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If you've been around the game a while, the name Geoff Bowers is synonymous with a couple of things - boilies, and a sense of humour. Anyone that calls their catalogue a 'comic' is saying something... Instrumental in playing a very large part in what we recognise as the modern fishmeal, Geoff, and his original company Premier Baits, did a lot to shape what we use today. In lots of respects, this the story of the conception of the modern day boilie, told in Geoff's inimitable style. Sat at his desk at ABS, surrounded by bottles, bait samples, and 35mm...

A short November's tale from the Ed... ‘They’re bait fish mate, they always come off the big spots,’ I was told. I knew they were, and they did, but if you equated the phenomenal amount of rod hours those big spots saw to the bites they produced, it told a different account of events, and one that with just two 12-hour worknight sessions a week to utilise, I knew just wasn’t good enough odds for me to bet on'

Brother Thib jumped in the van and headed off for 16 nights this summer to visit a few new countries, and sample the flavours of some other scenes and waters than that of his homeland of France, travelling through Germany, Austria and Italy to get to Slovenia, and then back via Holland and Belgium.. 7 countries, and 3000k later we grabbed five minutes with him to catch up and see how it was. If you didn't live that dream this summer, or ever have, live it second hand through Thib's buzz here. Next best thing!

The short tale of. capture that should never have happened. One from the Issue 1 archives from the ed, Gareth Fareham