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I've read about reeling the line in label side up to prevent twist but when I tried it, it did twist! Not surprising really because at the factory it would have been loaded onto the spool by rotating it so it make sense to let the spool rotate in a bucket. I found Matthew Collins channel on YouTube a while back and there is a lot of good stuff on there, here's the video Crusian mentions;

I've just found two pots of mouldy bait - one says "hardened" and the other says "cork ball" in black marker pen on the lid - and a pot of horrid fluorescent yellow things which stink of chemicals that I assume I got free from CC Moore at some point.

Are these going to be any good now ? 🤣🤷🏻‍♂️

One thing with pop-up rigs, I think that the hooking mechanics are often different from bottom bait rigs (including snowman baits), because the carp may not be sucking, but mouthing the bait. They may suck the whole lot in, but a longer hair could see them not taking in the hook. I know Brian Garner and Bill Cottam did have success on long haired pop-ups on The Mangrove though. The Spinner and 360 rigs, or even any hinged pop-up rig should guarantee bottom lip hooking. I have had occasional top lip hook-ups with a straight through stiffer hooklink material, where I'm convinced the carp has closed its mouth over the pop-up facing away from me, I.e it is between the rod tip and the bait.