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Tip 1 You must use only cold water as to replicate the water temperature of the lake at this time of year, so you must, and I can’t emphasise this to much BE very quick in testing pva solid bags in the bath as you will freeze your 🥶 🌰 🌰 Tip 2 When testing pva bags in the bath I recommend the use of barbless hooks … just in case for the obvious reasons 😏 Tip 3 The use of oils when testing pva bags in the bath is also strongly NOT recommended as in a blink of an eye you could be impaled on one of the taps … or if unlucky both taps 🤔 Heres a pic of a bag in a kitchen bowl with 2 and 4mm pellets and a bit of ground bait with a small wafter with half a syringe of sticky baits cloudy krill liquid

….and I in turn turn to an old Ron Thompson Avon/Barbel type rod in , I think , a 1.75 tc in conjunction with Drennan double strength line , 8lb max if memory serves .

I prefer a soft through action rod for floater fishing, due to the light lines often used. I use an 11ft 2lb tc shimano aero specimen rod.

I'm positive I had fish feeding over my bait this week, in fact this morning, but I felt because it was over birdfood and Vitalin they weren't picking up boilies, so with previous sessions in mind I had ordered some treats for them for hookbaits. The massive flat patch is where one of my baits was, but a snowman hookbait, 15mm pop-up over an 18mm bottom bait, not a bleep. I'm pretty positive it was carp clearing the smaller food items.