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If you had to tie and use just 2 rigs : - 1 - Which would they be and why? 2 - What hooklink would you use? 3 - Which hooks? Im asking as after reading another thread it made me re-think a bit about what i need to buy. I don't want to end up with a box full of "Expensive" hooks and hook link materials that i don't/won't use. Thanks Andy

I can see we are going to get on

haha! take out the cube and you almost got a slipknot

My eldest boy is into those nut cases lol He's also into this though I have to admit it's proper https://youtu.be/UqfsnUkmZCA

We had no problems at all coming out and my daughter went through hassle free on her way back last Saturday. Think you'll be okay geezer

haha!! i wish bud, riviera with the fam in tow but i am hoping to sneak up near Toulouse for a day or two, its the start of a phenomenal canal and river system that runs all the way up to Aquitaine. yum yum!!

Cars yes but Millwall fans and their caravans ? Don't think so

Only a couple of days left to go... had another 31lb common out this morning on freshwater shrimp. Absolutely stunning fish, lean mean fighting machine. No gutbuckets in this lake. Sadly I didn't get a photo as it took an age to remove the hook and I just wanted to get her back in the water.

I use a basic hair rig for all my fishing, maybe with abit of shrink tubing. The braid I use for the rigs is sufix sheath skin and for hooks I use korda kurv shank size 8 barbless. I've had great results on all the lakes I fish and it works out really cheap as well lol

for me it would have to be the standard knotless knot hair rig for bottom presentation. id use a wide gape hook pattern for this and n trap soft hooklink material, i like to use a kicker or small piece of heat shrink on this hook as it turns much more aggressively. for my second rig it would have to be Darrel pecks pop up rig, its the most simple pop up rig you can tie (easily found on a google search). for this rig i would use a choddy hook and n trap stiff hooklink material. for me the 2 hooklinks above cover just about any presentation i need to, and tie my other favorite rigs. as for the hooks, the wide gape pattern has landed me more fish than anything else, although i have to say that i have played with the krank hook and im a big fan of that also. as for the choddy hook for pop ups, ive found nothing that sits better. a note on the wide gape, i used korda kaptors first, they very the sharpest hooks ive had straight out of the packet but i did have more than a few bend on me, i now use the wide gape x from korda, ive never had any issues with that hook.

Clone rig and HSR - because they can be modified to fish effectively over pretty much any substrate. Rig Marole CAMH2O - because the different breaking strains can be used to construct the above rigs perfectly. Atomic Chodda/Sabre - because they're the best (read: most reliable) hooks in the world IMO. My +1 hooklink would be ESP Tungsten Loaded coated braid, simply because it's the best coated braid I've come across and it's always handy to have some in the box.

Having a great time here at the moment. Biggest caught so far is a 32lb common, with a couple of 30's thrown in for good measure and a fair number of mid 20's. I did lose a "monster" a few days ago, slipped the hook a few feet from the net, had a tail like a shovel and was pulling like crazy. Weather is a bit hit and miss, quite chilly in the mornings. Best bait has been sticky baits krill but my lost fish was hooked on popped up corn. The 32 was caught on a lump of luncheon meat tried as an experiment, but no other takes on it since.

No need for pm, apparently that is how anglers get in!!!! I'll let you know if I get through intact [emoji12]

Well I got to use mine on Monday for the day.... now I have used the original spomb a lot & find the large one superb for getting bait out quick at range . So I write this review with a fair bit of experience of using these bits of kit . 1 - the xsplode doesn't hold as much bait as the spomb 2- doesn't retrieve anywhere near as well as the spomb 3- cast just as well maybe a touch better than the spomb but nothing in it really . 4- the catch is to sensitive and opens in flight when fishing into a good head wind 5 - slightest bit of bait anywhere but in side the xsplode and it won't shut unlike the spomb 6 thought it was louder & caused more disturbance than the spomb . So basically not as good as the original in my eyes & will be sticking the large spomb back on next time out