salokcinnodrog

Don't think we will ever get a parliament of 100% all independent

If its Gardner its good...

It's expensive because it is sold through a shop. The shop buys from the manufacturer and still has to make a profit selling themselves. If the shop buys an item at £7.99, it will be sold at around £11.99. Bear in mind that the manufacturer selling at £7.99 is going to include profit for them, and that may not be much! Indeed, I remember from Bill Cottam that making Hi-Nu-Val as a base mix was not far short of £10. If I told you that the shop bought a 50oz bag for £9.32 and it was sold at £13.99. (Sad that I can remember original buying prices after all these years 20+). Hi-Nu-Val went up to £14.99 a bag while The Biollix was £14.10. A bait maker selling direct at £7 does not seem that expensive when you read @framey 's post if £6 at home is a very good bait. I honestly don't think that ingredients available now are as good as 20years ago. Fishmeal prices have gone silly sky high and very few non meat ingredients give a decent usable protein source, with the exception of fungi or yeast. Liquid hydrolysates have a potential problem, they are water soluble. That sounds weird, but once they have 'dissolved' out of the boilie you may be left with nothing in the bait that the fish want. This is where you may well want or need a solid protein source left in the bait. The best baits don't need millions of powdered ingredients, get it right and I think six maybe 7 will be the most you need, possibly with some additional liquids. I will try my best to work it out, I can remember what it cost me to make Trigga buying the base mix, eggs, Liquid Trigga, Sweet Cajouser and Liver Elite as a standard.

I don't think that anglers ever realised how much bait really cost for a decent bait. Years ago, late 1990's or early 2000's, to make a bait at home a 10kilogramme bucket of a good Nutrabaits base mix was £72, (Trigga), add in the Liquid Trigga, eggs and additives and it worked out at around £9.50 per kilo of boilies. The finished product if you bought them from a tackle shop was originally £10.99 per kilo, although that doesn't include the additions I put in myself to improve the bait slightly. Then the rolling companies started making bait themselves, and selling direct rather than only tackle shop sales, which cut bait prices by around 30% as it removed the 'wholesaler' or middle man who sold to the tackle shop, or the tackle shop adding their cut after buying from Nutrabaits, Mainline, Mistral, or KM, pick a few others. Then you had home rollers getting in on wanting to make bait, and bait quality dropped as they could sling a mix together and with many anglers switching baits every week, and decent bait ingredients increased in price. Mr Home Roller couldn't buy a pallet of fishmeal for the same price as Mainline or Nutrabaits. Home rollers often ended up selling cake mix boilies.

I'll have a look see if I can transfer them

A new section has been added to Non Carp Banter. Sorry it has taken so long, but after we have managed to get server sorted there is now a section for videos: https://forum.carp.com/forum/51-fishing-videos/

Sorry it has taken so long, but after we have managed to get server sorted there is now a section for videos: https://forum.carp.com/forum/51-fishing-videos/

I've somehow managed to lose 3 butt rests and banksticks from my pike gear so just had the joy of purchasing 3 more of each. As an edit, I just realised exactly where I lost them; I was fishing at Beccles on the quay, where there is no way of pushing sticks into the tarmac path, so I put them underneath the bench I was sitting on, and at the end of the day forgot to put them back into the unhooking mat as I folded it up.

Not sure the air dryer behind is a good idea... 🤣

Try BASS Horning, he did do services, or Tackle Box or Johnson Ross

Welcome to Carp.com. A clear lake is absolutely fine with 12lb line. Adding a leader, especially fluorocarbon creates other problems in that it will need to be checked regularly and changed, the same goes for fluorocarbon hooklinks and rigs. Fluorocarbon while it stretches (the same as mono, 15-20%), does not go back to the same length, it is not elastic like mono, it stretches until it breaks. Personally I would not bother with a leader, fishing the mainline straight through. At around 40metres with the rod tips roughly parallel to the water, the line will be running along the lakebed anyway. The other thing with fluorocarbon, despite being close to the refractive index of water, it still casts a shadow even though the line itself invisible to the eye. Rigwise, try to keep it simple, a basic knotless knotted rig will produce as many fish as everything else shown on tackle brands videos and YouTube. In the 1990's I started using that type of rig (on braid), I still use it now however many years later. My exceptions are when I use pop-ups and do go to a D-rig.

He had to crowd fund it to get it made as no broadcaster would pick it up, because it's not just big carp. The people who crowd funded it got early viewings sent directly, I think by email link.

