Tips for choosing a bait:

When your looking to pick a bait for your current fishing or on a new lake, there are anumber of things you can look at to help you pick the right one, listed below are some of the thing to take into consideration:

1)  Time of year - Carp require different things from a bait depending on the time of year.  During the colder months they don't need fats but do need carbohydrates.  So one of our birdfood or nut based baits will be a good choice, rather than a fishmeal that can be hard for the fish to digest the fat content in cold water.

During the spring as the water warms up and the fish get moving about, they will be looking to replenish their bodies of fats and salts that they lost in winter, this is when fishmeal baits really are at their most effective.

After spawning, the carp are looking for just about anything they can find, carbs to help replace lost energy, fats to build back their body weight, by adding oils to your baits at this time of year, you will attract more fish to your baited areas.

During the autumn, carp are looking for the best food they can find, building up their reserves for winter, so that means anything in the PGB range of quality baits will be suitable, top quality bait means top quality results.

2) What is everybody else using?  If the lake your on is seeing lots of fiahmeal baits (as seems to be common) then our Choc Orange nut mix or Winter Peach are a perfect alternative to this, totally different to the normal biats out there.  We all know how much carp love nuts, but on many waters they are banned, so this is a fantastic alternative with a track record to be envied.

3)  If you have problems with other species of fish, such as tench and bream, we may have a solution for you, our Bloowrom boilie has been proven to catch many many big carp, but it seems that our not so welcome friends the bream and tench don't seem too keen on it, that's not saying you won't catch any, but you will see drastically reduced numbers being caught.

4) Size of baits-  When thinking about the size of baits you want, take into account what others are using, if most people are on 14mm or 18mm baits, be different, try going large, 20mm and 24mm baits are a great alternative, and also have other advantages too, birds struggle to pick them up and seagull's can't catch them easily, which means that when you bait with 1kg of boilies, most of that gets to the fish, rather than half being eaten by birds!!