Elmo's DIY journey begins.

[elmoputney]

I decided to start making bait for myself recently, now I've got a lot of the bits I needed I thought I would start with some hookbaits. Not perfectly round but good enough 😂

1egg, liquid preserve, 5ml creamy scopex, Betaine, milk B and butterscotch sweetener. Pop ups are mainline polaris dyed yellow and wafters are AA Baits pink wafter mix + a bit of tropamino basemix as I run out of wafter mix whilst mixing. I think the wafters turned out better  and actually came out fairly round, both do what are they meant too when attached to a rig so that's good, now air drying and will give them a splash of extra flavour once they are dried,then all I've got to do another time is match the hatch hookbaits and start rolling kilos and kilos of  boilies. 

Don't think I'll buy polaris again though will get some AA Baits pop up mix next time. I've also been using Copilot to make up loads of recipes, I've got 20kg of tropamino basemix to use up first though. But I've started down the rabbit hole. 

[greekskii]

Will say having used a couple of pop up mixes in the past, the best I found was BAF before they stopped selling it. AA would be my choice if I ever make any more though. 

[elmoputney]

2 hours ago, greekskii said:

Will say having used a couple of pop up mixes in the past, the best I found was BAF before they stopped selling it. AA would be my choice if I ever make any more though. 

I've used a few AA Baits products now and they all seem decent so far. The fishmeal tropaminamino base mix smells like a real carp catcher. Adding the fishmeal base mix to the wafter mix made it a much stiffer mix and while I may have lost a little buoyancy from adding it they still waft a bit and will act more naturally than a traditional wafter I  think and have a slightly more open texture. 

 

[emmcee]

I always used the richworth pop up mix when I rolled bait. Not sure if its still available but it was good in my opinion.  

[elmoputney]

6 hours ago, emmcee said:

I always used the richworth pop up mix when I rolled bait. Not sure if its still available but it was good in my opinion.  

Just had a look on their website doesn't seem to be on there. I didn't realise Richworth were still going tbh not seen them in a shop for years. 

 

[crusian]

Hi Elmo .

I would offer to be a field tester for you , but that would mean I have to get off my bum and actually go fishing 😁 .

Your pink boilies look very tempting .

😃