Plastic baits

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:03 am

I usaly use a real bait under the plastic boilie ....that gives of the flavour Very Happy

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:12 am

I do that as well. Adding a plastic popup style bait to a boilie or pellet give me a neutral wieght and can also give some visual stimulation

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:27 am

Yes I agree Very Happy

but my main reason for the plastic bait ...is that it will be on there all night ....as in many lakes I fish in france ....if you just had a normal bait ....you bring it in ...in the morning and its gone Shocked

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:40 am

Do you ever net or shrink wrap you baits?

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 1:43 pm

Yes I did an article in Carp Talk about netting baits many years ago .....I have also used the hard hook bait mixes ...with good sucsess Very Happy

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:00 pm

Which type of hard bait - the only one's i've tried were from Quest and I was'nt over impressed with them.

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:42 am

Going back a bit ....but Rod H used to do one caled claw buster ...Solar used to do one also and John Baker used to do a dip you could soak them in to make them hard ......but the plastic boilie I use now is much easyer and better in my opnion Very Happy

Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:07 am

I have been thinking of buying some plastic boilie's, which is in your opinion the best - they are not avalable in the tackle shops over here so i will need to order via the web

Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 2:00 pm

How things have changed over the years. What will come next after the plastic boilie

Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:09 am

i fish a lake near me where i use 10mm multiplex freezer boilies, with this i used a sliced in half piece of pop up corn, just enough to balance it a bit, Enterprise p/up corn, tuttie frutie flavoured. it always works very well, especially with the smaller carp, they were going mad on it. I ran out of the tuttie frutie corn on my last trip half way through the session and changed to the plain flavoured corn, the takes dropped by a good 80%, so as mentioned carp i reckon can definately sense or smell the difference in the artificial product.