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How to prepare jelly pellets By Stan Jeffreys

If you are having trouble keeping soft pellets on the hook this summer, try this quick and easy way of making your pellets more rubbery. They stay on the hook a treat - even when you bump a fish. What’s more .... you can add any flavour you like.

Step 1: Assemble your ingredients,

I use two kinds of pellet, CYF and Carp 5, from Yorkshire Baits, they are spot on. You can add any flavour but I use orange jelly in the spring, and strawberry in the summer.

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Step 2:

Dissolve 3 cubes of jelly in boiling water (About 1/4 pint). Add the hot fluid to the pellets in the pump, pump the pellets to remove the air. Add more fluid if necessary as it gets sucked onto the pellets.

Step 3:

When no more bubbles come from the pellets pour them and the remaining fluid into a flat dish, they will soak up the remaining fluid.

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Step 4:

When the pellets have absorbed the liquid, put them into a polythene bag, give them a shake to keep them seperated.and store them in the fridge.

Preparing pellets this way costs a fraction of what you pay in the tackle shop and they will last for ages.