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From the start of April, keep an eye out in the tackle shops for the latest fantastic addition to the Sonubaits hook-bait range - Drilled Boilies.
These will be hitting the shops soon and they will find favour with match and pleasure anglers alike, because they are so easy to use and not at all time-consuming to mount on a hair rig.
There are three flavours - White Chocolate, Tutti-Frutti and Pineapple - and they are all available in 6mm, 8mm, 10mm and 14mm sizes.
All come in handy 75 gramme-sized tubs complete with a Korum Quickstop baiting needle and two barbless hook hook-hairs, to help you get fishing.
What I like about them is the smaller sizes. Drilling boilies can be fiddly and it is very easy to end up with a boilie which crumbles as you try to drill it.
Sonubaits have taken all the stress and strain out of it by providing these pre-drilled offerings. The colours are spot-on, too, with the White Chocolate boilies being a bright white - excellent in coloured water - and the Tutti Frutti orange and the Pineaple a bright yellow colour.
Expect to pay £3.99 per tub for the 6-8mm boilies and £2.99 for the 10mm and 14mm versions.
I love fishing with mini boilies when I am using the Method or the bagging waggler, and they help you build a winning weight when a lot of small nuisance fish are about and you need to be selective.
You can bypass these small fish by putting a bigger boilie on and sitting it out for a bigger bream or a carp.
Last year in the Super League Final at Barston, the Dorking team used 10mm boilies in conjunction with the Method feeder on ceertain pegs because we wanted to make sure that we were not pestered by small fish. We wanted to know that when we got a bite and hooked a fish, it was a big one we were bringing in.
Boilies are also great hook-baits when you are on a lot of fish as you can often use the same bait to land four or five fish before a new bait is needed on the hook. I'm looking forward to using the smaller sizes for bream fishing, too, as slabs in a lot of commercials are now totally hooked on pellets and boilies.
Check out Sonubaits' Drilled Boilies - you won't be disappointed.
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