Funny you should say that, on my local park lake it was 3 grains of corn held up by a single piece of fake corn over Vitalin that produced the vast majority of the carp caught. It is a very silty lake and most people tended to fish boilies which sunk into the gunk. The Vitalin and sweetcorn sat on top. I had some very successful sessions, and watched many others fail to catch. Boilies did work, but only in specific places where the bottom is slightly harder. I think there were or are some specials that really work, but I think many have changed as flavours have been regulated. The Solar Squid and Octopus, original Scopex (not later copies), Monster Crab, Green Zing, or Pineapple really did have something about them, there are still others now that work, but is is finding them. Add to that, fishing over bait whether groundbait, particles or beds of boilies may make our 'non smelly' baits effective, or even the single bait that the carp think 'here's one I missed earlier'.

Super special mega expensive hookbaits, I wonder how gullible we are? I used to keep on buying tubs of pop-ups; strawberry ice cream, cranberry, dairy cream, squid and octopus, tutti-frutti, monster crab, pineapple, and goodness knows how many others. The honest answer is I found that the majority of the time that I got takes on 3 of them: squid and octopus, monster crab and my own spiced garlic. Those 3 produced fish as single hookbaits or as the topper on a snowman setup, with other baits like the pineapple and the green zing, tutti-frutti producing occasionally. I can't forget one session over winter, for two days 4 takes came on high attract pop-ups, after that the bait that produced was only the food bait tipped with the spiced garlic, and I constantly kept a high attract bait on one rod.

The Teme is known more for barbel than carp. Probably the best bet is seeing if local fishing clubs are interested and have the finances to take them on. My advice is avoid 'rewilding' and the big groups like RSPB as angling is not high on their priorities. National Trust may be a possibility, but put a condition of sale that angling be allowed, although the NT are not that bad at preventing angling.

I used to love fishing after a good rain in south or westerly winds. I think it was my first season on the 2acre Brackens, and after serious rain it would fish it's nuts off.

I used to do the inline lead and everything in the bag years ago when I really wanted a nice tidy setup on Nazeing for long distance casting. A rubber tulip bead inside the lead and I think it was Fox tubing only just longer than the lead. I believe it was @nigewoodcock who suggested lighter blobbing the end of the tubing inside the tulip bead to hold it without glue. I lighter blobbed it while it was on a standard sewing needle or thin baiting needle, and then slid the tulip bead down to it.

Sadly that is the reason why I often have to put post moderation and human verification on new members. It's when new members who immediately start spamming after joining that we get caught out.

Like @yonny I never fish as well on a social as I do on my own. However like you I have lost interest in carp fishing at the moment, despite having a good syndicate, for a couple of reasons, most of which revolves around my dad. I'm also slightly bugged by issues that happened around members who only fished when their other syndicate was closed. I tend to catch when I can do 3 or 4 days, and either setup on fish, or prime an area for them to move onto. However I do know I love the lake and when things work out I will be back on there aiming to catch both Chestnut and the BC along with any other fish that just happen to come my way.

I know Rod Hutchinson do Water Snail Naturalz: https://rodhutchinson.co.uk/products/naturalz-16mm

You have loads of water in the Lea Valley. Look up Lea Valley fisheries https://leevalleyfisheries.co.uk/ they have loads of waters. While some are on a waiting list others are still open for tickets. I was fishing Nazeing Meads from 2008-2019 and if travel wasn't such a problem for me from Suffolk I would probably still be there.

Not from land snails unless you eat them, more likely to get parasites from water snails, and I do keep sanitiser handy after picking them out.

I go through stages of trying things out, and some of my favourite stalking baits in rivers are slugs and snails, because they occasionally fall in from bankside vegetation. Chub and carp have taken slugs on the drop, although snails are harder to hook... I did try putting land and water snails in my spod mix a few times, and a mate and I have been known to walk round the lake collecting them. We get water snails as big as your thumb! The best way to use them we found to stop them floating was freeze them. It never seemed to produce any more than standard spod mix. I've used Dynamite hemp and snails and it seems no better than plain hemp, although I do know that when fish get onto snails they are very good for growth and health.

Most definitely I am guilty of number 3 and number 8. I took out loads of pop-ups and the ones left appear to have reproduced in a Heinz 57 babies... As for the rod pod, I must admit to owning a Solar P1 but it has been abused a bit

I'm wary of sugar and salt, but even though glycerine comes from fats being processed, and supposedly needs emulsifying in winter, I found glycerine/glycerol flavours still produced in winter, even compared to the same flavours on ethyl alcohol as the solvent. It has made me convinced that glycerine is an attractor in its own right. I'm not sure if any of the bait or flavour specialists have written about it. I'm going to have to try to find out.