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What bait?🤔

Mark Pevy said:
Have you tried dynamite baits garlic meat? It absolutely stinks,had my pb middle severn on it in the summer 👍
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I started using dynamite meat in different flavours two years ago, good quality bait, firm and smiley. My favourite are garlic and red rodbin, the new source flavour is also great.
 
Jack Harcourt said:
Has anyone any experience with nutrabaits trigga ice? Have heard good things but doesnt seem a popular bait 🤷‍♂️
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Used it since it came out really. Even more effective with Nutrabaits steaming their baits now.
 
Joe Winstanley said:
A proven bait for barbel, carp, chub & tench. A reliable option all year round.
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To add to that, when I've used both Trigga and Trigga Ice for tench and barbel I've found that Bream also like it...a lot! So of there are a of bream in the stretches you are fishing then you might want to think about another bait.
 
Is Nutrabaits still as good? I think it has changed hands a couple of times since Bill Cottam. Nutrabaits was my go to in the 90s for basemix and flavours.
 
Terry Simner said:
I agree Mike, but I'm not sure that Garlic Spam was any better than today's Spam + garlic (that we might add). I don't see how it can be really. Maybe, when it was first used by anglers on rivers, it caught so well because it was novel to fish. Then there's 'Confirmation Bias' ... in that we tend to use baits that we have confidence (deserved or not) in, and try baits we rarely use when we've not had a touch for 3-4 hours (and confirm that that bait is 💩) when in fact the fish aren't actually feeding.
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I would agree there is an element of confirmation bias Terry . In fishing having confidence in a bait / method is everything, but I do still believe that Garlic Spam had an edge over ordinary spam as the garlic content was very high and was part of the mixture that made up the finished product rather than an addition or glug / coating which will soon wash off . Interestingly there was also a ltd edition stinky french Monty Python Spamalot Spam which absolutely stank , this was a very good bait . Another good spam version was there ' hot and Spicy ' edition , also the cheese flavoured version . If you do a bit of googling there are many flavoured versions of Spam which seem only to be available mainly in the USA . I even went to the trouble of contacting the manufacturers and they said they had no plans to sell flavoured Spam in the UK other than the black Pepper and bacon versions . Perhaps a good side hustle would be to get in to buying up flavoured spam from overseas and import to UK ? If you do come across any old tins of Garlic Spam, buy it , it's valuable, for a brief while there was someone on E bay flogging it for £12 a tin, it sold out quickly even though it was years past its sell by date ! It's a funny old world .....UPDATE ! There is someone on E bay flogging Garlic Spam now £13 a tin , free postage , got to be worth a punt !
 
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Stuart Linton said:
Is Nutrabaits still as good? I think it has changed hands a couple of times since Bill Cottam. Nutrabaits was my go to in the 90s for basemix and flavours.
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I gather things went downhill there for a while during a turbulent time for the company, and there was some suggestion that corners were being cut...

However the view is that they are now as good as ever under the current ownership who turned things around since they bought it around 6-7 years ago.
 
Stuart Linton said:
Is Nutrabaits still as good? I think it has changed hands a couple of times since Bill Cottam. Nutrabaits was my go to in the 90s for basemix and flavours.
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For me there was/is no doubt about it's credentials in bait production. I have never seen a reaction to a bait that I witnessed with the introduction with original Trigga. Their bait ingredients as well were far and away better than anything else available at the time. I think they did have a bit of a dip a few years back after Bill Cottam sold it but I believe they are one of the best bait producers.
 
Damian Kimmins said:
For me there was/is no doubt about it's credentials in bait production. I have never seen a reaction to a bait that I witnessed with the introduction with original Trigga. Their bait ingredients as well were far and away better than anything else available at the time. I think they did have a bit of a dip a few years back after Bill Cottam sold it but I believe they are one of the best bait producers.
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The original Trigga, trigga ice, Mainline grange and active 8 were all phenomenal baits
 
Jack Harcourt said:
Well i have decided i am going to give trigga ice a go, it was a bait i was curious to try, and your opinions have confirmed i have hopefully made the right choice, if there is one! If the barbel dont like them hopefully some big chub and river carp will 🤞🏻
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Nutrabaits have some good discounts on from time to time. Subscribe to their mailing list and they'll let you know.
The things I like about Trigga Ice are that it offers great leakage, great for any time of the year, but especially for this time of the year and it offers what in my mind is a food signal and not a flavour.
 
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Jack Harcourt said:
Well i have decided i am going to give trigga ice a go, it was a bait i was curious to try, and your opinions have confirmed i have hopefully made the right choice, if there is one! If the barbel dont like them hopefully some big chub and river carp will 🤞🏻
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few mates use it and have done for years mate apparently very good
 
Jack Harcourt said:
Hi all, apologies if you are all sick of seeing posts regarding baits etc, but i am after your opinions!

I have won 5kg bait of my choice from a carp raffle and i am abit stuck on what to go for.

So i am looking for baits currently available on the market and i think i will go with a majority vote and give a new bait a go! Dont really use alot of boilies in my fishing mainly meat and pellet.

I fish the lower severn predominantly at night if that if that has an affect on recommendations at all?

I look forward to your replies 🤞🏻
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Squid and liver
 
Perhaps , instead of buying all these fancy pellets and boilies , we should take a lesson from anglers in days gone by . Read old angling books and when fishing for Barbel they recommend using Greaves or Bullocks Pith ,Bacon fat and Tallow were other favourites as was dried blood in groundbait . Interestingly these baits are derived from animals as are more modern baits like Spam , meat flavoured boilies / pellets . Perhaps they were on to something all those years a go ? Black pudding or pork scratchings might be worth a go ?
 
Mike Hodgkiss said:
Perhaps , instead of buying all these fancy pellets and boilies , we should take a lesson from anglers in days gone by . Read old angling books and when fishing for Barbel they recommend using Greaves or Bullocks Pith ,Bacon fat and Tallow were other favourites as was dried blood in groundbait . Interestingly these baits are derived from animals as are more modern baits like Spam , meat flavoured boilies / pellets . Perhaps they were on to something all those years a go ? Black pudding or pork scratchings might be worth a go ?
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I've caught barbel on black pudding (all it's fit for) and corned beef in the past.
 
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