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You've mentioned milky b, I use something similar within my bait if I'm on a silty water. I also use tangerine/orange oil as my flavour. This combo has done me very well on silty waters. That said my current bait which I've been on for a fair few years now and used it in very silty areas of my lakes has no flavour what so ever. Just a bit of food for thought .

Sometimes less is more, just saying. All those mixed together could be a repellent. Hope they work for you though

I've always said "buy cheap, buy twice". Yes some stuff is over priced but you get what you pay for (the majority of times). Some of the big tackle firms I won't touch with a barge pole.

I totally agree mate. Yes I was peeved but not the end of the world. More to worry about in life than a swim. I soon got over it. End of the day we all pay the same money so can fish what ever swim we like. Normally some etiquette or decency is shown but not on this occasion.

I just fished elsewhere in the end, sadly I blanked but so did he. The fish backed off the cold wind, which was freezing if I'm honest

My thought for the day, Don't trust no one, not even a "mate". Baited up 3 times this week. 12kg of boilie all told. My "mate" was walking the lake one of the times I was baiting up. I turn up this afternoon, guess where he is? His first words were, "loads of fish here mate, hope you don't mind" What can you say to that ? Words fail me. Not sure if to laugh or cry 😂😪

A mate of mine has got the cyprinus Brolly system which I think is a copy of the Aqua fast and lite. He can't fault it. I had a Brolly overwrap from them, easily 5 yrs old and never leaked in that time.

I've only fished there in September. April I reckon will be a good time. the best peg is usually the point swims. if its warming up then that could be a good area. failing that lakeside 2 or woodside 2 will give you deep water and shallower, so best of both worlds

might be a bit late but I've fished there 3 times and I've always taken premier baits matrix Robin red with garlic. premier used to supply the lake with bait a fair few years back and they still like it. every year a group of premier users go over there and normally give it a spanking. talk to Tony at premier and he'll see you alright.

chances are some of the randoms will be the bait I use. 100% confidence mate. they also do random pop ups and wafters

I think the randoms are £35 for 10kg if my memory serves me right

as has been said, premier baits randoms. excellent for pre-baiting

cheers, had that fish 3 times in total from my time on dinton. 32lb, 42lb and 44lb. sadly no longer with us. funny thing about that chapter in the book, some of what is written isnt correct but thats another story

yes mate that is me. that was when i had my really good winter. jim who wrote the chapter took the pictures that morning, didnt know he had put it into the piece until he told me and kit was printed. not that im bothered.

i've read numerous carp books and without a doubt Micky Grays first book is the best i've read by a mile. had me in stitches and at a point a lump in my throat and knowing some of the anglers mentioned within i know its not been air brushed. what is written is exactly what happened and knowing and having fished a long side some top anglers and read their books some are not quite true to their word.

Fruity flavour combined with an essential oil. That's a winner. An ethyl alcohol based flavour preferably as it's a thin liquid and better for leakage. My current flavour for winter is premier baits tropical fruit. It's very thin and has superb leakage.

If you know your stuff you will know not all nuts are nuts 😉

Well my current bait choice is a custom rolled bait by premier baits. I've been using it now for well over 10 yrs , more like 15yrs but I have also rolled a bit of my own in that time. Mainly milk protein for winter fishing when I do it or a nut bait that my mate designed that was and is doing very very well. I've rolled these different baits not because I felt that the premier bait wasn't good enough but because I knew the other baits were being used to good effect on the waters I was fishing so if it ain't broke don't fix it. As for particle, I do use it but only when I feel I need to. This will mainly be after spawning and if I'm on a new water. The particle mix I use had once again been designed by a mate. When I first got told about it he told me to bait up with it in advance as the fish take a while to get on it. I thought he was full of nonsense so started baiting a snag tree on a new water so I could see the reaction. He wasn't wrong. First bucket load took 4 days to be eaten, could clearly see it hadn't been touched until the 4th day. This went on until after a couple of weeks they were smashing it up as soon as it went in. It's a simple mix pretty much with only 3 particles, ooops I meant 4 and the 4th one is the one that does the business. Works extremely well where nuts are banned, and yet you won't find a single nut in the mix. I've had bailiffs root through the bucket before now and they don't find a single nut either and yet over a quarter of the bucket is nut. A very clever mix but sadly can't say what it is or I'll have to k**l you 😂

Weekends on there are 10 times worse. I feel your pain. I'll have to try and get down and introduce myself when I'm free.

What peg you in mate? Black or white?

One of my mates switched to this in the spring of this year and he's not looked back, banking fish to 49lb. The bait he was on, in my opinion was miles better quality but he couldn't catch on it while others that were on it caught numerous fish but his confidence was gone with that bait so decided to change to hydro k. End of the day it's made by bowers who's knows his bait, it will be good. 9 times out of 10 though it's the angler that's no good and not the bait.

Personally I would always use a shockleader. 45lb quicksilver is always my chosen shockleader.

How come you've left the dark side and gone on to white? Treb' lites are my next rod, custom built, luvvly jubbly.

How come you got rid of your harrison's? They are in my opinion the best all round rod. I've got their chimeras and they can smack a lead a big distance and yet be a good action under the rod tip. I wouldn't buy any other rod apart from harrison.

Geoff is the brains behind god knows how many baits that are out there, all under different names, urban bait, perfection groundbait and so on. His lot roll most of it as well as his own abs ( activ bait solutions ). I don't know for sure but I think urban baits nutcracker is the same mix as perfection groundbaits chocolate orange albeit different flavours. Chances are any fishmeal baits he does for these companies will be based on his original " aminos" with or without Robin red etc with the odd tweak here and there. I dread to think how much fishmeal that man uses/ sells in a week, it will be in the 10's of tonnes if not more.