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  1. The switch are meant to be a mix of the two and are meant to change but I'm not sure tbh I think they help a bit but being overwraps I think going over glasses makes them lose some qualityand maybe definition it may be my old man eyes though they've had a tough life lol , I think if you need prescription glasses then prescription Polaroids would be the best choice, I will get some one day
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  2. kevtaylor

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    Metal bait screw for single pop-ups though the plastic ones work fine too šŸ‘
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  3. It's not to bad up North...milder than warmer.
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  4. Iā€™d hurry as itā€™s warming up again next week
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  5. framey

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    Some pop ups are not as good as others have a few of each made up lol
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  6. Thatā€™s the idea mate šŸ˜‚ They make the 24millers you put me onto look like marbles lol
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  7. Wowzers. They are some serious hookbaits!
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  9. Well today I started to construct some 40mm-ish hookbaits . Mike Wilmott from Essential bait had advised me to try making some from their paste so thought Iā€™d give it a try today. I got some of their B5 shellfish paste along with some Black snail , 3 x 100g balls of each to start with as itā€™s just an experiment. As to be expected I turned to our Nick for any advice he could offer as although I had made my own boilies a few years ago , tweaking an Odyssey xxx base mix , I donā€™t have any means to roll anything bigger than 20mm. He told me that a few mm of paste wrapped around a 20mm cork ball should achieve a zero or neutral buoyancy Boilie boiled for a couple of minutes . Anyway I could only source 19mm balls . the texture of the pastes upon defrosting were quite different , the Snail staying together and rolled out with a mini rolling pin made 4 approx 40mm baits ā€¦they only needed to be approximate Iā€™m no perfectionist even when it comes to fishing . The B5 on the other hand had a completely different texture and kept flaking and falling into little parts . Years ago I might have added some oil to keep it together but Mr Wilmott has obviously seen this before , after all itā€™s his paste , and having told me this might happen advised dipping my hands in lukewarm water which did the trick and I was able to roll the paste between the palms of my hands . I needed more paste for this though in order to keep it together , I only managed to get 3 baits out of 100g of paste . now as I say , Iā€™m no perfectionist , it was difficult to tell the thickness of paste around the finished baits or even if the cork balls were central within the paste but I donā€™t really care tbh , at least not until I see how they react in a glass of water once theyā€™ve dried out properly in a couple of days . If they waft thatā€™s fine if they donā€™t thatā€™s fine too . Im pretty sure they wonā€™t pop up properly as Iā€™ve used too much paste . Over the weekend Iā€™ll experiment some more and make some solid boilies (the plan being merely to stop 5lbers getting them in their mouths and buzzing off with em šŸ¤£. I have some wooden balls in various sizes Iā€™d like to utilise but the problem there is they are pre-drilled balls which will make it difficult to keep attached to the rig so if anybody has any ideas on how to get around this then Iā€™m all ears (or eyes of course). Plan is to dry em out for a day or 2 and add some liquid food or glug every now & again in preparation for my session weekend of 29th July . Here is a couple of pics , firstly of todays end product and also the Combi rig I intend to stick em on next weekend .
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  10. elmoputney

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    Not really I still prefer normal non spinny bait screws though,the metal ones from bank tackle are as good as any I find,
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  11. ...

    Attaching Pop Ups

    I use the Nash 8mm Bait Screws for my rigs.
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