Ever heard the old adage, “Less is more”? I first opened up my eyes to this when I was a nipper, having spotted a big carp resting in the margins of a local lake. It was quite happy resting there. It was also quite happy to ignore everything I put in front of it. I sat there, watching it filtering the water through its gills, and decided to give it one last try. I scaled down my hook, but on the tiniest bit of bread I could and freelined it right in front of this fish. Next thing I saw was the bait being sucked in at lightning speed, the line shooting across the lake and my rod being bent double. ‘EXPLOSIVE’ would be a good way to describe it!
These 6mm Super Buoyant Mini Pops are about as small as you want to go with a pop-up boilie and offer you a number of options. I haven’t counted how many are in the pot, but I’d hazard a guess that it’s 300-ish! If you look on the Mistral Baits website, you’ll see that they come in three different flavours; Pineapple, Rosehip and ‘Natural’. The latter is designed for you to add your own flavouring, if desired, but I certainly wouldn’t disregard using them straight out of the pot!
Each pot contains six different hi-viz colours; orange, pink, yellow, green, white and purple.
How you fish these will depend on the venue and conditions on the day, but most people would use them as a ‘tip-off’ bait on a larger boilie (in a similar way many use fake sweetcorn), or as a tiny bait on their own. Fishing small baits will often give you amazing results, but it’s often a leap of faith to do so; when many anglers are increasing the size of their boilies to eliminate runs from smaller fish, it takes a brave man or woman to go completely the opposite way. But it’s often differences like that which make the difference between an average angler and a really successful one!
Mistral Baits Mini Fluorescent Pop-Ups also make a good stalking bait, when fishing for fish that you can see. In those situations, you often require a bait that will enter the water with the minimal of fuss, yet stand out from the bed of the lake.
Personally, I like to use mini pop-ups as a teaser to see if I can get fish feeding off the top. If the wind’s in the right direction and you’re fishing PVA bags, or spodding out bait, put a few in each time and forget about them. They’ll rise to the top and if any fish fancy a bit of surface action, they won’t be able to resist them!
These mini pop-ups are of the usual high quality you get from Mistral Baits. They will pop up for a long time and will be just as attractive to fish after a few hours in the water as the moment they were cast in. I’ve had various products from the Mistral Baits ranges over the years and NEVER been disappointed. At just £6.99 a pot, it’s well worth getting a tub of these and sticking them in your tackle bag.
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