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You made the discovery that cork dust absorbs water, and expands allowing the bait to break down. I pretty much just stuck to pop-up mix, or with standard base mix adding around 50% sodium caseinate after sieving it.

Many premium brands as @yonny has said are pop-up mix and flavour, that could be any brand, although there are some that have that something. Garlic is one of those additions that can really put fish on the bank, but it is finding the garlic that works; in pop-ups I never found powdered versions work, possibly not enough smell, and I am not scientific enough to work it out, but in a food bait they may work well. Oh those coatings can be fun to make, can be as simple as rolling dried baits in egg, then rolling in powder. Funnily enough I have caught far more on a food bait equivalent than on a yellow pop-up on most waters. The yellow pop-up produced fish on 'small fish' waters, but not on big fish venues, although the past couple of years did produce stocked fish rather than original fish on the syndicate. Thinking back to various 25lb+ commons I have caught, none came on yellow baits, all but one were on snowman baits, food bait with an identical coloured pop-up (not necessarily same flavour), the one that didn't was on a single 15mm food bait. As an add, I did remove the 'disagreement', not going to have it get nasty. Express an opinion, give your point and don't have a go.

Do I admit to having 2 sets of rods and reels? Best not...

Don't I know it. Another series of trades with no new apprenticeships, plumbers, plasterers, electricians, carpenters. The top 10 building companies in the UK already own the 1.5million plots required by this government to reduce the housing problems, yet don't have the tradesmen to do it. In addition those building companies have the cash reserves to do the builds but won't unless they can sell for a profit, meaning local authority properties are not being built in many areas. Forcing tradesmen to go self-employed has not helped. The 'cash reserves' were often because the companies were given the land by previous governments, as far back as Thatcher, and it was 'sold' to pension investment and hedge fund companies as investment opportunities under a 'buy back' scheme once building started.

Years ago when the water companies were privatised, under Anglian Water the freshly trained and qualified apprentices were 'laid off'. I'd spent 2 years day release at college and 4days at an engineering training centre in Norfolk, with the college and training centre holidays at the Norwich waterworks learning the systems. The Suffolk trainee apprentices in Ipswich had the same treatment. That was pretty much the start of recruiting abroad for workers, and other corporations soon followed suit, the NHS, BT among them.

That's a great build, well done. As @jh92 has mentioned, please private message him if you would like to help with the development.

Are you sure of that? It got me looking and on the first search got this page come up which I screenshot. In the advert it does say it is ambidextrous.

I used to use the BAF and Richworth pop-up mixes, they were consistent and worked, whereas the Mainline Polaris was not consistent, you could get a good batch that popped up brilliantly, or another tub that was awful. Those baits do look like good baits, but you may need to test and redry them before adding the dash of extra flavour. I found a single egg mix usually gave me enough hookbaits for a season. The other thing with hookbaits is you can get away with higher flavour levels, the same amount of flavour in a single egg as you would use for a 4 or 6 egg mix.

I know a few waters that did have Leney fish in, or one that more correctly Redmire progeny, but once stocked they reproduced with other strains, so a mix of Italian, Dinkselbuehl and Galicians/Leneys. Sadly old age and otters may well have made them extinct in Taverham Mills. This one was caught back in the 1990's, and comes complete with porn star moustache... It was one of the fish legitimately bought from Redmire when there was a successful spawning. You would have to see the Chris Ball and Chris Yates diary of stockings that they got from Donald Leney to see. As you say, not many originals around now, and quite possibly they have regressed. The ones that became records in Redmire were original stocked fish.

Welcome to Carp.com Bait, guaranteed to do your head in, send you round in circles and up your own....

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.