BAIT
- DRY powder dips, Liquid Dips and Sticky Dips.
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Bait Dry Powder Dips, CBC Sticky Dips and DD Liquid Dips - By Sam
Dry dips. We rate these a lot and I rarely put
baits out without a dry dipped PVA bag and hookbait.
Everybody knows about the benefits of a liquid
food dip, maybe with extra dissolved and suspended
attractors.
DD Bait dry dips are made from food and attractor
ingredients, such as GLM, liver powder, freeze
dried fish oil, and crustaceans including gammarus
and daphnia. When a wet bait is rolled into dry
dip, the particles stick to the surface and form
a layer of particles around the hookbait. More
layers are built up by repeatedly dunking the
hookbait in water and rolling in dry dip until
the hookbait and hook are completely covered in
a thick coating of powder.
When a hookbait is left to set, the coating goes
solid and will withstand a distance cast. Due
to the buoyancy of the ingredients and the trapped
air in the powders, the hookbait will sit popped
up off the bottom, until it starts to break down
and settles on the lake bed, every now and again
sending mini gammarus spinning up to the surface.
PVA bags of the stocking type, rolled in dry dip
are another way of providing this dissolving attraction
near the hookbait.
These have proven deadly the past couple of seasons
for Carp and Barbel.
Cotswold Bait Creations super sticky dips are totally new and have been used to great effect by the team in 2005. We have adapted thier use to providing as much attraction outside a PVA bag as you can get in it. We first roll the mesh bags in the sticy dip, then place it in a plastic bag. Roll the bag in the dip and then coat in dry dip. Then coat the bag in CBC Liquid Bloodworm before rolling in dry dip again. Alternatively, give the bag a good dunk in Sticky Dip then roll in small pellets. Pure Carp and Barbel treats!
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