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Back on the dock early tomorrow morning for a minimum 24 hrs suntan lotion is packed, was planned for the weekend which has a rainy forecast again 🙄 the customer I’m working for told me to go fishing mid wk and finish the job on the weekend… he’s a fellow fisherman.

Katran wild carp camo line installed. Looks nice I think, went on like a dream, next test is what does it cast and fish like. I have a feeling I'm going to like it but the proof is in the pudding.

I think he was soaking it, then placing it on kitchen tissue in trays in the airing cupboard like growing cress or mustard.

Yeah they really are a big spend I doubt I will get one, I plan on fishing jigsaw at some point you can drive to most of the pegs on there. If I ever get the canal pool ticket it would be a must have.

Be rude not too mate, tight lines with good line lay old bean.

I think it will be fine reviews are all fairly positive tbh, if not I have another spool of gt80+ in stock, thats been good for the last year or so,

Nice line lay…and lovely reels 😎

I was upset and annoyed that Vitalin was discontinued, it was my base for baiting up for years, probably since around 2005, and I can remember my Nan used to use it for her dogs back in the 1980's when I lived with her. My alternative is Molassed Rabbit Mix, which I get from Gladwells, its 10minutes from me. https://www.copdockmill.co.uk/our-brands/small-animal/ Skinners dog foods also do a Muesli based Field and Trial dog food that I think could be a decent alternative, but I have not yet tried it. Unlikely you messed it up, soak and boil, but I recall Bryan Jarrett saying it was better sprouted. When I do maize I do add sugar to the soak, preferably brown sugar, roughly 2teaspoons per kilo of maize. On the syndicate a few years ago maize was fed during the winter, the spots fed with maize weren't 'dug up', yet spots baited with pellets were. I have a feeling, not 100%, but I think tufties were eating a fair bit of the maize rather than carp.

Dwarf, Scope, Xtractor, tfgear gxi stealth....as far as I know.

I'm looking at Barrow Conversions they do power systems for all barrows cheaper than others but not cheap, they do full barrows aswell, other brand barrows with their electric bits fitted. Seen a few out on the bank never seen any problems with them.

I've just used them to bulk the vitalin out a bit, I'm down to about a kilo of dry mix left 🤦‍♂️ I've never caught on home prepared maize. Not sure if they wasn't having it or if I messed it up somehow lol. Anyway the mix seemed to of worked, bagged a 20lber 👍 I see they've discontinued vitalin, do you have any suggestions for something similar?I've got about a kilo of dry mix left 🫤

I never found butter beans particularly successful unless they were flavoured, don't know why, but a spicy flavour in as you soak them worked. Kidney beans I've done well on, both tinned and soaked and boiled. Black eyes, great bait, although the tomato soup method is messy. You don't need that many and tench love them too. The more you bait, the more tench... Like @Golden Paws I've used loads of beans, and caught on most, chicks, haricot (and baked beans, Heinz for freebies tipped in, cheap own brand for hookbaits), mung beans (beansprouts). I think it was Chris Yates who reckoned broad beans were rubbish, but he occasionally caught on them (The Secret Carp, I seem to think). Maize, probably the best known particle, can be brilliant, yet other waters almost nothing. Often fed to the fish during winter. I've found maize can be hit and miss, but when the fish get on it, they get on it big time.