When Steve Slater of Innovate Baits agreed for us to undertake a review of their boilie range, I was over the moon as I could wait to get my hands on their “365″ range of steamed HNV boilies.
As part of the package we received, we were sent the following products to test and review:
- “Apocalypse” (fishmeal)
- “The Fix” (spicy fishmeal)
- “Squid2T”
- Apocalypse Glug
Upon opening the boilies, you could immediately see the difference between the steamies and ordinary boilies. The steamed boilies were a lot softer and appeared to carry more texture and aroma.
You could almost sense that these boilies were going to be something a bit special !
These baits were tested at Culcreuch Castle Loch. The weather was brightening up as the last of the torrential rain passed leaving us optimistic that the carp would come up in the water.
First on the hook was “The Apocalypse” which smelt fantastic. As well as the hookbait, we added a couple to a bag and added some bait dip for extra attraction hoping that the smell of the matched glug would send the carp into a feeding frenzy.
On the second rod, we used a single “The Fix” boilie on a hair rig. These boilies look superb.
They are spicy in flavour and you can see the niger seed within the mix which overtime would breakdown and act as particle feed enhancing the attraction to any passing carp.
This rod was cast to a margin which had seen some surfacing carp.
Over an hour went past and we had received no activity and with a huge cloud overhanging the lake looking ready to burst, we decided to call it a day.
However in order to give the bait (and ourselves !) more time , we will conclude this review in Part 2 (Scheduled for one week’s time) so please check back shortly.
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