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A high-quality food bait comes in all shapes and sizes, using various ingredients in order to create the ultimate in carp attraction, where fish will hopefully keep coming back for more. What you will find with many of the best baits is that they use very few to no artificial attractors or additives, but will instead include natural ingredients within their mix. RG Baits is one such bait maker who adopts this approach, and the anglers who use its food baits on a consistent basis are rewarded handsomely.       

It is The Forumula + Arctic Crab boilie that has sparked plenty of interest in recent times, and when you delve into the ingredients list, you can see why so many people have switched to this nutritionally packed food source. Made up of a blend of three different fishmeals, there are additions such as crushed oyster shell, which adds an attractive crunch, as well as the inclusion of bird seed and mixed cereals. Users will find that as soon as they open a bag of The Formula + Arctic Crab, a pungent fishy aroma will be released. RG Baits’ own liquid food, pre-digested liquid liver and shoreline crab hydrolysate all contribute to creating the punchy aroma. These items are extremely water soluble and release attraction with great speed, alerting hungry carp that this protein rich and highly digestible bait has been introduced.

The range includes a number of items including The Formula + Arctic Crab Stabilised, which is the shelf-life version of the bait. RG Baits has achieved this through the utilisation of a top quality human grade food preserver. The shelf-life is great for using in quantity, whether that be for long trips at home and abroad, as well as keeping some bait ready to go in your bait bag for spontaneous sessions. The Stabilised baits are available in 12mm, 15mm, 18mm and 22mm sizes and can be obtained in 1kg, 5kg, 10kg, 20kg and 50kg quantities. For an extra boost of attraction however, there is the option of applying Aqua Soluble Baits into your feed. These are currently only available in a throwing stick friendly 18mm and have been tested to break down in a period of four to eight hours, depending on the water temperature.

Of course, no high-quality boilie range would be complete without a good selection of hook bait options, and The Formula + Arctic Crab is no different. The hardened hooks are able to combat issues with nuisance fish and bird life and use the liquid blend at an elevated level to further increase leakage. This also applies to the Corkdust Wafters and Corkdust Pop-Ups, where there are various sizes available to complement the food bait. There are also some highly visual hook baits, with its own Arctic Crab Decade Specials in both pop-up and wafter form, which contain a mixture of colours in the form of pink, white and yellow.

The Formula + Arctic Crab

Hook baits £6.95

Aqua Soluble Bait from £11.50

Shelf-Life Boilies from £11.50

Website: www..rgbaits.co.uk