When you buy a bag of your favourite Nash Bait boilies in many ways you are buying confidence, fish well and the chances are you will catch well. But have you ever stopped and wondered how that bait came into existence?
got it right. We also have test ponds holding carp that can be used to evaluate new baits under development. You can learn a lot from watching the way fish react and it’s an important part of the process. The attractor recipe is another aspect we spend a lot of time perfecting.
Using the highest quality ingredients and staying with the original supplier is vitally important to ensure consistent quality. Nash baits also provide carp with a high quality food source. So when you fish with our frozen boilies, shelf life baits or one of the peripheral products like the Monster Carp Pellets you are putting something back. It’s so important to source our ingredients carefully to guarantee both the quality and also the consistency of the products.
One thing I’m often asked by anglers and customers is how important is an artificial flavour and do you really need it in a bait? That initial attraction created by a flavour is really important and one thing I’ve proven to myself over and over again is that combining natural and synthetic attractors rather than using one or the other is always more effective.
This is vitally important when you are making bait commercially, when we receive a new batch of a particular product we need to know how it absorbs moisture, binds, has the correct nutritional specification etc, as each tiny part of a bait must synergise with the other components. A lot of the ingredients are natural products so there will be seasonal variations from time to time which can lead to slight variations in the finished bait. There are ways to get around this, for example if a new batch of ingredients comes in we might make a small test batch of bait and then if necessary, slightly adjust the ratio of ingredients or some other part of the process to guarantee the quality and consistency of the finished bait. When we design and develop a new bait, a huge amount of field testing is involved. I’ve got a dedicated team of anglers fishing many different types of waters throughout the twelve months of the year. They might be asked to test variations of a bait one against the other until we are confident that we’ve
Our Scopex No1 is an awesome attractor, it’s a totally synthetic product and combining it with other natural or semi natural products will make it even more effective. Scopex and our Pure Liver Extract for example is a very potent combination, it’s a very effective fish catcher. Most flavours work better with a sweetener, you can incorporate a certain amount of sweetness with some base mix ingredients but we also tend to include products like Intense Sweetener or Protaste. Used at the correct levels or ratios, we’ve proven it many times over the years, if you include them in the recipe they catch more fish. We also design and develop specialist products in our bait laboratory, I don’t think many companies have these kind of facilities, being able to develop attractors, feeding stimulants and other products that have been specifically designed to appeal to carp does provide us with an edge. The attractor recipe used in Scopex Squid is a good example of how effective combining ingredients can be and again it’s the ratios that are crucial as well as the overall levels used. 3ml Scopex No1, 5ml Red Liver Oil and 1ml Intense Sweetener is an incredibly effective combination that has
GARY BAYES
BAIT TALK NASH E-ZINE
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