Trent baits SAS Squid or Shrimp

[LC1975]

Hi,

Has anyone done well on Trent SAS Squid? I purchased a kilo of each SAS Squid, Shrimp and matching cork ball pop ups. They both look and smell amazing, I'm torn between the 2 and am looking to bulk buy soon. 

I see online lots of folk rate the shrimp, not much info on the SAS squid.

Squid flavoured baits do well on my lake, but shrimp sounds like it can't be ignored.

Thanks

Luke

[framey]

Think Yonny is a Trent baits user

[greekskii]

Pretty sure Yonny has used the shrimp for as long as I can remember 

[elmoputney]

1 hour ago, greekskii said:

Pretty sure Yonny has used the shrimp for as long as I can remember 

Since before Jesus was resurrected I heard. 

[crusian]

21 hours ago, LC1975 said:

Hi,

Has anyone done well on Trent SAS Squid? I purchased a kilo of each SAS Squid, Shrimp and matching cork ball pop ups. They both look and smell amazing, I'm torn between the 2 and am looking to bulk buy soon. 

I see online lots of folk rate the shrimp, not much info on the SAS squid.

Squid flavoured baits do well on my lake, but shrimp sounds like it can't be ignored.

Thanks

Luke

Hello Luke .

I started off using Shrimp and Squid in 15mm frozen , but eventually was able to switch to stabilised . 

 I wanted to go down in size to 12mm and there was a minimum order  , at the time , of 5kg ,and I couldn't afford to buy both , so I went for the Squidy goodness .

I recently bought 1kg of 12mm Shrimp , and ran both the Squid and Shrimp together , but I find I radiate towards the Squid .

I'm not saying the Squid is definately better than the Shrimp it's just that I have more confidence in the Squid - I guess I just like the smell ! .

😃

       

[LC1975]

Hello mate,

Thanks for the detailed response,  The Squid does smell good, funny how it's only us anglers that appreciate the smell, my mrs says it stinks! lol!!

 

I've got some shrimp in shelf life, do you use shelf life exclusively now? I've dabbled with them in the past. lost one on my last outing after baiting with Trent Shrimp shelf life only.

Trent said about mixing both but that fried my brain even more, I only like to use one boilie. 

 

With a quality name like SAS (who dares wins) makes me think it will be the squid.

Lets see, its a biggie for me changing. 

 

Thanks again pal.

Its much appreciated! 

 

 

[crusian]

9 hours ago, LC1975 said:

Hello mate,

Thanks for the detailed response,  The Squid does smell good, funny how it's only us anglers that appreciate the smell, my mrs says it stinks! lol!!

 

I've got some shrimp in shelf life, do you use shelf life exclusively now? I've dabbled with them in the past. lost one on my last outing after baiting with Trent Shrimp shelf life only.

Trent said about mixing both but that fried my brain even more, I only like to use one boilie. 

 

With a quality name like SAS (who dares wins) makes me think it will be the squid.

Lets see, its a biggie for me changing. 

 

Thanks again pal.

Its much appreciated! 

 

 

Hi Luke 

Funnily enough my Wife is very reluctant when I suggest  she smells my boilies , these ladies  just don't know what they're missing ! .

I only use the stabilised ,which are marketed as an improvement to shelf life , but my stabilised have lasted considerably longer than they are supposed to .

I read an article by Shaun Harrison in which he said he liked to use 2 different flavours and colours concurrently .

Whatever you do decide , Luke , tight lines .

😃

 

[yonny]

On 21/02/2026 at 00:42, framey said:

Think Yonny is a Trent baits user

 

On 21/02/2026 at 07:00, greekskii said:

Pretty sure Yonny has used the shrimp for as long as I can remember 

 

On 21/02/2026 at 08:02, elmoputney said:

Since before Jesus was resurrected I heard. 

Yup!

Been using it for 10 years+. I don't use a lot of boiled bait but when I do it's always the Shrimp. I had just dropped a bait deal back in ~2015 and was looking for something new. I'd bought 20kg of Essential B5 and was really struggling. Literally couldn't catch a cold. Given the track-record of the B5 I was reluctant to believe the bait was the problem but a pal of mine put me onto the Shrimp. On my first session with the Shrimp, 4 hours after casting out, I caught the big common I was after. It was like flicking a switch.... just started getting loads of bites.

Just yesterday afternoon, with the temps in my koi pond rocketing, I decided to see if the fish would eat boilies. I chopped up a handful of Shrimp and plonked it in each corner of the pond. Given my koi have never seen a boilie I expected they'd take a while clear it up. Wrong. It was gone in about 1 minute! They absolutely love the stuff.

On 21/02/2026 at 00:00, LC1975 said:

not much info on the SAS squid

I can't help here I'm afraid mate. The Shrimp is that good I'll not try anything else. I have 100% confidence in the stuff.

[yonny]

1 hour ago, yonny said:

On my first session with the Shrimp, 4 hours after casting out, I caught the big common I was after.

This bad boy!

Does nearly 60 lb now this one!