Corus bait still trading??

[jules007]

Does any one know if Corus bait and tackle are still trading, the website and ebay store seem to have no products to show

[framey]

Web site still works

www.corustackle.co.uk

 

[jules007]

try  clicking on some items im getting "no products to show"

[elmoputney]

Might be a website malfunction, maybe they sold out after black friday. You could still buy a brolly though. 

[framey]

3 hours ago, jules007 said:

try  clicking on some items im getting "no products to show"

Give them a call 

but as Elmo said 

Black Friday wipes a lot of companies out 

they are owned by NGT. Or share the same premises.

i added an 18m pole into the basket

Edited December 1, 2025 by framey

[jules007]

6 hours ago, framey said:

Give them a call 

but as Elmo said 

Black Friday wipes a lot of companies out 

they are owned by NGT. Or share the same premises.

i added an 18m pole into the basket

Thanks mate interesting re the NGT address and NGT now have some of the corus bait range on their website

[framey]

9 hours ago, jules007 said:

Thanks mate interesting re the NGT address and NGT now have some of the corus bait range on their website

Amazing what you can find using Google lol.

 

https://www.google.com/maps/search/31b+Vale+Business+Park+Llandow+Cowbridge+CF71+7PF/@51.4413761,-3.4989309,482m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTEyMy4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

Edited December 2, 2025 by framey

[elmoputney]

Dna baits was at the same address as BAF a few years ago. So my guess is most of the stuff you could get from DNA is BAF rebadged. 

[jh92]

They were at the winter show on Saturday so still trading 👍

[framey]

7 hours ago, elmoputney said:

Dna baits was at the same address as BAF a few years ago. So my guess is most of the stuff you could get from DNA is BAF rebadged. 

Copy and paste from BAF

British Aqua Feeds (BAF) is subsidiary of DNA Baits Ltd and is a major bulk feed supplier to the UK, European & Worldwide Aquaculture markets with particular emphasis on nutrition and quality of feed materials. Our knowledge within the aqua and angling feed industry is second to none, providing high quality sustainable ingredients, liquids and oils. Established in 2015, BAF has grown rapidly and now operates from a 26,000 sq/ft manufacturing and distribution base in Goole, as well has having reserve storage at several sites across the UK.

[jules007]

So its now official Corus have put out a statement saying they are no longer producing boilies, this is the second bait in a row that has been taken of the market

[elmoputney]

I can't imagine they were great boilies selling at 3 quid a kilo. 

[salokcinnodrog]

13 hours ago, elmoputney said:

I can't imagine they were great boilies selling at 3 quid a kilo. 

I don't think that anglers ever realised how much bait really cost for a decent bait.

Years ago, late 1990's or early 2000's, to make a bait at home a 10kilogramme bucket of a good Nutrabaits base mix was £72, (Trigga), add in the Liquid Trigga, eggs and additives and it worked out at around £9.50 per kilo of boilies.

The finished product if you bought them from a tackle shop was originally £10.99 per kilo, although that doesn't include the additions I put in myself to improve the bait slightly.

Then the rolling companies started making bait themselves, and selling direct rather than only tackle shop sales, which cut bait prices by around 30% as it removed the 'wholesaler' or middle man who sold to the tackle shop, or the tackle shop adding their cut after buying from Nutrabaits, Mainline, Mistral, or KM, pick a few others.

Then you had home rollers getting in on wanting to make bait, and bait quality dropped as they could sling a mix together and with many anglers switching baits every week, and decent bait ingredients increased in price. Mr Home Roller couldn't buy a pallet of fishmeal for the same price as Mainline or Nutrabaits.

Home rollers often ended up selling cake mix boilies.

 

 

[elmoputney]

49 minutes ago, salokcinnodrog said:

I don't think that anglers ever realised how much bait really cost for a decent bait.

Years ago, late 1990's or early 2000's, to make a bait at home a 10kilogramme bucket of a good Nutrabaits base mix was £72, (Trigga), add in the Liquid Trigga, eggs and additives and it worked out at around £9.50 per kilo of boilies.

The finished product if you bought them from a tackle shop was originally £10.99 per kilo, although that doesn't include the additions I put in myself to improve the bait slightly.

Then the rolling companies started making bait themselves, and selling direct rather than only tackle shop sales, which cut bait prices by around 30% as it removed the 'wholesaler' or middle man who sold to the tackle shop, or the tackle shop adding their cut after buying from Nutrabaits, Mainline, Mistral, or KM, pick a few others.

Then you had home rollers getting in on wanting to make bait, and bait quality dropped as they could sling a mix together and with many anglers switching baits every week, and decent bait ingredients increased in price. Mr Home Roller couldn't buy a pallet of fishmeal for the same price as Mainline or Nutrabaits.

Home rollers often ended up selling cake mix boilies.

