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A tadpole to tease you with Hooklink material i use is ....Kryston Quicksilver with size 2 hooks. Then normal carp gear with running leads.

The only time I've caught cats was while fishing for carp and on every occasion I was using 24mm boilies on a long hair and 18lb line, Sufix Synergy. Rods were, and still are, Greys Prodigys in 3lb test and reels were Diawa BRi 5000's. If I were to go looking for cats I'd use the same rods, my more recent Shimano Longcast Big Baitrunners which also carry the Synergy line and liver as bait. Ian

If you have an idea how you're going to fish a venue it can be easy to cut right back, especially for short sessions. When you're unsure and want multiple options depending on conditions and what you see it becomes more difficult. For example when I've gone up the canal I've just pretied some pva bags with a short unleaded leader coming out and simply looped to loop when I got to the swim. I'd make about 10 beforehand letting me fish 4-5 swims, moving every hour. Some local lakes I go to, I will either stalk the fish using particle or floating crust, so simply a loaf of bread, a small bucket of particle and a few rigs in a wallet, a couple of leads in a bag along with a bottle of drink, a little food and then just rods and unhooking gear. Then if on longer sessions I'll have much more variety but will use my car for some of it. I have my main fishing ruck sack and then a smaller one for the more mobile sessions and just add, replace or subtract items to keep gear to a minimum. Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk

Thank you everyone I'm very much looking forward to the coming year

Yeah, hindsight not a great post, just me saying why do people let fish run for ages thats all Sent from my LG-H955 using Tapatalk