NASHBait Chain Reaction

Apart from the odd new flavour coming through or colour change, bait innovation had hit a brick wall over the past few years with very few original ideas making there way to the retailers shelves and into our carryalls, until now. After the resounding success of the Nash baits ‘Soluballs’ that were first released early 2010 to critical acclaim from both the angling media and public alike. Nash has since taken this unique baiting idea to a whole new level with the 2011 release of the ‘Chain Reaction’. Over the past three months UKMA have been having a proper play around with these very clever feeding alternatives to find out how they perform where it counts, out on the bank, here’s how we got on.

Vital Statistics

Cast out the Chain Reactions melt, leaving an appetizing area of food on Chain reaction is virtually identical in structure to the Soluballs working as a soluble food source that can be introduced into your swim without the need for a Spod rod or PVA mesh or bags but with two instantly noticeable differences. The Chain Reactions still contain crumb, flakes, ground seeds and 20% of the boilies each flavour has been designed to fish with but they are now manufactured into a round flat disc with two flat faces and a pre-bored hole through the centre. These new features make it possible for your hooklength to be threaded through the centre of the Chain Reaction and placed on the top of your hook and because of the flat faces they can be stacked up to increase the feed content around your hookbait.

The Advantages

Imagine this situation, you are fishing the stick mix in the tried and tested way, using PVA mesh and you have just landed a fish. Unfortunately it is lashing it down, giving you less chance of getting a PVA stick out to your baited area than England have of winning the World Cup, until now. However, because of the way that ‘Chain Reaction’ is made it has a far greater break down time than standard PVA bags or meshes. This allowing you to load up your hooklength with the required amount of Chain Reactions and casting out with total confidence that your feed offerings will make it to your baited area and be exactly where you need them, right next to your hookbait. Pretty simple when you think about it really but still veryclever!!

TOP TIP – When fishing in moving water with long hooklengths and heavy leads (6-10oz). Using a fine baiting needle, side thread a rig bead onto your hooklength, this makes it fit securely and act as a stopper or anchor. This then makes it possible to place a number of Chain Reactions onto your hooklength and when re-connected, the bead and Chain Reactions can then be pushed towards your lead and secured in place whilst casting. The reason for doing this is as the Chain Reaction break down, the particles are then distributed directly over your hookbait rather than away from your hook bait. The UKMA team don’t leave anything to chance and when we field tested this method on the River Trent it works superbly.

Final Thoughts

Although it has been around for some time now PVA is starting to become a luxury for many anglers who are now on a tighter budget. So when I learned about the potential savings an angler could make by using these well thought out baiting options, we had to have a play to see if the Chain Reactions worked and we at UKMA can categorically say “they do”. Very simple to use and anglers of all abilities can reap the rewards from these efficient food sources and the presentation options they can be used to create. Although designed for carp, I’m sure the big fish brigades who target chub, barbel, bream and tench will also get great results from having a play with the as well. They are available in al the usual Nash flavours and supplied to you in a handy 550g mini bucket that will set you back around £6.49 per tub.