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Absolutely put something they want to eat where they want to eat it and the rig can be anything just need a sharp hook.. Don’t forget you can make a kilo of boilies go an extremely long way if you crumb them up so then it can become “relatively” cheap a sack of groats are about 20£ a sack and easy to prep even for a beginner. and can help to make a kilo of boilie go even further and add some cloud into the water to give the fish extra confidence Just need do what you are happy doing confidence breeds success

My first order from aa baits 👍 loving the size of the xxl tigers 🤣

Anker do seem to lead the way .

Yeah mate I will be using them from now on, they've got a lot of basemix ingredients to play with as well 👌

AA baits are top quality suppliers. I've used them for several years and would definitely recommend.

I'm not sure on the effectiveness of most fishing tackle brand winter clothing, as most are not outdoor specialists in the clothing range. I prefer army surplus, hunting or shooting clothing. My cold weather clothing is from army surplus, and Hoggs of Fife, along with Merino wool socks. Top half is usually t-shirt, Norgie or UBAC with a standard fleece on top, and a Hoggs Strathmoor jacket on top, (look at current outdoor shooting or hunting jackets), or a DPM wind and water resistant smock on top. Bottom half is combats with Hoggs overtrousers, and the Merino under my combat boots. For the neck I do have either a snood or my shemagh. That is cold winter wear!

The only reason I can think of to justify having a heater in a bivvy is if I was going to claim on mrs B B life insurance 🤔

Different concepts with completely different objectives mate. If you want your baits to last, or become rock hard, air drying is the one. If you want to boost them, just coat them as soon as they're out of the freezer (they will absorb liquids as they thaw). You can of course air dry then rehydrate with liquids if you want to completely saturate them (to prevent them from soaking up silty substrates for example) but it's a lot of faff. Under normal circumstances you don't need to do either imo, and when bites get harder to come by on boiled baits I'd sooner switch to something else entirely rather than attempt to make them more attractive using little tricks.

Yep, exactly....daft as it sounds, that what I asked first before we proceeded. If they think its a case they'll win they take on and recoupe no more than 25% of your compensation.

took a random picture of ducks to send the family while i was out and just look at the cheeky fish showing off

so first time out since september and managed a cheeky day session on local water, great start to the day as not only did my landing net snap on the first fish but also my bite alarm decided it would snap at the bracket so maybe some glue later might work but not convinced. new bite alarm turned up in the shape of this beautiful Robin just sitting on the rod for what seemed like ages despite all of that it was a wonderful feeling being bakside again and had a lovely time with a few very nice carp reckon all under 5lb, will also post up the awesome pic i got of a a carp photobombing my picture of ducks....

Just so people know, I do often do 2 and 1 on single sticks. I do like the stability of a goalpost setup, but if one rod is better placed in another direction. The one on single sticks is over a mix of mashed bread, particles, crushed boilies, worms and molehill soil, while the two are being fished with stringers over boilies.