Enigma wrote:
It's more expensive to mix your own
Sorry Enigma, I have hard numbers to disprove you there.
Experimenting with dips is expensive. But making them after you've had success, cost a fraction of what the commercial dips cost.
I'm averaging less than 10% of commercial dips with the stuff I made, and I've not caught a single fish on commercial stuff over the last 6 months.
This past Sunday I landed 14 carp in a 7 hour session, using only home made dips.
Up in Gauteng, it's probably a waste of time to make your own, purely due to the prices being so low up there.
Down here though, the prices are honestly borderline affordable, and that's if you can find it. I've mentioned it before, somewhere else, but I'll say it here again:
I've had to make my own Bunspice, because there just isn't any in the Western Cape. I kid you not! I visited 4 different tackle shops over the last year. I frequent 2 of them on an almost weekly basis. Not once was there a Bunspice dip on their racks. After many discussions with the shop owners it's quite clear that when the worth-while dips arrive on the racks, they are bought in bulk by the first desperate bank angler to walk in.
Down here, you tend to make your own or go without.
