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In reply to Post #1111
Forget the colour Gav, can you please do the herb with 3ml per kilo of sting flavour …….  
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In reply to Post #1111
If I could only use one it would be the Herb,had a lovely 17/18lb mirror early hours this morning.The lake has been fishing very badly this year and 12mm herb with a small dumbell wafter has done the business again  .
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In reply to Post #1113
Its not specifically the carps reaction to the red bait that i am bothered about more so the coots that are my biggest problem on a specific low stock carp water with a sandy bottom, the red fishmeals stand out so clearly even washed out.
I got some of the skipjack off you last week to see if it will be harder for them to locate, i have thought of trying a nut based bait as that will probably blend even better plus the the head of very big bream may not be as drawn to a nut bait?
The lake i am fishing is a very difficult lake with a few stockies and the very old originals which is what i am fishing for with some success but they will not not pick up a bright hookbait pink, yellow, white, orange etc all my fish are falling to natural subtle coloured hoobaits
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In reply to Post #1112
When we first produced the finished article that is now the herb, we all kind of said the same thing and we watched a lot of carp on two lakes in particular feed on the herb from late winter into early spring.
The carp never showed signs of spooking off the bait, in fact it was the reverse! They homed in on the baited area and when our guys got together to share the early results they all said how good the first ever response was to the bait.
I actually think that 99 percent of what we throw into a lake is hi viz.
Most boilies are pale
Pellets go pale
Corn is bright yellow
Particles are bright
Therefore another bright boilie makes no difference to the carp. If they like eating something then they will stay and feed regardless of colour.
The birds however are a different matter.
Skipjack is reverse engineered from herb but with different additives, liquids and of course tuna fish but the colour was tweaked to avoid bloody coots!!
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In reply to Post #1111
I think a brown version of the herb would have done very well, The red herb obviously catches a lot of fish and is very successful but i personally think the red stands out to much over most of the bottoms i fish, i always seem to do better on brown baits
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In reply to Post #1110
I think the 3 main baits we sell will find a place in many of you guys angling at some point. I have worked my way through dozens and dozens of recipes over the years and most of them have something in common.
If you are going to try them then start with the herb! That one is just so effective. Today I have opened my social media (sorry to mention Facebook 😂  and the messages and catch reports on it are like nothing I have seen before. Shelf life herb is very good too.
It’s got a huge following and we could just make that one bait and survive now.
When I made it I was tempted to make it brown/ natural colour but l love the haiths robin red and I have seen how good those proper red fishmeals can be.
I do wonder what the brown version would have taken off like!
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In reply to Post #1109
I use both, S7 & Tricknut, going to be hard for me to stop using S7!
@Gav
Hope you had a good break
I keep meaning to come on here and share some mega carp but I guess you can see them on our social media if you want to. I don’t look here as much as I used to
Honestly, sort your s**t out.
Even for you  there's no way I'm ever going on social media voluntarily , especially to look at pictures of other people ( who I don't aspire to be like, and am not envious of) fishy pictures (that on the whole I wouldn't want to fish for and would probably never get the opportunity to anyway )
I was forced to twice, once by a syndi that only communicated by FB (if you call a lot of the scribblings communication, could be another language for all I know), and once by a club because I was fishing and unbeknown to me there was a work party slated and they only told people by FB 
Ramblings over, go and slag me off on social medial folks fill your boots ...and that was all said in jest to a point, FB can kiss my a***.
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In reply to Post #1108
Yes,switched from dna to handcraft and won't be going back
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Herb shelflife, as good as the frozen version? On a par with DNA for instance?
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In reply to Post #1106
Evening everyone.
We are just about to embark on a 10 day shutdown.
It has been a very busy two months and we all need a break so the whole factory is closing down for a short while. If you were thinking about placing an order it will have to wait for early September and I have no doubt that the first week back is going to be nothing short of more chaos 😂
But we will do our best and get lots more bait ready as soon as we can.
I keep meaning to come on here and share some mega carp but I guess you can see them on our social media if you want to.
I don’t look here as much as I used to but I will keep replying to your messages when I see them.
Tight lines for now 😉
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In reply to Post #1105
Very well spotted or sniffed
Your nose will get tuna
Squid
And the spice comes from a bird food that not many will have put in a large scale bait 😉
One of my favourite ingredients!!
Interestingly those little 12mm pop ups are working for a huge amount of anglers out there.
They are made with the basemix in them which for me is a huge edge!
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Properly used the skipjack for the first time today.
One rod on a popup one on a bottom bait.
Fished 2 quite different swims and had 7 runs in 8 hours, 5 landed all on the matching popup. No muck or glugs just around freebies.
The stuff proper stinks after being out of the freezer for a bit I swear there's a low level of an oriental spice in there, but none of that matters really because on this water today, it's really done the job. I'm one happy new handcraft customer 👍
Just hoping for one more run before home time 🙂
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In reply to Post #1103
Well done lads and glad the service was spot on!
We have sent out a lot of bait and hookbaits this week and I hope it all arrived safely!
Even managed a few carp myself today….. little herb Wafters, royal supremes and a mix of herb and skipjack 12mm produced two corkers!
Loads of carp coming out again this week 😉
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In reply to Post #1102
More to the point then will catch fish. Just had a great session on my syndicate that is fishing hard, Deep C and Almond wafters with small pva mesh bags of pellets did the job for me when most people on the lake were struggling
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Ordered 3 tubs of hookbaits a couple of days ago. Delivered next day. All 3 smell right, look right and all I need to do is put em in the right place. Great service and quality gear.
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