 

 

Nutrabaits and mainline etc is still expensive tbh. There is a lot more choice nowadays thankfully, and a lot more info and ingredients available. But regardless to turn a profit at £3 a kilo and covering costs etc. It's not going to be decent. I've been learning lots lately and am trying to work out all my own mixes, for a decent balanced food base mix I think I am looking at around £4/5 a kilo if I buy 50kg worth of ingredients so I can save a bit and still make a good bait. But I've got to roll it all myself. That's the payoff really. 

[framey]

4 hours ago, elmoputney said:

Nutrabaits and mainline etc is still expensive tbh. There is a lot more choice nowadays thankfully, and a lot more info and ingredients available. But regardless to turn a profit at £3 a kilo and covering costs etc. It's not going to be decent. I've been learning lots lately and am trying to work out all my own mixes, for a decent balanced food base mix I think I am looking at around £4/5 a kilo if I buy 50kg worth of ingredients so I can save a bit and still make a good bait. But I've got to roll it all myself. That's the payoff really. 

the savings to be made are are on

labour

premises.

electricity gas water etc.

packaging

shipping and taxes.

if it comes in at even £6 a kilo for ingredients and you get it right.

you will probably have the best bait money can buy.

Would be interesting if it was possible to work out actual savings between home rolling and commercial using similar ingredients minus trade discounts.

that said,

We all know a piece of corn can be better than ANY boilie if it’s in the right spot lol

 

 

 

 

[salokcinnodrog]

5 hours ago, elmoputney said:

Nutrabaits and mainline etc is still expensive tbh. There is a lot more choice nowadays thankfully, and a lot more info and ingredients available. But regardless to turn a profit at £3 a kilo and covering costs etc. It's not going to be decent. I've been learning lots lately and am trying to work out all my own mixes, for a decent balanced food base mix I think I am looking at around £4/5 a kilo if I buy 50kg worth of ingredients so I can save a bit and still make a good bait. But I've got to roll it all myself. That's the payoff really. 

It's expensive because it is sold through a shop. The shop buys from the manufacturer and still has to make a profit selling themselves.

If the shop buys an item at £7.99, it will be sold at around £11.99. Bear in mind that the manufacturer selling at £7.99 is going to include profit for them, and that may not be much! Indeed, I remember from Bill Cottam that making Hi-Nu-Val as a base mix was not far short of £10. If I told you that the shop bought a 50oz bag for £9.32 and it was sold at £13.99. (Sad that I can remember original buying prices after all these years 20+).

Hi-Nu-Val went up to £14.99 a bag while The Biollix was £14.10.

A bait maker selling direct at £7 does not seem that expensive when you read @framey 's post if £6 at home is a very good bait.

I honestly don't think that ingredients available now are as good as 20years ago.

Fishmeal prices have gone silly sky high and very few non meat ingredients give a decent usable protein source, with the exception of fungi or yeast.

Liquid hydrolysates have a potential problem, they are water soluble. That sounds weird, but once they have 'dissolved' out of the boilie you may be left with nothing in the bait that the fish want. This is where you may well want or need a solid protein source left in the bait.

The best baits don't need millions of powdered ingredients, get it right and I think six maybe 7 will be the most you need, possibly with some additional liquids.

1 hour ago, framey said:

Would be interesting if it was possible to work out actual savings between home rolling and commercial using similar ingredients minus trade discounts.

I will try my best to work it out, I can remember what it cost me to make Trigga buying the base mix, eggs, Liquid Trigga, Sweet Cajouser and Liver Elite as a standard.

 

6 hours ago, salokcinnodrog said:

10kilogramme bucket of a good Nutrabaits base mix was £72, (Trigga), add in the Liquid Trigga, eggs and additives and it worked out at around £9.50 per kilo of boilies.

 

[jules007]

I have never paid £3 per kilo, i think corus were not rolling the bait but bulk buying from a place in Europe and maybe the big place put price up and corus could not sell it on at higher price i was paying £30 for 5kg

[elmoputney]

2 hours ago, framey said:

the savings to be made are are on

labour

premises.

electricity gas water etc.

packaging

shipping and taxes.

if it comes in at even £6 a kilo for ingredients and you get it right.

you will probably have the best bait money can buy.

Would be interesting if it was possible to work out actual savings between home rolling and commercial using similar ingredients minus trade discounts.

that said,

We all know a piece of corn can be better than ANY boilie if it’s in the right spot lol

 

 

 

 

I listened to the Marcus watts podcast again today. Frozen sweetcorn glazed with MPG, apparently it's good. 

I've tried to keep my baits gut friendly, good leakage for the solubles, wallet friendly and sustainable, that's the things I strive for no expensive milks not loads of fishmeal, no krill etc, I even dismissed an ingredient because it contained palm oil. 

AI could probably work out the costings and savings for you. but I guess it's all about buying power and speed of process etc. 

[elmoputney]

39 minutes ago, jules007 said:

I have never paid £3 per kilo, i think corus were not rolling the bait but bulk buying from a place in Europe and maybe the big place put price up and corus could not sell it on at higher price i was paying £30 for 5kg

You are right I had a brain malfunction when I thought it was £3, I still maintain you can get better bait for that price. Have a look at mirage baits £60 for 10kg and they all sound like great baits tbh