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When fishing deep silt I nearly always use the chod rig. I'll use a length of leadcore to suit the slits depth and add a couple of feet. Set the top bead a couple of inches down from where your mainline is tied to the leadcore and the rig is always fishing. Used this method on a gravel pit where the fish would regularly visit an area where the old gravel wash was, the silt here was 3ft plus deep in places and when the fish were there the water was the colour of milky tea. The fish could be from 20yds out to 100yds out in this area. The further out then I'd plump for a 3.5oz lead, when that is buried In 3ft of silt it becomes one hell of a bolt rig.

None of it matters unless you were on the fish and you haven't mentioned this mate. Were you seeing activity on your spots? Were they defo feeding over you? Your focus should be on getting the swim/spot right. The rig should be chosen to suit the area on which they're feeding👍

Hope you are writing her a list mate

God help her next week when she has a week off work... 🤣🤣

From this... To this... Units were built that night, couch came 2 days later...

Let the Mrs do it pal... I went on a 24hr the other week, Mrs was bored so she redone the living room, gave away old units and 3 piece suite, came home to an all grey n white living room, new grey carpet, new grey couch, new white units... I was amaaaazed.

My preferred hooklink is esp tungsten loaded in semi stiff, it’s on the supple side for a semi stiff which I prefer. I also like Gardner ultra skin in stiff if the bottom is clean enough for me to use it

No no no 🤔🤔 nope 😂 sounds like your wife has good taste, a would come back to pink and more pink 🤷🏼‍♂️😂 but disappearing for a 24 hour ses sound blissful 😁😁

Yeah that’s the problem 😂

Did she get Nick Knowles in? That sounds impossible without DIY sos

I was actually contemating this also, but on the Heli Safe Tubing Kit.

I love it, I just wish I had as much time to do it as think about it 😊

Look out Am going in 🪖 😂 this carp fishing is addictive 🤔

There is loads of stuff you can use and do to prep your bait, I'll warn you now it can get intense 😂

Good article Will be trying this buddy cheers for that 👍🏻😁 more investigation needed on the tube 😁 I’m more of a visual learner😂

https://purebaitconcepts.com/bait-prep-liquid-loading/ This is worth a read about liquid loading your baits, you don't have to use the same liquids but it's a good guide, Or you could use a little bit of bottled water and the crave liquid and soak them for 24 hours before you go that would soften them up and stop them soaking up too much grot

looking at the bait additives just now on the evil bay lol… the mesh idea should work a treat mate cheers 👍🏻

Another thing to try if fishing in silt is use a mesh bag attached to the hook and put a couple of floaters in it with some normal pellets, this will make your rig land slower as it won't settle til the bag melts, meaning it should sit on top of the silt, I would also use liquids to stop your baits taking on the silty odours as fast

I did well on a silty lake in York, I just chucked multi rigs on heli set ups at showing fish, then I’d bait up with boilie chops rather than hole boilies because I imagined they’d flutter down through the water and settle on top of the silt rather than a hole boilie which I imagined would be buried further into it out of view.

sounds like a plan to me mate cheers for the advice 😁 every time they showed I rubbed my hands and sat up on the chair 😂 only to slouch back down in defeat 😂 but sitting there in conflict with myself over my rig isn’t on lol so I have to change that 😁

Defo on them then mate. Silt is a funny one. When carp feed in silt they don't just grub around on top, they bury themselves gill deep to get at the bloodworm it contains. Therefore it shouldn't really matter if you're hook bait is buried in the silt. That said, it can be tricky to feel confident when you know your bait is buried. I'd just start with a slightly longer hooklink than usual and go from there. Pepper some pellets over the top, job done.

good point mate , there was activity for the most part of the day… at one point there was 3 rolls directly over my bait 🤷🏼‍♂️ since spoke to the owner and I was fishing over heavy silt so my solid bag must have been way under, there was a slight resistance when retrieving the rig, all part of the fun tho…. Wouldn’t appeal if it was chuck and hook 😁

Perhaps delkim could invent an mini umbrella attachment that sits on top of the snag ears 😂☔

Where as mine went back to Delk for repair 3 times in 3 years due to water ingress before I ditched them and got the Fox's🤷‍♀️

Probably changed them for something waterproof by now lol