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In reply to Post #246
Cheers mate - yeah well happy! Funnily enough, two of them on Friday night I caught together about 18 months ago on the S2. They’re not bigguns compared to some of fish you share on here, but they’re around 35 years old so are wise old carp now.
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In reply to Post #253
No. I already wrote a book for someone else before. The whole experience was absolutely terrible. What came after was terrible too. Regret doing that to this day.
My experiences with SubSurface Vol 1 were terrible as well. Regret doing that to this day too.
No plans to write a book whatsoever. You can read it on here for free 😂
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In reply to Post #250
Have you ever thought about writing a book Mark? You have an ability to convey information in a very readable manner, and I can tell that you enjoy writing. I would certainly buy it!
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In reply to Post #251
Quote...If I had to pick just one it'd be the cheese. Thankfully I don't have to. Any chance of a bright cheese in the future Mark?. I think the range is missing an orange one.
Still looking for the right dye. The problem with orange is they all either flood out of the bait, so you have to use stupid amounts to keep them orange, or others lock up the bait to much. I don't like either of those things for the hook baits.
If I ever find the right one, we will have an orange bait instantly mate.
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In reply to Post #248
If I had to pick just one it'd be the cheese. Thankfully I don't have to. Any chance of a bright cheese in the future Mark?. I think the range is missing an orange one 
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In reply to Post #249
Quote...I love reading your musings Mark l. You talk a lot of sense.
Thank you. I just switched the posts around so they sit in the correct order for reading. There's a limit on words per individual post.
I took my laptop to the beach today (first time been out for two weeks) & finished the story of my fishing on Larky 1, the Ocean today whilst sitting there like a cripple getting burnt.
I'll post it in the next few days. It needs checking over a few times first. Hopefully you will like that too.
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In reply to Post #248
I love reading your musings Mark l. You talk a lot of sense.
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Some other good news for people in Herts. Spoke to the Johnson Ross owner a couple of days ago, they are still keen to have the hook baits in the shop. That will be happening when I get back. So Johnson Ross will also be stocking our stuff very soon.
Once all of this is facilitated, Yateley Angling will be spoken to next. We expanded massively last year. Things were put into place to expand everything again whilst I have been away getting fixed up. The TackleBox will be having more garlic & DNA Bug, they sold out of everything they had. They will also be getting some of the Fizz S2. It will be good to let people see it with their own eyes.
FishOn will also be getting Fizz S2, plus ScopexPineapple S2 again, maybe The Cheese too.
The Cheese has NEVER had any fanfare. It got released at the very worst time of year. It was released like this, to let it find it's own feet. It also helps some of our more sneaky customers, who would rather keep an edge to themselves.
Just like the Fizz, the Cheese contains some completely new stuff to the bait making world. Incredible meat enhancers used by chefs in the human food chain. Stuff that has to be sourced from the other side of the world. The feedback that we receive about them is exceptional. But sneaky anglers would rather keep that to themselves to protect their edge. Similar to what has always gone on with our S3 & S4 for donkeys years. If I don't tell people, anglers will keep this information to themselves to protect an edge. The Cheese are rolled on the same base mixes as our garlic 1 & 2. The liquid that go into the Cheese, are truly exceptional.
The entire goal of our hook baits is to over ride the fear factor in carp. To make them pick up a hook bait again & again. Most stuff attached to a rig gets picked up once, then it is marked as dangerous and completely left alone. That does not lead to a bite, because they become so damn efficient at dealing with ALL rigs.
Just like humans, if you can make something attractive enough, a carp will pick that up again & again. Simply put, because they crave the sensation created when tasting it. Once they sense it, they want it inside their mouth. The same as humans will eat McD's, or smoke cigarettes & consume alcohol. All things which are not good for us & we know it. But the fear factor is taken away because we enjoy the experience. The fear factor for carp is a hook in the lip. Carp enjoy sampling our hook baits. They will do it again & again & again. That's a bite.
That's the very first time that I have ever started to explain in public, why our stuff out fishes anything else. There is a basic science behind it. That is the goal. As fish have wised up to being caught, I found a way to get around that, to keep the bites coming (for me).
If you reading have experienced amazing results with our stuff... That's the reason why. If you are lucky enough to watch a big pressured UK carp in the edge with one of our hook baits on a rig.... You will see it for yourself. They will take it in over & over again. Other stuff will be marked as dangerous after just one suck & blow. It will then be ignored. That simply does not happen with our hook baits. They were developed around this exact goal. To over ride that fear factor that leads to some carp never (or very rarely) getting caught on any bait attached to a rig. Anglers will say these fish are not bait eaters. They are 100%. The wise ones that never get caught, will pick up a rig once, then it's marked as dangerous & left alone. This fear factor can be over ridden. That's why you will see big fish that get caught on our stuff OVER & OVER again. Often within the space of just weeks. Carp bait does not 'blow', they just learn by association that something is dangerous. I've been proving for twenty years now, that this fear factor can be over ridden. Only if the object on the rig is irresistible enough, they will pick that object up again & again & again. This leads to a bite. This also leads to recaptures of the same fish multiple times.
