Morning All. I am after trying a new method mix for this coming season, last few years have been using SBS, with corn steep liquor added, but I want to try something different, started well on my club water with this, but I feel they have got used to the flavour, and want something new, so much choice in the shops, has anyone found a mix that they are really satisfied with or do you mix your own, would really like some advice on this subject, did think about trying to make my own but not sure how to go about this, and didn’t want to spend my money till I get some advice, been looking on a few shops websites we have on front home page, but delivery price because of weight is nearly as much as mix, also when I have been adding my corn steep liquor in say about a 2kg mix, I don’t know if I am putting to much or not enough in, or is the quantity trail and error. Any advice would be really appreciated. Pete

not sure if this will help you pete . but after watching a few dvds and chatting to a few blokes on the bank and adding abit myself this is wot i am going to try ? please feel free to add any comments in the middle i am going to put abit of paste ( so when all the mix has gone you still have something on youre meathod feeder ) going to try squid i think next bit after a trip to my local animal feed place mix up some vitalan and red band ( i know the rb has to be made up the night before )they are both very cheep and you could get about 3 kg of each for about a fiver then add abit of a good meathod mix or micro pellets this would change as i change my hookbait then add some liquor i would also use the water i used to boil the red band to mix everything up as to give it thet little bit of an edge ? not sure if thet is wot you wont pete but it is something ive been wonting to try for abit now
all the best brendan

if you have confidence in your dry mix, just change the liquids.

i've got a couple of containers i keep in the freezer that every time i open some sweetcorn or tuna, i drain the juices into it. i also add all sorts of fishy or meaty things and liquidise along with some salmon oil - the worlds your oyster.... ;)

Frothey is dead right Peter, if you have had results on something and are confident in it stick with it. Confidence is better than any ingredient the bait companies make. If it's any help the best results I've had on the method feeder have been with a soaked mix of pellets (halibuts, betaines, trouts, csl, the more varied the better) the bait-tech mix is good for this but I'm sure you could make your own just as well and cheaper if you buy in bulk, or alternatively vitalin with csl liquid or molasses and corn, hemp and pellet mixed in. It's cheap and it worked for me and there is a lot of room for experimentation. I've had more success with these than with commercially made mixes but that might just be me.
As for levels of liquid, I used to mix it just with CSL or molasses and when it was wet enough to bind it was enough liquid. The pellets where in the early days of playing with the feeder and I just used lake water and it never did any harm, the only thing is to remember not to overwet it and to allow time for it to soak up the water.

Thanks chaps, i think i will have a go at mixing my own, i can get all the pellets and vitalin from my local feed merchants and molasses, but i am right in saying just mix it all togeatehr and then add the molasses a bit at a time to get the right contistansay, might try your way Frothey, it sounds interesting, sorry all for not putting this on the wrong thread. sent you mail Frothey. Pete

yeah mix it all dry then add molasses till it binds. You may have to add a bit of water if the molasses is too thick. When i userd to make the vitalin mix i had a bottle that was full of a 50/50 mix of molasses and CSL, the CSL being fairly thin, and a good shake before I started was enough to make it mix okay. Also I had a bit of success (whether it was in spite of or because of is anyones guess!) with dipping the method ball in molasses then rolling in powder such as trout pellet powder, crushed hemp, amino groundbait, that sort of thing. I felt it gave me an edge but maybe i'd just started fishing better or was luckier on the days I went!

decent CSL should be quite thick.....

Try this as an added attraction. Just before you are going to mold the method around your feeder pour a couple of handfulls of floating pellets into the bucket and give it a mix. With the floaters in the method ball they will gradually break free and "pull" other pieces of the mix with them as they float up. On the way up the other pieces break free and begin to sink again You then have a method ball which is spreading flavour in a spiral above your bait and this should attract the fish down to the source of the flavour.

dessicated coconut works too.... as does ground hemp, but "everyone" uses it!

Frothey, I've never used proper CSL, the stuff I had was just a cheap bottle of VDE CSL groundbait mixer and was quite thin. Is true CSL the same sort of consitency as molasses? Also, does it live up to the hype or is it just another fashionable one the bait companies are pushing? I was never whether it was making much of a difference or not but it certainly never did any harm.

its another additive thats got its time and place, and by no means the best unless added with a few other things.

the decent stuff has to be kept cool, or it has a habit of exploding.......

buy it from a feed merchants though.