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Specialized Hook Baits - Catch Reports Feb 2025
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TCarper

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#229 28 May 2025 at 9.36am

Nothing important Jamie.

Just stuff going on in the background, same as there has always been. Not everyone is here for honest happy reasons. Not everyone likes what goes on in this thread. Not everyone likes me. Some folks are not as clever as they think they are. It's the internet, it's carp fishing

That's life. I'm recovering from major surgery at the moment. So getting involved with these folks currently as they wish, is just not worth it.

Long before I was a member of this forum, there has always been stupid wars going on in this bait section. That's because in among the normal members who just go fishing, there are blokes who are desperate to have what you see here in this thread. Desperate for a business that is successful in carp fishing They get very upset at what is happening in this thread on a daily basis. Some of them have tried their hardest over and over again to get me banned. Some have sworn to 'take me down' publicly on here. They get banned, then they show up under fake profiles again. It's always gone on, it always will. Their goal is to make me walk away from this forum clearly. Or to make me bite so bad I get banned.

They all have failed little ventures or bait companies behind them. Some, numerous. One of the lessons I have learned through SHB is that for every one thousand happy customers, there will be one absolute lunatic who becomes completely obsessed. Maybe they cannot really afford them. Maybe they just hate me. I can understand that. But getting involved with them just wastes time & energy, on absolute losers.

Every single day there is a new hook bait company opened. When that does not work for them, some can get a little angry. They need someone to take that out on. Watching what goes on in this thread absolutely cripples these people inside the brain.

If one of my customers says something nice to me in public, I'll be honest I ****ing cringe. Only because I understand that this will do terrible things inside these peoples heads that will lead to more fake profiles, more aggro & more public arguing. That's what they want. Essentially they are ALWAYS looking to get a bite. They want my attention. A couple of years ago their approach of turning up under fake profiles and just attacking straight away was not working. So now they are far, far more sneaky about it. They will try to blend in for a period of time. Certain members of the crowd will engage with me. They always work in little groups. They all like each others posts, they all show up on threads together. It's to try to create a public perception. I just keep putting the photos up of happy customers with PB's and forum members smiling. This kills these blokes.

It speaks volumes about A) how much time they have on their hands. B) Their very poor mental state. Imagine becoming that obsessed with somebody on the internet that you have NEVER even met. Just through some very strange jealousy. If you build something good, someone will always want to take that away. That's just human nature. I understand that. That covers some of it. Some of it is just mentally ill people.

I'd rather you never asked the question Jamie. I would not have needed to give these people the attention they crave so much by writing this. I'd rather you just asked about the paste. I would have answered you.

As it was, why would I engage with people who I know have very nefarious intentions towards me?

I have no control over who comes and goes on here. I'm not a MOD, or a grass. I have no control over who is PMing each other to make their little plans. I have no control over who will instantly show up to like any post one of them makes directly attacking me. But I do have control over who I interact with on here. This will all get resolved. In the real world, not on this forum. Not in the shadows of the internet where these blokes think that they are clever. These people are not really very bright. They give themselves away to people far more intelligent than themselves. That's not me by the way.

TCarper

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#228 28 May 2025 at 9.30am

In reply to Post #227
As for the paste mate. It might well come in the future. For the moment it's a no though. I am very careful not to allow product out the door that would give away our secrets when tested. I made that mistake with the coated hook baits previously. They can, and have had the hook baits tested. The problem for them is, they don't know what they are looking for. Once they have been through our curing process, the sum of the parts changes. It's far better for me to keep that this way. Rather than make a few more quid selling paste & liquids.... Before they have been put through our process. I have to be super careful. When i used to shout my mouth off on the RMC/Cemex forum I spoke far to much. Luckily that stuff is all LONG since gone.

I made comments once upon a time on there about there being five 'Keys' to carp bait. 'Keys' that unlock certain things. One bait firm had a tub of our coated S1 on the bosses desk for a year asking how it was done. Employees openly told me. Later a very expensive coated boillie was produced. It was named what i just mentioned. Launched with a doctor behind it. Not the bait making legend that produced their bait. I will ALWAYS respect that man for that. A true icon of carp bait. Someone who never needed to copy anyone else for a quick buck. The people behind the companies do not hold that same ethos. They would have you over as fast as look at you. They have a long history of it. Then add onto that the influencers who got their hands on our stuff, and denounced it publicly as stinking of cheap glycerine & nothing more. Five minutes later they are making articles telling their followers to preserve their bait with glycerine & basking in that glory. That's how the carp game works. Fellas looking for fame or to keep a cushy thing going will always try to bring you down, while at the same time taking any little thing that they can take, and publicly claiming it as their own. That's carp fishing unfortunately. But all this means I have to be very careful indeed. Very careful indeed. It's always worked so far. No one knows the secrets as to why the hook baits out fish everything else. I have to keep it that way. While anyone who has a finger in the bait game pie needs to de-cry me as nothing more than a salesman. I'm not a salesman at all. I'm a REAL carp angler. I have something real. Real anglers find that out.

