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Betaine Pellets

Peter Hayes

Peter Hayes

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Betaine pellets used to be a major part of my bait armoury but all I can find these days are the green Dynamite Baits or Coppens. I'm looking for the ones that look like halibut pellets, dark in colour, high in oil, in 4 & 8mm. CCMoore used to sell them and I think Blakes Baits did. Can anyone help?
 
This is the problem with all marine pellets, in that we are at the mercy of what the aquaculture feed industry produces.

The original Hinders mini high betain pellets, mixed with small original elips pellets, was the greatest ever barbel pellet combination IMHO
 
Or hinders betalin liqued, in its various flavors, added to your pellets of choice.
I have soaked my artificials in it probably 8yra ago , and they still smell sweet now...
 
I remember them - the Hinders ones, I bought some at least 10 years ago

I think they just fell victim to boilie fashion and didn't sell-
oily pellets changed a bit (most of them) and got dryer

also betaine will be in the ingredients of a lot of them anyway, just not named as such on front cover

Just get some plain Dynamite (black, in the blue bag) halibut pellets mate (one of the only ones left on the market that haven't changed, good old Dynamite are class), and soak them in betaine/good quality VG combo - go light or the pellets will turn to mush - a careful 5-6% glug by final mix weight is the one

don't shake glug in too hard, leave them steeping for minimum a week or preferably several
 
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