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Ive put hydrotuff through its paces for 2 years and it hasn't let me down yet, great line Sounds like a challenge that place, I can't really advise much otherwise other than enjoy it 🤣

My first thought would be to take plenty of photo's and draw some maps showing where the snags are so you can avoid them when the level returns. A whole day spent doing that would probably pay off long term rather than sat behind the rods all day. That said, snags are fish magnets so fishing close to them could pay off but obviously wrapping up now would give a false reading when the levels increase and the bank retreats, so wrap to a fixed location like a boundary fence if possible. Plumbing should also be easier if it's 12 foot shallower and now is the time before the autumn rains come. Look along the bank for any depressions or smooth areas that fish would seek out and map them. I would definitely be looking at margin fishing and prebaiting would almost certainly accelerate their acceptance of the bait and the area as a safe place.

Lol, the swear filter thought I was being racist 😂

I opted for the Gardner lead-clip which fit perfectly. Finished off with a Fox naked tail rubber, the result is very neat and streamlined👍

Yes that was a bit of a rushed one this is more like the finished article, I find floss and microswivels too time consuming and annoying lol, I much prefer the ease of a bait screw tbh this is what I use for a wafter rig around 5 - 6, inches

Do you move the hook bead at all elmo? I try to keep it at the end the shank, before the curve, so the bait screw (I use micro swivel with dental floss) only moves on the shank. Imo meaning more of the hook is in its mouth, always goes centre bottom lip. I use floss on the micro swivel as I think it allows the hook bait to move more naturally.

Pop the line out before the end of the shrink tube yes it’s a pain to do but it works better im sure I used to do miles better years ago using a proper line aligned set up

Quite like that I think, seems to turn quite nicely and actually does OK on the old palm test,

For fishing in soft silt I still use a lead clip but use an uncoated, soft braided hooklink. I almost always attach a pva bag of crushed boilie-adds attraction, prevents tangles and slows down hookbait decent into the silt. Never pull back!

Good advice this. Taking advantage of the situation.

I will use as many as I feel I can get away with up to a maximum of 3. So if I have a load of water in front of me and I feel my chosen spot(s) can accommodate 3 then I'll use 3. If the swim aint so big or the spots are small I might use 2. In a quiet corner I might use 1. All depends on the swim and the angling situation. Depends where the spots are in relation to the swim. Normally they'll be on the bars/sticks so right next to each other.

Depends sometimes I will use 1 even on a 3 rod water sometimes 3 isn’t enough and I could easily use 6 or 7 if I could lol

WOW!

As Kev mentions, there can be a spot within a spot. I have had rods very close to each other, yet one rod produced all the action, again the left hand rod from 3. The left rod was cast to a showing fish, the middle around 2/3 metres away. It was only the left hand rod that produced 4 carp, nothing on the others. I've seen carp entering an area, always coming in from a particular direction. If you create a baited area it would be the first rod they come to that produced, take that away the next in the line would go as they worked along. Not every water, or even swim is the same. On Brackens, a swim named Suicide, the gravel bar threequarters across, fish came up the bar anywhere along from the weed and trough behind it. Yet the margins to the left, the fish always swam along the margin (when an angler was in the swim) from the left, never from the right. On the Central, if you were lucky enough to get multiple takes (a rarity), the fish tended to work their way along the main bars from the North or South. The first rod they found was what you got takes on. Even though the South was joined to the Central, there was no pattern as to where the fish approached from, and it was the same fish able to swim through both lakes.