Comments on: Winter carping – what flavour & size of boilie do you recommend?

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:35:50 +0000

I like glugs too.
Dont suppose you were ever a chef ian were you??

By: Ian Hillier

Ian Hillier — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:44:10 +0000

Hi people
In my experience glugs work very very well and will often glug baits for up to 6 months, having said that there is one water where the fish will not touch a glugged bait why i have no idea give em a washed out bait and they will feed all day. Fickle things carp. As to pop ups in windy conditions well all i can say is i have had no problems but i do change from hangers to swingers and put my rod tips in the water, as long as you dry and wd40 them after your tackle will stay in top notch condition. In winter i only fish with small single bright baits yellow being best followed by orange flavour seems to take second place as last year i used the plastic corn which has no flavour with excellent results
Cheers Ian

By: Jim Kelly

Jim Kelly — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:11:25 +0000

Hi Tom/Shaun, interesting that Shaun uses different size baits as I do this as well. I then use the smaller size as the hookbait. I don’t know if this actually happens, but I think that different sizes makes the carp apply different amounts of suck to pick up each bait. They are then less likely to detect the weight of the hook or resistance of the line on initial pick-up. The alternative is to critically balance, or partly balance.
I also fish the Mangrove and have found in normal situations that bottom baits outfish pop-ups as the natural food is in the silt. However, in extreme cold conditions I find a single pop-up can produce some excellent results. I have little confidence in pop-ups when it is very windy as I feel that they behave unnaturally. What do other readers think?
Glug wise I have done numerous tests with glugged and non-glugged baits and I can’t detect a lot of difference in results. However, other people may have had different experiences.