Spotted Fin launches new range of match fishing baits
Big-carp brand Spotted Fin has turned its attention to match baits, releasing a comprehensive collection of products under the GO2 banner. As well as many proven favourites, the range includes a number of exciting newcomers, such as the super-enriched 8mm Frank Warwick Fluoro Wafter hookbaits. Let’s take a closer look...
MILLED FEEDS
GO2 Milled Betaine Pellets
These milled Betaine pellets make a brilliant groundbait for margin and Method feeder fishing. They bind together well and can be added to groundbaits in a two-to-one ratio for added richness. Available in 1kg bags.
Price: £5.50
GO2 Milled Coarse Pellets
A blend of premium coarse pellets, this finely-milled additive can be used on its own or added to other groundbaits to enhance their attraction. It’s also perfect for topping off pole pots, especially when feeding pellets. Supplied in 1kg bags.
Price: £4.99
GO2 Milled Expander Pellets
Containing only pure expander pellets, this finely milled mix comes in 1kg bags and is great for feeding in shallow water, where it quickly forms an attractive cloud. It also makes a fantastic addition to any commercial fishery groundbait mix, especially where pellets are used on the hook.
Price: £4.99
GROUNDBAITS
GO2 Sweet Super Blend
This all-round groundbait attracts fish from far and wide. The mix can be used all year round and is ideal for bream/skimmer and F1 fishing on the pole or feeder. Easy to mix, it slops-up nicely, perfect for feeding with worms, casters and dead red maggots.
Price: £4.50
Carp Super Blend
Perfect for targeting carp in warm water, this high-food-value mix contains a rich blend of milled pellets, fishmeals and proven appetite stimulants. Mould it around a Method feeder or feed it down the edge.
Price: £4.50
Margin Super Blend
This groundbait is ideal for laying down a bed of feed in the margins. The heavy mix of food particles keeps the fish feeding freely for long periods, thanks to the addition of secret flavour stimulants used in Spotted Fin’s best-selling Catalyst boilies.
Price: £4.50
Krill Super Blend
A high-quality groundbait blended from the finest ground krill, with a small amount of shrimp meal for additional flavouring. A proven winner on all commercial fisheries, it lends itself to a variety of tactics, including open-end and Method feeder fishing.
Price: £4.50
HOOKBAITS AND LIQUIDS
GO2 Expander Pellets
Ideal for bankside pumping, these robust expander pellets are of uniform size and texture. They won’t easily split or crumble, and their light beige colour is ideal for F1s and smaller commercial carp. They come in 4.5mm and 6mm sizes, and in 750g bags.
Price: £4.50
GO2 Liquid Yellow and Liquid Red
The new Liquid Yellow and Liquid Red colours contain all the special additives and feed stimulants found in Spotted Fin’s Catalyst boilies. They’re intended for use as bait dyes for offerings such as meat, bread and expander pellets. Alernatively, they can be added to sloppy groundbait to form a lingering cloud of colour and attractants in the water. They are available in 250ml bottles.
Price: £3.99
GO2 Caramel Blend Bait Sauce
This viscous water-soluble liquid contains Catalyst Boilie flavours, feeding stimulants and triggers. It can be used to soak feed pellets, mixed in with groundbaits, or used for pumping and preparing expander pellets. It will also spice up any hookbait. Only small amounts are needed, so it’s great value for money. Available in 250ml bottles.
Price: £5.99
GO2 Amino Blend Bait Sauce
A subtle blend of Minamino, Betaine and tuna extract, with added sweeteners and Catalyst Boilie stimulators, this rich, dark but flavourless liquid uses natural products to form an attractive aroma.
Price: £5.99
GO2 Pellet Oil
This superb quality Pellet Oil has a multitude of angling uses. It adds extra weight to catapulted feed pellets, and helps to slow down their breakdown on the lakebed, and can firm up expander pellets at the preparation stage. In 250ml bottles.
Price: £3.99
GO2 Amino Blend Ready Pumped Expanders
These ready-prepared hooker pellets have added amino attraction. An ideal quick-change bait, they can be hooked straight on or hair-rigged with a Quick Stop. The come in 4.5mm and 6mm sizes, and in 45g pots.
