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Since Saturday?! That's criminal tbf mate.

As an update, still no running water. I do hope this won't effect the shareholders profits

This guy got loads of abuse back in the day for apparently fishing in an 'out of bounds; area, not sure that was true, maybe jealousy from others I suspect. I had left fishing it when this was made. From memory he also claimed to be one of the first to use a method feeder on there, I know that is not true. Anyway, a good bit of stalking on a big pit at the time.

I move it every day. Apparently at certain times of year it actually attracts them and a month or so ago I saw it perched next to the fake one! Yeah that's the plan mate!

Thanks , fellas , that's pretty conclusive then . 😃

no not really gt80+ is good but I think I'm going back to hydrotuff next time I spool up.

They say you have to move the heron regularly for it to work, I felt like it was attracting them lol I'm imagining some sort of line of wire or string around the sides a bit like the electric wire for otters, say 3 layers of it, but then you cant have the heron sitting on the top edge if they can still reach the water from there. Tricky!

We have one already. We have a separate goldfish pond further down the garden and it's standing next to that. Hasn't worked.... lost a couple of the bigger goldfish. Yeah this is where I'm at mate. Just need to figure out how I'm gonna do it.

Herons are a pain, they lifted a few carp out of my pond that were too big to eat so he left them on the lawn to suffocate prob 5lb plus each. I got a fake heron which might have helped as little but couldn't say for sure. I'd say net it or some sort of barrier on the sides so they cannot land, they leave like an oily substance on the surface when they've been in. 🤬 👎

Nutrabaits and mainline etc is still expensive tbh. There is a lot more choice nowadays thankfully, and a lot more info and ingredients available. But regardless to turn a profit at £3 a kilo and covering costs etc. It's not going to be decent. I've been learning lots lately and am trying to work out all my own mixes, for a decent balanced food base mix I think I am looking at around £4/5 a kilo if I buy 50kg worth of ingredients so I can save a bit and still make a good bait. But I've got to roll it all myself. That's the payoff really.

Been using the HD for a couple of years having also used Hydro Tuff, both seem good to me.

Nope 😄

I don't think that anglers ever realised how much bait really cost for a decent bait. Years ago, late 1990's or early 2000's, to make a bait at home a 10kilogramme bucket of a good Nutrabaits base mix was £72, (Trigga), add in the Liquid Trigga, eggs and additives and it worked out at around £9.50 per kilo of boilies. The finished product if you bought them from a tackle shop was originally £10.99 per kilo, although that doesn't include the additions I put in myself to improve the bait slightly. Then the rolling companies started making bait themselves, and selling direct rather than only tackle shop sales, which cut bait prices by around 30% as it removed the 'wholesaler' or middle man who sold to the tackle shop, or the tackle shop adding their cut after buying from Nutrabaits, Mainline, Mistral, or KM, pick a few others. Then you had home rollers getting in on wanting to make bait, and bait quality dropped as they could sling a mix together and with many anglers switching baits every week, and decent bait ingredients increased in price. Mr Home Roller couldn't buy a pallet of fishmeal for the same price as Mainline or Nutrabaits. Home rollers often ended up selling cake mix boilies.

Hello Everyone I usually buy Gardner Hydro Tuff as my mainline as I fish close to snags ,short to medium distance . Are there any other lines I should be considering please ? . 😃

Not the best start to 2026. The filter house is protected by a massive wooden lid that keeps the rain out. It's been so cold and wet recently that this wood is now completely saturated and weighs an absolute ton. It opens by means of a pully system that's attached to the house. On Sunday I was opening the lid to clean the filters and the fixings pulled out of the wall. I popped to B&Q to get some bits to repair it and thought I'd done a good job, until it pulled out again, hitting me in the face, cutting my nose, and giving me a lovely black eye. Monday morning at work everyone was asking if I've been in a fight 😂. Water temps are rock bottom, with 3 degrees C the lowest recorded. All the carp are sitting on the deck doing nothing, which is probs a good thing since we've spotted a heron stalking the pond on several occasions now. I have a couple of months to figure out how I'll address that. All that said, the carp are looking healthy and the water quality is good so I can't complain too much. I have to say it's tricky getting the motivation to get on the bank knowing how these temps are effecting the fish. I'd probably blank fishing the pond, let alone my syndi water!

I can't imagine they were great boilies selling at 3 quid a kilo.

Bonjour à tous, Je prépare une session carpe d'une semaine début mai au lac de Pannecière, sur les postes autorisés de nuit, et plus précisément dans le secteur du Lab. Je cherche des retours de carpistes ayant déjà pêché ce secteur, surtout à cette période de l'année. Je sais que le niveau d'eau peut varier à cette période, donc tout retour sur l'adaptation des postes selon la hauteur d'eau m'aiderait beaucoup. Merci d'avance à ceux qui prendront le temps de partager leur expérience 🙏 Bonne saison à tous et au plaisir d'échanger 🎣

So its now official Corus have put out a statement saying they are no longer producing boilies, this is the second bait in a row that has been taken of the market

Part two:

Used to have these on VHS. In his prime was a bit of a lad, but lot's of great info from his first 3 books. Remember meeting him at a Carp Society slide show and talk many years ago, then went outside for a demo of his air powered boilie cannon thing 😀 Part one: Part two: No copyright infringement intended but think some of a certain age might like this ?

No worries just thought it would be a useful addition as I am sure more people don't put them up because they don't know how or it seems like a faff.

Ignore this link, hopefully I have reposted this as a 'proper link' now and also added a topic title. ****** Mods feel free to delete this topic ******

Thanks for doing that mate 👍. Unfortunatly I make a complete 'dogs dinner' about my links recently, should improve in the future now. Not sure if any mods can do this, but maybe remove my post in the YouTube section and I can replace it with a topic with a proper heading and hopefully a proper link this time! 😃

Hi guys I thought I would make a quick how to guide for uploading videos from youtube. First find the video you want to share. Then click on the arrow. Then this appears Click copy link and you get a short code come up. All you need to do is click paste and bingo You want your link to be embedded like above. I think it's best if you try and include the title of the video in the title of the post as it will make them easier to look through. Hope this helps @salokcinnodrog might be useful as a sticky?