I’ve hit on a new way of preparing my Sonu Fin Perfect expander pellets and it’s so simple and creates absolutely perfect soft hooker pellets which you need in the depths of winter.

All I do is take a handful of Sonu Fin Perfect expanders and put them in a plastic sandwich bag. I just cover them with water and immediately drain all the water out of the bag. I then knot the bag loosely and chuck it in my carryall, ready for the next morning.

When I get to my peg I get the pellets, which have gone rubbery in consistency by this time, and I pump them. They then go super soft but because they have had a chance overnight to absorb the moisture in the bag, they don’t start to split when you hook them on, and that’s because the fibres haven’t had water forced through them, going from a dry pellet to a wet one in 30 seconds as they do when you pump them from straight out of the bag.
Because they’ve soaked the water up overnight their molecular structure, if that’s what you can call it, remains strong and intact.

The pellets don’t need to be kept in water either, once prepared in this way. It works and works well, so give it a try. It’s so simple I don’t know why I didn’t think of it ages ago!