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Making Own Bait

Connor Smith said:
I have to agree with @Jim Gregory on this one. I've used ready mades and home mades and there really hasn't been much difference over the season. I've made really expensive home made baits with top quality ingredients at high quantities and then had days where I've had awesome results on a company's bait.
The one thing I do think that makes a difference is the freshness of a bait and for that reason I'd rather buy direct from the bait company itself than off a shelf in a tackle shop.
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depends on the shop mate and how well they look after it (ROTATION)..
- personally shelf life is not my cuppa tea anyway - sitting out in the daylight all day or not I just won't be confident on it and have always preferred frozen - I don't trust the bait companies (notice that is very general)
let me be a bit more diplomatic:
I would be happy with some shelf life in small quantities, but only from my favourite, proven little handful of medium size very passionate professional readymade boilie companies, who have loads of flair and make far more complex, better designed base mixes than one or two of the big players (who's base mixes, I found out, are a little on the simple and low quality, money grabbing - ''marketing heavy'' side of things - shall we say) 🤣😂
 
Tommy Bee said:
depends on the shop mate and how well they look after it (ROTATION)..
- personally shelf life is not my cuppa tea anyway - sitting out in the daylight all day or not I just won't be confident on it and have always preferred frozen - I don't trust the bait companies (notice that is very general)
let me be a bit more diplomatic:
I would be happy with some shelf life in small quantities, but only from my favourite, proven little handful of medium size very passionate professional readymade boilie companies, who have loads of flair and make far more complex, better designed base mixes than one or two of the big players (who's base mixes, I found out, are a little on the simple and low quality, money grabbing - ''marketing heavy'' side of things - shall we say) 🤣😂
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That last statement can also sum up a lot of tackle that’s manufactured too !!!
 
but if well made I believe shelf life will ''turn frozen'' once it is frozen
i.e mould once thawed -

I don't use one or two of the biggest players, but it would not suprise me in the least if they simplified their mass production (indeed, Jeremy) by making all the baits shelf life and then chucking about half of it in giant walk-in freezers lol
 
A lot of the top anglers in the country use shelflife baits and many prefer them to the frozen versions. I think a lot of people still look down on shelflife as inferior but there are fat too many incidents where the shelflife has outperformed the frozen version. Trigga was a prime example of this.
 
Hi men ,

I was paranoid about using frozen fresh baits , to the point of driving for a couple of hours to the owner of Mainline,s bungalow to pick up a car load of Grange and fill a chest freezer full. In the last few years iv been off grid in France so took Sticky Krill in shelf life, catches everywhere, and including my colne valley water , IV no problem using them .

Hatter
 
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