Fishing baits firstly the range is well thought out, secondly value for money,the price is right imo, most importantly does the product works and more importantly how it works.
I am not a sponsered angler and have always voiced my honest opinion, although i have had some very minor sponsership I have always taken it only if I considered it to be the best for my fishing and will only promote what I beleive to be up there with the best, that was the case with ultima lines which I still use to this day
No disrespect to maruku as there products are undoubtably superb and well thought out especially the groundbait range that requires no ridling, I am certain that maruku is possibly the best out there in terms of how the product is made for certain circumstances, as an example they grade the particles for bigger or smaller specimans etc
however we mainly fish for match carp or bream these days and fishmeal is fishmeal whether finely ground or not irrespective of additives added to the groundbait such as seaweed, krill or feed stimulants etc Carp are like pigs at a trough when feeding well, see it and they will eat it, when it comes to it does it matter if I use a fishmeal groundbait that comes in a two kilo bag which costs less than another groundbait of double the cost, if money was no object then I would give the maruku groundbaits including some that cost in excess of £6 a bag a whirl, may still do when I’m flush, the sonubaits bandum are £1.99 a tub and are a great target bait, when I used them at puddleduck road lake I was informed the hook bait that was working well was meat, now although I had meat with me I did think do I wan’t to be ar*ed using a meat punch korum quickstop etc which costs time much easier to band a bandum if it worked valuable seconds add up in a match, so it was a red bandum that went on as bait (even if it was strawberry) if it worked great if not a switch to meat could be made, a switch to the white bandum was done in the harder time of the day as bread punch sometimes works ( during this period) to winkle out an additional fish when all else has failed, obviously I may now go back and see if they do a yellow bandum (i think they do a pinapple yellow flavour) and try it when sweetcorn is the “in bait” obviously at £1.99 it ain’t going to break the bank!
I think that maruku have launched there fantastic range of groundbaits at a time of austerity, anglers who can afford to buy two bags of groundbait for in excess of £13 plus expensive hooker pellets etc on top of pools diesal/petrol brekky etc deserve every penny if they win using the stuff, most anglers i know are trying to reduce the cost of bait etc which is why lots of anglers only use pellets corn etc, chatting to Nigel Harry at Barston I was asking about bait requirements for a forthcoming match and he suggested taking worm, maggot and caster on top of pellets and the normal baits I just asked the requirement for a 5 hour match, he also remarked that the locals all use pellet in the weekday matches and don’t even buy wriggly baits because it’s cheaper.
Cost is Key! 😉

sonubaits have already had theres out in the market place, however I am not a great fan of red groundbait, except when targetting tench

tommo 🙂 never get time to count it as it goes straight in the wallet :rolleyes: the good old days when we used to mold groundbait around a large method feeder, however you obviously havern’t seen the preston mini method feeders about the size of a 50p, with mits like mine it would take ages to mold groundbait and create a lot of mess around such a tiny object, when using these the mold is the only option,especially with the size of my mits 😉

they obviously marked up the price wrong on the ones I bought how fortunate 😀
still even at £3.99 I won’t be complaining especially as they paid for themself more than 20 times over, money well spent 😀 😀 😀