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Allpowers is are good for the money 👍

Anker do seem to lead the way .

Absolutely put something they want to eat where they want to eat it and the rig can be anything just need a sharp hook.. Don’t forget you can make a kilo of boilies go an extremely long way if you crumb them up so then it can become “relatively” cheap a sack of groats are about 20£ a sack and easy to prep even for a beginner. and can help to make a kilo of boilie go even further and add some cloud into the water to give the fish extra confidence Just need do what you are happy doing confidence breeds success

Yeah mate I will be using them from now on, they've got a lot of basemix ingredients to play with as well 👌

AA baits are top quality suppliers. I've used them for several years and would definitely recommend.

Hi Yonny, great feedback, thank you. And to the other replies too, thank you. It has sorted in my head exactly what I need to do.

I have 2 of them. Annoyingly where I fish the phone signal is absolutely awful, half the time I'm on emergency calls only and when it comes up 4/5G is only one bar. It is often lack of signal that causes phone batteries to die faster. The Fag packet size chargers I can usually only get 1 charge out of. The Juice long Weekender I can get 2 sometimes 3 charges out of. I still sometimes end up going back to the car and having to charge from the cigarette lighter. I really must look out for the Anker versions.

I'm not sure on the effectiveness of most fishing tackle brand winter clothing, as most are not outdoor specialists in the clothing range. I prefer army surplus, hunting or shooting clothing. My cold weather clothing is from army surplus, and Hoggs of Fife, along with Merino wool socks. Top half is usually t-shirt, Norgie or UBAC with a standard fleece on top, and a Hoggs Strathmoor jacket on top, (look at current outdoor shooting or hunting jackets), or a DPM wind and water resistant smock on top. Bottom half is combats with Hoggs overtrousers, and the Merino under my combat boots. For the neck I do have either a snood or my shemagh. That is cold winter wear!

Think you've deleted your reply mate 😆

Stop putting ideas in my head. Sorry officer Mr B B told me to do it 😂

Think I'll go with what I got n see how she gets on. If she gets cold I'll just get her to push my monster barrow around for a while, that'll warm her up lol. My bivvy got a overwrap aswell.

The only reason I can think of to justify having a heater in a bivvy is if I was going to claim on mrs B B life insurance 🤔

Most heat sources produce carbon monoxide. really need to go safe good bag is most important. hot water bottle or a thermal cover or a 12v electric blanket even putting the unhooking mat on top of the winter skin will help a tiny bit.

I've got : thermal base layer, 95% merino socks, prologic max 5 thermo suit, hat, gloves, neck scarf. snugpak 4 season bag, snugpak jungle thermal blanket, ngt hot water bottle Got a bio ethanol(ventilated but supposed to be odourless) to burn in trangia stove if it's to wet to use gas stove outside. Did look at the candle heater but candles still produce carbon monoxide This is the main reason I was looking for some kind of heater as it can be the middle of the summer but the other half still wants the heating on.

If you really need to there is a couple of electric blankets that will plug into a power bank I bought one for my mrs as she always moans she’s cold saves me putting the heating on lol.

My first order from aa baits 👍 loving the size of the xxl tigers 🤣

Ooh no, you don't need a bivvy heater. A decent sleeping bag for night, and good clothing for day. Too many 'accidents' with bivvy heaters, burnt down bivvies, and deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning. Even using a stove in the bivvy is a risk. Years ago a mate I used to fish with had a run while his stove was on to keep him warm, he only burnt a hole in his sleeping bag, but other mates have destroyed their whole bivvies and woken up in A&E.

Spot on mate, never used anything except a decent bag tbh. When I got into night fishing a bivvy heater was never really spoke of lol, now you're seeing things on Facebook where people are using diesel heaters etc, madness lol I like the hot water bottle idea though 👍

You don’t need a bivvy heater decent bag and a water bottle and maybe a winter skin and that should be good enough whatever you do please don’t use gas heaters it’s just too risky..

I purchased a fox camo bivvy bucket(not fox). I've not tested it yet... Just finishing getting all the stuff I think I need for a comfortable weekend fishing. Just gotta decide on a bivvy heater now. It's just a bait bucket that someones nicely boshed some wires ect in. I had it for £65

@yonny Nicely said. One thing I noticed when air drying baits to get them rock hard, is they took on water (or other liquids) and got softer quicker than baits straight out of the freezer. It meant they could actually have a faster breakdown time than frozen or 'normal' boilies, which could be an advantage at times. Ah, the washed out baits concept, supposedly making the carp think they are safe as opposed to freshly introduced. I never noticed an advantage over freshly introduced straight from the freezer, although I did occasionally have a fish that took a bait that had been in the lake for 2 days untouched, unmoved and left in place, fish that I think were wary of new bait, even the disturbance of putting any bait on the spot. One particular example was on a 3 day trip to Brackens Pool where the left hand rod produced 4 or 5 fish to 20lbs, all on stringers fished to the treeline opposite. My right hand rod produced only 1 fish, a 30lb mirror that was previously uncaught at that weight, but I had left it alone for 48hours after lowering it in to the tree line to my right. Now mixing @framey and @yonny's quotes, when bites come hard to get on your food bait boilies, it can help by increasing the amount you prebait, or put in at the end of the session. I think carp can get used to and avoid just a few baits and getting hooked on your hookbait. By increasing the amount of prebait, and potentially the free bait when you fish, you reduce the chance of them inspecting and checking every one. That inspection of baits is why rigs get developed or changed, because the carp can learn to avoid a particular situation. Some is because we simply can't afford to put in more bait every trip, so need to come up with other answers. The more you can afford, the more the fish rely on it, and a basic inefficient rig will still catch.

Yeah they are entertaining for sure, the canal seems really shallow. I liked a lot of their older vids, pure lure fishing and setting hooks like pro's cough cough noddies! 🤣👍

Been watching there channel lately, decent bunch of lads a proppa funny....shame about his Canal not really fishing well.

I know we're carp, but gotta get one of these from the Snagged Bro boys 🤣