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Mike Wilson baited around Wilson's Island on Savay with maize for weeks, catching bream then double figure carp and prebaiting still until September and catching a 30.

A local club to me has a rule of no floating baits or zig rigs, so anglers were fishing baits just under the surface with a float. When bailiffs found out what was going on it was amended to baits were not allowed to be fished in the top 18inches of water. I must admit that if I can surface fish I would have more distance between the float and hookbait, so that does look rather freaky.

The Baiting Pyramid I remember reading about, I think was originally a Mike Wilson idea, a chapter in Rod Hutchinson's The Carp Strikes Back and articles in CarpWorld. Rob Hughes, for some reason I can't remember where it was, I think I read it in a magazine rather than on a video. I know that at times it works, but also attracting silver fish, bream etc can also get pike sitting around the area putting everything off, or even large numbers of bream holding carp away. The pike problem has been a real issue on the syndicate.

That's something I've done sort of for years, a few steps forward or back, or even changing up lead size. There is also a difference in casting between mono and braid, and mono being elastic can come back further than you think as it retracts. The number of people I see wondering why they are so far away from their marker, I've always allowed around a third of the depth past it to account for swing back, although I have smashed a few Drennan or ESP markers or pike floats in the past with the lead. Oh boy! One night at Taverham Dave Cobbold and I put in a 10kg base mix bucket full of hemp on one spot with the original Gardner spods. The anglers on the lake were astounded and laughed, until the morning when we'd had around 10 doubles between us. It was Rob Hughes who said if you have an idea of how much bait to Spomb in, double it. I've frequently put in buckets full of bait for fish. On Alton tipping whole buckets in off the bridge... I loved that swim! Funny thing is that if I caught on the bait I didn't catch on the single bait, and if I caught on the single bait I didn't catch on the bed of bait. Every other swim I think it was all over large amounts of bait. I've tried wading and putting bait in on the syndicate and failed, yet Spombing has worked sometimes, not every time. Stringers and throwing stick have worked. It's a case of find the fish or hope they come to you.

The Nash ones weren't rumours. A French carp society meeting he admitted it on video. I don't think I still have pictures of the transcripts, but I believe I posted them on the forum

Your contract is with the place you purchased them from. As not fit for purpose, I would be getting a refund and something by a different manufacturer.

As you put the braid on the reel put a twist of power gum under the clip. So power gum under the clip, around the spool and knotted on the opposite side. Then cover it over by reeling the braid onto the spool. That should help protect the braid from clip damage.

If you fix it to a wooden board with a lip it will sit nicely on the work surface, and can be taken fishing and sat on your tackle box. Makes crumbing boilies easier and quicker than a Krusher

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Oh joys! If you have a combined spod and marker rod then braid is the answer, you can't avoid it as you need the feel for leading or marker float work. For that I use 0.36mm 50lb Angryfish braid, to a 40lb Greased Weasel (mono) leader. Point of note, so many people say you don't need a leader, but I regularly recover spods, Spombs and marker floats attached to just a braid knot which has cracked off. It is caused by braid having zero stretch as it hits the clip, and normally breaking where the braid has been tightened down, or right at the clip. I learnt that lesson myself, so always stick with the leader. Other thing is I also like my fingers as braid can cut very badly if you catch them on a miscast. If I need to leave a marker float in place and bait up to it, then my actual Spod rod is fished with mono to leader. Mono has stretch, so you can get away with 15lb mono to the same leader, or even 30lb Amnesia.

I spent a lot of yesterday going through back Facebook to 2016 to get back pictures that photobucket has put on hold now that they are charging for hosting. I setup the photobucket account around 2006 and for years it was no problem, hosted pictures, used on here and carpforum, and as storage because PC's simply didn't have the memory, or needed replacing every few years. Then photobucket changed terms and conditions and charged for pictures used on other sites. I've been through photobucket and filled up tablets and phones with years of pictures. I now need some of my old pictures for PAC (Pike Anglers club) talks I'm doing this season, first one next month in Lincoln, region 48. Then the joys of transferring them from Android back onto USB stick, which means renaming everything to store them in the order I need them.

Yes Mate.

