Mistral sweet biscuit floaters
The rubbery-textured baits are soft enough to pierce with a hook, yet can withstand a really good cast. They can be kept out in the water for several hours, so there’s no need to recast and risk spooking the fish.
Price: £3.99
SonuBaits Ian Russell Pop-Ups
These pop-ups have undergone two years of extensive development to source the best flavours and colours.
Each pot contains a mix of 15mm and 12mm baits, as well as a bottle of booster liquid that allows you cover all bases.
Many modern rigs incorporate big hooks that suit the 15mm pop-ups. The 12mm baits are ideal for smaller hooks when zig fishing, for example.
The striking two-tone swirly colours are different to most other pop-ups on the market, providing carp with a visual target to home in on, and the potent flavour combinations have a proven track record for catching specimen carp.
Flavours include Tuna & Sweetcorn, Peach & Black Pepper, Indian Spice, Raspberry Ripple, Pineapple & Cream, Chocolate Orange and Creamy Toffee.
Price: £6.49
Dynamite Complex-T boilies
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£10.75 (1kg), £39.99 (5kg)
Big-carp legend Terry Hearn has worked closely with Dynamite to produce this new all-season soft feel boilie bait.
Complex T contains a stunning array of ingredients including Haith’s original LT90 fishmeal, krill, spirulina and liver extract, plus amino acids and no fewer than seven major vitamins. Matching liquids, glugs, pop-ups and wafters will also be available for this highly digestible fish and fishery-friendly bait.
Mainline Essential Cell
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£5.99
There can’t be many carp anglers in the UK who haven’t at some time used Mainline’s exceptional Cell Boilies, or one of its associated Cell flavoured products. The baits super creamy, sweet coconut aroma is widely regarded as one, if not the, best carp-catchers of all time. However, the super-popular bait has been given a zingy new twist by Mainline, which has now released Essential Cell, a similar all-season type of bait, but with a far more pronounced yellow colour, and an increased fruity aroma.
The new flavour comes as 10mm, 12mm and 15mm freezer boilies, a base mix for those who prefer to ‘roll their own’, a Stick and Bag Mix and as 5mm feed pellets. A variation of Hookbaits is also available including Pop-Ups, Flouro Pop-Ups, Dumbbells and Balanced Wafters.
A range of liquid products are also available for adding to Spod mixes or glugging hookbaits, including an Essential Cell Stick Mix Liquid, and a more viscose Bait Enhancement Liquid, ideal for pepping-up your hookbaits.
Enterprise Tackle Washed Out range
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Boilies £2.85
Popup corn £1.99
Soaking your boilies in lake water to drain them of colour, then adding flavour, is a popular tactic among carpers. The theory is that pressured carp can associate fresh, bright baits with imminent danger and lurking anglers, but they let their guard down around seemingly older offerings.
Enterprise Tackle has tapped into this trait with a range of fake sweetcorn and boilies with more muted colours. The buoyant sweetcorn versions look particular good, while the 15mm boilies will be useful to anglers who fish among crayfish and other nuisance species. Each plastic boilie also has a small recess for putty or a split shot to enable it to be critically balanced.
Radical Pillow Boilie baits
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£8.95
These new Pillow Boilie baits from Radical may well give you an edge on pressured waters when conventional spherical baits fail.
In seven vibrant colours, and aromas including the new Tiger Nuts flavour, the pillow-shaped baits are said to hold bottom better in flowing water, something river carp anglers will really appreciate.
Dynamite Baits Swim Stim Match Minis
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£3.99
Ideal for use as hookbaits with Method feeders, these Swim Stim Match Minis from Dynamite Baits come in both Boilie and Dumbell forms.
With just the right texture for use with bait bands, hair rigging or bayonet fitments they come in 7mm and 9mm sizes with Betaine Yellow, White Amino and Antarctic Krill flavours and colours.
Bait-Tech Poloni Boilies
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Boilies (14mm/18mm)
£10 per kilo
Pop-Ups (14mm/18mm)
£4.99 per pot
After two years of develpment these Bait-Tech Poloni Boilies look destined for greatness. Their meaty flavour and nutritional make-up mean that carp will eat them all year round.
Carefully crafted, balanced food ingredients are high in protein but easily digestible.
Natural spices and herbs give the bait a distinctive aroma and taste. It’s also been laced with essential amino acids.
In field trials Poloni Boilies and the matching coloured and flavoured pop-ups accounted for some staggering catches of big carp.
Sonubaits Drilled Boilies
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£3.99
These pre-drilled boilies are a firm favourite with anglers who use hair rigs and Quickstops, as they do not easily split apart.
