A Bait update

Steve Ross the Boux biggy March 09 53-08

A year earlier at 47-08 How big this year? and will it fall for the A bait for the third year running?

2010 has started with a bang, more bait going out the door in January than any month last year and this is with most of the lakes frozen for a lot of the time.

Stock rotation has been a juggling act with the Brentwood show cancelled. Large quantities of the Nash bait has occupied my garage but as these are only promotional items I have to give them away with the books and hopefully these will go down well at the Farnborough show Feb 20-21st.

A lot of people have been asking what the shelf life is on the baits. I do not like the term shelf life because everything has a best before date. The bait will last indefinitely if kept free from condensation but I prefer to work in terms of the additives. The best before on these is 9 and 12 months respectively. I only keep the additive 3 months(wishfull thinking, often only 3 weeks) and all rolled bait is sold within a month or reduced in price. This leaves a best before date of roughly 6 months based on the additive life.

As yet I have not run out of stock of the nutritional baits but the first batch of Spice UPX all went on the first day! Luckily I managed to re-order the same time. The plum zing now smells even nicer with the plum palatant and more has arrived today.

The A1 has been a different story but new supplies are due in next week including a new custom sized monster barrel of 24mm x 20mm.

I have no plans to stop doing the bait this year and even though I have declined a couple of cash offers for the additives both the A5 (plum zing) and A+ (Spice UPX ) will be available all year.

By the end of febuary I should have airballs in 15mm for both of these baits and I am working really hard on trying to do a breakdown pellet containing the additives.

I would like to thank all the people who supported me last year and all the feedback that has got the baits where they are today. It has come an awful long way in the last 12 months and when the weather improves it will be time to cash in big time!

I will be away for 3 weeks during the end of march and beginning of April with a bit of sunshine sandwiched between trips to jo jo's and Boux.