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Karlos
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   Old Thread  #1 30 Sept 2024 at 3.27pm  3  Login    Register
In order to keep the SHB thread nice and fast (to load) I'll create a new thread every now and again. All threads (new and old) will link to each other so that no information / photos are lost

Links to past SHB threads...
1 - Specialized Hook Baits - Catch Report and Q+A
2 - Specialized Hook Baits - Catch Reports Jul 2024
3 - Specialized Hook Baits - Catch Reports Oct 2024 (This thread)

Link to the new thread (I will put it live Feb 1st 2025 so it might not be accessible just YET)
4 - Specialized Hook Baits - Catch Reports Feb 2025
Karlos
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   Old Thread  #136 2 Feb 2025 at 11.06pm  0  Login    Register
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Specialized Hook Baits - Catch Reports Feb 2025
TCarper
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   Old Thread  #134 31 Jan 2025 at 10.22am  9  Login    Register
Well done Ben.





TCarper
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   Old Thread  #133 31 Jan 2025 at 9.21am  6  Login    Register
This could go horribly wrong. First attempt at Karl's video links.

It worked. Well done Ben!!

It was the biggest fish in the lake, the scarred mirror, one he really wanted to catch. Seriously well done Ben.

TCarper
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   Old Thread  #132 31 Jan 2025 at 7.58am  5  Login    Register
New member on the forum Ben. He purchased some Scopex/Pineapple S2 from FishOn tackle. He liked them and purchased some normal S2 from us. I spoke to him on the phone just two days ago. He was using them for the first time last night on Kingsmead. It has not done a single bite all January, despite him and other die hards fishing it hard.

First time casting out three of our hook baits. The Scopex/Pineapple S2 on a spinner was the one which went.

He thinks it's likely the biggest fish in the lake. Well done Ben.





TCarper
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   Old Thread  #131 28 Jan 2025 at 8.23am  6  Login    Register
40lb8oz.

Russ also had a 38lb+ yesterday that he's wiped the photos of temporarily. I make that two x 40's, 1 x 39+, 2 x 38+ & another 35+ since the storm started.

All Banoffee S2 or Scopex/Pineapple S2 over Essential Banana freezer baits from a DDAP's club venue.

You lot should be out fishing.

TCarper
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   Old Thread  #130 26 Jan 2025 at 1.05pm  6  Login    Register
38lb12oz, Banoffee S2, over Essentials new Banana freezer baits.

TCarper
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   Old Thread  #129 26 Jan 2025 at 12.16pm  2  Login    Register
In reply to Post #128
This is what he was doing with the Scopex/Pineapple S2 on some tough no publicity venue in Essex last Winter doing days. This was when he was first person to have them, just could not show it. This is a club venue though.

Banoffee S2 this time.

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   Old Thread  #128 26 Jan 2025 at 11.38am  3  Login    Register
Russ from his club lake again. Scopex/Pineapple S2. Well done Russ





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   Old Thread  #127 23 Jan 2025 at 10.10am  9  Login    Register
This was a part of what was wrote that does not give away much. But refers to some of what i have said today.


Here’s a simple mistake everyone makes. It’s made on this forum over and over again. Even the experts make the mistake. The concept of putting human equations onto fish. Here’s one, ‘cheap’. It’s a word spoken on this forum repeatedly regarding ingredients in a negative form. The concept that if an ingredient is cheap to us, it’s rubbish for fish is crazy. Fish do not understand our concept of money, of anything having a value. They like what they like, for specific reason. In the human world, things are priced on what it costs to produce them. So things that are easy to produce in our world, are cheap. That does not mean that they are not attractive to carp. That’s just a human concept of what makes something good. Because milk protein is expensive, it’s automatically assumed that it’s great. While other far more attractive products to carp will be ridiculed, because in the human world they are cheap to produce. Fish do not understand this concept whatsoever. They are attracted to what nature preprogrammed them to be attracted too. In this bowl in the photo is just sugar and water. The cheapest ingredients known to man pretty much. Look how attractive they are to those bees, the ongoing creators of life on this planet pretty much. They have no concept of costs. They are programmed to be attracted to things by nature. The same as carp are. Sugar and water do not have the same effect for carp. But there are many other ingredients that do, that are shunned by carp fishing and derived as ‘cheap’ constantly. It’s a small thing. But a massive mistake applied to carp bait and ingredients by everyone as I see it. A vicious circle. Step outside of that circle. The general rules we all follow are made often by people trying to sell you something. That’s the most important part of that equation. There's no profit in cheap. Always remember that. Media then spins a story and the way to do things is formed. I’m not certain that if you are an avid follower of carp fishing media through your whole angling life… That you could ever even feasibly wipe from your brain all of the totally wrong information that you have digested regarding carp bait. Regurgitated over and over again by people in the media who work for the people making the profits. Be that magazines first, or now online. Right back to the very basics of how to actually even make the bait in the first place. The best advice I could give anyone starting out now, is ignore everyone, all media, including me. I would not ever be listening to me, so neither should you. You will only find out the real gold on your own. You will only do that if you become a good angler, ignore what you see written on the internet if you don't want to do what everyone else is doing. Carp fishing has been a ‘thing’ for a very short time in reality. It’s a past time that relies MASSIVELY on passed on knowledge. Regarding carp bait, a lot of that passed on knowledge is simply not the correct way to do things for you to obtain the best results. It's the best way for someone else to make profit. Until you wake up to that fact, things will never change for you. If you are happy consuming this media all of the time, that's your choice. But if you want to open your mind into other ways of doing things regarding carp bait, you have to shut it all off. Otherwise you will just be doing the same as everyone else. Following someone else's advice. Making the exact same mistakes that have been made from the start. Step outside of that circle if you really want to learn about what really attracts the carp that we fish for. If you listen to the 'experts' online, you will just get the same results, and follow the exact same mistakes as everyone else. You don't need someone else's advice. You need to think for yourself.



