Velocity Baits Flouro Glug Review

Velocity Baits Flouro Glug Review

Part One!



The Three Colours - Red, White and
Orange!



            After being on the Velocity Baits product testing team, I have been asked by Miles to test the flouro glugs when I’m next out on the bank.  This is just a quick review to say what my first impressions and other thoughts on the glugs are before getting on the bank to put them through their paces to see how they stand up to vigorous testing.  After seeing pictures on the Velocity emails we regularly receive, Miles recommended the new flouro glugs, they are made from natural products and they don’t pose any harm to the fish. I haven't really read into these glugs myself but have been tempted or should I say persuaded to use them within a blog, primarily for reasons stated below.

            I haven’t been the one for using these types of flouro products but after all I am part of a team to help get the best out of the products, and after all there not going to do any damage to my fishing in any way. I am an avid fan of solid bag fishing so there are lists of things I’ll be doing to see how they do –

1.     Injecting the glug into Solid Bags – Testing the PVA friendly qualities and to see if it affects the bait on the inside of the bag.

2.     To see what happens to the colour on a scaled down version of the lake bed.

3.     To see how it copes when I glug PVA mesh bags of pellet(HD Readies)

4.     Identify how they help the attraction of pop-ups specially using the yellow with the Pineapple pop-ups.

5.     To see if the flouro glug brings me quick bites as opposed to using normal bags on their own.    



Use With Solids to Add A
Halo In Your Swim!



            On the flipside of using these points to help me see what the glugs do, I’ll be testing the consistency and also the colours of the glugs, this will be the make or break point, after all you don’t want a thick flouro glug that’s going to be transparent as a window and not look very good or have a poor consistency, also testing how long they last in the water on a small scale. I am a fan of using solid bags where ever I can get away with it, I use them on high stocked day ticket waters and even on small waters where you don’t have so many fish, they are a good tactic if you want to keep disturbance to a minimum in your swim whilst people are piling in particle and other bits and pieces, however, I’m not saying that is a bad idea because when I get to know a water I love using particle and loose fed items, it keeps the fish in the area and makes your swim more interesting. I am a sucker for using the Spomb and the Mini Spomb after mastering spodding quite quickly.



My Solid Bag Mix



            I will be using 3 different coloured glugs which I will review individually and they will all be included in my favourite PVA bag mix – NV-R Stick Mix, C2-R Pellet(1.5mm) and The M&M’s(1.0mm). The glugs will be injected into the bag using a 5ml Syringe, the reason I use a small syringe is because you don’t want to overdo it, after all you’re after a bite, not trying to make your swim look pretty and decorate it under the surface. (ha-ha) - This method will be going into my fishing from now on, from  devising this pva bag mix there is all sorts of sizes of feed that will entice a bite, with the use of these glugs this will be a killer tactic on the bank - lets see in the next stage of the testing!

             After receiving the glugs first thing in the morning it gave me the rest of the day to test them and to see what they are like, I must say I am presently surprised by the glugs, here are my thoughts on the colours -

White Glug: - The white glug is brilliant, it clings on to an array of hookbaits and it looks brilliant, this may be a good idea when fishing on silt to help your bait show up or even in weed to add a small halo. There is no scent to the glugs but being a visual attractor it’s excellent! the small bottle makes it look almost like a bottle of PVA glue, which I thought it was to start off with but then after looking and feeling it it has similar properties but I know it wouldn't have been swapped, the glug is awesome and will be put throroughly through its paces in the next few weeks.

Orange Glug: - I have never been a fan of using orange hook baits, having the option of this colour is excellent, it clings onto the baits well and it looks amazing, the colour quality is outstanding and it will again stick out like a sore thumb! The neat little bottle finishes it off nicely, there isn't any other rubbish to go with it, just the bottle on its own, plainly for your use and in which ever way you wish to use it, there are various other colours but i have been sent these and each will be used in all the same ways to make a fair test.

Red Glug:-  Being a fan of the NV-R boilies and other baits, this will tie in quite nicely adding another spectrum of colour to the lake bed when fishing with either bags of whole boilies or using small 50p(quick bite) bags. This again sticks to the baits well and has a consistency the same as PVA Glue, amazing! This is a great colour and is a darker than the other two, it is said that either lighter colour glugs and darker colour glugs do just as good as each other, I'm not phased in the slightest that this is darker than the other, it may be better than the others? We shall see.

            The glugs are amazing when coupled with pop-ups or even bottom baits, this may prove a killer on really dark lake beds, adding the white in may cause some interest as the fish would have never seen these sorts of glugs before, it may mean that they will bring you a few more bites being so bright the fish won’t have any choice but to investigate the baits and hopefully you’ll have one or 2 during your session.

            These glugs are even PVA friendly; this is a bonus when you use glug the outside of your bags as I have started doing in my own fishing. Glugging your bags adds that extra attraction and pulling power, adding this to the inside of your bag boasts attraction and leave you standing out from the crowd as such. Internally glugging or externally glugging your bags work just as well the smells don’t over power the scents of the bait. It also leaves the option of glugging the hookbaits, no matter how dark or light they are, the picture shows the gloopy texture of the glug and how it clings tightly to the hookbait.

            Enough jabbering on, if they look this good at home, then I wonder what they look like and how they fair on the bank, meaning I’m going to take a trip to a high stocked lake to try and get the best from these glugs.. Keep reading and you yourself could be using these glugs in your fishing. Until Part 2..

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