Baiting Needles and Drills

The Nut Drill and matching diameter Cork Sticks are designed for drilling out tiger nuts and boilies to create a buoyant or wafter hookbait. The drills are made to ESP own specification using high-grade stainless steel. The drills have a sharp pilot point and leading edge, so clean holes can be drilled without the risk of splitting or damage, even in relatively soft or fragile baits. The ergonomic…

The Nut Drill and matching diameter Cork Sticks are designed for drilling out tiger nuts and boilies to create a buoyant or wafter hookbait. The drills are made to ESP own specification using high-grade stainless steel. The drills have a sharp pilot point and leading edge, so clean holes can be drilled without the risk of splitting or damage, even in relatively soft or fragile baits. The ergonomic…

These Splicing Needles are designed for splicing ESP Leadcore and make the fiddly process much easier. These Splicing Needles come in a pack of three and are used to created spliced joints in leadcore. Spliced joints are much stronger than any knot and have the additional advantage of being extremely neat and streamlined. Maximum strength can be achieved with a spliced section of 30mm. These needl…

The Ultra Fine Bait Drill & Needle are a convenient tackle box size and feature hi-visibility handles. They are easy to use and reduce splits and breakages when baiting up. Ultra-fine 1mm diameter drill produces smaller, neater holes. The matching 1mm diameter needle has low profile barb with no sharp edges to fray or damage braid. Increased diameter towards base of needle is also useful for openi…

This Extra Long Bait Stick Needle is ideal for threading through tightly packed dynamite sticks or P.V.A bags. The 12cm long, flat forged needle is exceptionally rigid and the gate latch head clasps and closes round loops allowing you to pull the hooklink back through sticks or bags.

Ideal for balancing or popping up hookbaits.

The Fine Needle is perfect for small boilies and particle baits. The Heavy Needle is perfect for larger boilies and harder baits. The Gated Needle is perfect for splicing 40lb and 50lb Submerge and general hook baits. The Fox Splicing Needle is designed to neatly splice loops into leadcore or 30lb Submerge leaders. The needle features a micro engineered, hinged gate which closes to capture the fib…

Five-piece needle set that features everything you need. Comprises Stix & Stringer, Fine, Heavy, Gated and Splicing needles

Twisted stainless steel wire designed for splicing leadcore and lead-free leader materials as well as splicing Edges Camo-Splice hooklink material

Designed for drilling ultra fine holes into hookbaits. Perfect for hard baits such as nuts, air-dried boilies and corkball pop-ups, it allows you create a bore in a hard bait for your baiting needle.

The Fox 1.5mm Nut Drill is perfect for drilling fine holes through the centre of any hard bait from trout pellets through to nuts, air dried boilies and floating pellets.

Korda Bait Drill & Cork Sticks These precision engineered drill bits come in a choice of 4mm, 6mm, or 8mm diameters, making them perfect for boring-out any hookbait and adding buoyancy to it, via the matching cork sticks, which are provided. These are best used with boilies or nut baits where you want to add some buoyancy, such as critically balancing a bait or creating a snowman set-up from your…