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During Lockdown in 2020 I started getting back into my model building again.
The majority of the aircraft are in 1:48, with a few 1:72 on separate shelf, and the ships are 1:600.
Got a few more to do
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41 minutes ago, elmoputney said:
Doesn't make him any less of a rapist though.
True, but he's not been convicted. Until he is convicted its defamation to say he has been.
I still don't like him and think he's dangerous and proving it right now.
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1 hour ago, elmoputney said:
Are you saying he isn't?
Technically he has not been convicted of rape in a criminal court. He was found guilty of defamation of E Jean Carroll with him saying that he hadn't raped her in a defamation case, which he was found guilty of, and had to pay around $80million dollars. The judges summary included that while Trump had raped her, as it was a civil defamation case he could not be sentenced.
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11 hours ago, elmoputney said:
Key Points on Claiming Asylum in the UK
No "First Country" Rule: There is no international law stating that refugees must claim asylum in the first safe country they reach.
UK Inadmissibility Policy: Under UK law, the Home Secretary can declare a claim inadmissible if you were previously in a safe country where you could have claimed asylum.
Removal Challenges: While the government aims to remove people to safe third countries, this requires that another country is willing to accept them, which is not always feasible.
Post-Brexit: The UK is no longer part of the EU Dublin Regulations, which previously allowed for the transfer of asylum seekers back to their first point of entry into the EU.
How to Claim: You must be present in the UK to claim asylum; it is not possible to apply from outside the country, such as at a UK embassy.
49 minutes ago, framey said:My last post on this thread simply because I don’t want to fall out with anyone
I don’t think i actually said there was a first country rule
but there should be
if it’s safe in a neighbouring country then that’s where you should stop.
and you should be able to apply at an embassy it’s British soil.
The rules on asylum are interesting. For claiming in Britain you must prove that in your home country you face persecution on race, religion, social group or politics.
You must be in Britain to claim asylum, so no claiming at a consul or embassy. There are however specific forms Undocumented Friends and Family that can be issued at consuls and embassies to get legally to the UK. In other words, an illegal entry into the country, by boat, or hidden in a lorry for example with no travel documents, you can be refused entry.
As I mentioned Tony Blair negotiated a contract to house them in hostels, hotels and houses of multiple occupancy, which the Conservatives were forced to continue, with additional contracts going to Serco and Group4 along with others.
At the same time, local councils had their right to refuse taken away, and homeless units for British families were closed down.
There was a country that was willing to take these people in, Rwanda. A negotiated settlement by the Conservative government that the 'progressive' left disagreed with.
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25 minutes ago, greekskii said:
It’s the same with all these people harping on about Iran, that regime is/was only there because they overthrew a brutal and sadistic dictatorship installed by the British under proxy for the Americans, because the leader at the time who everyone in Iran loved, wanted to nationalise oil and cancel the contracts with BP.
A history well documented and factual, but that they bury whenever they can. History repeating itself again. What do they say, if you keep on doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result, they call you crazy. Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Iran…
Yep, the British installed and backed The Shah of Iran because Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh wanted to have a close look into Anglo-Iranian Oil who he felt were not paying a fair price for oil. When they refused he basically nationalised the company. AIO is part of BP.
Also the funding of Iranian arms by Ronald Reagan and his additional attempts to stall the Iranian hostage situation so he could become President of the USA blaming Jimmy Carter who wanted a peaceful defusing of the situation.
That one is shameful. USA sending arms to Iran 'discreetly', while the Iran Iraq war was going on, with most major nations, including USA supplying Iraq with weapons.
Jimmy Carter had placed an arms embargo on Iran, as they had inherited US weapons during the fall of the Shah.
When the UK, and USA learn that you can't back both sides against the middle or intervene in other nations.
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6 hours ago, elmoputney said:
Where did you pull those numbers from? I would wager they wouldn't hold up to much scrutiny.
Sadly I have deleted a post on this thread.
