Had a chat with an old chum the other day, and, as you do, we fell to reminissing about things "back in the day".
Suddenly we both came out with the same thing, "Why on earth did we stop using Big Fish Mix?", and couldnt give a real reason.
We had some great results on it.
It was still doing the buisness everywhere we fished. Yet we had just drifted away from using it. Myself to Terry Wortleys Multimeat bait, my pal to a deal with Mainline.
Perhaps it was just the money. As we were both into giving them some serious quantities of snap at that time, and Nutrabaits stuff was fairly expensive, if you were not called Cundiff.
To cut a long conversation short, we both decided to get as near as we could to our old recipe, and see what happened when we fished it alongside our modern baits.
I am not expecting quite the results we had then, as there are now loads of great baits, from a shedload of companies, and the competition is so much greater. However I have a sneaking suspicion that it will hold its own.
Do you have an old favourite that you think should still be able to do the buisness? If so, why not give it a go again, and see if all the changes the bait companies are improvements, or are they just marketing ploys?
BOF ;)
I suspect most of the Nutrabaits oldies will work very well, the company was one of only a few offering quality base mixes.
It's like flavours, there seems to be ones that have stood the test of time, Tutti-Frutti for instance.
I used Hi-Nu-Val one Winter and caught, that was their most expensive bait.
Back then I wasn't using the quantities that seem to be the norm today.
BFM was good for me too, with added GLM.
A good bait should always stand the test of time. I reckon too many people blame the bait and not their own abilities to catch fish. I have been there before buying tub after tub of pop ups till your brain hurts and you don`t know what works and what doesn`t. I have seen many people (myself included) drawn into buying different baits in the hope of having the success that the mags and manufacturers have claimed and i still hear it on the bankside. If i was to be honest the only good move i made bait wise in the past due to hype was moving onto Trigga ice.
