Sticky pellets & Horlicks ?

[TF_AnthonywatersParticipant]

Do you need Horlicks at 2 quid odd a tub to make sticky pellets , after all its 55 % wheat flour, wont normall flour do the do at a fraction of the cost ?

[TF_baitchefParticipant]

i’m pretty sure there is something much stronger than horlicks, but I cant remember what it is at the moment. I;ll try and find out for you sometime, but it will probably take me a while.

[TF_One Out of the Frame]

What are you trying to do with the pellet?

Distance? Depth?

It might just be changing your pellet.

[Anonymous]

I watched a video of Tom Pickering and he used an egg

[TF_AnthonywatersParticipant]

What im thinking is, wheatflour or even strong flour ( bread flour ) is very strong in gluten. Horlicks composition is 55 % wheatflour and this is where the all important part the gluten is found this gives the stickyness to the dusted pellets, so im thinking why not just dust soaked micros with flour instead of Horlicks ? NB. You would need to give this some thought when you do this, apply it carefully, drain off your soaked pellets and let them air dry until there nearly dry then with the help of a sieve give them a light and even dusting of flour. If you start pouring flour straight from a bag onto wet pellets its game over.

[Anonymous]

Why not just give some thought to how you prepare your pellets. Get that right and you dont need anything else to hold pellets together for use with a method feeder or for feeding small balls. 25p worth of Horlicks solves the issue of getting the pellets prepared correctly for use 25p worth of Horlicks is not really a massive cost if you cannot prepare your pellets correctly or just want to add Horlicks for ease of use. A small amount of crushed pellet does the same thing as Horlicks and is more natural.

[TF_AnthonywatersParticipant]

Trueblue we can all prepare pellets perfectly that wrap around a frame, trouble is on big deep venues there washed off the feeder before its got halfway down, I fish a club venue thats 10ft plus deep and 50 yds chuck on some pegs.

[Anonymous]

What makes you think that your pellets are off your feeder before the feeder hits the deck after a 50 yard chuck in to 10ft of water?

[TF_One Out of the Frame]

The dam wall at Drayton was over 15′ deep and I would use the same mix that I would use on the bagging wag on the method.

I think that it is all down to confidence: If you think that it is falling off you won’t be happy to sit with the bait out consequently reeling the feeder in when you should have left it out there and voila! You don’t catch and succeeded in a self fulfilling prophecy into the bargain.

Go to the venue on a practice day and chuck the method and leave it. You could also chuck another one with just the bait on too. Once you start catching on it your confidence will return and so will your results.

I spent a fair bit of time getting the method right and it was surprising fishing with a couple of rods one with a 2-3″ hooklength and the other 5-6″ and one will completely outfish the other!

Similarly what you put on the hook too: I told Nige Harrhy about fishing with no bait on and getting fish after fish (I originally used it to avoid skimmers at a local venue and just get the carp) and he was shocked that it worked on his venue and became a party trick for him whenever anglers pressed him on the best bait for Barston! lol

[TF_obsessedangler]

If you are looking for a good all round bloodworm pellet then these will stick together in no time after dampening down, great for use in feeder or catapulting out. Use these with great success and very sticky to touch.

http://www.stickybaits.com/bloodworm-pellets.html

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