Rodney,
I've been using the korda funnel web system for a while now, and also find it catches on knuckles, fingertips etc, etc, but having said that, it does the job. I make up a whole unit and keep then in a zip lock bag. I have found, though, that the dissolve rate does change, the longer you keep the bags.
For instance, I was playing around with bags I have had made up for a couple of months, and comparing them to bags made up there and then.Both bags contain a mix of trout and CSL pellets.
The older bags, take on a brown tint and dissolve slower than the new bags, sometimes up to a minute longer. However, these experiments were carried out on the bank, in February, in low temps.
What I'm not sure of , is this. Do the older bags 'dry' out, or do they take on some oil from the pellets, and this increases their breakdown time. Certainly they take on some element of the pellet, because they discolour.
I was under the impresion, that oils would melt the PVA, but haven't done anymore experimenting on that.
Another thing you can consider, is that you can make 35-40 small bags of pellets up, and the overall cost will be roughly 15p per bag...
Cheers
The donkey walloper...
(no answers, only more questions) ;-)