I agree with scott, putting aside the chow issue and i know ill get grief on this statement , but paylake pack bait is just method mix with a different bookcover. John was fishing with his Packbait and he did just fine in fact much better than i did. I didnt use method/pack and was fishing boilies. The method/pack fish outnumbered all the plain boilie boys.
I fished atc last year and used my method mix a chicken crumble concoction and caught fish with corn on the hair.
now using a bead pick up with packbait etc (true paylake style ) might not work as well but then in all fishing circumstances you have to adapt to the situation.
charlie its like saying they should they all go out and buy long rods, baitrunners, beepers, funny lookin nets , and save the short rods and baitcasters for paylakes and resevoirs back home ? not pickin on ya just dont understand the logic.
edit got interupted b4 i posted and now see mnay thoughts duplicated