The argument or opinion may be valid, but as soon as I see censored language or inferred swearing in a post, I will remove the post, and frequently ban the user.
On this occasion I just deleted the post.
Keep it clean!
Let's see where I pulled those figures from:
55 minutes ago, greekskii said:So they plan to ignore and actively hide the bad side of British history, which we all know exists and to educate people properly, should be taught to our children.
It’s like Germany saying they won’t teach anyone about the Nazi party….although that does need looking in to if you have a brain on who set that policy and wrote the textbooks.
the entire issue with this policy is that the internet is free, people will go and question and interrogate it for the truth and start asking questions in school, what happens then? They are expelled for questioning the history they are taught? Imprisoned? What happens? censor the internet?
you teach the good and the bad side by side. You should be taught the truth. Churchill for example, he did many a bad thing, that’s facts. Why hide it? What happens if I bring that up in a Restore Britain Britain? Death penalty for the truth?
the internet will always win the day unless censored, which sounds an awful lot like a dictatorship that restore criticise. The truth about what you were taught, what I was taught, what’s being taught now, is out there.
go translate hitlers speeches for a start, eye opening. Go look up who publishes school textbooks. Go research the real history and current affairs. Eye opening stuff. Kids are savvy and a fake history doesn’t run anymore.
The internet is eye opening, and certain companies within the internet world do 'censor' results.
Google for one, the search results and Ai Overview are skewed towards what they want you to believe.
Years ago I did some research on who set up government contracts to house immigrants in hotels, and the answer may surprise you: Tony Blair, used a company called Clearwater.
Google hides this, it doesn't like it being found.
Then the reason for Middle Eastern and African immigrants coming to UK, the UK and US interfered in Libya, Iraq, and the fall of those nations saw former officers and soldiers moving across the region creating ISIS, Al-Shabaab and other offshoots.
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2 hours ago, elmoputney said:
Remigration of illegal immigrants, that will become a witch hunt of any non white citizen of the UK.
This is part of their policy manifesto
Operationally, the paper recommends a two-pronged approach: voluntary departures reaching around half a million or more per year driven by a hostile environment, and between 150,000 - 200,000 enforced removals per year.
Just sounds like BNP fascist nonsense to me. Exactly the same sort of propaganda present in 1930's Germany.
So this country can continue to afford incoming immigration?
You do know that Britain has had over 10million come into this country since 2010?
The cost per day to the UK taxpayer is around £6million.
The majority are not refugees, not asylum seekers, but are economic migrants.
The total last year who were genuine refugees is 33,000, out of 898,000.
Some figures to make you think, and why we cannot continue to allow the system as it is.
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On 28/02/2026 at 10:17, Dave Fowler said:
Stop talking sense now. 😆
Legalised hard drugs, really ?
It's in their manifesto and Zack Polanski said on the news:
"Speaking to BBC South East ahead of his party conference, Zack Polanski said he agreed with a Kent Green councillor, who earlier this year called for the legalisation of all drugs, including class A drugs like heroin and crack cocaine."
So you legalise drugs, and in the process increase the welfare bill and psychiatric reliance in the NHS.
If you go the other way and reduce the 'acceptability' of drug taking, increase criminal punishment and dare I say it prevent the incoming mafia dealers from abroad by reducing immigration you can start to break the problem.
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7 hours ago, Old_Skool_Carper said:
why don't ya use the CHEAP long 230g butane gas cartridges? .....together with an adapter, about 3 quid of fleabay: ebay.co.uk/itm/236606920387?
then it allows you to use most stoves, even the cheapo chinky ones costing a tenner!
you can get a pack of 4 cartridges 230g at B&M or home-bargains for £4.50 ...in fact last autumn they had lots of stock still left and reduced 'em down to 4 quid a pack, i bought a box full, will last me ages!
great for winter, keep an eye out as previously home-bargains had the same cartridges in 'butane / propane mix gas 230g' but sell out fast!
