Quick Fire Question Time

We caught up with Rich Hughes with our quick fire 5 questions to find out his favourite baiting approaches.

1, Shelf-Life or Freezer baits – For convenience its shelf-life for me unless rules state freezers only. Having baits ready to go in advance of sessions for me is key, bucket full of boilies, Boilie Bits and Pellets all lightly glugged and ready and what i don’t use is ready for my next session.

2, Hook bait of choice – tough one but I’d have to go with match the hatch Corkie Wafters especially over a spread of baits. My go to approach for most of my UK angling assuming conditions suit are fishing over bait, usually around 500g to a kilo over each rod and want my hook bait to blend in as food as opposed to stand out and signal danger.

3, Particles or Pellets – Definitely pellets approach for me, but more recently the new Boilie bites have played a big part in my angling. Many of the fisheries across the UK now have stocked fish from fish farms. These are reared on pellets so accept as a food source, give a protein content as opposed to particles so its a no brainer for me to go with the pellet approach.

4, Glugged or Not – With limited time in my angling due to a busy work / family life, I want as much attraction as possible so it’s lightly glugged for me.

5, Over bait or Bag Fishing – Bait approach every time for me, bags work brilliantly, but my personal favourite is a spread over bait to get them feeding confidently and hopefully one of the big ones comes calling. If it’s weedy then i use bags but combined with a bait approach.

Let us know your favourite approach and in the meantime we’ll throw the questions at some of the team to see if there’s a common favourite or everyone has a different approach.

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