Description
Sticky Baits Manilla Range
The Sticky Baits Manilla Range is one of the most successful sweet-based carp bait lines ever created. Built around highly digestible nut meals, milk proteins, amino acids and natural attractors, Manilla offers year-round pulling power with a smooth, creamy vanilla-peanut profile that carp find incredibly easy to detect and process.
Whether you’re fishing a pressured day-ticket, a big pit, a canal, or a tricky syndicate water, the Manilla range gives you everything you need to create a complete feeding approach — from boilies and hookbaits to liquids, powders and pellets. This listing covers the entire range so you can choose exactly what you need for your fishing.
⭐ What Makes Manilla So Effective?
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Sweet & creamy profile – ideal for pressured or cold-water carp
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Highly digestible ingredients – carp keep returning to feed
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Fast leakage – strong food signals even in winter
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Great alternative to fishmeals – perfect for waters where fishy baits are hammered
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Full ecosystem of products – easy to build a complete session plan
🎣 Manilla Boilies – Shelf Life & Fresh
A classic sweet bait packed with natural nut meals, milk proteins and vanilla extracts.
Why use them?
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Soft and soluble but durable enough for all methods
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Perfect for all seasons
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Excellent for long campaigns or weekend sessions
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Available in multiple sizes for spreading or tight baiting
Best For:
Carp on pressured venues, winter fishing, margin fishing, boilie-only approaches, mixing with crushed and whole baits.
🔥 Manilla Active Boilies (Shelf-Life)
The famous Active coating breaks down into a halo of attraction, leaking proteins, sugars and fine food particles.
Why anglers love them:
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Super high attraction
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Breaks down even in cold water
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Creates a cloud around your hookbait
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Perfect for short sessions or competitive waters
Best For:
Day-ticket lakes, quick-hit sessions and places where you need fast food signals.
🎯 Manilla Hookbaits: Pop-Ups, Wafters, Dumbbells
Pop-Ups – High buoyancy, excellent for chod rigs, hinged rigs or snowman rigs.
Wafters – Critically balanced hookbaits for natural presentation.
Dumbbells – Irresistible shape and flavour leakage; great when fish are pressured.
Why these work so well:
Best For:
Presentation-critical rigs, clear water, wary carp, and matching the hatch.
💥 Manilla Pellets
A blend of mini pellets infused with Manilla attractors, perfect for PVA bags or mixing into spod/spomb mixes.
Key Features:
Best For:
Solid bags, method feeders, margins and warming water.
🌫️ Cloudy Manilla Liquid
A super-thick, PVA-friendly liquid designed to create a heavy, sweet cloud around your bait.
Key Features:
Best For:
Solid bags, glugging hookbaits, coating boilies and boosting groundbaits.
🥣 Manilla Stick Mix
Fine and coarse natural ingredients infused with the full Manilla attractor package.
Key Features:
Best For:
Trap-style fishing, casting long distances with a compressed PVA stick.
🧂 Manilla Powdered Additives (Paste & Binder)
A fine, potent powder designed for wrapping hookbaits or boosting boilies.
Ideal Uses:
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Make your own paste wraps
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Coat boilies for extra attraction
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Add to groundbait and method mixes
Perfect for subtle but intense attractor boosts.
🍯 Manilla Glug / Bait Spray
Potent, fast-leaking flavour boost in a bottle.
Why use it:
Ideal for final touches before casting.
🛠 How to Use the Manilla Range Effectively
Here are simple strategies depending on your style of fishing:
For Long Sessions or Campaigns
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Whole & chopped Manilla boilies
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Pellets to keep fish active
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Cloudy Liquid over a large area
For Short Sessions / Quick Hits
For Winter
For Margin Fishing
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Pellets
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Cloudy Liquid
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Paste wraps on hookbaits
🔍 Why Choose Manilla Over Other Sweet Baits?
Advantages:
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Extremely digestible (ideal for cold water)
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Sweet aroma works on carp that avoid fishmeals
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Suitable for all venues and all year
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One of the most natural sweet baits available
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Full ecosystem of matching products
Compared with other brands:
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More natural sweetness, less artificial scent
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Better digestibility
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Thicker, high-quality attractor liquids
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Stronger active breakdown on coated boilies
🛒 Buying Tips
When choosing which Manilla products to buy, consider:
1. How long is your session?
Short → Active boilies + liquids
Long → Standard boilies + pellets
2. Are you fishing pressured waters?
Use wafters, dumbbells, and crushed boilies.
3. Is it cold?
Stick mixes, liquids and small pop-ups shine.
4. Do you need fast attraction?
Cloudy Liquid + Active Boilies = instant food signal.
📦 Perfect for All Anglers
This range is ideal for:
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Beginners wanting a proven bait
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Experienced anglers needing consistency
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Day-ticket fishing
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Big carp campaign work
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Winter and summer fishing
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PVA bag, method or boilie-only fishing
💬 Final Word
The Sticky Baits Manilla Range remains one of the UK’s most relied-upon sweet carp baits thanks to its natural ingredients, digestibility and incredible pulling power. Whether you’re building a campaign or only have a couple of hours after work, Manilla gives you confidence and versatility on every lake.
