Chris Thomson
Senior Member
Hi just as carp anglers use a over flavoured pop up to fish as a single bait especially in winter is there any mileage in the same tactic for barbel but using a bottom bait?
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Interesting post mark, heavily flavoured baits as in adding increased flavouring to boilie base mixes or leaving them to soak in a strong glug. I've recently got some concentrated liquid flavours to add tobase mixes at a stronger rate and also soaking some shelf life's and adding to paste. Yet to try these supercharged baits out, obviously the goal is a more powerful scent trail. Loose feed as in pellets hemp vitalin breadcrumb will also be boosted topped off with added liver powder.Tony Miles RIP in the past wrote about heavily flavoured baits blowing quickly and that you should use very lightly flavoured baits.This was so that the bait could be established and a long term catcher. Heavy flavoured baits would catch very well for around 6 weeks and then catch rates would die off My findings were the same but i would still use heavily flavoured baits.My thoughts were if i fished often enough i could catch the majority of fish in the area quickly and avoid recaptures. Friends found that high quality baits lightly flavoured (milks) could get very addictive and they kept recapturing fish.My worry was that if you had a shoal of fish in your swim the mug fish in the shoal would always be straight on the bait and the wary fish would keep avoiding capture.With a heavy flavour the mug fish was often avoided meaning that you had a chance at the more careful fish. I always used to use natural flavours.