Fred, your opening post does seem to back up my suggestion on the other marukyu thread about JPz pellets. When the fish are really having it. JPz pellets as a stand out hook bait do work and might even be a real winner in that situation. The only problem with this is that there are loads of alternative stand out hook baits that can do the same job depending on what is being fed. Meat works over corn. Worm over casters. Expanders over micro,s. Paste over pellet or hemp. Corn over almost any feed. Those are all proven match winning combanations where the hook bait is different from the feed and the aim is to make it stands out and is picked out from the feed.
While i tend to go down the feeding what i put on the hook approach in general fishing situation. When fishing for big weights and especially for down the margins. I often fish with a stand out hook baits because they seem to work.
The big question for me is do carp really like eating JPz pellets more than other hook baits. All the evidence suggests that they dont. However, put a shed full of feeding fish in a swim and get them really competing. In particular with loads of feed (the glebe is a perfect example). Then, JPz pellets would seem to work but so would many alternatives for the hook.
Would be more convince that JPz pellets work if i was hearing of match winning weights where smallish amounts of feed where being used in generally tight matches. In those situations where your fishing for bites. JPz pellets dont seem to do it for most carp. These are the normal fishing situations for most anglers on most venues that we fish. These are the normal angling situations that anglers are reporting that JPz pellets dont work!
TF_Fred Davis.
