Thread: PVA Bags

My buddy is a hard core carp guy and he sent me this:

PVA is a water-soluable material that dissolves in water. Its become popular for carp fishing becuase it allows you to deliver a perfect package of bait with your baited rig when you cast out. It comes in bags, mesh, tape and string. I personally like the mesh, because you can create custom-sized bait packages. The string is good too, you can make "stringers" of boilies to tie onto your hook. Over the last few years I have relied more and more on pva as a staple in my carp fishing arsenal.

The type of bait you can put in pva is endless, but it can't be too wet. What is cool though, is that oil will not melt pva, so you can use an oil to ensure the bags won't melt to quick. For example, you could coat sweet corn in peanut oil and put it in a bag. I use a range of ingredients - maize, chopped tiger nuts, pidgeon feed, grits, oats, bread crumb, crushed boilies, powdered fat free milk and more - in my bags. A really simple, but effective combonation is sweet corn with the juice drained out and dry oatmeal.

sweet corn, oats and mullberry flavoring