After a conversation with one of the owners of the company I bought a package of a few bottles but was actually sent the full range, this was the range at the time it has now expanded quite a lot. Along with bottles of Seagoo I was sent a T-shirt, a hoody, a hand towel and a syringe. So to be fair the service from the company was outstanding! However we are here to figure out weather or not the additives work, so let's get into it.
On inspection of the product the first thing that jumps out is the smell, wow it is pungent! I had to wrap the bottles a few times and stow them away in a deep, dark recess of my desk to keep the other half from loosing her mind. Next thing to note is just how thick it is, this automatically put my mind to rest a little, I was worried if it was too thin of a liquid it would just wash off on impact with the water.
Let's move on to some actual fishing shall we, I have used these liquids a number of times and in a number of different ways, the first one I tried was on a match at Swanage Pier, these matches are normally won with five to six metres of strap Conger so decided to take some Squid and X Seagoo with me for that, I started off though in the day light as I normally do, with my LRF rod, I fished with size 16 hooks on a drop shot rig as I do to target Perch, for this I took with me some Ragworm Seagoo, I was using 15-20mm sections of Ragworm and smothering it in the liquid before dropping down the side of a support, I was into Wrasse after Wrasse with the odd Pouting thrown in for good measure. My other half Jen was fishing this match and to start with she was only using worm but after seeing my catch rate she started adding on the liquid and her catch rate improved from there.
Going into the evening it was time to move onto targeting the straps, to start with I went with a pulley pennel rig, I baited up with a whole Squid pumped full of the X goo, one thing I will add now is it took me a little while to get any liquid into the syringe due to the thickness of the liquid. It didn't take long at all though to be into some fish, as I said before they are never very big off there but they provide some sport. One thing is for sure I am looking forward to finally getting down there with the floats and some Mackerel Seagoo for some Garfish!
I also decided to go out to target some Flounder at the end of last year, I looked into how a lot of people locally were targeting them and most were using multiple hook pop up rigs, this for me didn't feel the right way to go about it, I felt that when Flounder fishing these days quite often we are fishing for a single bite, so instead of going down the route of more baits gives more options, I went for the bigger the better, single size one hook with three big Ragworm and a strip of Mackerel belly smothered in Mackerel liquid. The results were three fish in two sessions not bad by anybody's standard but for someone who before then hadn't tried to catch one I'd say it went well.
In the few months since I started using the product I have found myself having three favourites that I go nowhere without. These are the Ragworm, Mackerel and X. I have caught so many fish using this stuff in a short space of time that in my mind it must be making a difference right? I feel like we would never know for sure, but a lot of the time in angling if something gives you confidence you'll be fishing better and the results will come along with it. So to summarise what started out me being sceptical I am now converted and I don't leave home with out my Seagoo.
