Nash Top Rod Plus Boilies

What Nash have to say: Nash-baits Top Rod plus boilies are made from our own base mixes so there is several very unique recipes that are matched to the best flavour recipes we have ever tested. All the base mix ingredients we use are either human food grade or the best animal feed grade we can obtain. It's simply not in our interest to use anything else and it's very important to us to keep the high quality. We blend all of the Top Rod base mixes on site which ensures each ingredient is inspected as we open each bag. It's so much better and it allows us to see the seasonal differences in some of the ingredients.

For instance, fish meals do vary slightly on aroma and quiet a lot on coloration, this we fully understand as they are natural products with little processing but if for instance, they came in to moist or really powdered it would be rejected. If the Soya was too moist, or dark, or had a stronger aroma than it should have it would be rejected, and so on. We keep to the same suppliers that we trust which keeps the ingredients consistent, ordering on product code numbers and we keep our specification sheets up to date (part of our analytical chemist’s job). We can't afford to have mistakes on our ingredients as it can effect our production.

Each individual ingredient has been tested regards its attractiveness to carp, not just in tank tests but on fished lakes. For instance, egg albumin attracts very little response from carp whereas whole egg powder they love. So we don't use any egg albumin in our recipes. Several fish meal types had poor responses from the carp so we only include the best response fish meals in our baits and so on. There isn't room in a boilie to have any ingredient they don't like included, even if it can be masked with flavours, there is just no point.

Another very important ingredients control is storage. We always stock-rotate all products in the factory, even including empty boxes. It's air conditioned where the main ingredients storage area is, not for our own comfort but for the best keeping of the ingredients. We buy little and often, rather than bulk buying so we actually turn our stock round very regularly. Many ingredients are bought weekly, others twice monthly and hardly any once monthly so anything we make is with ingredients as fresh as possible. We use our own baits for our personal fishing and want to use only the best; it isn't hard to work out so it's the best way.