Sonubaits Mixed Method Boilies
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£2.99
The perfect hookbait for Method feeder tactics, particularly as part of a hair-rigged bayonet set-up.
Sonubaits Semi-Buoyant Oozing Boilies
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£4.99
These hookbaits have been overloaded with flavour and colour and slowly leak out a cloud of attraction.
Nash Citruz Pop-Ups
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£4.99 (10mm and 15mm), £5.99 (20mm)
These pop-ups are the result of exhaustive testing by Nash of attractor combinations. They blend of fruit esters, essential oils and the broad-spectrum taste enhancer Talin to produce a distinctive fruit flavour that releases attraction whatever the water temperature.
Fished as singles, or as contrasting hookbaits over a bed of feed particles, Nash Baits Citruz come in three colour options– white (considered by many to be the top fish-catcher), rainbows (each pot contains high-viz yellow, orange, pink and purple pop-ups), and washed-out pastels, which mimic baits thathave been in the water for a long time. These work brilliantly on venues where standard high-viz baits have been hammered.
Richworth Type-R Boilies
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£9.95
The company that brought you the first-ever ready-made boilies has launched its latest range of shelflife baits under the Type-R banner. These highly attractive boilies come in a four flavours – Red Krill, Amber Cream, White Nectar and Yellow Passion. We are yet to try these in a fishing situation, but Richworth’s pedigree speaks for itself so we’re sure they’ll catch plenty of carp this year. There are matching dips, pellets, stick mixes and pop-ups for each flavour.
Drennan Bandit Dumbells and F1 Dumbells
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£2.99
In the same unique colour and flavour combinations as the Method Boilies, these Dumbells are available in 8mm and 10mm sizes. However, there is also a smaller 6mm F1 Bandit Dumbell, perfect for smaller carp, F1s, tench and bream. These are made with a slightly harder outer coating than the Method Boilies to withstand the banding process.The best and easiest way to present these baits is to hair-rig them using a micro-sized latex bait band, as the thin waist of the hookbait helps to keep the band firmly in place. This makes them ideal for long casts when using pellet waggler or Method feeder tactics.
Drennan Method Boilies
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£2.99
These perfectly rolled mini Method Boilies come in four highly visible colours with proven flavour combinations, including White Scopex Syrup, Pink Crab and Krill, Yellow Pineapple Punch and Orange Tutti Frutti.Each tub contains a mixture of match sized 8mm and 10mm baits, both ideal for hair-rigging. They can be easily drilled without splitting to allow a Pushstop to be inserted, or alternatively spiked or bayoneted. Perfect for use with Method feeder tactics, they are a shoo-in for success on all big-fish commercial carp fisheries this summer.
Ringer Baits All Sorts Banded Pop-ups
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£3.99
England Feeder international and king of the Northampton night spots Phil Ringer has added these dumbbell-shaped All Sorts pop-ups to his match baits range.
Approximately 7mm in diameter, they have a shellfish aroma and come in many colours. A free packet of bait bands is included in every pot.
These pop-ups are Ideal for use as balanced hookbaits with Method set-ups. I rather fancy the black ones will be ideal for use with zig-rigs.
Mistral Smelley Wotsits
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£3.99
We’ve been hearing good things about this cheekily-named new bait range from Mistral Baits.
Part of the company’s Specialist Carp Food range, Smelley Wotsits have a strange sweet and savoury smell with background hints of fish, cheese and cream all rolled together – but carp, tench, bream chub and barbel appear to love it!
Available in high visibility orange 15mm bottom baits RRP £9.99 per kilo bag or £3.99 for 325g) 15mm pop-ups (£5.99 per pot) and Booster Dip (£5.99).
Sticky Signature Pop-ups – Mixed Colours
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£6.50 a tub
Finally available to the masses, these special pop-ups contain 10 liquid additives and two powdered fruit palatants. They are designed to leak attraction instantly and for a prolonged period of time.
Sticky Vor-Tex+
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£9 a kilo
First off the Sticky production line is a new version of the successful Vor-Tex range. The original was designed as a summer bait – this new one, with an overhauled base mix and nut-based ingredients, is for year-round use.
A key addition to the bait is chia, a little black seed rich in vitamins and Omega 3 fatty acids.
Nash Bait 4G Squid Snowman Pot
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£6.99
Snowpots contain everything you need for making balanced snowman rigs without the need for putty, wire or trimming baits to the desired sink rate. They can also be used for chopped and halved baits and zig rigs.