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They can be quite aggressive to other swans and water birds. Earlier this year I actually filmed swans fighting at Redgrave. I later found the slightly smaller male dead in the rushes. It's my Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19aP8t7tzH/

Other than my buying tackle because it is 'shiny', I tend to analyse every tackle item I buy, and that includes end tackle. Various purchases have been made, and the item tested and slung in the bin, line, hooks, clips, PVA. I don't like lead clips, pretty much full stop. Their original reason for manufacture was as a way to remove a semi-fixed lead at the end of the session, not as a way to dump the lead on a take. Whoever came up with that idea, deserves a place in hell for littering and pollution. If you are using a pendant lead on a lead clip in weed, it may be an idea to change to a distance shaped inline lead. The inline catches up less, a lead clip might get jammed up with weed and not release, you are then playing a fish and a weed covered lead. On one day at Nazeing I retrieved 5leads, leaders and rigs all on lead clips from the snags, and one of them may until my intervention have had a fish attached. @yonny makes a point about the safest set-up is the one that lands the fish, however it does not mean fishing in the thickest weed or up to impenetrable snags, which I think too many are still doing.

Hi mate not used these ones myself but did have a set of the old fox mini microns that worked for years and years. Sorry I can't be more help but I use Gardner atts these days.

No i know, I just think everytime I mention a product I like, I then have to write a essay to justify it. 😂

Whilst it is unlikely it “could” still happen with a running lead. that same wind knot “could” loop over itself pig tail and lock in the lead Ala a single granny knot. “could” pick up a piece of detritus on the bed and do the same. unless you can take out every “could” You will always be left with an element of risk. i am happy to use a leadcore leader but I will use a knotless knot (Moors knot ) to join it to minimise the risk. Use a Korda no trace bead and again take out an element of risk i would be happy to see the no trace beads more supple/stretchy rather than hard plastic.

Could Always just use paste it’s a non boiled boilie

They do make good putty, I know I know sorry man - I feel dirty, gonna go shower! Was the excitement of being at my first angling show. I'll never do it again - the shame 😭🤣

Visited a couple mates fishing the river yesterday and seen this, how cool 👌🤣

Without damaging the fish. And that is why my usual set up is a run ring straight on the mainline or tubing. Suggestions work, they are the basis of invention and problem solving. However, in every product the idea then needs full inspection and development before production, or full proper instructions for use. @elmoputney that is not aimed directly at you as Korda (in my view) were responsible for a lot of bad angling practices with lead clips. As I have said above, I don't think that it is a true running lead, compared to a standard run ring and slack line you will have resistance, the internal bore of the lead clip reduces free line movement and any detritus can jam up that movement. It will need to be fished as a standard semi-fixed set-up. However as a lead clip, it is possibly the best version available. As long as the line is still able to go through the lead clip the rig will be ejected. I should add a point that whether running lead or semi-fixed lead, tubing increases resistance and although the line should pull through, and crack-off above may cause a 'wind knot' and so stop it pulling through.

Are boilies boilies if they are steamed? Steamies aren’t banned 🤫 plenty of good suggestions here already. Pepperami is a great bait, dip it in marmite before casting out.

I wasn’t aiming my reply at anyone Elmo just a general comment. i think the hit and run products are very good

Yeah nothing from OMC allowed onsite 😆

Hi, me and my husband fish France with our two little dogs, can`t wait to connect to similar people on this forum

I haven't said it's fool proof or perfect or anything but I think it is a little safer than most other things we chuck out into the water, and I think it's a good product. I agree, I probably should just stop making suggestions.

Cracking news mate, are you going to ban the magic twig on your water?

Next social in your back garden then mate?

Hi Folks, New Guy here! I know nothing about bite alarms but I'm thinking of investing... My attention was directed to these via a reccommendation elsewhere on this forum for the Fox Mini Micron (Non X) which has been echoed elsewhere. So my logic is that, as the FMM is a good choice and excellent value, and I'd like the facility of a remote receiver the FMMX's should also be a good choice, even though they are quite a bit more expensive at about €60 each or €150 for the set inc receiver. Does anybody now them really well, faults and all after longterm ownership? What's the word on the Banks? Thanks in advance - David QuoteReply Report

This. The safest set-up is the one that gets the fish in the net without problems.

Then back on home territory and ,part of a 7 carp hit ,using single bottom baits over a scoop of dried maize

Then a night float fishing with prawns ,after eels ,not a carp I know !

Across the border, forgot my passport and facial recognition but made it...OK.. lol

Don’t care what anyone says, There is no fool proof lead set up the best you can hope for is to minimise any problems if and when it happens underwater, anything can happen once the line has snapped off.

Good luck mate 🤞

I'm not sure, you have what is essentially a 'pulley rig' system as is used in sea fishing. There is inbuilt tension, so I don't think it is a true running rig. I've seen fish eject rigs when there is no tension, and Ken Townley wrote about it in Tim Paisley's Big Carp, where a lost fish at Savay came into Snags with a rig in its mouth. 2 days later the fish was swimming around in the snags minus the rig. As I mention, the majority of the time, the line breaks at the swivel anyway, the knot is the weak point. When I hooked the swan last week, and the line snapped, it was still in the clip, so I was able to check where it had broken; the loss was minimal, more where I cut off the curly-wurly. A fish trailing just rig and line is not likely to be giving false indication to other anglers, unless there is detritus caught up on the line, whereas a lead clip that hasn't ejected, and I have retrieved a lot of them, will. Not all had the tail rubber forced or pushed right on, some were just jammed up with a bit of weed, mud or stick! Something else, the loop of line in the PB lead clip, with the lead or lead swivel butting up against it, may be at risk of damage from the lead itself. If that loops breaks you will still be losing line and the fish. I don't think it is as secure as a standard knot to the hooklink swivel.

Cheers mate - I'll have a look 👍