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Karlos

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#1 10 Jan 2026 at 9.11pm

In order to keep the SHB thread nice and fast (to load) I'll create a new thread every now and again. All threads (new and old) will link to each other so that no information / photos are lost

Links to past SHB threads...
1 - Specialized Hook Baits - Catch Report and Q+A
2 - Specialized Hook Baits - Catch Reports Jul 2024
3 - Specialized Hook Baits - Catch Reports Oct 2024
4 - Specialized Hook Baits - Catch Reports Feb 2025
5 - Specialized Hook Baits - Catch Reports Oct 2025
6 - Specialized Hook Baits - Catch Reports Jan 2026 (This thread)

jhhilton1983

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#425 31 Aug 2026 at 7.23pm

**Now sold**

Just thought id post this on here as I have only just got round to digging them out, after saying I would a few weeks ago.

LINKY POO™ https://www.carpforum.co.uk/Shared/Messages.asp?TopicID=451254

TCarper

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#424 29 Aug 2026 at 9.35pm

Peter. Top two are two x 40+ last week. Bottom three, are three x 40's in a single day from Wellington country park this week. PPPP-S2.

TCarper

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#423 29 Aug 2026 at 9.28pm

In reply to Post #422
We have 5 tubs left currently mate. WhatsApp message our work mobile. +44 7568159960
Can pass you our PayPal addy for payment. They will go Tuesday.

We are 100% having a new website built in the near future, so when the shops are out, it's easy to get the stuff.

I am back from holiday next week. The shops will have more stock the following weeks. Lots of it is already done. Lots of people are messaging for stuff the shops are out of now. Pop us a message if you want some 13mm balanced GPB2.

Smurf

Posts: 3504

#422 29 Aug 2026 at 7.54pm

Hi Mark when are you expecting to next stock the shops? I am after some more 13mm GBP2 wafters without any extra flavours. Popped into Fishon today but they only have popups left and not getting anymore. Both The Tackle Box and Johnson Ross are also out of waters 🙁

Can you please slow down the success 😂😎

TCarper

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#421 29 Aug 2026 at 6.29pm

Clint with the Lord & the Lady of the Manor. 57+ & 45+. Plus others. Last two days, ScopexPineapple-S2 over Cell

Jason Rider, more 50's GPB2 over NB2. (He's had loads more than this).

Forum member Dave. Fizz S2 over Poachers T&M

Forum member Dean, Linear, Tutti-S2

Forum member Ben, Kingsmead, Hutchie-S2

Nothing better than seeing a new customer start smashing them straight from the very start. Then within a couple of weeks bank a PB. 39lb+. Well done Jay. Fizz-S2

Colin, GPB2-Ming over Dynamite freezers.

Chris, CherryCola-S2 over Cell.

Lukas, Tutti-S2

TCarper

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#420 29 Aug 2026 at 6.07pm

In reply to Post #418
He's just started making it again. He told me it's a bait he made 15 years ago, but could not get the flavour, & one of the ingredients until this year.

It's working bloody well with our garlics. He has caught so many big fish now on just two tubs.

Andy__C

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#419 27 Aug 2026 at 10.36am

In reply to Post #418
Have a look on his facebook page - he's worked on putting together a new version, you can buy now contacting direct.

Looks like he's hauled on them and the GPBs the last few weeks.

bmthman

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#418 27 Aug 2026 at 10.18am

In reply to Post #417
Hi confused i thought the NB2 boilies were no longer available? Not on A Baits website either?

TCarper

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#417 27 Aug 2026 at 7.08am

Sorry about my little carp media rant yesterday, I got the major ump regarding a recent Korda podcast with someone we had formerly supported for more than a decade. Until that podcast. I never watch any of this stuff, but had to this time & it really upset me a lot. I really now detest the UK carp media so much. It's the most distorted, twisted, controlled media that there is in any form. Basically everything now is pretty much controlled by a couple of men when you break it down. If they don't own it... They control the owner. The way the magazines went so far downhill, was down to the exact same few and the same soppy games. Now they actually own/control all carp related media since the demise of the mags though. Makes me sick when I actually watch any of it.

Brian with Small Tail from Welly. Fizz S2. The most desirable in Welly at a guess. Three or four times this year it's been caught on our hook baits now. Likely ten times in the past few years. Well done Brian.

Since the last post with Jason Rider, he has literally not stopped catching. The 60+ & numerous 50's below were all in the past 24 hours or so. His new NB2 bait is working exceptionally well with our garlics. He has absolutely smashed them since he first cast our GPB2 out with them. The amount of 50's & 60's he has caught from his first couple tubs of GPB2 over the past two weeks from two venues is just insane. If you are using our garlics you should def get some NB2 from his A Bait. Well done Jason.

