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I used bags quite a lot when I joined the last syndi, on one of the lakes I'd get lots of knocks as soon as the bag landed, fizzing the lot - then after 10 mins all quiet. I'd re-cast and the same happened. I'm convinced they were hiding in the weed coming out blowing the bag, eating the loose stuff then leaving just my hookbait. This went on all day and no takes. I've now got some mega 8ml barrel wafters in pellet flavour from CCMoore with exactly this in mind for later in the year. I also came up with a few ideas around decoy baits after this that I will use one day. Not giving too much away I think this will be a real winner.

I often think that and never get round to it lol. I often think with bags and stuff if they havent gone in a hour or so they aren't going to go and the Rudd would have destroyed them, so would probably rechuck every couple of hours.

Yeah they are cheap nowadays. £20 for 5kg usually.

Still not caught any on main lake, i used to think i was half decent at this carp lark but really losing the will to fish now, today was another blank to add to the running total, been back on this lake since last October and still nowt other than a couple of liners, spent a small fortune on a lot of new gear and TBH starting to feel like i have wasted my hard earned, 3.5 acre lake with a stock around 200 head of fish, it should be a runs water! Its tempting to move onto a new venue but nothing close enough that appeals, I think i will take a little break from the fishing, go back to doing my RC rock crawling

Never used the method, however if I were on say Mallard lake Bluebell I'd be looking to re-cast maybe hourly or less depending on the situation. Might give it a go 👍

Apparently made/rolled by munch baits they sold their baits for about 50p a kilo.

Sonik reels have a bad rep, so It will be interesting to see if this one is the same as all the rest. Looks nice and has a big old retrieve on it. If they have got it right could be decent.But we might have to wait for @Higham1987 verdict on that one. RRP £89.99 with a finger stall.

On Ardleigh I tended to recast The Method every 5minutes for the first 30minutes then leave the last cast before hitting the sack. That way I had a decent bed of bait in the swim. I didn't always spod bait in, sometimes just relying on the recasts. I'd usually prebaited the area a day or so previously. As for PVA bags, stringers or mesh, I could just cast the once and leave it for the next day if I know it's on spot. If I'm not happy it is reeled in and recast. I'm not too worried about the occasional patch of bait elsewhere. A bag or mesh of pellets and crumbed boilies will get silverered. A few loose boilies in the area won't do much harm.

At £14 a kilo I'm never gonna try it.

Watching for the mouse or whatever that surfaced and dived back down. Something like that, although I don't actually write it down. I remember every swim and the distance from the original high water casting spot. I did message a mate this week after I got home: "After last night's phone dilemma, it crashed, I lost a carp this morning, hook pulled. Monster crab pop-up sliver on a coated braid Multi-rig. I'd played it from aiming at sneaky squirrel around 40metres. It ran right, so I waded out with my net, got it to go left, and it went past middle rod and hook just popped out. Not a good session. So upset I packed up a day early".

i managed to get out for the first time in over a year this week and did one rod on method and another on solid bags, method i recast every 30 45 mins or so and tried to hit the same spot but also prospected a bit with it. the solid bags i did about every 45 mins and always near the margin. solid bags caught me about 5 lovely carp over the course of 6 hours but the method only managed a skimmer during the same time frame. i do love the feeder set up though but must admit on my little local water thye solid bags work every time

Let's take this another level. Suppose you are fishing say the Method or Pva bags. How often are you recasting then?

So if someone read your fishing log which said , say " 15 wraps in line with Sneaky Squirrel " it would mean absolutely nothing to them ? . 😃

So has Sky been told off , or sulking , or intently studying the wildlife ?.

Your Daughter's rod , but she was at home with her Sister ? . 😁 .

Have a look at a specialist type barbel or specimen rod. Many have interchangeable quiver tips and a specialist tip and the backbone to deal with carp. I picked up the link for the Darenth Valley Tackle Box twin tip, but there are others available. https://tacklebox.co.uk/rods-en/specialist/specialist-rods/tackle-box-darent-valley-11ft-1-25lb-avon-quiver-twin-tip-rod/

Welcome to carp.com. If what you are doing works, take it onto other waters. As @kevtaylor says, the Method is underrated and underused. Years ago when I was fishing Ardleigh Reservoir in Essex, I used the Method, groundbait moulded around my lead, with the hookbait held in the groundbait ball by its 'stickiness'. It produced a number of big carp. Rigs confuse anglers, probably more than they confuse fish. The problem is anglers don't know they are confused and chasing their tails... Pop-ups, bottom baits, snowman, critically balanced, for each one there are a 100 rigs, and one rig to cover them all.

I ended May on a low, the phone issues, followed by a hookpull on a fish I'd been playing for a couple of minutes. However June starts today, and maybe with some more spawning to go. Let's hope it is a good month

few from last night on a tricky little park lake the boy got one too

That's Wile E Coyote... With Scotty dog, sneaky squirrel and cheeky pig to the right in order.

Yeh I think either way imma have the problem of being broken off by a carp there’s a few hundred carp ranging between 2-18 ibs if you have any suggestions please let me know 🙂

You might find something with twin tips that would work, the problem being any rod that is suitable for silvers will struggle with carp most silver fish are very fast feeders using the rod tip to set the hook needs a very light tip that's why feeder rods usually come with multiple tips, you would want something that is good for large perch and chub as well as silvers, that would be the sort of thing you are looking for.

That tree would make me a bit nervy