Whitstable Jack

As Nick says, Solar are (for me) the best sleep systems, I've the solar sp c tech and love it. It is heavy though, but I'm ok with that as its very comfy. I see they've come down in price and are now south of £300. Cheers.

I'm experimenting with Chods and been catching. I am wanting to use a three bait pva stringer with this, would this work just looped on the lead? It feels like it could be a bit far from the hook bait. I have to use a naked setup as leadcore etc is banned where I am fishing. Any extra 'weight' on the hook from something like a stringer will pull the barrel down to the lead. I saw Frank Warwick did a video on a chod and a stick - seemed a bit fiddly, but I am interested to give it a go:

Interesting about the pressure being added, was this just to the hookers or freebies too?

Hi Nick, Thank you for the great feedback on how you fish with floaters, I will be trying the uni-knot loop and your other tips. Also any mention of Chris Ball and Brian Skoyles is always welcome - have you seen their book on surface fishing? It is superb. I know the norm is to get them feeding, then cast out. I've done it the other way round a fair bit - cast out, then work the swim up. That said, just like fishing on the bottom, sometimes a single hookbait can work. That ghostie common is a cracker Nick, and great work getting the bigger fish from the pack.

Hello mate, I am getting my surface gear ready, and did a search on the forum for 'Bakers Dog biscuit', and this came up. I got back into carp fishing last year after around 25 years, and surface fishing was my biggest pleasure for sure. Bakers meaty meals was the best surface bait I used, and I want to explore this further this year. They smell very meaty, are soft, and two different sizes. However, they don't stay afloat for long, especially with a size 6 or 8 hooked into them. I'm working on ideas around putting some cork inside for the hookers only. Do you have any feedback on how best to mount them, still nick them on the hook, with a hair rig? I've tried pretty much all of the plastic offerings from ESP, Nash etc, and the carp just 'know' the difference because of how the hookbait sits and moves. I also think one of the attractions to the carp is actually how low the Bakers sit on the surface, so maybe it is just more of a case of accepting you get about 20 minutes max as a hook bait. I am also looking at putting a pink topper on, only to help with visibility when fishing further out. Many thanks in advance.