I got stabbed with a syringe by a shoplifter back in 2011 I think it was. That was an A&E job, HIV, Hep C and B tests, and a year of blood tests and Hep B immunisation jabs. The 'no win no fee' solicitor took the case on for criminal assault etc. The court awarded a total of £1000, which in terms of the mental health covered bog all. After he took his cut I got a total of £520. The assailant got 2years after changing his plea on the trial day, he'd served 11months on remand, so had 1month more to serve before his release. Pleading guilty pretty much got 50% of the sentence reduced and time served. Really not worth the effort either way. Justice and sentences really wind me up, and Starmer let loose a lot more on early release to make places for 'right wing fascists' who were in many cases demonstrating against the current immigration, and not all were rioting.

I don't think so. Only 1 fish came from any sort of marginal or 'surface' feature, a marginal lily bed in a bay, the rest came from wide open water. I did get through plenty of calories walking and Spombing. My Spombing and casting was normally to a marker float. I also didn't have to worry about a sailor or windsurfer hitting a bait boat as happened to someone up near the dam where the sailing club are. When I was Spombing there, I used mono, the marker rod was used with braid. As @kevtaylor says, no problems with it not hitting nose first at the distances I was fishing, which was up to 100 metres I guess, hit the clip and it drops. When I use the Spomb with braid I do get the occasional not opening problem, but it's a whole lot more aerodynamic in any cross wind than the Nash Dot Spod, and that seems cheap and tacky, I really dislike it.

Very witty, although I did just edit the title from cash reports to catch reports before seeing this

I've put the discussion in Tackle and Equipment... https://forum.carp.com/topic/33654-a-section-for-bait-boats/#comment-387097

I actually posted about it on here when I think @kevtaylor mentioned that he was having premature release. I normally switch it to higher pressure to open it as I nearly always have it dropping vertically. Hitting the clip on a low cast Spombs can 'skid' not hitting the clip, often a problem with braid. I much prefer the Spomb to Dot spod, Fox spod and the dropping of bait is quicker than a standard spod, which 'trickles' out. A standard spod has the advantage with high liquid mixes of bait, as you can tape the holes. A Spomb just sprays you as you swing... I have fished against anglers using bait boats on Alton Water and honestly my results were better, but that was down to spending so much time walking round the reservoir I had got a few of the patrol routes and feeding areas sorted. They are banned on my syndicate, as are Deepers and drones.

I have still got my Spong 301. It grinds dog biscuits, dried bread, boilies, maize, sweetcorn, tigers, peanuts, pellets, or I use it for mincing fish like mackerel and herring for pike rubby dubby. Screw it to a wooden board, they last forever. A couple on Ebay at moment!

I use a 4000 Baitrunner for chub and roach, usually ledgering with 8-10lb line where barbel have been seen, or with braid on the reservoir. I was using the same reel for carp fishing for small fish as well, nice to play them on that rather than an 'oversized' big pit reel. They do go nicely on a 12feet ledger or specialist rod.

It wasn't that Mate, under the old Vbb control panel I was able to add new sections, I can't under this one.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/unqEusN6UsMDJ33w/

At the same time, advertising or reposting them is not a good idea. For now put them in DVD reviews. https://forum.carp.com/forum/43-dvd-reviews/ I had a look around my control panel yesterday and I can't add a new section so I messaged Neil to see if he can do it. I do love new updates....

Nash, a brand I try to avoid giving money to. At Gladwells we had Nash deliveries come in straight from Felixstowe docks. I spent a lot of time sending tackle in the rods and reel boxes back to Nash as it was delivered broken, or was returned broken shortly after purchase. Then add in my own personal Nash Tackle problems and lack of faith in his ethics... In terms of reels I do like the Shimano ST6000 baitrunners Johnson Ross aren't the cheapest, but are a shop I trust: https://johnsonrosstackle.co.uk/shimano-baitrunner-reels/15312-shimano-baitrunner-st-6000rb-reel.html

I'm not the best 'pin user, simply because I don't do enough stalking or fishing with it. Too much time behind the battery... It is the pin I learnt on, and I found easy to use, both casting and playing fish. Just remember that a a spinning spool slowed down with too much pressure can lead to a burnt thumb...

Hey, I'm not responsible...😆 I know what you are saying, although I am wary of angling practice even promoted in magazines in the past, where tackle and fish safety were not shall we say, of the highest quality. When tackle manufacturers are advocating unsafe practice... Anyway as I said, I will see if I can add a section, increase the Mods workload and censor every video, (joking, partly) so that media ideas can be passed on.