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vossy1
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vossy1
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   Old Thread  #25 13 Aug 2026 at 10.28pm  0  Login    Register
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What about the Mulberry F Sam?
SamBarley
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   Old Thread  #24 13 Aug 2026 at 9.45pm  0  Login    Register
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Months! From now….
Karlos
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   Old Thread  #23 12 Aug 2026 at 5.28pm  3  Login    Register
"If you are all sitting comforably, we'll start the bidding for this bottle of Scopex at £1.99..." 😂

There's some original S+O Koi Rearer in the mushroom tray behind it too...

@TCarper - maybe you could make me some special specials with these old flavours?

jhhilton1983
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   Old Thread  #22 21 Feb 2026 at 11.08am  0  Login    Register
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Is soon days, weeks or months Sam??

I am still searching 2 years later
scaley&dark
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   Old Thread  #21 19 Feb 2026 at 1.49pm  0  Login    Register
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If this is true, and I stand to be corrected, But I seem to remember reading, or listening to something JB said, that out of respect to Rod he would never copy the original formula/recipe for Scopex nowadays, try to make a close copy, but not the ORIGINAL..

Obviously, some of the ingredients may not be allowed, or available in 2026 to do so.

AnglingDays&Way
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   Old Thread  #20 19 Feb 2026 at 1.28pm  0  Login    Register
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I hope John does know more about Scopex than anyone else as he formulated the original flavour for Hutchy.
nexus6
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   Old Thread  #19 19 Feb 2026 at 12.44pm  0  Login    Register
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ask John Baker about Scopex, he knows more about it's original makeup than anyone - and that includes Rod Hutchinson............
silverfish
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   Old Thread  #18 19 Feb 2026 at 8.37am  0  Login    Register
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I don't think anything really smells like RH scopex, there are scopex flavours and 'the scopex'.

The bottles I have are at the very least 23 years old, not the tall bottle with white lid, the shorter 50ml one with light blue label and 6 eggs on the side.
I think even then there were cries of 'its not the same'
I had a waft only last week, hmm hmm hmm

It's been 14 or 15 years since I happened by Johnson Ross, perhaps time has dulled the memory,
I stopped smoking in 2013..nothing has smelled the same (or had the lack of smell) since..

I bought Plum, Crab, Banana, Pineapple, Frost & Flood and a talin sweetener, this for sure because I still have the remnants of all but F&F.
Must have been just before JB changed over to the aluminum bottles and upped the prices.
AnglingDays&Way
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AnglingDays&Way
   Old Thread  #17 18 Feb 2026 at 9.47pm  0  Login    Register
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John's Milky1 has always been the better flavour than Toppex for me.
midlandman
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   Old Thread  #16 18 Feb 2026 at 9.27pm  0  Login    Register
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Correct. To my nose it's nothing like the original scopex
MrNuvawun
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   Old Thread  #15 18 Feb 2026 at 6.09pm  0  Login    Register
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I'm liking AA Baits' Banoffee as an alternative to Caramel Toffee & Pear of Bananas 😋😉
MrNuvawun
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   Old Thread  #14 18 Feb 2026 at 6.06pm  0  Login    Register
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I've not seen or smelled Toppex, just remember seeing another thread on the subject a while back.
dickweed
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dickweed
   Old Thread  #13 18 Feb 2026 at 4.28pm  0  Login    Register
Toppex nothing like the RH scopex.

Try BAF version. Very very close.
silverfish
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silverfish
   Old Thread  #12 18 Feb 2026 at 3.05pm  0  Login    Register
to be honest and I'm going back over 20 years I found two pineapple pop-ups had the best aroma and caught well.
The original Dynamite FW fluoro pop-up with booster. Crap pop-up but a catcher.
Plenty of N-butyric?

And Mainline, but as I remember between 2002 and 2004-5 the colour changed, the buoyancy changed and the pineapple was defintely muted.
Really didn't change up to the point where i stopped carp fishing 2014/14 and no longer felt the obligation to take a sniff of any tub on the shelf.

Anyhow I think I have an older bottle of pineapple in my stash about 20ml- red label, oval bottle. I'll have a root around and perhaps that is another one for the single egg mix.

Again been a few years but the last time I checked out a few pineapple flavours I settled on JB.
And jhhilton has given the reason why I can't find it any more.

Scopex. Yes Toppex is a very nice scopex. £25 for 100ml aint tho..
Was about as close as I could compare it to a 15+ year old bottle of RH.
I see Caramel Banana, who am I to say if it's close to Top Banana but his banana EA wasn't quite on par with Solar.

Premier baits scopex wasn't bad, ok in a bulk bait with cream stim.
Don't appear to list either anymore
bristol
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bristol
   Old Thread  #11 18 Feb 2026 at 2.28pm  0  Login    Register
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Will be very interested in this.

Scopex - Catchit do a very nice one
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