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Carp fishing in general has always put free bait & hook bait together. They are completely different things entirely. One needs to satisfy the fishes diet & health needs.... The other needs to trick them into picking up a bait attached to a rig. These are two completely different things. Things that have been muddled up for many years by people producing bait IMO. One needs to be super attractive (but still real food signals), whilst the stuff they actually eat en masse does not need this same attraction whatsoever. But bait makers have always gone down this path. There is only one thing that needs to be attractive to a different level to everything else.... That's the thing attached to the rig, which they damn well know is dangerous. The free bait you throw in, 'attraction' is not so important. Good digestibility to keep them eating is the most important aspect of something you are feeding them en masse. It's why things like hemp & sweetcorn are so successful & they love it so much. They can crap it out as fast as they are eating it. It's very rarely, if ever marked as dangerous. This leads to preoccupation, which will also bring you more bites. Putting out free bait that is designed around 'attraction', will lead to fish going off the feed rapidly. That does not lead to bites, it leads to a bellyache for the fish whilst they process this stuff. It just sells bait to anglers who have been fed thirty years of 'this is the way to do things'. It's never been the best way to do things. It never will be. The best freezer baits in history are not based on attraction. They are based on great digestibility & solubility. Fish can sense good quality food from so far away. Boilies that you throw in en masse don't need fifty ingredients to make them work. The core ingredients that are known to all, that's what they need. In a competitive marketplace though, chemical attraction in free bait is always sort to gain sales. A hook bait never goes into their belly, it's an entirely different thing altogether. Trying to replicate that in a free bait is actually counter productive.
If we ever did ever release a free bait, which I doubt we will... You would only need a few of them maximum around the hook bait to bring them in. If you want to make them feed hard on a bed of something, that is simply NOT the way forwards. We moved away from bright high attract ready mades that follow that ethos twenty to thirty years ago. For damn good reasons. Yet still some bait makers are trying to apply this theory to quality food bait that gets thrown in en masse. Trying to make it super attractive. That does not to put more fish on the bank.
Simple facts. Give the fish a bed of hemp or sweetcorn... They will actually much prefer this to a bed of boilies. It's controversial to say that. But it's the truth that no one selling bait wants to tell you. Because they either don't understand it, or they also need to sell lots of bait. Often all that can be because they barely actually go fishing to find these things out themselves. But they can pay the media to sell you a story. That's been going on for as long as I can remember. That creates a situation where everyone is doing everything the same way. Never seen any magazines pushing Jolly Green Giant or hemp. Ask yourself why. There's no advertising money in that is why.
If I need to purchase boilies for my own fishing, because at certain times of the year these are undoubtably the best thing to be using.... These days I would be doing that exclusively from people like Jason Rider, Dave Maillin or Mike Willmott. Or baits that I 100% know are doing it on the toughest venues in the UK. DNA, Trent & Poacher Baits or the like. There are many others these days, you are spoilt for choice. People named above who actually go fishing for big carp on incredibly pressured big carp venues, they know how to make bait. People who don't need to pay influencers or control media to sell their stuff. I'm no longer interested in boilies from companies controlled by people who in reality go fishing for doubles, or in lakes that contain 10,000 carp. (Even if it's for free) So much so, that the poor things are starving. These fish will pick up anything whatsoever.
Carp fishing is a past time that requires time. All of our time is precious when you go to work for a living & have a family to support. So in my mind, it has to be the very best available. Or it's a waste of time.
It was very easy for me to make SHB a success with zero money behind me. Because the hook bait market was based solely on cheap ready mades that we stopped using twenty five years ago. That's why when Geoff & later Mainline came along with their food baits, it slayed waters instantly. They were battling against cheap ready mades. The hook bait market still follows this line of cheap ready mades in the main. There's big profits in it. Massive profits.
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In reply to Post #245
Quote... Had 3 to 30lb last night. Ran out of GPB1s after the first two and nicked the 30 on a Hutchy S2
Well done Jack, if they are as lovely as the others you sent me before you must be buzzing. Keep hauling them mate. 
I'm waiting for photos to be sent through of an incredibly special upper 50 from your neck of the woods funnily enough.
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Had 3 to 30lb last night. Ran out of GPB1s after the first two and nicked the 30 on a Hutchy S2 
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Can't keep up with this fella at the moment, slow down Stu 
Forum member Stuart, Fizz S2 again, another incredible fish.
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Forum member Stuart from his CV syndicate again. What a beautiful big mirror. 43lb4oz Fizz S2. Well done Stu.
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In reply to Post #241
Thank you Sam for the kind words mate. And you too Dean. Post more regular Dean. It was Mark Webster I was referring to who had his kit nicked Sam.
Talks began with Johnson Ross yesterday, for them to also stock the hook baits when I get back. TackleBox have sold everything they were stocked with again before I came away. Life is good x
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