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Voted pink, but tbh I couldn't choose one. Pink is a great starting point, but white can be lethal over bait. I've also done well on red when the going gets tough. I think, like rigs, it's all about confidence.

Which colour alternative hookbait is going to save a blank? Match the hatch doesn't count.

Nash tackle started a trend for shorter rods. Fine for smaller waters but on big lakes where you need big casts...

If I had to, I'd say pink. I got my garlic spice made up in pink, and I also have my food bait in natural colour and pink. Strangely the one colour I've rarely done well on is yellow!

I also just bought a front for my axs shelter, I really like having a bivvy that goes up really quickly these days and with all that rain the other day I thought it would benefit a front so when I saw one for £45 it seemed like a good deal. I also bought 50m of ridgemonkey bait floss for £2.99, some fox Micro anti tangle sleeves and nearly 2000 metres of 8lb sufix line for £2.99 (will use for backing my spools) Gotta love a good deal.

I've recently stopped using leaders in favour of ESP tungsten tubing. Sinks really well tbh. Fox inline lead with a fox tadpole insert with tubing. I don't push the lead on fully just onto the ridged bit then it can run free on a take, seems to be working quite well, I would like to find a company that does inlines with the same bore as fox as I want some bigger inline leads if anyone knows any that would be great?

Not Hydrotuff then , Nick ? . Is it because you are going for distance rather than a snag line ? .

I didn't say the ruling class were working class btw just they are parasites of the working class ie they take everything from the working class to live lives of luxury whilst sitting on backsides trying to take our human rights away, Devolution is happening because of the slow agonising death of capitalism. There is a new big cheese in town and the capitalists and neoliberalists weren't prepared for it sadly neither were the socialists, making big money is no longer about owning the machinery to produce things,and controlling the wages of the Labour who do the producing. it's all about a few people owning all the cloud based equity, they can charge capitalists cloud rent for things like selling on amazon, ebay,Spotify, Google ads etc without being bound by taxation like capitalists, so even the ruling class are being whipped and the working class just go about being programmed and manipulated by what they read and view online,also paying for services to entertain themselves, have you ever had a discussion with someone about a product or person or something and even without searching, later on that day it's become a suggestion for you to purchase or news stories appear about that person or thing? It's only going to get worse until goverments gain control of it. And I don't think they have a clue how yet. Anyway back on topic, rod licences grrr

I’m 54 and 11 months I have been checked once I was 17

Living next to it you needed webbed feet with how it's flooded the past few years!

Depends on if you have webbed feet or married your sister haha

Depends which side of the border you come from, and I can never remember who says what... I think Norfolk is Waverknee, whereas us Suffolk people who talk properly say Waveknee

Is it called the river wave knee or the wav er knee?

I got checked for the first time ever last year, it has got expensive, but it's still only 5ltrs of olive oil, half a tank of diesel, probably 7 or 8 pints of beer at a pub, and over 4 x national minimum wage and about the price of cooking a roast on a Sunday with the heating on low. The only thing we need now are wages, pensions and benefits to catch up and we will all live happily ever after.

I've lost fish on a bad knot I've tied, or more correctly hadn't checked the rig after landing a 20lb fish on it and just recast the same rig. That's MY fault, I knew who to blame. I choose my own hooks, I use the right strength, pattern for the waters I fish. I know how strong they are, whether they open out, break or flex. Unless you are physically disabled tie your own rigs, that way you know what hook, the hook knot or swivel knot is good and even the length is right.