halibut boilies for barbel

[fantasticfisherman]

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Been using them for a while now, try the frozen ones! [/QB]

 

i hadn't realised you could get frozen halibut boilies. is there an advantage when using frozen ones instead of shelf-life ones? [/QB]

[fantasticfisherman]

sorry had a bit of a cock up when using a quote

[Rob Ward]

Yeah there's no preservatives in them and thawing draws out the flavour.

[fantasticfisherman]

Rob Ward:

Yeah there's no preservatives in them and thawing draws out the flavour.

so does that make shelf-lives better?

[DavyR]

Carp are very fussy about food containing E numbers, so frozen boilies are better (no artificial ingredients???)

[DavyR]

Oh sorry, I meant barbel (as well as carp).

[DavyR]

Except the record barbel, obviously.

[Severn Wolf]

I don`t use pellet hookbaits any more, get more problems than its worth. The main part of my feed is Dynamite Marine halibuts so I just use one or two of their 10mm boilies. Sometimes go for the 15mm but its still in the experimental stage so I can`t comment on results.

If the feed is made up of 4, 6 8 and 10mm pellets then the barbel can honestly not tell the difference and if they could they would probably prefer the boilie because its softer. Pellets lighten in the water and end up the same tone as boilies anyway. The beauty of boilies is you know they`re not going to split and come off. I`ve never bought into the superglue idea, not that I don`t think it works but purely on the basis of confidence. If need be I can leave a boilie hookbait out for a few hours safe in the knowledge its still on, something I could never say when I was using pellets.

[jeepster]

some interesting thoughts coming from this thread, i have never, and thought i would never use boIlies for barbel, i've caught some decent barbel (and chub and river carp) on halibut pellets and use a (widely known!!) secret method for attaching them to the hair and have total confidence in this method, but you never know, i may give boilies a go one day soon!

[Peter Sharpe]

Apart from one time, I have only ever used boilies for barbel. Trigga were my usual mainstay, but I have found the halibut pellet ones to be just as successful. I did try using pellets once and I did catch more barbel - but they were all considerably smaller than the ones I usually catch.