Must confess this concept seems to be the answer to most of a pellet / paste angler's prayers.

I like using paste or softened pellet but I do not use a pole, so anything that will work "out of the box" on hook or hair with the waggler and can be genuinely cast some distance instead of just dunked at rod tip certainly gets my interest, although not as yet my vote until I have tried it out. Would be interesting to know if it is equally good at staying on the hook when cast as part of a ledger rig (as opposed to the method feeder rig mentioned - one thing to stay on when part of a big ball of feed, quite another to resist the drag of sinking under falling weight conditions or significant river flow....).

If it works as advertised then it could be a serious match asset when the fish move beyond the reach of even a floated 16 m pole....

Clever marketing idea too, including a small bag of hooke pellets inside a larger bag of feed pellets. Certainly much more likely to induce a "take" from yours truly than if I had had to get over the mental barrier of buying two packets of a new product. They're not all that cheap, but as a one package solution, yeah, I will almost certainly stump up my fiver for a try out.

Unless they decide they want to chuck me a packet or two as a tester !!! :-)

Only thing I can't really understand is why anyone would want to buy these pellets with their expensively produced and revolutionary "smartie" concept (hard outer, soft inner) and then soak them back down into a uniform mush to make a paste !!!! Kinda missing the point there I suspect.... no doubt someone else will explain or point out the blindingly obvious I am missing.

Come on, lets have some then!.......Freeby time!


Contest!

We need a contest!

Could the pellet pump be a thing of the past?
Could the skinz be put through a pellet pump to soften? 1 minute instead of half hour plus.

A Freeby or ten would definitely be appreciated and tested with rigour.... hint hint hint :-)

It would certainly seem to be an end to the pellet pump in one sense, hook ready + already sinks; tho the pump presumably might still helps with adding flavours / oils ? And as Ged points out with prepping them quicker than overnight soak (tho as I read it that is something that only the pole boys will be interested in doing, straight out of the packet; firm but hookable, is best for waggler and it gets enough water once fishing on the hook ? or did I misunderstand that ?).

All things I will of course be happy to test out when my lorry load of freebies arrives...... :-)

I was thinking more about the paste side of it and it occurred to me that you might be able to use it as a soft wrap over a hooker pellet on hook or hair, thus giving the nice soft breakdown and shedding of particles that you get with a conventional paste presentation + buried inside it a bait that isn't so liable to disintegrate and disappear leaving you fishing unbeknownst with bare hook.

Just a thought. It's what I do with spam baits etc, almost always wrap it in my home made paste and it certainly seems to work as a breakdown scent trail creator and attractor.

And I certainly need some sort of advantage to avoid being continually out-fished by Matt C..... ! Knows his stuff that boy, and doing a blinder on organising the catfishing jaunt.

The hooker pellets are softened enough to be hooked directly within five minutes, and yet the skin remains tough enough for casting after soaking for several hours. You can soak them overnight in neat flavour or oil, plus a colour if you wish.

They can be cast forcefully whilst hanging loose, not just when tucked into a method ball.

On the press day I attended Andy Findlay had made a paste of a few of the pellets to put a small ball of it on top of the loose pellets he was using in his pole pot to prevent any from jumping out while shipping out and as cloud feed when he tipped it up. I've used some as paste as a hookbait wrap.

Any hookbaits you don't use can be taken home and kept in the fridge for your next session.

And I've just rectified a mistake in the review. The pack costs £3.99, not £4.99.

What's with all the trying to bum freebies? Buy your own, tight b***ers.

(How about something for trying to save you cash?? :-D)

My local shop has not got any yet, are they available to buy on line?

Hehehe, fishing forum, buy on line, sorry just amused me, but then I only have a tiny brain!

Isnt this the original and long lost concept of the boillie? A paste with a skin for hooking?
Its an odd 'passing of time' thing that boillies seem to change into the hair rig only item we use.

I appreciate that you mean the concept is the same but in reality there's a big difference in the skin of a boilie and the skin on one of the new Skinz baits. The 'skin' of a boilie isn't a skin, but just a harder surface area due to brief boiling that won't withstand casting if you hooked it through just that surface area.

The skin of a Skinz is actually elasticated and can be hooked like you would a maggot and will withstand being cast quite forcibly.

Six lucky winners will soon have the chance to try Skinz as Sonu:Baits have kindly gave us some for prizes, plus some very nice Skinz caps and sweatshirts. Watch out for the competition.

I've just bought a pack and will be trying them out tomorrow morning - I'll let you know how i got on

A competition for some? Cool. :-)

Bring it on Graham ,they sound like a winner .

Where can I buy them? Is there a good online store which sells them?

I have got some today i will give them a whirl tomorrow and let you know how i get on.

EasyTackle are selling them!

Skinz

Thank you.

Tried them out yesterday on my local fishery. And they are spot on. I was catching fish all day when the people around me were struggling they even made me look good and that is saying something. so if you want my advice buy some now especially if you like to fish the waggler they just do not come off the hook.