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Black Snail Handy Pack
Black Snail Handy Pack
A highly nutritious bait that blends into the surroundings and has a brilliant track record of catching the 'rare ones'.  Perfect for
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Black Snail Hard Hookbait Pack
Black Snail Hard Hookbait Pack
This Hard Hookbait Pack contains 500g Black Snail base mix with all the dry mix additives included, together with elevated levels of egg
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Black Snail Pellets
Black Snail Pellets
They're back! These highly popular pellets contain our exclusive Caviar liquid to match our range of Black Snail boilies, pop-ups,
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Black Snail Wafters
Black Snail Wafters
Balanced with cork dust to counteract the weight of the hook and perfect for rig-shy carp. Identically match up with our Black Snail boilies and
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Carp Life 2
Carp Life 2
Now 'POST FREE' ... If you liked Carp Life 1, you will love Carp Life 2. All books ordered here will be personally signed by Mike. The
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Carp Life Hoodies
Carp Life Hoodies
Caviar
Caviar
Caviar is one of the all time classic carp flavours but this particular 'Nature Identical' liquid is in a league of its own! It particularly
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Customised Freezer Boilies
Customised Freezer Boilies
Welcome to our customised bait section. The following range of freezer baits are only avalable direct from Essential baits and are all made to
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K5 Fluoro Pop-ups
K5 Fluoro Pop-ups
New K5 Fluoro Orange (Orange Krill) pop-ups Specifically developed to match our new K5 boilies, these ultra-bright orange pop-ups have a pungent
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K5 Liquid Food
K5 Liquid Food
A unique and exclusive liquid that has been specifically developed to match our range of K5 boilies, matching hook baits, pellets and Stick Mixes.
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Salami Cream (short preserved)
Salami Cream (short preserved)
This is the short term preserved version of our new Salami Cream.   A unique combination of birdfoods, dairy protein fractions, multi-functional
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Salami Cream Balanced Hookers
Salami Cream Balanced Hookers
These dumbell shaped balanced hookbaits contain all the ingredients found within the highly successful Creamseed recipe, but contain our
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Wafters as hookbaits

Ian May with one of many 40lb+ commons he's landed on Essential Baits by making sure his hookbait placement is spot on.

The name 'Wafters' can be a little misleading because we don't want these baits too critically balanced. In our experience a hookbait that's too 'buoyant' can 'waft' all over the place as a carp approaches the bait and render it very ineffective and easy to eject. What we have done with these special hookbaits is to make them slightly more buoyant than a standard bottom bait straight out of the bag. This in turn will negate the weight of the hook and the hooklink and by the time the rig is presented, it will behave the same as the free offerings surrounding it. This is exactly what you need to achieve if you think about it because the carp will be feeding on the freebies and you want your hookbait to behave in exactly the same way.

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Our Wafters are 'tougher' than boilies straight out of the bag and are a popular choice for anglers that prefer their hookbaits a little harder than their freebies.