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   Old Thread  #126 23 Jan 2025 at 8.13am  4  Login    Register
Connor, first trip to Sandhurst. S2



FishOn Ricci, Scopex/Pineapple S2







Russ two days ago at his club lake, biggest one 43lb12oz. Scopex/Pineapple S2 & Banoffee S2 over Essential freezers











Jude club lake up north, Banoffee S2



Judes Dad Carl. Banoffee S2



David, Hutchie S2 over Wraysbury baits freezers




TCarper
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   Old Thread  #125 23 Jan 2025 at 7.48am  1  Login    Register
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Think fizzy Haribo. That's the best way to describe them. They are an S2. With some other stuff I have been playing with for a long while now to get right. Fruity and fizzy.

The shops sold virtually all the stock we gave them and are waiting for more. FishOn sold out of all Scopex/Pineapple S2 last week. They both had loads, all the lakes have been frozen. They still both sold it all at the worst time of year. They are waiting for more. TackleBox will have the Hutchie S2 in stock within a week or so. FishOn will have the Banoffee S2.

Not sure to be honest mate. I have so much to sort out. We are completely up to date with all orders and have been the entire time I was away. But I'm not sure about anything time wise at the moment. I'm still jet lagged and shivering at the moment.

TCarper
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   Old Thread  #124 23 Jan 2025 at 7.27am  2  Login    Register
In reply to Post #119
Hello Hak. Sorry for the late reply. I only got back to the UK yesterday. I've been on a total internet ban by the missus since Christmas & the new year. No talking about fishing or work at all online while I was away

I did write it all out at the start of last year. I did explain in that previous thread, just after the Cherry Cola stuff regarding another bait firm, that it would be the most stupid thing that I could ever do in my entire life. Look around at the pop up companies springing up daily. Look at what has happened in the carp scene since we first started. To start talking about things that have never been spoken about anywhere ever before. Would be pretty much lunacy. Anything I do say online often ends up being regurgitated as someone else's thoughts inside their own head, when they decide they want to do what I am doing. That's something that is hard for a simple person like me to get their head around. But I do finally understand it now.

I can't talk about it mate. As much as I would love too. It would just be stupidity.

If you make bait for yourself, you have to stop listening to how you have been programmed to do things regarding bait. Forget everything you know and start again. Carp fishing is a funny thing. It's all new. Nothing is set in stone. But certain ways become the norm. Because everyone follows everyone else. If you follow media, you will be stained with certain ways of doing things. Often they are rules set in the first place by absolutely clueless people in reality.

Those ways are wrong. Regurgitated over and over again in print, until taken as the gospel.

That's carp fishing bait in a nutshell. One day I will spill it all. But no one within the bait industry has a clue what it's really all about after twelve years of trying to replicate what we do. So to start telling all at this point, would be so stupid that it defies belief.

I will say one thing. You are all making bait in the completely wrong way when it comes to attraction, and the food they need to eat en masse. Stop listening to other people. It will send you down the wrong path.

Start thinking for yourself from your own personal findings. Listen to no one. If you are not a good enough angler to be able to put that into practice. Them you will never find out.
ron83
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   Old Thread  #123 22 Jan 2025 at 7.57pm  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #121
Any update on the Tc bottom baits bud, or the next 'special'?
Andy__C
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   Old Thread  #122 9 Jan 2025 at 8.25pm  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #121
Good recall skills


Some Jan/Feb baits from that technique:


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