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I’ve been using the same base mixes and additives for the last 15yrs and the same basemix with different additives since 1997. The flavours haven’t changed much in that time either, started with rod Hutchinson mixed herbs flavour, then richworth blue cheese, then richworth ham (boiled?) then smoked ham flavour from nutrabaits. They work, I’ve massive confidence in my mix, so I don’t see a need to change

I’m out tomorrow, I’ve already got an idea of where the fish are going to turn up. I’ve got a few zigs knocked up for 3ft-4ft under the surface…

Well... my plans for a bed of bait are out of the window... my mate Bully and I managed to get two swims as two lads pulled off... so according to them they blanked and spodded about 5kg per rod over 2 days.. so singles and small glugged bags it is then... gonna wind one in in a bit and put on a Zig... got about 12' in front of us on clear gravel... fingers crossed

Big gaffe this... 24 acres, in the teeth of an easterly that is quite cool... ya have to drop in where you can due to rule breakers and stroke pullers... Seen two fish topping... but we're well off them...

I blanked anyway lol but always nice to be out trying

Yep as soon as it says modular you are looking at a £100, I got a few NGT ones and a cult one that i use for storing bits, they do a decent job tbh, I'm thinking I can do away with my rucksack if I use the under barrow storage, that's why I like the trakker one tbh as I know i could get my water bottle in the front pocket and probably lose my tackle and bits underneath, same with the fox one, but if I go carp porter I will need loads of extras 😂

This is tackle firms in general nowadays mate. Bags within bags within bags. You end up with as much weight in luggage as you do in the tackle it hold!!

I've had a look on the carp porter site I don't think they do these anymore, I kind of think they want you to spend £50 on the porter pals, I can't help feeling ripped off by prestige as they seem to want to charge you the earth for every little extra these days,

Nah. For the water bottle I just use on of these type thingys: https://johnsonrosstackle.co.uk/carp-porter-accessories/14069-water-bottle-bracket.html If you whack them on the front it helps balance the barrow out.

I'm sure you can. I have wandered around and gone up my own backside; on pop-ups alone at one point I had 12 different types, and only caught on a few of them. I was getting pellets like no tomorrow, bloodworm, Green Lipped Mussel, Betaine, various sizes of koi and some trout pellets. I watched the fish over the Betaine, GLM and Betaine pellets and realised they were an 'oversprayed' basic pellet. There was not a great deal of difference in the interest from the koi pellet. Groundbait, I figured Vitalin pretty much serves all my carp, bream and tench fishing needs, although I can change the mix with those koi pellets, worms, casters, maggots, sweetcorn or a few shaves of papers in or luncheon meat. I have a few boilies 5kg of freezer Rod Hutchinson Infusion 7.5kg (roughly) of Shelf Life Infusion 1 tub of Ballistic B pop-ups in white 1 tub of KMG pop-ups in natural 1 tub of Aniseed and bunspice pop-ups in yellow (to match the maize or corn in Vitalin) 1 tub of Monster Crab in purple to match the Infusion colour or as flavour topper on snowman rigs. Mate, I know how you feel. The E10 doesn't help, my MPG dropped when that took over from E5. I would normally drive the A14 at around 80 according to my speedometer. Now I'm sticking to 65mph. In 2020 it was 99.9p a litre, now we are up at £1.65 in East Anglia at Supermarkets, higher in Branded stations. £1.69 at Esso last night. I do think I get a few mpg more from branded petrol though which is why I used it, well as well as Nectar points...

It's OK seeing that it's pretty much all the same. It's when I see pots of this and that, bags of this and that from every known bait company, that's when in my opinion its too much. Just stick to one bait, maybe a few different colours of hookbait but that's it.

I've started driving like a Doris, I was getting 47 mpg before, I'm currently hovering about 58 mpg, I feel dirty driving so steadily but if I get an extra 100 miles out of a tank it's probably worth it 😬