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Only thing I’d mention is the hook youre using on the chod. It isn’t suited to stiff material with its inturned eye. It will close the gape and potentially affect hooking potential and hook holds. You want to be using a hook suited to chods with an outturned eye. Putting a slight curve on the chod will help too instead of fishing it dead straight. Elmo’s rigs show that. id look at dropping the lead if fishing in dense weed or using as light a lead you can get away with. It will help when landing fish. other than that they look perfectly catchable on. It’s just a case of putting them in the right place. Sometimes it takes a while. I was on a social at the weekend. It took 42hrs of fish showing over my friends hookbait before he got a run on it. Between us no-one would have done anything different. Sometimes it’s just the way! don’t be too disheartened. Just make sure your fishing in the right places where the fish are willing to feed and the bites will come. Location is 90% of the puzzle.

I'm always trying to improve my accuracy and it's been 30+ years and still a long way to go literally. A good friend of mine said that his biggest edge is accurate casting and baiting at 90 yards - doesn't sound a lot by what you hear in videos but in reality it's a massive deal. There's my level of accuracy and then there's his, I think I'm having the best day ever if I have next to no rogue spombs and keep it to a rod length spread at that range, his however is a two foot spread with no rogues- bang on every time. When it comes to fine lines he is a level above me.

Roberts were always really good dab radios, mine was pretty bomb proof survived trips to work and all sorts still works must be nearly 20 years old, I do have another one now but I can't remember who it's made by will have a look tomorrow

Mechanically the rigs look fine. Maybe the pop-up is a bit blatant when the fish are singles, doubles, twenties. A chod is a good choice for fishing over dense weed, but is it dense weed? were there more sparse areas where you consistently get a good drop but cannot pull back any distance, in this instance you could use a more subtle bottom rig because you're in a gap or channel. Look at the emphasis placed on accuracy, finding the right spot. Take the time to measure and record any nice spots you find or catch from for future reference, it will help you to keep disturbance down in future sessions and inform rig choice. Be wary of how you fish those obvious spots you get in every swim, do you want to be in the middle of it or off to the side inside the chod - for want of a better word. Interrogate the spot - sometimes you want to be on the smoothest part - other times the opposite.

Just looked at a Roberts sports Dab comes with headphones small could fit in my overalls pocket £59 🤔

I keep looking/meaning to buy 1 too... Mate of mine paid 50p for 1 off car boot about 5years ago... Takes 4 of the big mahooosive batteries and still going strong... Did offer him £20 but still no.

Il have a look on there and amazon at the reviews.

I'm not sure how much data it uses really mate. I don't think it's too bad. Worth a bash? If not, you can't beat argos for electricals. Which (< the website) normally do good reviews, good luck

Listening to 3 days of cricket would eat into my data. 😞

Same as

They are tungsten anti tangle sleeves and yeah smaller ones, tbh I've found putting the knot inside them makes it go horrible and bendy, which is why I've settled on the long loop for now, I could tie them on I guess🤔😁

Just wanted to share my thoughts about hydrolink, I'm starting to love it, last night I made a lovely double wafter /snowman rig based on the German rig, its lovely to use and straightens up nicely, I wanted to start using wafters on clearer spots again, I will be using curve shanks with it but only had a trig hammer to hand, although it looks quite blatent on the green background, when it's in the margins, it's almost impossible for me to see (remember I am colour blind) 🤣 Hydrolink extreme is still rubbish though, probably only suitable for booms or actual shark hooks 😭

Hello Zorbeen I'm grateful that Cromiee and you asked your similar questions as it's certainly got me thinking , and there's been interesting replies , particularly from Kev. I've never used a chod rig before so I can't comment on that rig , but my knee jerk reaction looking at both rigs is " what size hook are you using ? " . 😃

You need to see what others on the lake are catching, have a chat, how many did the top rod catch last year? How many nights do they do? You may have unrealistic expectations for the water, whats the lake size and total stock? I would say that I fish intermediate to fairly challenging waters and they tend to have a way of punishing you, particularly if you start to think that you've sussed it. I seem to have runs through the year when I catch consistently for weeks, then the obligatory blank run and head scratching moment when you question how you ever caught anything. The high, lows, eureka moments and frustrations we all go through it, the blanks are part of the puzzle, just keep trying and learning, keep improving your game! Most of all enjoy the experience 👍