It's a harsh old world out there. If you put your head up above the parapet and you do have something REAL. There will be so many who try to take that from you. There will be many who try to destroy that. That's just life unfortunately Jamie & it comes with the territory. It always has. It always will. Everyone who has a vested interest in making money from carp bait watches. For bloody good reason too. It's all very positive really. But you have to take the bad with the good.

I'm incredibly lucky. I will ALWAYS be grateful to carp fishing in general for that. But it's also a very savage & underhand world. I understand that better than anyone now.

JamieH

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#227 27 May 2025 at 8.56pm

Curious, why was the post enquiring about paste removed?

I was watching with interest!

TCarper

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#226 27 May 2025 at 2.59pm

James again, 38+ Dinton White Swan, lovely leathery one hooked 6" back... It wanted that hook bait. GPB2 13mm balanced over Freshwater Shrimp.

TCarper

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#224 27 May 2025 at 8.54am

Paul, 40lb6oz, part of a brace with a 39lb+. Unfortunately a dog walker took the photos of the 39 which are terrible. Well done Paul, 13mm balanced GPB1

Harvey, new lake, one of the bigguns down in weight at 35+ after spawning, Hutchie S2 over Freshwater Shrimp freezers.

Forum member Kai, red S3

Ollie, 45+ pb common. GPB2 balanced over BlackSeal freezer baits

New happy customer Jake

dave_e

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#223 27 May 2025 at 8.25am

In reply to Post #221
Quote: get yourself some Korda super wrap for our hook baits and double wrap them from both sides, so everything is covered.

I do this in on a french lake with crays and works a treat.

Its worth the effort to have the shb on the rigs

TCarper

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#221 27 May 2025 at 6.50am

In reply to Post #219
You can make them as hard as you want them Reuben, just by drying them out further yourself. We have to supply them how the customer want them, which involves them having to be pierced. So we cannot dry them out & make them like bullets, but you can very simply. Just put them onto a plate and keep them on the side for a week. They will dry out like bullets, to the point where you will need to drill them. But they will lose all smell to your nose (this does not matter) but carp anglers will complain either way. So we have to supply them in the way that suits the majority. This is one of the problems with supplying to the public on a grand scale.

The problem is, the hook baits are super soluble & don't just attract fish.... They attract EVERYTHING that requires food to survive. They work on real food signals. So cray's find them super attractive. You cannot make something that is SUPER attractive to one living being underwater, that is not attractive to everything else as well.

You would be far better off using cheaper cardboard/airball type pop ups that have very little if any real food value. Just a chemical smell. These are still attractive to cray's to a point, but no where near as attractive to a cray as our hook baits are. Which they will single out before everything else. In exactly the same way as the carp, or the bream, or the tench will. That, or get yourself some Korda super wrap for our hook baits and double wrap them from both sides, so everything is covered. They have holes to allow the bait to still pump out. I have done this very successfully on the Thames with both cray's & Chinese mitten crabs.

On any lake that contains cray's, they will ONLY be in your swim when the carp are not there. When the carp are there, you will get zero problems from cray's. The carp eat the cray's & the cray's are petrified of them for that exact reason. If you get cray'd, you should not be looking to beat the cray's, you should be looking to move, the carp are simply not there. You can use this massively to your advantage. Get cray'd, move. When you find where the carp are, the cray's will all be down inside their burrows. Hiding.

reubenmills

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#219 26 May 2025 at 11.42am

Anyone know if any of the baits are harder than the others? Want some to use on a lake with Crays in a couple of months but don't believe they do hard hookers as such.
Have some bug and banoffee s2 which are pretty soft out the tub and very soft after a day in a lake, hutchy s2 and gpb2 are a bit firmer (all the ones I have are corks)
Just wondered if there were any in the range that were a bit firmer.

TCarper

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#218 26 May 2025 at 10.47am

Connor, ounces under 40, pink S2

Forum member Steve, new pb in France, 53lb+. TC2 over a spread of DNA Bug freezers. Well done Steve.

TCarper

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#217 25 May 2025 at 6.43pm

Harvey, best of four today, Fizz S2 & DNA Bug crushed corks. Well done that linear is gorgeous.

TCarper

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#216 25 May 2025 at 6.40pm

In reply to Post #215
He's an exceptional angler mate. And a lovely bloke too. You will know that also.

Boo

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#215 25 May 2025 at 6.38pm

In reply to Post #214
Known Russ for what must be 20 years now. Decent angler he is 👌🏻

TCarper

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#214 25 May 2025 at 4.56pm

Russ was one of the first along with FishOn Ricci to receive the ScopexPineapple S2 from us. He's an electrician with a very young family who gets to fish often just one day a week. He used to be the Saturday boy in the TackleBox as a lad.

The results gained from this syndicate below, in the time frame of the captures led to him actually being accused of using hormones, so out of the ordinary were his results for that lake. Some of these fish he actually caught twice.

All ScopexPineapple S2, fished as either singles, or with Essential B5 or Kraken. There's some incredibly special big carp there. Herds of them.

bashmeister

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#213 25 May 2025 at 3.19pm

In reply to Post #212
Well done everyone, some absolute belters there 👌

TCarper

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#212 25 May 2025 at 1.00pm

Forum member MattSaunders. Fizz S2 over a handful of Amino Marine freezer baits. Well done Matt that's a lovely big carp.


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