July & August 2016 Roundup

Well where has the last 2 months gone!! The Hook Bait Co. team and our customers have been busy on our rivers and lakes putting our bait to good use with big barbel, chub, carp and even roach finding it hard to resist. Here’s a brief summary from July and Augusts posts on our Facebook […]

The Hook Bait Company field tester Lewis Gaukrodger with a barbel

The Tidal Trent Addiction

By Lewis Gaukrodger The Tidal Trent in appearance can be daunting- from is bleak sand bank stretches to its boulder lined rugged bends. It can have the most competent anglers questioning their sanity in angling with 6oz leads rolling up stream as the water comes back up the river on the turn of the tide. […]

The Hook Bait Company field tester Lewis Gaukrodger with a barbel from the Tidal Trent

June 2016 Roundup

It was a good start to the 2016 river season for Hook Bait Co. customers and team members. First up was Grazy with a fin perfect 11lb 10oz river Dove barbel, a new PB taken at 5am on the 16th on a 14mm Spicy Fish Pro dumbell. Next we have Hook Bait Co, regular Bob […]

Grazy Roberts with a June 16th River Dove barbel

Grazy’s Glorious 16th

The eagerly awaited eve of the new river season was here at last and as I wandered across the familiar field I couldn’t help pondering what lay ahead. It was 7pm on Wednesday 15th June as I settled in my chosen spot, I scanned the opposite bank and was pleased to see I had the place to myself. […]

The Hook Bait Company field tester Jon Preen with a 28lb 8oz specimen pike

Pike & Predator Range – Testing Progress

The companies new range of pike and predator products are producing the goods during testing with team member Jon Preen banking fish of 28lb 8oz and 25lb 9oz from a Midlands still water, both fish being the largest 2 ‘crocs’ to have come out of the venue in years. These products offer the predator fishermen […]

Barbel 5 - specialist barbel fishing baits from the Hook Bait Company

Barbel 5 Now Available

The highly anticipated ‘Barbel 5‘ range is now available to the public. A crab & anchovy based bait, that has proven to be a tremendous success in testing over the last 12 months putting no fewer then 9 Barbel over 14lb on the bank from rivers up and down the country. Barbel 5

Boilie dipped in Stimanol bait dip

News 26th October 2013

HOOK BAIT COMPANY NEWS We are currently developing 2 new flavours that we are very confident in and if tests are as successful as we anticipate them to be then they will be available at some point in 2014. We are also tweaking and making improvements to our pike and predator range and hope to […]

Mixing The Big Cheese paste with Christian Barker - specimen chub fishing bait tutorial

The Cheese Paste Revolution

By Christian Barker This season I have had a fantastic year Chub fishing and looking back through my catch records, I attribute part of this success to adapting my techniques and exploring the possibilities using the Laguna SAC products and a brilliant new product designed by Darren from the Hook Bait Company. The SAC juice […]

Bream On Betaine Pro

By Terry Theobald When the nights are drawing out and the clocks are imminently about to shoot forward an hour, it is always warming to know, as sure as the buds on the trees burst into life, the bream in our gravel pits are shaking off the rigours of Winter and looking to feed in […]

When A Plan Comes Together… (Again!)

by Rich Frampton Things had gone to plan so far this season. By following Steve Pope’s advice I had beaten my personal best at the start of July and then again just two weeks later. The caster and hemp approach had worked on both occasions and it was with a touch of confidence that it […]