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I'll go back to the original post again, hopefully with some more valid input from my last 2 sessions. The first of the 2 saw a very good result. I have a video of carp feeding on the margins, sadly too big to put up on here. I found the carp feeding, definite so set up on them. Rig was a basic short Multi-rig with a whittled down pop-up, to sink but slightly lighter than the hook, essentially critically balanced to the 'n'th' degree, and a proper running lead, slack line. The whole lot was put in a PVA bag, rig, lead, bait, a handful of pellets and chops. It worked and produced a decent, hard earned carp. The second trip was different, in that the conditions made fishing a slack line rather more difficult. A wind and tow pulling silkweed down the lake through my lines meant I had to tighten up, although my rod tips were well under water. When fishing at such short range tight lines can make the carp wary of feeding on the spot. I have seen fish spook or eject baits on semi-fixed leads, which is why I have a preference for running leads and slack lines.

Tesco plastic bag but other supermarket bags are available. Lol I eat from the frying pan so no need for a plate, Weetabix in Tupperware take 4 eat 2 then a swill with water to clean pop the other 2 back in the Tupperware for the nx morning. I recently bought a small cool bag from thinking anglers for milk and for any meats I take. Small gas canister and tiny stove fork knife and teaspoon in a side pocket mug in the other with coffee and tea. All this and more in a rucksack… which sadly has seen better days. Il take a look at the Saber rucksack. 👍

I can’t remember the last time I cast without some form of pva around the hook..if I’m casting to infinity and beyond I just use a pva nugget around the hook helps with tangles. I use bags because I like you using liquids in a bag and helps if I’m not sure of the bottom, pva web for pellets chops etc and maggots in the winter esp web iv found the best it’s got a tighter weave helps against the mags escaping. If it’s raining I use a oil spray pump you get for frying in the kitchen couple of squirts around the pva helps keeping the moisture away If it’s very cold I leave the oils out as it slows down the pva melting

In my experience, what looks like a mid-double can actually only be a scraper . I always refused to weigh fish that visibly looked smaller than my pb but recent experience, and I mean this year after my sabbatical, has had me thinking about it a lot . Size and weight aren’t really that important to me but the 2 fine fish I caught first time up on a day ticket were estimated to be mid-double and because I didn’t think they approached the , magic for many , 20 mark I didn’t bother weighing . I now think at least one of them at least may have been a twenty . Because since then on my new water Ive over and under estimated many Carp . I’ve taken to weighing every second or third fish now , when I’m lucky enough to catch that many that is , as some I’ve estimated at 13-14lbers have only actually been 9-10lbers. My last fish I estimated at about 16 and was in fact nearer 18 & a half . im getting a better idea of the size shape and general stamp of fish in my syndicate now so I’ll know when I get a big un . Where it gets difficult I feel is when you fish many venues rather than a regular water.