Thanks to Rens Louwerens, one of our fieldtester's in Holland, for his baiting tips.

Step 1:
All components we need to create the bloodworm PVA Stick; Bloodworm Bag n Stick Mix, Extract Pellets, Cloudy Bloodworm, some bloodworm dumbells or wafters, tuna in brick, Bloodworm Paste and some plastic corn. Bloodworm compound can be used optionally to put more attraction to your hookbait as well.

Step 2:
Firstly we are going to add some tune in brick into the jar. Let off the juice from tin and chop down all the bits of tuna with your hands ( or a fork ).

Step 3:
Get some Bag n Stick mix from the bucket and put it into the jar with tuna. Make sure you don’t add to much of it so the mix keeps moist.

Step 4:
Now we are going to add some Bloodworm pellets to the mix to give it some more structure. It is important to add the pellets AFTER you add the liquid and mixed up everything correctly otherwise the pellets will soak up a lot of liquid and get soft (carp loves the hard bits in the mix). Mix everything up again so the pellets are nicely spread into the mix.

Step 5:
We are almost ready to finish the stick mix but only need to add the last product to get extra attraction. Take just a little amount of the Hydrolysed Bloodworm Compound, let’s say 10 to 20ml, and add it to the stick mix. Again mix everything up so all the products are nicely mixed together.

Step 6:
Now the stick mix is ready to use we are going to chop down some Bloodworm dumbells. We don’t add these chopped down dumbells to the stick mix because the hook point could catch one of these parts when we attach the stick to the hooklink.
Step 7:
The next step is to create the PVA stick itself. Get some of your favourite PVA stick material, I’m using Korda’s Long Chunk  Funnel Web over here, and put some stick mix into it. The amount of mix to add is depending on how “long” you want to have your PVA stick. For long distance casting it’s recommend to keep it as small as possible, let’s say 1 to 2 centimeter of PVA stick. Before we’re going to compress the mix we add some chopped down dumbells (so we’ve got a soft section of the stick were the hook will go into it and a section of hard particles at the other end).
With the mix in to PVA stick mix compress it so you are creating a bit of a compression into the PVA stick itself, this will let the PVA explode on the lake bed when the PVA is melt down.

Step 8:
We finished the PVA stick mix so now we are going to do the last part, the hookbait. Get a Bloodworm dumbell hookbait, I used a wafter this time, and thread onto your hooklink.
Step 9:
To make it more visible to the carp we are going to add a buoyant plastic corn from Enterprise Tackle to tip off the Bloodworm dumbbell with. It is not only more visible to the carp but also protects your hookbait to get pulled off by other fish. Another nice feature of adding some buoyancy plastic corn is that it will give more aviation to your hookbait as well.

Step 10:
Now we are going  to attach the PVA stick to the hooklink. Thread the PVA stick on a long needle and attach your hooklink to it. Now thread the PVA stick on your hooklink ( with the soft section pointed towards the hook! ) and put the point of the hook into the end of the PVA stick. Make sure you don’t put the point into the knot of the PVA stick!

Step 11:
In our final step we are going to add a bit of Bloodworm paste around the Bloodworm dumbbell for again some extra pulling power. Get some Bloodworm paste and wrap it around the dumbbell, keep the plastic corn free from the paste so it’s still good visible.

Attach the hooklink to your mainline and you’re ready to go!
Tight lines,
Rens