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Boilie favourites/recommendations?

Darren Smith 2

Darren Smith 2

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I have been using Dynamite baits, primarily the Source and Crave for well over 5yrs now. Still do fine on them just wondering what others use?. As I have an urge to change things up a bit, was looking at the baits from the hook bait company. If anyone has used them or can recommend?

Thanks
Darren
 
I used to use Source and liked it. When I've used boiles recently it's been Trent Baits Freshwater Shrimp as that's what I've have for carp fishing. Initially I wasn't completely convinced on it for barbel but my confidence in it is steadily growing. They've caught me fish on my first visit to a few places. I think perhaps the barbel aren't so fussy and the all important thing is confidence, if it aint broke don't fix it?
 
I use home made boilies but if I used shop bought I wouldn’t use the shelf life ones because there full of preservatives but that’s just me. I’ve heard from a man that knows that the fish will eat them but will struggle to digest them. Especially in winter
 
As Hatter says, Sticky Krill Active are a bloody good bait. Had a few on them this season - just fished singles, over no freebies. I’d always done okay with the standard versions. But they seem to love the active ones! Using them in preference JB homemade baits at the moment, but that may change as the colder temps set in.
 
As an aside to this…I had a very interesting chat last week with someone who used to be a big name in the carp bait world; now this might be something that is not news to you but was to me - the baits provided to bait testers was/is made from top quality ingredients to get the results, then once established/promoted the actual bait sold to the public has less than prime ingredients or is cut with inferior bulking agents to reduce cost..ie not the same bait testers use. This was a tactic used by some top companies apparently. Maybe I was naive to think otherwise but still a shock.
The take home message was source your own ingredients!!
 
Alan Palmer said:
As an aside to this…I had a very interesting chat last week with someone who used to be a big name in the carp bait world; now this might be something that is not news to you but was to me - the baits provided to bait testers was/is made from top quality ingredients to get the results, then once established/promoted the actual bait sold to the public has less than prime ingredients or is cut with inferior bulking agents to reduce cost..ie not the same bait testers use. This was a tactic used by some top companies apparently. Maybe I was naive to think otherwise but still a shock.
The take home message was source your own ingredients!!
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I don't see why this wouldn't be true, I can for sure imagine companies replacing the higher quality/purer ingredients with lower quality stuff. Just on a cost saving exercise, it would make sense. I suppose there is no real way of knowing unless you're actively purchasing ingredients direct or use someone you can trust.
 
David Schofield said:
I use home made boilies but if I used shop bought I wouldn’t use the shelf life ones because there full of preservatives but that’s just me. I’ve heard from a man that knows that the fish will eat them but will struggle to digest them. Especially in winter
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Something I have never heard before that, interesting for sure tho. I'm aware lots who use frozen would refuse to use shelflife. However, I assumed that was due to the "preservative" ingredients in them putting fish off.
 
Alan Palmer said:
As an aside to this…I had a very interesting chat last week with someone who used to be a big name in the carp bait world; now this might be something that is not news to you but was to me - the baits provided to bait testers was/is made from top quality ingredients to get the results, then once established/promoted the actual bait sold to the public has less than prime ingredients or is cut with inferior bulking agents to reduce cost..ie not the same bait testers use. This was a tactic used by some top companies apparently. Maybe I was naive to think otherwise but still a shock.
The take home message was source your own ingredients!!
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I have bought bait (both dry mix and frozen) from certain suppliers and exactly the above has happened over time.

Some ‘suppliers’ even try and restrict the availability of certain ingredients - either to end users or other suppliers.

And don’t get me started on the cost of ingredients vs the cost of the actual bait. Some baits are a total rip-off.

So either source your own ingredients or build a relationship with your bait supplier.

Just as an aside; AA Baits who supply bait ingredients are apparently about to go ‘trade only’ which will make it even harder to obtain some decent products.
 
It’s BAF going trade only on the 1 November, not heard anything about AA
Here’s the ingredients for Mainline Cell
Think it’s worth £11 a kilo ?

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Well, the way this is going, I'm seriously considering rolling my own baits again. I've not done that in over 15 years.
 
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