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Yonny, The Poles have actually started their own breeding program, back in the 1970's, and have moved away from the original Galician strain. Males were collected from the Vistula, and females from Golys, they are now into the 5th generation (breeding years 1973, 75, 86, 90 and 93), to improve the growth rate. Standard colour is yellowish brown with mostly irregular mirror scaling. Since the rise of carp fishing, and farming (for food and fishing), many European countries have gotten into carp breeding.

And a big loop on the end so you can get a spomb through with a smaller loop at the end of that just so you can loosen that loop to take it back off again

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Been to my vintage collection today xl pocket rockets ftw 😂

Galician. It is the strain that started it all for us. Donald Leney imported a bunch and the rest is history.

If you like 😀 no plugs thread... no it's Coventry Carp Baits, they are a bait rolling company that do stuff to order as well as their own in-house bait. That fish is from a carp water called Goslawice? looks like a nice water, just wondering what the typical mirror carp of Poland would be if there is such a thing, What would the UK have that is a comparable breed line, Simmo, Dinton, lennys, that sort of thing.

I am in between spombs at the moment my hooky one doesn't work needs a mod I think (edit its in the pond somewhere near the big airbomb, forgot about that day 😢) , I have a midi airbomb, which would take too long for lots of bait 😁 and a spod, spod is quickest and is easiest to fill, if I can just lessen the spill perfect tool for the job 👍😁 Also I am not too bothered spod spill will help with better line lay, honest 😁😁

Not heard that in a while. You not using a spomb?

After a lot of spod spill with the pigeon Conditioner yesterday(some accidently brilliant though I might add baiting 2 spots at once 😁) I figured the easiest thing to do is add some vitalin with the excess water, to make it stodgier, should work a treat I think, I've tried to plant the seed for a couple of early morning mobile sessions sessions rather than a Saturday night this week, my plan try and be there for morning bite time then just do a bit more spot finding work and baiting up then home by lunch in the hope I can nick one and do some good prep work, and still get some brownie points for the future 😂

I'm an ideas man, I just always struggle with delivering them, I was also never cut out to be a midwife or postman 🙄

That makes sense I guess, I popped over today, ended up clearing a tonne of weed out of a swim in the vein hope I can make 3 spots from it, I never realised just how much was in there, I was meant to do a quick bait up and do the shopping,I had to shop later on after the opticians lol, took ages and I still don't think I've got it all, I might have to Don the waders next time, still spodded a load of pigeon Conditioner over the areas in the hope it gets things started, will have to do that again a few times I think before its ready for action, i disturbed something massive though made a couple of big swirls, may have been a cat I think, or an alligator didn't look like a carp, The way I thought was that 2 nights before should leave enough time to clear me out then I could just top up enough for a bite at a time when fishing, and include the hookbait, the spot I did today is pultable so fairly easy to get right, I do think maybe get the spots gleaming a bit first might not be a bad idea though reckon they could be silty for a while, lots more particles required first I think, For a while today I thought about keeping a few swims going lol, I think 2 or 3 may be too many, if they all need that much work, the weed rake worked well though and I had a good workout win win 😂

There is a 'but' in that: all animals require nutrition, be it vitamins and minerals, protein, fats and carbohydrates. Bread is a ball of carbohydrate, pretty much instant energy; the first nutritional requirement to be fulfilled is energy. Carp will eat most things, or try them. Forget the word bait for a minute, change it for food. There you have the nutritional requirement, protein, fats, carbohydrates. If you can provide a food that the carp can eat long term, you are supplying (as an example) every week, then they may actively search it out. In fact, you can prove this with farm fish, throwing pellets in, they are ready and waiting, and will eat them every time. No fishing pressure, but a food. Now swap it back in as bait. A fair few years ago at Taverham I baited up a fishmeal bait every day in a particular spot and time. (The joys of running the place). There were fish that were there almost every day, and feeding as soon as the boilies went in. I could drop boilies in on top of them, and they ripped the bottom up. Another area I baited regularly, the carp would feed heavily in the area, not just my bait, but tearing up the bottom for bloodworm as well. I could fish this bait in pretty much every swim, and know the carp would take it readily if they found it. Now we come to why carp may stop taking a particular boilie. You simply aren't feeding enough to get them to eat comfortably. They have become wary. They know the food is good, but if every time they eat it a big predator hooks them, stresses them out and lifts them out of the water, may start to leave it. Prebaiting again regularly may be enough to get them feeding and taking the bait as food again, or in many anglers cases it is the reason to change baits. I have tried using baits made from liquidised maggots, casters and worms. The real thing produces more fish than boilies, but small fish can be a nuisance.