Price: £2.99
GO2 Booster Sprays
These powerful sprays share the same attractors and flavours that feature in the Spotted Fin classic pop-up range. Ideal for spraying directly on to your hookbaits, or as a mist over groundbaits and pellets.
Price: £4.99
GO2 Wafters
Designed by big-carp ace Frank Warwick, these proven fish catchers have been scaled down to 8mm to meet match anglers’ needs. Ideal for use with Method feeders, they contain a smorgasbord of feed stimulants, oils and flavours. Bright colours help them to stand out, even in coloured water. Available in Miracle Berry (fluoro pink), Classic Corn (fluoro yellow), Fruit Zing (white) and Catalyst (natural pellet colour).
Price: £2.99
Bait Dyes
These super-powerful powdered bait dyes come in a huge range of colours and are strong enough to colour expander pellets, groundbaits, spod mixes and meat baits.
Price: £4.75
Enterprise Tackle Pop-Ups
Classic pop-up sweetcorn hookbaits flavoured with Spotted Fin’s super-popular Catalyst flavour developed by Frank Warwick. Available in yellow, washed-out yellow, washed-out pink and white.
Price: £3.99
Dynamite Meaty Fish Bites and Mini Pellets
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Meaty Fish Bites 12mm £4.99
Mini Meaty Pellets 8mm and 10mm £2.99
Looking for baits that are different from the norm? Keep your eyes peeled for the relaunched Meaty Fish Bites and Mini Meaty Pellets from Dynamite Baits.
Their firm, rubbery textures makes them robust enough to be side-hooked or hair-rigged, and the baits ooze oily attraction to work just as well with big river fish as they do with commercial carp.
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.
Van Den Eynde Match Packs
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£2.99
Famous Belgian groundbait firm Van Den Eynde has just released a superb range of fishmeal and pellet-based recipes in handy match pack sizes.
These are said to be ideal for tipping off pole cups, adding small amounts of cloud, or moulding around Method feeders. The very popular Super Krill, Super Green, Margin Mix and latest Super F1 and Spammed mixes are designed by top names in the sport to exceed the demands of the modern UK commercial match angler, and contain only the finest ingredients and feed stimulants.
Nashbait pellet mixes
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£4.99
Nashbait has launched three new pellet mixes, as well as boilie pellet hookbaits and liquids.
Micro Mix is a blend of 0.5mm-2mm pellets perfect for filling PVA bags and sticks. It would also be ideal as a dampened-down Method feeder pellet mix.
Small Mix uses 2mm-4mm pellets, also ideal for PVA bag work or in spod mixes. Mega Mix contains six types of larger pellets for spodding, while the new Boilie and Dumbell Hookbaits contain ground pellets and Green Lipped Mussel extract.
Sonubaits Oily Floater Pellets 11mm
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£3.45
Additions to the proven fish-catching Sonubaits Oily Floater range include pungent Liver and Krill flavours. The textured baits can be side-hooked or hair-rigged, and are ideal for summer floater tactics.
Sonubaits Pellet O’s
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£1.99
These pre-drilled pellets are perfect for use with a hair-rigged quickstops, and are especially well suited to pellet waggler tactics.
Sonubaits Paste Pellets
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£2.99
Pliable but soft, these baits can be side- hooked and moulded into any shape – ideal for wrapping around harder boilie and pellet hookbaits.
Sonubaits Soft Hooker Pellets
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£2.99
The perfect hookbaits for use with pole or waggler tactics. Bursting with flavour, they will not split or crumble when hooked on.
Sonubaits Semi-Buoyant Band’ums
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£4.99
Similar to the Band'ums, but buoyant, which means these can be critically balanced against the weight of the hook – perfect for Method feeders.
Sonubaits Band’ums
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£3.99
These hookbaits are the perfect shape for using with bait bands, and are much favoured by anglers using Method feeder or pellet waggler tactics.
