Elmo's DIY journey begins.

[elmoputney]

19 minutes ago, greekskii said:

Heard of 50kg pop ups that went on a trip to France with some mates once 😂😂 can’t remember which ingredient did it though. 

I feel like I've heard that story before somewhere. Could you find out what it was and what level please 😂

[salokcinnodrog]

7 hours ago, elmoputney said:

Thanks Nick what I meant when I asked was what % would I need when adding to my basemix to make a matching pop up? I know it's not going to be exact and basemix dependant I was just looking to see if I could make a food bait pop up with it. 

AI isn't perfect but it can be a good tool, I've made loads of basemixes from scratch with it just for fun and I would be happy using some of them. 

That's where I used 50% base mix and 50% sodium caseinate to have a matching pop-up to the base mix. 

The base mixes I used that ratio with were New Concepts Mariner mix and Nutrabaits The Biollix, which were both fairly heavy base mixes.

Usual procedure was make a 4egg mix of normal baits. While the base mix was out I would put around 1eggs worth of powder to one side for the bit for pop-ups and I would sieve the base mix to get rid of larger lumps and then add the same amount volume of sodium caseinate. So if I had 1 measuring cup of base mix, I would add 1 cup of caseinate. One egg in a bowl, add the required flavours/liquids if using any at 1/4 of what 4eggs took then mix as per normal.

I usually had enough pop-up mix left over for another 1 eggs worth of pop-ups.

 

A mate did the same when he used Enervite for his pop-ups, and that must be sieved!

 

 

 

[framey]

11 hours ago, elmoputney said:

Do you think 10% added to 90% basemix would be enough  make a hookbait buoyant though? 

Or you do you think that means max inclusion alongside other ingredients? 

I can't help thinking if you could make match the hatch pop ups with 10% everyone would use that tbh. 

 

I think, it will all depend on the base mix ingredients.

a one egg mix rather than a bigger mix could easily determine that for you.

Looks like nick has said the same lol 👍👍

 

Edited Tuesday at 20:36 by framey

[yonny]

12 hours ago, greekskii said:

Heard of 50kg pop ups that went on a trip to France with some mates once 😂😂 can’t remember which ingredient did it though. 

It will almost certainly be krill/shrimp meal. I've heard a few cases of this. Very buoyant stuff!

[greekskii]

5 hours ago, yonny said:

It will almost certainly be krill/shrimp meal. I've heard a few cases of this. Very buoyant stuff!

Yep that does it. Think it was crayfish meal so same thing. Very light ingredient! 
to be fair they good alternative ingredients to make pop ups with basemix! Take some testing on inclusion levels though. 

[elmoputney]

Made a couple of 1 egg mixes with the AA Baits super buoyant fishmeal pop up mix, my sausage gun was perfect the last couple of times but I think this mix just expanded a bit more, so the sausages came out a bit big and I ended up with some pillows and odd shapes, but never mind flavour wise they are pretty banging one is scopex, black pepper and bergamot and the orange ones are banana scopex, black pepper and bergamot. They are very buoyant though, and one is holding up my rig nicely next time I will make some matching wafters and I'll have made enough hookbaits to last a life time.