Ben, GPB2

Bob, OG S2

Roy, Belgium canal, Curry-GPB2

Chris, GPB1

Will, Rockford, CherryCola-S2

James, GPB2

Jacko had an incredible French trip. They could not keep the rods in the water catching over 80 big carp. Numerous 50's. Curry-S2 & PPPP-S2

Forum member Ian, GPB1

David, Hutchie-S2

TCarper

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#416 25 Aug 2026 at 8.40pm

More pics tomorrow. Still have the same amount of photos again, yet to be posted. Makes me incredibly proud to see all of these smiling faces. We work damn hard, constantly. It's when posting these photos on here, that I get a sense of exactly how well things are going. That last lot of boxes you saw with over 100kg of hook baits going off to JohnsonRoss & TackleBox... They were sold out of many of those items within less than a week.

Forum member Mark. Biggest 57+ 'Blackspot'. Well done Mark. First time BlackSpot has ever been caught on the Cheese as far as I know. TC2 over FO particle.

I guess this must be around the 20th time (or more) that BlackSpot has been caught on our hook baits over the past twelve years. There are plenty of other examples of this with so many UK bigguns & our hook baits... But in BlackSpots case, has there ever been a notable biggun in the UK caught more times on one hook bait than that? I doubt it very much.

You will never hear any of that kind of truth above spoken in any mainstream carp media though, because it's all controlled by people with interests in other bait companies/hook baits. Yet you lot are constantly shown photos of fish caught on our hook baits, 'implying' they were caught on something else. Daily. All at it. Or every Joey claiming to know what our process is. I can't even use the word 'curing' anymore, it's a joke. Imagine that. Whilst... Our company name has never been mentioned in any main stream media. I guess for those exact reasons. Does not happen. We don't pay for full timers. I don't do podcasts or any media whatsoever. When something is really real, the effectiveness of the product & the photos sell the stuff anyway. Not that crap above, which is all fake, like them pretty much. It's been a slow process over the past decade & has allowed so many former long term customers to (try) to rip us right off. But it is all real, based on the effectiveness of the product for us & nothing else. The stuff going into the shops has allowed a whole new audience to see now.

Forum member Gary, biggest being 40+ mirror & common. GPB1.

Forum member Kenny, Chocolate-S2

Harvey again, more great pics with his kids. 3 x 30's in a few hours. GPB2.

Jez & son again. OG S2

Alby, GPB1

Andy, GPB2

Connor the bare knuckle boxing champ. Belgium canal, first visit. GPB2.

Forum mem ber Ben, Hutchie S2

Roger, Yateley Car Park, ScopexPineapple-S2

TCarper

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#415 23 Aug 2026 at 9.30pm

There are so many photos to post. I'll have to do it in two or three posts over the next couple of days. If I miss anybody's photo or get a name wrong I am sorry. Three posts below, also showing that kids don't need social media whatsoever to take up carp fishing, as per that recent podcast claiming that they do.

I doubt there are to many double takes on Dinton White Swan these days, if any. James with the Sandford common at 46+ & a 33+ original fully in the net at the same time. Curry-GPB2.

Harvey, one of the A-team from his syndicate. OG-S2.

Forum member Mark, numerous bigguns, this is just a few of what he has caught recently. Banoffee-S2 & Garlics over particle.

Forum member Andy, 40+, OG-S2

Alfie, BabyStella from the Essex Manor, 46+ new PB. Garlics (1).

Stoke Carl, special one from his new syndicate, 40+. Garlics (2).

New customer Ryan. GPB2-Ming. 43+

Paul, Garlics (1)

Colin, oldest carp in Orchid. Five minutes after casting out a Garlic (2).

Jez & son. OG-S2.

I don't know this mans name. New customer who tags us on social media. He had never caught a UK 40+ before. First time using our Garlics (2) he banked this 40+. Then he had another 40+ the very next day. He has not stopped catching ever since.

Alby, Garlics (1)

Jay, Curry-GPB2.

Smudge23

Posts: 490

#414 23 Aug 2026 at 0.41am

In reply to Post #412
Mark answered me via WhatsApp.

elltell

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#413 22 Aug 2026 at 10.59pm

In reply to Post #412
Error posting

Smudge23

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#412 19 Aug 2026 at 3.42pm

In reply to Post #410
Hi Mark, hope you're having a great holiday. No rush for this but are any of the shops carrying an White S2's?


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