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A trip to local GO Outdoors to see what Stove and Kettle/Pan set wife can get me for my Birthday next week, walked out with....😬😬 Trakker 13ltr Bucket + Tray, 2kg Maniline Bag Mix, 1kg Manills Stik Mix, Manilla liquid Food, Pot of Sticky Pineapple (Bait spray too), Mulbz & Manilla all in 12mm, Few small (1oz) leads, Pva Bags (forgot the loader) Few bits of Terminal to top the Box up.... Will only be using 6ft Rods, so small intimate close in fishing will be done, Running Rigs on 4/5 inch hair rigs, all inside PVA Bags. This will be my go to method for a while now, Rucksack will have Food Bits, Cutlery, and some oddities, Rod Bag with Landi g Net, Banksticks with Alarms down side, Chair and Beamie Matt, also got the shelter if needed. The Landing net below has been put with the 6ft Jig Setup I've also got, and replaced with a Sonik 2pc Handle and Net. That now is ALL my Gear.

I always found that, so far must be well over a year or two old my Gardner g force is still igniting. That being said everytime I use it I do burn all my hand hair 😂

It's comin home, it's coming, tackle shops coming home 😂

Think that’s everyone lol

It was always there, but Family, Work, and other unexpected trials n tribulations caused a break...

Well to be fair... thats not exactly ground breaking is it...?? most of us use short rigs over hard ground as a matter of course, as an ex match angler I've tied hooklinks as short as 2" ( flipping fiddly) but the hooklinks need to be long enough to get in the carp's gob and 4" seems to be an optimum (certainly for method fishing, which isn't too far removed from our style) shot on the hook...? Hmmm.. wonder if its possible to weight the point another way..? Putty... ?

OK so what did we really learn from the latest video, short rigs on gravel bottoms - nothing new whatsoever, did the shot have an impact or the rig length? they didn't compare to their previous rigs in shorter versions, so we learnt just that shorter rigs worked better on the hard ground 🤣

I watched the frank Warwick video on it last night and they were saying the weighted hook beads wouldn't be as effective as they wouldn't move round the bend of the hook. Whereas a bit of hair and a shot would slide a bit.

The sad thing is some people will buy them no matter how much and yet so easy to make your own. Must admit I used the shot on the hook rig years ago but never noticed a real edge with it. They'll soon be an underwater film with this rig getting spat out or it will get banned for some reason or another.

Only need a bit of groundbait in your munga mix or scald the pellet you are already using and sling one out …

I wish I could be bothered to try the method again, I've got all the bits to do it, but never seem to get round to actually doing it.

I bet the sponsored anglers and them who work for the tackle trade get together and decide what ideas to push on us lot … and no doubt they got a WhatsApp group going 😏

Not for long 😄… nice to see you getting some gear again mate 👍

It wouldn't work well on a soft bottom or in weed as you say and short rigs on hard ground is age old as are weighted hooks. If you wanted to do this just floss a split shot would prob do the job better anyway. I'm not at all convinced because show me a rig where the hook doesnt hang down when the bait is lifted? I think if they'd have gone back to what they started with in a shorter length they'd have caught just as many.

Fishing is good for the soul 🤣

Spend most of my time fishing in silt 🤣 very good point though, how effective would it be on a soft bottom? I don't fish in weed so can't really comment but assume it wouldn't be as effective? So if I was fishing a clean hard bottom could I add a shot to a bottom bait rig that's on a hair? Feel like I need to re watch it now 🤣🤣 I doubt I'll use it on the res I'm at anyway because finding a clean spot on there is like searching for rocking horse [censored] 🤣

Fishing gets in the blood

Just sleep walking back at moment, need a licence also.... Just waiting on a few Family things then hopefully get a few Day/Evening sessions in. Had alot (and I mean alot) going on in last 12/14 months, but things are starting to flatline out instead of up n down like the himalayans.

Out of hospital at 5pm yesterday, and stayed the night at my mother's house so she could Childmind and Sky-sit. I did have a typical reaction to morphine in the middle of the night, made me physically sick. Had to get up, get downstairs and into the bathroom in a hurry, not fun. Then of course that upset Sky, so after I'd sorted myself out I put her on the lead and took her into the garden so she could pee. Poor dog, from about midnight until 5am, I was waking up, every hour at least once, so she simply did not know what to do.

Welcome back mate,I knew this day would come.

Wife said she'll order these for me 😁😁

Not just me then.

There all too referenced to Peaky Blinders I think My shopping list will be on later 😁

Might be a good product, but OMC do some terrible product names 😬

I find the ignition doesn't last on most if not all mobile cookers. Always end up using a lighter.

I bought one of those OMC Touch Me Up things. I can't be arsed with hook sharpening the normal way, but with that it makes it easy to hone the point if you need to. I tried it on a used rig and it felt sharper after using it as instructed. Maybe it'll help.

I had a similar thing with my partygrill last week I turned the gas up more and it went. But I've had it before on burners and just used a lighter.

Wonder how quick they will go out of fashion lol

PB Products £4.99 Tackle Box £4.69 x3 pre tied Shot on Hooks rig £14.99