Hookbaits
- Thread starter Brakkanjan
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Richard, R231 a packet of Crave boilies? I hope you are not paying that? That is just a rip off end of story. its not worth that kind of money. In fact no bait is.
Take the new Mainline Hybrid boilie... so far I've heard from different sources that all they did was combine cell and new grange into one bait and now its all the craze over here, selling by the tons lol.... madness. Clever sales and marketing tricks
Take the new Mainline Hybrid boilie... so far I've heard from different sources that all they did was combine cell and new grange into one bait and now its all the craze over here, selling by the tons lol.... madness. Clever sales and marketing tricks
Richard123
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Madcarper, no I havent bought any, as mad as I am about fishing finance is always a concern. I still have a decent amount of The source boilie which is what I like to fish with. I use the source pellets in a PVA bag together with about 6 - 7 boilies that I cut in half to substitute. Then I also use the nash white chcolate boilie which I then combine with the Dynamite baits white chocolate and coconut, which has always worked well for me. I like to use the nash as the hookbait though and then feed the Dynamite with a few nash thrown in as well. I like to add a 14mm fluro pop - up when fishing clear water and the white chocolate. I have found that I get great results with this method. If the water is dirty then I fish it with just the plain ground bait. The picture I attached is of an 11kg fish caught using the nash white chocolate and a pop-up.
26kg of boilies is a s*&t load of boilies, Johann I now understand why you can say that with a proper feeding strategy you will get fish, at that price it can become far more affordable. I cant get 6kg of Dynamite boilies for the same price.
Madcarper, no I havent bought any, as mad as I am about fishing finance is always a concern. I still have a decent amount of The source boilie which is what I like to fish with. I use the source pellets in a PVA bag together with about 6 - 7 boilies that I cut in half to substitute. Then I also use the nash white chcolate boilie which I then combine with the Dynamite baits white chocolate and coconut, which has always worked well for me. I like to use the nash as the hookbait though and then feed the Dynamite with a few nash thrown in as well. I like to add a 14mm fluro pop - up when fishing clear water and the white chocolate. I have found that I get great results with this method. If the water is dirty then I fish it with just the plain ground bait. The picture I attached is of an 11kg fish caught using the nash white chocolate and a pop-up.
26kg of boilies is a s*&t load of boilies, Johann I now understand why you can say that with a proper feeding strategy you will get fish, at that price it can become far more affordable. I cant get 6kg of Dynamite boilies for the same price.
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When I was young and naive in the specimen sport I read all the UK mags and fished funky rigs and only Mainline boilies. I was so obsessed with "quality" bait, if I didn't have Mainline I didn't fish, full stop.
A couple of years of the most invisible kind of success down the line I met an angler on the bank who out fished me so comprehensively I had to find out what secret new Mainline HNV-maximum-attraction-big-fish-only-your-salary-for-1-kg bait he was using. Clearly this guy was a Mainline bait tester with a science lab and a team of engineers to build state of the art balanced and weightless camo curved combi rigs that selectively hook big fish from 3 feet away. Like real specimen anglers.
I was so convinced of his pedigree even his bright yellow t-shirt suddenly seemed better camouflaged than my own khakis.
I went over for a chat, we became good friends and fishing buddies and it turned out his secrets were simple: good watercraft, simple, effective rigs, an effective feeding campaign, putting in decent quantities of bait. The end.
It happened that he was using GT, he'd tested various brands and found GT to be good value for money, decent quality bait. I had no grounds to argue and adjusted my approach to match his. I never looked back.
It was a lesson in keeping it simple and focussing on what works, not what sells.
A couple of years of the most invisible kind of success down the line I met an angler on the bank who out fished me so comprehensively I had to find out what secret new Mainline HNV-maximum-attraction-big-fish-only-your-salary-for-1-kg bait he was using. Clearly this guy was a Mainline bait tester with a science lab and a team of engineers to build state of the art balanced and weightless camo curved combi rigs that selectively hook big fish from 3 feet away. Like real specimen anglers.
I was so convinced of his pedigree even his bright yellow t-shirt suddenly seemed better camouflaged than my own khakis.
I went over for a chat, we became good friends and fishing buddies and it turned out his secrets were simple: good watercraft, simple, effective rigs, an effective feeding campaign, putting in decent quantities of bait. The end.
It happened that he was using GT, he'd tested various brands and found GT to be good value for money, decent quality bait. I had no grounds to argue and adjusted my approach to match his. I never looked back.
It was a lesson in keeping it simple and focussing on what works, not what sells.
fishy_fishy
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Learning a lot.
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Learning a lot.
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fishy_fishy
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Question: In slow flowing rivers would it be effective feed aggressively?
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Richard123
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Eugenec
Yes what you say is 100 % bait obviously plays a big part but so do all the other things you mentioned. You could have the best bait in the world but if the fish aint there you going to catch zip.
Yes what you say is 100 % bait obviously plays a big part but so do all the other things you mentioned. You could have the best bait in the world but if the fish aint there you going to catch zip.
fishy_fishy wrote:
It depends on what the fish populations are like and what sizes they consit of. I feed alot in the vaal river. 10 to 15 kilos a day. Other rivers I mousr trap with a hand ful. All depends on the water
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It depends on what the fish populations are like and what sizes they consit of. I feed alot in the vaal river. 10 to 15 kilos a day. Other rivers I mousr trap with a hand ful. All depends on the water
I've never fished rivers specimen style, so don't have any practical experience to share, but I think Deisel is right. There are lots of variables to take into account.
Personally if I'm unsure I start by feeding small amounts and slowly increase until I start getting results.
Personally if I'm unsure I start by feeding small amounts and slowly increase until I start getting results.
Brakkanjan
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Wow, thanks guys. Also learning. I believe the Vaal can produce even if it is a BIG Dam.
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