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P a g e | 24 All the things I have touched on here about fear invite disaster. However, I am always up for labels, and preventing your bait being giving a bit of help where it is wanted so please recognised as a danger, are particularly feel free to contact me via the ABF forum important, and even more so when targeting big http://www.barbelfishers.com/forum/ either barbel. They have been around a long time and publically on a post, or via PM. likely have been on the bank many times and, as Making a standard mix, if that is the right word, a consequence, have become very tricky to fool. is much easier. Whilst the points above about That is something you will do well to remember binders and bulks having to work in your mix so in your whole approach, not just bait. I will say that it rolls (if you intend to boil – and you don’t more about things of relevance such as have to) are all still relevant, what you don’t digestibility further on, but really that is good need to worry about is decreasing the protein for any bait not just HNV, and there is more than content, because it would be fairly hard to arrive one way of achieving that. at a bait with a protein level well below a Formulating an HNV means considering your barbels natural food unless you were using very bait ingredients carefully as some ingredients, inferior ingredients. This type of bait is much such as binders which you will obviously need to more about what is instantly attractive to a make the bait roll, can pull the protein content barbel and certainly relevant if you are using of your mix down considerably. It takes some them very infrequently on any given water. You experience and an understanding of how can go a fair bit higher with flavours than you ingredients will offset each other, regarding how would otherwise in that situation, as long as you they make your bait more or less pliable, do not go to excess and actually make the bait rollable, and dissolvable. Some bulk ingredients repellent then that is fine. Meat meals will will make your bait very moisture absorbent and generally have a higher fat content than will cause the mix to ‘cake’ or break up in too fishmeals, and the latter will have the generally higher volume within the bait, so solubles may higher protein content and lower fat. be added to offset that. However, dependant on The best of both worlds might be poultry protein the nature of your bulk ingredient, and meal, especially if fishmeals have been used therefore the soluble portion you include, it is frequently on your water, which roughly likely you will need that binder, and what you contains the same nutritional profile as the choose to use will depend on the first two whilst better quality fishmeals. Ingredients like also considering that first statement of it pulling megablend can also be extremely useful, not the protein level down - do you see how only as an additional bulk, but is also a very complex it can get? All very well for someone effective binder. There are dozens of others who has been using HNV for years, not so easy which will appeal to barbel and will make for an for the people who have not, and those who excellent high attraction type bait, where a have no experience in bait making at all could baiting campaign is not necessary to achieve end up with a disaster! Amusing with hindsight! your aims. To these you can include additives But not much fun at the time to see a pile of such as Green Lipped Mussel, yeast powders, sludge in the bottom of your saucepan or a large liver powders, and dozens of others that you can brick on your work surface! treat as labels and include and remove as you So if you feel confident enough then give it a go! wish. Again, if any of you want advice on But it is so complicated I could write as much as I ingredients and what will function and roll well, have written here easily on the subject and to then please feel free to contact me. give you a little advice, without the rest, will I