Flavour and all kinds of additives were and are a big thing in angling!! Every tackle shop offers an awefull lot of this stuff. Wich tells you, there is no magical ingrediant out there. Best addition to your bait is confidence. Personaly I like to add soy sauce, liquid liver or other stuff, that not only adds flavour. It also changes the taste of my bait.

Go catch that barble l😊❤

I think fish 'get smart' and come to realise that flavoured bait Joe , Steve Ringer and rest of anglers are using today is best avoided. Congrats on pick up.

Flavours, remember that jean desque told us years ago he can only say for definite that a flavour worked and that was vanilla for roach, personally I remember fishing and a mate was using Pol vitimo,and bagging whilst I was struggling switched to Pol vitimo and started catching, coincidence 🤔

Regards bread ... i dont think they are choosing to eat it. It is just a light, but big bait that gets sucked up while they are eating pellets (you touched on this in the first pub chat with mick). The bread goes in almost by mistake. That's why I reckon many fish are lost and hook holds can be poor. They've not specifically eaten it, or potentially tried to avoid it, but its gone in anyway and rather than confidently sit up and hook themselves, they tried to reject it early or stayed on the spot and the size of the bread then helps the hook to leave and it doesnt catch the mouth where it should, or would with a heavier bait. Okay, wafters are light, but being smaller, they dont have the same surface area to be picked up by water movement. Basically, put both in a tub of water and waft the water with your hand. The wafter hardly moves, while the bread shoots away. On the flip side, its also the reason that so many are hooked (albeit poorly sometimes) in the first place. The fish are not feeding, you just get the odd one having a taste or a drive by snack, probably sucking at the bait from a few inches above the feeder. So there's not enough "suction power" to move a wafter, but enough to move a lump of bread (with that in mind, short hooklengths are possibly another contributing factor to poor hookholds as maybe it doesnt get far enough in to start off with?).

With bread I think you need a longer hair than normal, as bread swells and leaves very little gap between bread and hook. Read an article years ago by a carp angler regarding hair length and he was convinced a bigger gap between bait and hook gave a better hook hold.

My favourite are scopex and maple leaf sweetner

Joe. High pressure does not affect the distance that you can cast. Quick Google search will give you the answers. Great result for our team despite a awful game 😊

Hi Joe, regarding additives and flavours, personally I agree with your reasoning if everyone is using them it must cause more caution when fish approach the bait. I believe doing something different can get you those extra bites. Remember up there for thinking, down there for dancing. Don't follow the crowd.

White and yellow best for clear water, and red and orange for coloured, flavour irrelevant, in my experience.

Can’t wait for the all day breakfast flavour 😂

Well done Joe ! 👍

On the subject of flavours, I only fish for barbel and chub on rivers, always used shop bought halibut type pellets and spam and done ok, but since swapping to the really smelly stuff from Vortex I’ve noticed a massive improvement, especially in flood conditions using bigger baits such as 14mm pellets.

Well done Joe good effort unfortunately I blanked this week along with 50% of the other anglers.

Awesome rod and reel is my bet method any day tackling big carp well done Joe as usual

Really enjoying this series of matches, congrats on your pick up mate 👏👍

Flavoured baits have their place but they don't always work.

Well done Joe for getting some £££ back for your hard work, Thank you.

Well done m8 👏👏 , good luck on Rivers pal 🤞

Good job. I’m going to miss this series. Think you should keep going until you win one 😉 On additives: as a (part time) speci carp angler, I‘d say sometimes they are good, sometimes they are bad. When the going is tough the fish sometimes shy away from overly „boosted“ baits imo

Good luck on your final adventure at Boddington Jo 😊

Great video Joe. Can I ask what your set up is here please? Rod and tip (oz) shock leader and braid. Cheers 👍

can u show us how ur puttin bread on the method joe?

I think that colour is more important in the winter months

The fish might be backing away from flavoured baits wised up

Nice one Joe , great video

Well done , just shows the size of the water and time of year you can’t draw the fish so you have to draw the area they live in , try hooking the bread may be the hook hold will be better , just a thought 👍

another great film joe didnot know you put bread on will have to give that a try,i have just started using the detexion line and its working just fine at the moment and sinks well .😎

Re: Additives and baits.I have always been a bit sceptical about all these so called wonderbaits an additives. There doesn't pass a week without yet another wonderbait appearing which catches you loads off fish. i have always believed in either White, Red or Yellow as the best Bait colours and Fishmeal woth a bit of sweetness added in the end of spring to mid Autumn then Mild soft flavoured additives like washed out Scopex as a fore instance. Anyway back to the fishing, I was so pleased that you changed to Wafter. Just like the Yellow or Red ones this time of year. Well done for 2nd in section. Great series with loads of info and interesting items. Well done Joe. Cheers

I’ve always questioned the goo’s looks great in a tank a green hue coming up the water column but how natural is that does anything naturally do that or is it such a powerful attractant that the un-normal becomes a non issue for the fish

Like 10 from Indonesian fishing ❤❤

Yesss !! Some river fishing coming up soon …get in !😆

Look forward to hearing more about the black & yellow carbon stick? Tight Lines Steve Amison 👍🦆🎣

Great watch again Joe and hopefully you smash it up on your last match 🤞🤞

Well done Jo

oops sorry! not paid for 🤔 i guess youre using a NuFish prototype, which with you and mick develping them, theyll sell like hot cakes, im sure, the BLACK and YELLOW with no explanation kinda gave it away matey! but good luck in the future with the launch

What's the rod a nufish black and yellow pal?

hiya buddy! respect to you learning a different angling skill, thats whats so wonderful about our lives as anglers, different techniques, different waters, ie, canals rivers, commercials. But mate, being out of your comfort zone, and having the honestly to show vids of blanks, but there was info to learn from those. you seem impressively to have quickly picked up this new skill. and jeez hope the missus doesnt watch the videos and know about buying new rods! take care buddy and thankyou for the very good and also very informative content. thanks Joe.

Practice makes…money!! 😂

I seen money money money

VERY professional filming and editing there.. So good i don't think most anglers have picked up on it if that makes sense?

Shame its not on bulk spools save fcking around with backing just to save a couple of ££££ I HATE BACKING ON REELS

shame about the mug but we all blank i have the last two matches but like you joe we keep going every week,by the way joe in winter feder fishing my hands get cold a mate of mine found these yaktrax hand warmers they are just the job for 8 hrs🙌

That's fishing.

At least it wasn't a team match!

Tuff at top Joe 😢

Never mind Joe keep going mate you will get a win soon 👍

Keep going pal, you’ll crack it 🤞👏👏

What a battle...like you said it's hard to know what to do in that situation. Them fish sure know how to F' with ones head. Thanks mate.

This is an absolutely fantastic video, the breakdown of your day the decisions made the changes you made, I learn more from these kind of videos from where someone gets placed on a flyer when there nobody else on the lake, true realistic fishing. Keep em coming, oh and I hope your win is on the horizon 👍👍👍👍👍