Sonubaits Bloodworm Fishmeal Feed Pellets
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£3.99
These sinking feed pellets in 2mm, 4mm and 6mm sizes are coated in a special bloodworm flavour, and can be used straight or prepared for Method or pellet feeders in the two smaller sizes by soaking in water for 30 minutes. The addition of the new Sonu Liquid Bloodworm and Fishmeal liquid further enhances the bait’s appeal.
Ringer Baits Micro Pellets
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£3.49
Five sure-fire successes join the Ringers range of match baits. Ringers Micros are specially selected tiny pellets for pole potting. They hold together just long enough to make them an ideal feed when used with Method and pellet feeders.
They are also very easy to prepare, too – you simply cover them level with water and leave them to stand for 30 minutes.
Drennan Yum Yums Soft Hooker Pellets
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£1.95
These superb soft hooker pellets come in the popular 4mm and 6mm sizes with two distinctive fishy flavours and colours – deep red Crab and Krill, and brown Natural Shellfish Extract.
Extensively field-tested to deliver just the right consistency and level of attraction, they have a slightly gelatinous texture, soft and spongy to the touch yet durable enough to stay on the hook.
As long as you’re careful, the larger size can be hair-rigged with a Pushstop without splitting.
Ideal for carp, F1s, crucians, tench and bream, Drennan calls them Yum Yums for a very good reason – fish love them!
Dynamite Baits Pre-Drilled Marine Halibut Pellets
Barbel fans should note that these new 350g resealable bags of Dynamite Halibut Pellets will be available pre-drilled 8mm and 10mm as well as all existing sizes. Probably one of the best baits of all time, the pre-drilled pellets are sure to prove extremely popular as hookbaits.
Marukyu Skrill Hooker Pellets
Marukyu’s Skrill hooker pellets, ready to use straight from the tub, come in a choice of red or black and are infused with top-secret attractants that make them super-appealing to fish.
The special Far Eastern production process gives them a texture that enables them to be used conventionally side-hooked or fished on a hair rig in singles or multiples.
Price: £2.99
Dynamite Baits Robin Red Pellets
Dynamite Baits has released their unique Haith’s (the original producers of Robin Red powder) pellets in smaller 4mm and 6mm feed sizes. The spicy flavoured brick red coloured baits which have been enjoying a renaissance period as match and pleasure anglers fishing many of the large open water complexes such as Boddington, Larford, and Meadowlands have found that the big carp which inhabit these waters- have a real hunger for the 12mm and 15mm sizes as hook-baits. This Taste-bud theory must also apply to big barbel though, as I am reliably informed that the pre-drilled easy to hair-rig pellets are also scoring heavily on the rivers. Long may it continue, and with matching feed a pellet now available- who knows what will happen next. Just check the rules on your local commercial fishery though before feeding them, as most now insist on fishery only pellets.
Price. £4.75 for 900g
Available sizes. 4mm, 6mm, 8mm,12mm, 15mm and 20mm ( 8mm upwards all pre-drilled)
Marukyu Skrill Pellets
Marukyu’s latest Skrill Pellets incorporate Squid, Antarctic Krill, natural sweeteners and proprietary attractors to deliver a feed that fish are said to love to eat!
The uniform-sized black sinking pellets are ideal for loosefeeding, in spod mixes or for use with PVA bags and sticks. They come in 2mm, 4mm, 6mm and 8mm sizes.
Price: £3.99
Sonubaits Super Expander Pellets
New Sonubaits Super Expander Pellets in 4mm and 6mm sizes can be quickly and conveniently prepared on the bank in a pellet pump. They keep their shape well, sink without fail, and do not break down or crumble when softening up. They can be coloured or flavoured, and are the perfect hookbait choice for nearly all fish species.
Price: £2.99
Sonubaits Oozing Barbel and Carp Hookbait Pellets
Designed to work in the worst of fishing situations, Oozing Barbel and Carp Hookbait Pellets are jam-packed with intense flavours and colours that leak off readily, making them easy for the fish to find.
With a flavour trail lasting up to 24 hours, they come in three proven fish-catching flavours – Cheesy Garlic, Halibut, and Spicy Sausage.
Price: £3.99
