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Yeah the wind has been a nightmare all day. Calmed down so re-did the rods a few more spods and all set for the night. 🤞 It's blooming freezing though🥶

Best of luck Commonly + Carpbell 🤞

Good luck guys 👍🤞🤞

Got snugpac rip offs on and the wet gear in the bag, bring on this tropical wind, got that new wind coming right at me, slus gates were open last night so there is a load of river water in the lake.

Only use it on Korda Boom to create stiff loop sections for Spinner rigs and Loop to Loop combi rigs... Only use stiff boom on level underwater grounds.

It's a great tool when used with the right materials. Great for creating booms whether it be for Ronnie rig, Hinged Stiff Rig or Combi's. It's also good for creating short Chods if that's your kind of thing and allows you to consistently get the same length each time.

Nice in Northampton flat calm now seen a few boshing near my middle rod

They are good for this I use them on a quick change swivel aswell

Making a bait is about balance, ings are mainly broken down into non soluble, soluble and semi soluble. You can usually make a bait between 15-20% soluble, as the water works it way into the boilie all the good stuff from your liquids and soluble ings is push out into the water and that is what will trigger the carp to investigate, the rest come into play when the bait is eaten. The key is balance if you aim for around 35-40% protien content is a general mark most people work to.

So first up work out your liquids and powders seperately, if i am looking at doing a recipe i will work quantities out based on 1 kilo of powdered mix. Looking at the above powders 200g fishmeal is good you can go to 300g if you wanted, the Krill maybe to high depending on how good the krill meal is, as Nick alluded to it can make the bait float if to much is added (some shrimp meals can have the same effect), Semo, Chickpea & Maize are all doing the same job pretty much. There is not much in the way of soluble ingredients in there look at CSCP 90 if your building a fishmeal most common inclusion is around 10% (or 100g), I would want some form of CLO type product in there and possibly some milks (300g Fishmeal and 50g WPC 80 pretty much cover the daily requirements nutritional wise). Fruit powders tend to be very potent there usual inclusion is around the 5g mark per kg 20g could well be overkill. 50g RR is fine you might adjust depending how red you would like the finished bait (although RR is not what it was try and located some Kingfisher Red will save you some cash). Liquids look fine 50ml Hydro and 10ml of Oil . Number of eggs can vary on the mix 6-8 Large Eggs normally serves a kilo of bait They work, the problem is if you add to much the mix will be tricky to roll. Depending on how course your mix is before adding you could get away between 10-20%

Tried it out earlier, it's a tidy little boat. So easy to use and control and glides across the lake and turns on a sixpence. Doubt if you'd got more than a kilo combined in both hoppers but that's plenty for me. Not sure what it would be like in very windy conditions as its so light.

I’ve used the crimp system and on the correct hooklinks, it can form lovely neat loops, with the wrong hooklink it will come undone on the lightest of pressures. They are useful for spinner booms and making up combi rigs, but to be honest, I’ve just gone back to knotting it! Using the domhoff (don’t know how you spell that!) for combi rigs and figure of 8 loops for spinner booms. I tend to favour a semi stiff material for the lake beds I’m fishing over at the moment so crimping isn’t an option for me right now.