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I understand that 'Guides and Blanks' are still trading with a new owner,they might be worth a try ... Or any good rod builder would be worth contacting I bet ..ps ,this could be a good opportunity to get 3x anti frap tip eyes for yr sons warriors ..

Not sure these are the right size, but they have some to choose from https://johnsonrosstackle.co.uk/1628-rings Either that or email fox direct they might have a spare.

Is 14 the internal measurement?

Evening all, I am trying to source a 14mm tip eye to replace a damaged tip eye on my boys 12ft fox warrior 2.75lb tc rod, I have done the usual online searches but can’t find anything, (except the usual Temu/amazon stuff) or do I just order 3 16mm tip rings (which are easier to source) and do all 3 rods? (He wants them all to match - I get that!)

All part of the adventure mate! Satisfaction will be crazy when you start catching on it!

I just know I will end up tinkering all the time so many EO, flavours, powders and potions to try, I did put milk B, butterscotch sweetener and Betaine in them I just think some BP would next level them. My plan was/is find a basemix that works and doesn't cost loads, use plenty and stick with it, the reality is I'm down the rabbit hole and will end up constantly tweaking and playing. Even though I've got 20kg of tropamino I know I want to make a mix from scratch,but if I do well on the tropamino, who knows that's the fun part of this journey.

You’d be 2/3 way to my pop up combo then! I use banana, scopex and BP Oil. Think it’s a great combo. Also added fructose as a sweetener. I did think maybe adding fine ground black pepper powder to gives some flecks in the finished mix. Black pepper is great, I used to get mine from mother natures goodies but I don’t think it exists anymore. There’s a good place for EOs called oils4life which do 100% pures (also great bulk beard oils). I think the more you make, you’ll end up like me and move away from just the pop up mix, dye and flavours, you start to tinker with extra additives and things. Some nice toffee and vanilla powders out there which would compliment the scopex nicely.

LP.B location ,presentation and bait .. Bait is a tiny part of the equation, if you have no fish in front of you or your rigs are tangled ,hooks blunt etc your not going to do so well.. Since Xmas, in between ,storms and awful weather ,I've caught very well ,just using two fake corns and a little mesh bag ...just a thought 💭

No one trusts the water company around here ,having been poisoned by aluminium Sulphate many years ago ,and the water company hid the facts from customers in my area for 16 days ..the Sulphate also went into a local famous cheese making plant ...

There are definitely still about fish from the old Surrey trout farm.. I once asked Skeff if he could search the stocking records for a water local to me,which was stocked in the mid 70s ...but he found no record of them ,I guess it will remain just a hearsay ...mind you some of the fish I had were wonderful creatures...lovely scaling on them ..

Co pilot is brilliant for this sort of thing 3 minutes and bang I've got a recipe.

They are still drying now as it's cold in the garage. The scopex comes through a little more each day but will probably make up a little scopex bait spray at some point. Definately more pleased with the wafters this time they should work just fine for my pva bag, I might add some black pepper as i think it's missing something. I have planned to add this previously but forgot to buy some I have gone with 5ml to start with in the hookbaits and thought i might start with 3ml a kilo in the feed baits. As I will be adding plenty of liquid hydro.

2 versions also https://www.soniksports.com/product/turbospod-carbon-14000/ https://www.soniksports.com/product/turbospod-14000/

Are you sure of that? It got me looking and on the first search got this page come up which I screenshot. In the advert it does say it is ambidextrous.

I used to use the BAF and Richworth pop-up mixes, they were consistent and worked, whereas the Mainline Polaris was not consistent, you could get a good batch that popped up brilliantly, or another tub that was awful. Those baits do look like good baits, but you may need to test and redry them before adding the dash of extra flavour. I found a single egg mix usually gave me enough hookbaits for a season. The other thing with hookbaits is you can get away with higher flavour levels, the same amount of flavour in a single egg as you would use for a 4 or 6 egg mix.

This mornings 5am to 10am session

Nothing exciting, but the boy and I managed a few commons this morning to start this years captures. now have to find a tip eye for a fox warrior 2.75lb rod (any ideas?)

Water temps shot up to 7.1C last week after the really cold weather disappeared. Yesterday I popped a handful of food in and the "stockies" i.e. smaller koi ate it all. The temps were so good I went fishing on Friday night. Blanked, obviously(😅), but on Saturday morning the sun came out and I saw carp with their backs out! Chucked zigs at them for an hour but was already late for home. Always next time.

There is a fb group called Leney Enthusiasts, according to that I've caught shed loads of them 😂

It wasn't a deliberate choice to add the fishmeal, more a happy accident tbh, I thought I would have enough for a 1 egg mix but it was still like angel delight when the bag run out. So to make something other than a mess I added a handful of basemix😂. I am going to do match the hatch ones, I want the option for once I've got them on the bait. I've got some cork dust for those wafters and will probably use the AA Baits fishmeal pop up mix for the pop ups as people have added 30% basemix to those successfully, I might try 50/50 and add cork dust if required. I don't want to make cork balls What essentially will probably happen is that I will make a load of hookbaits to add to the collection of hookbaits I will probably never use 😂

I believe there are a handful left according to Yates/Walsingham, but we will never know where they are!

I use a lot of AA products to be fair. Hydros or liquids mainly. Decent value on pellet too. I do rate them as a brand, been around for years and trusted by a lot of bait makers for ingredients. youd probably be better splitting some basemix with a pop up mix to get a better wafter tbh. you’ve still got the matching waters and pop ups to make too!!

Nah they are current models 🤪

I just went out to smell them, I mean move them about so they continue dry well. The scopex is strong in the garage. I think they should work well. I'm not selling them though, I barely have time to make my own.

Hi Elmo . I would offer to be a field tester for you , but that would mean I have to get off my bum and actually go fishing 😁 . Your pink boilies look very tempting . 😃