Mainline Baits
Pro-Active Hookbait Enhancement System

No matter how confident you are in your chosen hookbait flavour, there always a chance that you might be able to enhance its performance by giving it a glug to produce an instant release of flavour in your baited area. One of the best ranges of products that have been on the market for some years now is the Pro-Active Hookbait Enhancement System from Mainline baits. These flavoursome attractants are all based on a heavy, viscous liquid that has all of the required additives to aid the attraction of any type of bait, either ready made or home made, sweet or savoury, fish or fruit, you can play around with all the different options to find something that is right for your own personal baiting requirements. There are five flavour options in the range, these are; Halibut, Tiger Nut, Sweet Pineapple, Tutti's & Tuna and each flavour is supplied in a 175ml strong screw top bottle.

Due to Mainline's beliefs that one of the most important parts of a bait, flavour or additive is that it must be 100% water soluble, these top quality liquid flavour enhancers totally fulfil this need and will release the aroma of your choice for a very long time whilst in the water. The second thing is that all of the bases do not react with PVA very quickly, again due to them not being water based. A little trick that helped me during the winter was to prepare the hookbait and a stringer and then dip the prepared bait into the Hookbait Enhancement System of your choice for around say 10 to 20 seconds before casting. Other options include coating feed pellets or freebies and thoroughly massaging into your offerings before loose feeding or spodding, really the possibilities are endless

TOP TIPS FOR WINTER

Match – Put 80% maggots or sweetcorn and 20% groundbait in a bait tub and pour approximately 25ml of Pro-active Liquid Hookbait Enhancer System over the top. Then mix until all the maggots or sweetcorn have an even coating of the Pro-active Hookbait Enhancement System and the groundbait particles. By introducing 5 or maggots or grains of sweetcorn with a pole pot each put in you will stimulate feeding without over feeding your swim.

Carp & Specialist - Try rubbing your chosen Pro-active Hookbait Enhancement System into your braided hooklength, leads and rig tubing prior to casting, especially when things are rock hard, this has and will definitely help to stimulate and bank extra fish on those rock hard winter sessions when feeding for bites is just  not an option.

Final Thoughts

I like to experiment with flavours and additives and these top quality liquids from Essex based Mainline Baits definitely have something to offer anglers from all aspects of coarse angling. Pro-active Hookbait Enhancement System offers the angler who likes to experiment total flexibility and because of the way that they are produces they can be incorporated into virtually any baiting situation regularly used in modern feeding techniques. Expect to pay around £11.99 for each of these 175ml bottles of liquid flavouring that will definitely give you an edge especially during the cold months when every bite makes a difference.