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Why you should try longshank hooks

I use the 35 version for feature finding and spodding so basically it does the most casting: compact, lightweight and looks good. Got the Basia's, Custom Tournies and Big Pit Baitrunners but would be happy to go with a set of 35 or 45 Emblems - no worries 👍

Won’t get 39 turns on a standard carp hook For a really easy knot search for knotless knot.

Not exactly boring mate, but was same old same old. Didn't realise Terry Hearn was actually registered as a LTD company on companies house, fair play to the bloke and not some no mark bivvie tramp living off freebie tackle and baits for a brief spell on social media!

Any idea what this knot is called? It looks interesting:!

So annoying, was on the phone to my mum whilst walking the dog, talking about her broken garage door. When I got home every advert on social media, news pages and youtube on the telly was garage doors. Stop listening to me - unreal!

You mean kind of like the magic twig where you push it in the ground and then the prongs come out and it gets stuck in weed 🤣 Facebook always knows. I haven't looked at tent pegs on there and this ad came up.

The JAG ones are only 12.49 EACH, what's wrong with you?!?! 😂 I'd only need 10, that's less than one storm pole 🤣 If I end up buying these now it's your fault Elmo! I've just ordered their distance sticks, always struggle to push mine into the hard ground.

You would have thought a peg should be able to do its job without thinking about it kind of like that picture they could use a set of wings or prongs like a fork on the top part of it that you can stand on at the end to give it a final push home once wound in as an added bit of security. there ya go kev a proper bit of development that will keep the company afloat a while longer

I'm one of those who uses standard strong bivvy pegs. I've looked at mine and they are the screw in pegs provided by Rod Hutchinson with the brolly system, or some screw in pegs I bought for another bivvy. I did also have a quick look at Johnson Ross (https://johnsonrosstackle.co.uk/1477-bivvy-pegs) and Tackle Box and to be honest in terms of tent/bivvy pegs carp tax is actually low. I've not found ground I can't get that type of peg in, and I have always screwed them in rather than used a mallet, and at Nazeing I did take one just in case for the sailing bank which was hardcore, but was always able to screw them in. If I have any complaint it is that in soft ground in windy weather pegs pull loose. I have got one bent RH bivvy peg, but that is actually down to Sky catching her lead around it as she went for something. It was deep in hard ground, and she pulled and bent it out. Saying that, she has also bent thick banksticks, storm poles and storm sticks, and blooming dog spikes.

Custard doughnuts, one of my sweet treats. I do try to avoid 'junk' food, but I do have a sweet tooth. My fishing lunch is frequently smoked bacon sandwiches or bacon rolls, with a proper dinner. It was from a Tim Paisley book, and Rod Hutchinson advice to do a 'production meal' at night. It takes time up, and obviously is healthy. I feed Sky from 17.00 onwards, her stomach has a clock timer, so after I have fed her and given her a 'pee walk', a hundred metre wander up the bank, I get my dinner sorted. I do try to do the healthy option, which is actually easier in winter and cooler temperatures than hot summers unless I go buy fresh meat or fish every day. I try to make the biscuits, jam tarts, doughnuts or whatever as my evening dessert.

Has anyone tried these type with a bolt type end? Obvs power drills are as bad as a mallet but was thinking might be able use a small rachet with the correct size socket.

I am struggling with the usual heavy duty ones that bend when you try and put them in hard ground, has anyone got any good suggestions or a solution that don't cost £15 each peg please ?

Thanks, was pleased with this one because it came from an area of the lake that had always beaten me for some reason. Something to build on now. Thanks I enjoyed both and the pack of custard doughnuts. I was proper lazy with food this week, brioche rolls, burgers at night, bacon in the morning, biscuits and doughnuts 🤣

Not sure about the biscuits but that is a heck of a fish, proper result.

Fantastic result Elmo. Great fish!

Finally got out and caught one this weekend. Got to the lake Saturday lunchtime to find only one other on. Had a look around in the island half of the lake and as usual found a few mooching about. It was really weedy everywhere so I continued walking, looking at the bigger end of the lake I just thought it looked good, whilst it was still very weedy. I got the plumbing rod out to look for a spot I used to know. It still existed a bit but was a lot smaller. Did quite a lot of leading about and didn't find a lot else so raked a spot close in for a 3rd rod, one mountain of weed later it was done, flicked in a load of pellets to let the Rudd go to work, I stuck a rig on it straight away but a couple of hours and it had stunk out my pineapple pop up. Continued baiting it and left it for the morning. 2 rods went out to the bank of pads and weed onto a plateau baited with a good few spombs of boilie and pellet mix and just chucked the 3rd onto another clear spot I had found in the other side margin. Nothing much happened until I was asleep and about 2am I had a series of beeps and line was being taken so I hit it and instantly it was weeded up, it came in like a big ball of weed for a while when it got free of that went nuts and found another weedbed, this continued for a while and I just kept trying to gain line, until it got to the weed In front of the swim I tried and failed to get it round the side and it locked me up solid. In the end my only hope was putting the rod down. Luckily after a vape I picked it up and it came free I ended up landing it and a free ball of weed. Couldn't find my tripod, or water bucket, and my intervalometer batteries were dead so had to find some more of those. Luckily I could use a picnic bench that was in the swim as a tripod. Not the greatest photo but at 3am it was the best I could manage. 31lb 3oz of hard earnt carp. I also lost one to my line parting (happened straight away off a drop back) , caught a massive rudd on a size 4 pop up I had a couple of what I thought were liners because my raked spot was fizzing, sadly no takes because of the Rudd, and I also had a pretty big tench with weed ball also on a pop up.bith slipped back because I needed a nap, The trig hammer XT got a big test and passed with flying colours. I had a little nap and came home a happy but tired and achey man. These were the biscuit of the week in my world, they came alive when you dunked them. And pink what's not to love.

Ha ha Facebook always knows. As if anyone is that accurate 😳

Here's a type of horse race you may not have seen before - this isn't Ascot or the Kentucky Derby, it's Indian Relay, and saddles would just slow them down. If it works in the UK, the tiktok video puts you in the driver's seat. https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSHGNVAdCr3NH-056Pm/

Loook what’s just come up in my feed lol https://www.facebook.com/reel/728762759986002?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V&fs=e&fs=e

I have a telescopic version that I can use to drop baits in over a marginal shelf or in between trees and branches

Little update on this fox 8ft thing, I haven't really used it for its intended purpose yet as I haven't really done much mass baiting other than with an x spod. However a couple of times like this morning it has proven very handy as an 8ft landing net handle. It was really weedy and the water level has dropped so the extra 2ft came in handy, I also used it when zig fishing and it helped. So if nothing else it is a great landing net handle when you need a bit more distance.

It happens buddy. I went nearly 2 seasons on a large water just catching the odd bream. Have you got confidence in a. your spots, b. your rigs and c. Bait??? I very gone back to a rig I have every confidence in, check. Bait is good, but always changing pop up colour on the snowman. So just leaves spot, which is mainly down to watercraft & arguably a bit of luck. In the past I'd be quick to change everything, big mistake. Just small tweaks can make all the difference along with time at the water, you'll unlock the puzzle soon enough.

Seriously wish i could move on from this near perpetual run of blanking