ive had more barbel on meat than any other bait youve just got to use it right

My best bate is good old Sausage meat!! Flavored with Chilli Powder and Garlic Oil.

Its that cooked sausag, I used to bang carp out on chippy sausages.

ASDA got great offer on sausages, 16 for £1

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Take A lb of raw sausage meat,mix with a tea spoon of Chilli PDR.
A tea spoon of Garlic Oil,One raw egg white and 2oz semolina pdr.
Mix together ,Roll into shapes of the size you want and simmer in water till firm(Boile Size About 3/4 mins) Then you can freeze till you go.

does it stay on the hook or hair well?

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You can hair it . I use a large Boile stop.But if in doubt drill and put on frozen!!!

I did a load for hemp with chilli flakes and garlic paste, it seemed to work very well

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Daytime summer fishing hemp/caster,night and flood fishing 14mm halibuts.
My winter fishing is mainly boilie based.

Small pellets are the best.I fished the 17th and 18th on the tidal Trent and had 45 barbel. 5 of them doubles with plenty of 9 pounders to back them up.
44 came to small pellets and just 1 to bolies.But it can depend on what the fish want on any paticular day because i have also had days when bolies have out fished everything else. If i could only use 1 bait it would be pellets.

Yep - 6 or 8mm pellets for me too, unless eels are a problem - which they can be sometimes!

Sausage meat is excellent too! Stiffen it by adding crushed hemp until it forms a nice paste and use it like that. When mixed with the hemp it doesn't attract eels like standard meat baits do ( has anyone gathered i don't like eels! ), either hair rig a small cork ball and mould it around that or my prefered method is to hook a piece of fake pop up corn onto a size 6 or 8 and mould the paste around that. By burying the hook in the paste you tend to avoid snags, weed and debris collecting around the hook which can be a problem with the standard hair rig. The corn has two purposes - (1) it helps keep the paste on ( a paste stop or spring would do the same ) and (2) it counterbalances the weight of the hook meaning the hookbait behaves in the same manner as the freebies ( something a paste stop or spring can't do! )

Casters and hemp in combination is an all time classic for summer barbel in low conditions - i like to use artificial casters on the hook as they help avoid nuicance species and again, the pop up ones counterbalance the weight of the hook - i generally use 2, either hooked directly or hair rigged to a size 14 Drennan Super Specialist.

Never been much of a boilie man myself but anything flavoured with monster crab will be a winner! I've caught well on Dynamite Monster Crab and Nash Monster Persuit. Loads of other boilies work but Nutrabaits Trigga has to be the one for me - as long as you don't mind catching big chub! They love it!!