by Elie Godsi If I were to ask you to come up with the ‘ultimate’ test for a new carpbait - like Shaun’s Liver B8 - what would it look like? Maybe you would fish that bait on one rod alongside your other baits and compare your captures? Maybe you could compare your results with other anglers using other brands of boilies on the lakes you fish? Maybe you could fish it on a lake that had never seen that particular bait and see what your catch rate was like. All well and good but what about the ultimate test? (more…)
Let’s start by firstly establishing what a boilie is; most of you know, but many readers who are new to the sport may not. Boilie is the universally known word for describing a pastebait that has been boiled to create a tough outer skin. By boiling the paste it makes it much harder for smaller species to eat them, thus increasing the chances of carp eating them. In this piece I have come up with ten tips and tricks that can be used with boilies of all descriptions in order to help give you that much needed edge.(more…)
Steve Vaughan wrote:
Could you recommend what sizehook to use with 18mm baits, I’ve been using size 8 but find i am missing lots of runs on this size
Hi Steve
That’s not quite as simple a question to answer as a lot of people might think, and it certainly isn’t straight forward.
Firstly it depends on the hook itself, as each manufacturer seems to make up their own sizes and they vary immensely. Unfortunately there isn’t a national standard hooksize to work from. For example a size 6 Korda long shank is dimensionally a much bigger hook than say a Drennan super specialist of the same size. (more…)
If I were to ask you to come up with the ‘ultimate’ test for a new carp bait - like Shaun’s Liver B8 - what would it look like? Maybe you would fish that bait on one rod alongside your other baits and compare your captures? Maybe you could compare your results with other anglers using other brands of boilies on the lakes you fish? Maybe you could fish it on a lake that had never seen that particular bait and see what your catch rate was like. All well and good but what about the ultimate test? (more…)![[del.icio.us]](http://www.questbaits.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/delicious.png)
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