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Me too. Awesome stuff.

I was going to just ignore this but I can't. I guess I have to justify all my opinions these days. However hard a fish pulls not all the pressure will be on the crimped boom, there is also however much line acting as a shock absorber behind it. Then you also have the clutch on your reel to further lessen the tension. The bend of your rod and your body movements to take away the impact, it won't all be on the rig. I use 15lb boom for my rigs, and 21lb line at the moment, and I will tell you why. in the unfortunate event of a break (which hasn't happened yet and I've had some savage fights with decent sized carp ) more than likely it WILL break at the boom, but to me that is preferable to the fish also dragging about 50yds of trailing line and a lead system that might get tethered and not discharge as it should (and yes i do have a robust lead set up that should discharge) if I have played a fish so hard that my set up has failed I would call that bad angling on my part. Obviously sometimes your set up might fail but things cannot be helped and that is just unlucky (act of god stuff) but... I test each boom that I make and have used them for multiple captures so I am confident my process is robust.

I DOUBLE dare you 🤣🤣

But you know you are gonna do it go on do it do it

No, no it won't, I don't want to get involved. I'm gonna maintain I don't care 😂😂

🤣🤣 them days feel a distant memory.... When I know the money is ready to be processed, holiday will be booked/paid, then family treats for us all 😁 I've bought a few bits today for tomorrow's day session nothing wort shouting sbout.....just me n the pooch, so food was definitely needed 😅😅 I'll be home for the Rugby leauge Final.

I use the ESP Tungsten loaded semi stiff in brown - the best I've come across 👍

indeed! its maily the young /inexperined that get suckered into this sort of BS, cos at the end of the day its nothing new, we used it in the 80's, yet in DF video he states its the breakthrough since the hair-rig....what a morron a greedy one at that! he'll make this in chickland for 5p a pack AND flog to the muppets for a fiver a pack ...thats why the tackle-barrens get rich! BUT they WON'T be getting my cash lol!!!

The duck feeding area on Dinton pastures Black Swan lake would often do bites. After the public had gone you'd see a carpet of bread crumbs on the lake bed but in the morning it looked like a hoover had been through there, not a crumb in sight. Personally I'd avoid the pva bags to start with if heading straight to duck feeding area, instead I'd flick out a single with a light lead or a choddy. You don't want to spook any carp with a large splash from a bag as they maybe feeding still on the previous days bread etc. But as Yonny rightly says, on a day session it's all about finding them first. If they're not showing there will still be little signs. These could be small swirls on the surface, the odd bubble hitting the surface in a certain area or the more obvious signs of big fizzers or coloured water.

I'm not using fluorocarbon.

That's how it's starts, just a couple of new rods, then reels, then bivvy, bed, luggage, bite alarms, then you start going for non essential stuff like boats, bushwhackers, more luggage to put new bits in, more terminal tackle than you know what to do with then you find you don't use it all, sell some bits to buy more stuff you don't really need 😂 I've had a few bouts of just wanting to buy stuff lately. I've managed to stop myself so far, but for how long..........

Be in shops next month, buy 1 get 10 free for £10 per rig 🤣🤣

The best carp rig ever https://www.instagram.com/reel/DA8lMvngy2k/?igsh=MThtYXUyY2s1bTRweA==

Alarm set for 4.15 in morning 🤣🤣 Gonna get the backpack ready when lad goes to MMA training....food, water, dogs stuff.

Well good luck hope you bag a biggie

You can crimp tricklink works quite well, I've only got in 25lb and that's a bit too stiff, if you are concerned about your rig not sitting right you can always lengthen the boom, with the 15lb it does have some flexibility. Since messing with it in the margins I am convinced it's a lot less visible. I will use it with a lead clip, but I am mainly using inline leads at the moment and have been playing with shorter booms quite successfully. Another thing I haven't done yet but might consider is using a marker ring swivel,rather than a kwik change, I think because of the big ring it's more likely to sit well on the bottom. Something to think about anyway.

I've used Spinners withbthe Korda Boom in the past, but now I'm on the ESP Tungsten loaded Green Semi Stiff in 20lb....there all 20lb strain in Soft or Semi stiff, 3 colours each also...

I do get why people prefer braided hooklinks they are stronger you would struggle to break them by pulling them,also sitting funny that's why I prefer the 15lb it is a lot more supple than the thicker heavier ones. My preferred spots are usually smooth clay/slightly silty spots tbh

We have all said that too 😂

Does a fish know not to pull too hard? Fluorocarbon loses 5% strength with any knot, and any kink can cause it to break. Fracturing it with a crimp... I've never had a problem with the blood knot or Clinch knot with fluorocarbon.

I was messing about with the krimps after making some booms the other night, and made a pretty tidy Hinged Stiff rig. Much easier than trying to tie them tbh and you can easily adjust the height.

My mate used the crimps as described and pulled hard on the finished rigs - every one snapped at the crimp. Thinking he was doing something wrong he explained the issue to a guy on the Korda stand at a show - he made a rig and passed it to my mate who pulled it and it snapped at the crimp exactly the same, the guy didn't know what to say and hurried away to a different customer. I won't use them full stop after this, not that I was considering anyway. I'd recommend really testing the finished rigs, are they as strong as you imagined?

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.