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Most definitely, soak and boil definitely increases the attraction. No need for sugar.

Should try council repairs these days, that many contractors they have a number of valves on a simple shower pipe each one is a different contractors turf, ever seen the film Brazil?

The bottom bait and snowman rigs rigs were identical, only the pop-up rigs were shorter. The rigs were like the pictured combi-rig, or coated braid. I could actually swap a bottom bait rig to a snowman rig. I don't know if you have seen my sliding ring rig? A sliding ring on the hookshank, with the hair tied to the ring, so I could tie on the hair and use the same rig for either. It gave me the option of changing hair length as well to suit my 'rules' about where I was hooking fish: If I am hooking fish hooked dead centre of the bottom lip the hair and rig length is right.If I am hooking fish at the back of the mouth, the hair and rig is too long.If I am losing fish to hookpulls, nothing on after indication of a run, or hooking right at the very front of the lip, then the hair and rig is too short. Everything was hooked perfectly. My lost fish (on pop-ups) were actually down to hooklink snapping after being chafed on blocks on the bottom. Looking at that, I have not changed my rigs for over 12 years, what worked then, still works now. Its weird. I basically had a rod on each at all times as I never knew which one would produce at any session, until by the bridge I stopped, after 3 sessions, fishing snowman rigs as it didn't produce and fished only bottom baits and the pop-up. It was also the spot where I could bait up by hand directly over my hookbaits, tipping my bait off the bridge. The other locations were Spomb loaded, plus the stringer attached to the hook. In any session, it was only one rod that produced, with one exception by the bridge where I lost a fish on the pop-up and landed 3 on the bottom baits.

Yes Mate. Just each session I caught there was a preference for one or the other. By the bridge was 5 fish caught on bottom baits in 2 sessions, then next session, same area was pop-ups for 2 fish, the only fish that were caught on pop-ups. Snowman baits did not work there. Further up towards the nature reserve was all on snowman baits, and one of the bays was snowman bait. On occasions I 'swapped' rods to the catching spot, so trying bottom baits where I had caught on snowman etc, nothing for the rest of the night. Put it back to how it was for the next night, catch fish again. Quite strange that up by the nature reserve as the bottom was clean, no silt. By the bridge, nothing on snowman, again clean bottom as it is a funnel, although the occasional concrete block. Up in the bays, silty bottom, and fish were caught on the snowman, no other presentation.

Pleasant video , good luck