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Maybe try having a curry

I wouldn’t doubt that story. I fish a lake near me that was stuffed with crayfish. They make a brilliant bait and crushed crayfish makes a brilliant ground bait. Mostly, I put down traps and took a load home to eat. Then about three years ago, they completely disappeared and you couldn’t catch a single one. They have only just started to slowly return.

Crayfish and rudd, proper rig tanglers; anything with soft braid you might as well forget it. Use a mono hair with crays and risk it being cut off, although 25lb braid won't get cut in half. How on earth crayfish can find a pop-up above them and walk it down to the lakebed beggars belief. This is where coated braid or if the braid section is VERY short, a combi-rig comes into its own to deal with rudd and crays. Worse is when you can't use real bait and have to go wooden, even if you do go to a genuine meshed pop-up. For me that is time for the rig ring on the hook shank and a braid hair with a uni-knot loop to hold the pop-up. Saying that @nigewoodcock has seen crays flare up at carp trying to get the bait, although I've caught carp with the pop-up chewed or even totally missing.

Same view this morning, but what a sunrise. Still - 2degrees but beats being sat at home

Keep them all the same Set the sticks up at 12 foot doesn’t matter then if you use 13ft rods or 6

Hope you've got your Christmas hat on Elmo?.... Took boat for a spin yesterday withittle en, he loves and can't wait fish with it. Yep, it's not an Actor like I've been using with my mate, but it's a boat and can get me abit closer we're i think the fish might be.

This morning at 9am