually and can spread the cost without getting rumbled 😀, and disposable income is fast becoming a thing of the past at the moment I did also look at baitworks again as they have a 20%off sale at the moment 🤯

Congratulations mate I know you were concerned before so I am made up for you now, nice to hear she's doing well, brilliant news 🎉🎉

I can't imagine him raving

Thanks guys, I have used blakes a couple of times for pellets and particles and they have always been good, delivery time wise and the products have been good, I would have no concerns with them being reliable either, and I can get 10%off from being a cyp member I quite like the idea of innovate baits because they are steamed and they seem to include a lot of good ingredients, Dark spell by rollin intrigues me because its made using loads of hydrolysate by products although it's freezer only and I quite fancy having a go with shelf life this year so I can just keep some in the car for baiting up and ease of use etc

Its hard enough getting line through tubing let alone trying to get Leadcore through it, really not sure what the point is unless Leadcore is banned and he is trying to pull a stroke, I thought helisafes are designed to sit at the end of the leader? I think lead clips do lose the lead if the tail rubber isnt pushed on too tight, I always use saliva to lubricate it before I push the rail rubber on, it's true they don't always eject but normally they will if used correctly,

I think the best rod I had the most fun with was my 9ft ledger rod (leeda) it was great for freelining dog biscuits and did most other stuff too but caught me loads of pb's up to 17lb, I had a nice quiver tip rod before that one but my mate was swinging it about and the tip went out into the middle of a lake at Emberton Park 😂

I finally found a bait I liked, but sadly retro baits has closed,terrible shame because Nick was always good to me and he did make some cracking baits, but I am starting that cycle of looking for a new bait again 😭 There are blooming loads of baits nowadays and quite frankly it is frying my brain, a few contenders I am considering Innovate baits (localish for collection ) Baitworks (monster Red) Bait guru (jungle mix) Blakes baits (milky nut Pro) Poacher baits Purebaitconcepts amino ester Dennis mcfetrich baits (just up the road from me) Rollin baits (dark spell) Needless to say in am getting Confused, particularly interested in innovate tbh if anyone has any experience of them? Thanks in advance any advice or recommendations greatly accepted, I would like a bait that works instantly, and ideally suited for short sessions so soluble I guess is a good word, also a good deal is preferable 😂

Helisafe? I bought a couple seem quite complicated and faffy, never got round to using them, people do seem to like them though I think

Lead clip tail rubbers pushed on too far can be a big problem, those leads are never going to detach from the clip

If they are both trailing that much line how is it the leaders fault? The first one does look like tubing to me also?

I've been thinking about getting back into solid bag fishing again, I'm going double ring swivel on a lead free leader, drop off inline style, nice and simple rig with just a bit of shrink tube for a kicker, just think it's the go anywhere, quick bite set up for next season, I've been too preoccupied finding perfect spots this year, next year, simple again I need to think of a hookbait that I can leave in a bag for a bit, as I want to pre tie them but don't want to use plastic incase I crack off hmmm, something to ponder I guess

No sadly not its trending at the minute, I might release a new mag vanglers mail,

Only if you drive up to your swim and clank about in it and use it as a white massive super bivvy

Just thought I would bring this up a bit as I've now been Eating healthy for a few weeks, my youngest is now a 6yo eco terrorist veggie and actually its been inspiring to eat lots less meat, so far this week we've only had one meat based dinner, a good old bolognese (she had veggie meatballs with various veggies in a tomato based sauce) I made a banging veggie soup the kids both ate, made a really nice quick veggie curry too, we've started ordering our fruit and veg off Facebook from a local firm who delivers it, sooooooo much nicer and fresher than supermarket veg, we are getting a tray for £30 and it's brilliant, Breakfasts have mainly been smoothies, I'm feeling quite positive after a couple of weeks lost a few lbs so far, just need to ditch the sugar in tea now, we have emptied the biscuit barrel and today I am going to make it a healthy snack barrel, just going to fill it with nuts and seeds and stuff that you can pick at when you want a nibble That's my update anyway keep fat fighting y'all

Are earr wax removals big payers then?

Yes as long as it was on another lake

It's becoming a thing though isn't it? The Vanglers I just think it misses the whole point, I can see the benefit of quick packdown times and that but I think sitting in a van isn't proper fishing, it's like a mobile cabin and them things are going to ruin lots of lakes too if we're not careful, i had the big fully out of hot tub 3 at 6 wraps 😳

One thing that really bugs me is people that just turn up and drive round the swims lol, I leave my car away from the lake grab and bucket and walk round, not many do that anymore, I'm seeing a lot more vanglers lately too (kitted out fishing vans lol) , I don't want to see vans in place of bivvies when I look across the lake, I always try to park up behind trees or bushes so it doesn't spoil the view or stand out to the carp too much but they love getting them vans right in the swim, it also gave me a better idea where I can prebait though any swim you can't easily drive in 😂

I think I am anti social 😂 The phrase has annoyed me too in the past, I set up in a swim further up the bank because there was already 2 the other side one of them went past in his van and came back, then another one came past in his van pulled up behind mine, left the engine running whilst chatting to me, announcing he was just going to see his mate, drove back out then came back later stopped again announced he was going round there for a social with his mate, didn't invite me for a beer or nothing, fair enough, then they get set up and the other dude starts noisily packing up must have done about 100 spombs all over the place before he stuck it up a tree,still hangs there like an Xmas Dec he left at 11.30pm and then drove past me and returned at 7am and noisily got everything out the van, and started casting all over the place That session really annoyed me especially as if I knew the social man was going to go in the swim I had been baiting I would have just gone in it myself but to me that seemed bad etiquette, I want to do another France trip if anyone fancies it? I would have to clear it with the misses but now I really want to go back 😍