NASH GYRO BUG – Joe T.

NASH GYRO BUG MIX-GET YOUR ZIG ON..

Joe Turnbull is without doubt a master of bait, however he is also a genius when it comes to using bait to insight the bites. Joe has been using the Nash Gyro mix to great effect of late even in these chillier months. With the weather as mild as it has been the zig tactic should never be too far away. Joe talks about the mix below and how to get the best from it.

There are without doubt lots of spod mixes on the market but the guys at Nash have once again come up with something that I can only comment on as remarkable. It was actually last year that I first came across the Nash Gyro Bug mix and on my first few sessions out with it, it proved to be just as awesome as some of the other guys that had tested its first stages commented.

The ground bait mix itself is a blend of dried bugs and crustaceans as well as the amazing and constant fish catching and highly popular Riser pellet. These added Riser pellets are very special in themselves as they have lots of different degrees of buoyancy which in turn see some rise to the surface as others will simply drift mid water and then some will actually sink. This creates an amazing and highly active stimulating feed scenario which gets all fish looking and searching for food and even competing for feed items at all levels of the water column. All YOU need to do is find what levels they are at most and bingo.

Personally, I like to use an adjustable zig rig which is great for finding what level they are at without having to re-tie rigs at different lengths in order to achieve finding the correct level.

As well as the dry mix, the package also includes a bottle of a very special formula which is a crustacean liquid that Gary Bayes put together. This liquid contains a blend of some highly attractive and effective feed stimulating amino acids that carp are known to crave and search out. This really is the icing on the cake and you will not find a more natural form of zig spod mix anywhere.

This combined with the ground bait mix and you have an incredible array of floating and semi buoyant particles that continuously move up and down the water column. It’s so simple to concoct too.

Simply follow the instructions that you get with each bucket however, all you need to do is start by adding a small amount of the liquid to the bucket of ground bait ensuring that it all gets mixed in. Then gradually keep adding the remainder of the liquid until all the ground bait has soaked it up. Leave it to sit for a while until you feel that you can mould the ground bait into balls. If you need to add more liquid to the mix, start by adding small amounts of lake water until the desired effect is achieve. An excellent and underused method is once you have your mix, take a Nash ball maker and make small or large balls with it. This natty little invention was something that I’d waited years for to arrive which makes the whole ball making process easy rather than a complete (pardon the pun) ball ache. The other excellent way to introduce this stuff is by means of spod as this gets the mix in fast and spreads it fairly quickly. Over the last few months of switching to zigs when the need arises I have starting with a bucket of this, the switching to the riser pellet which once they are on that, there’s no stopping them! If you haven’t tried it, ignore it at your peril.

Good luck