The 500 size canisters last longer. On a session I get a minimum of 4 days out of 1 canister, but only a couple of days out of the smaller ones, so not a great saving.
The current canister in use has done plenty of pike and beach trips.
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12 hours ago, elmoputney said:
That's why people should be voting green, because they are pretty much the only party that actually want to put people above profit.
There is a problem in that.
Green energy is brilliant, but relying on North Sea wind farms is damaging the seafloor environment. It is 'out of sight, out of mind'. Solar farms, using arable or livestock land to put up solar panels is not Green. The cleaning of those panels put earth damaging chemicals in the soil. Your Fairy liquid is one of the most damaging products, despite being biodegradable, imagine industrial strength Fairy cleaning products.
Wind power technology relies on wind; too little no electricity, too strong wind, and the turbines have to be switched off.
Solar panels are only about 15% effective. 85% of the sunlight is wasted, and the waste increases the ambient temperature around the panels, potentially reducing important natural wildlife. Crops and livestock can't be grown effectively around solar panels.
Importing goods from abroad, brilliant, let's keep our emissions at 0.4% while China goes to 25% of global emissions and we can ignore the emissions created by transporting goods halfway the world.
Yet manufacturing, as yet, electricity is not suitable to power smelting, metalwork, glass making. You need gas, coal or coke.
You can't have an economy without manufacturing, and you can't have 'legalise drugs' as the manifesto.
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2 hours ago, commonly said:
That worked wonders for council housing stock and affordable housing.
What happened to the cash they raised??
I struggle to see much in the way of reinvestment.
As I heard the other day, it's not a cost of living crisis, it's a cost of profits crisis
The national government 'confiscated' it. Instead of buying and building new local authority housing it went to national government to 'repay' the annual budgets and loans. Britain lost over 50% of the local authority housing.
Building companies were given land at cheap rates for housing, which instead of building on, they 'landbanked' after gaining planning permission. The top ten building companies own enough land to build over 1.5million properties (which is Labours housing target), and have the cash reserves already to do so, but can't get the skilled workers as they failed to train apprentices, and refuse to build unless they make a profit on sales.
There are some local authorities who have built or are building new properties, but used building companies who weren't part of the landbanking schemes, basically new building firms.
In Norfolk when Right to Buy came to force, an estate of new council properties had just been built in Bowthorpe and Costessey. Tenants were moved into those properties, often from older council houses and the Right to Buy discount meant they got new properties at extremely low prices. The older houses and flats those tenants were in were supposed to be renovated. Some of the areas ended up derelict (Anglia Square)
1 hour ago, framey said:What needs to happen is stop the rich foreign and home bred investors buying up housing stock to let to tenants at a stupidly high rent.
You should only be allowed to own 1 maybe at a push 2 properties and then There could be enough to go around. And at a fair price
prices we pay for property in the uk is disgusting.
in a council/social house
be made to give back any house with more than 1 SPARE bedroom and downsize.
we need a party that works for the people not themselves.
I’m almost at a point after watching that dirty business drama last night where I’m going to refuse to buy a rod license but that’s a different subject.
That is a story in itself.
The Right to Buy scheme meant many tenants bought properties on mortgages that they could never afford, so were repossessed by the banks and building societies and later sold off to just cover the debt. Many private landlords bought numerous properties and made the cost of purchase through renting the houses out. I know of at least one Ipswich landlord, ex bank employee, who owned at least ten properties in Ipswich.
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On 18/02/2026 at 12:03, ouchthathurt said:
Good morning to you all, so as I defrost in front of the fire i shall regale you with a tale of carp, rain and mud! (I’m like a cut price Terry Hearn!)
This tale has its foundation in last week, when I found myself once again ensconced in a stuffy hotel room for a “preparation course” ahead of my final exams next week. Chatting to wifey on the phone, she asked why I didn’t take any fishing gear with me, I explained how there wasn’t any time to disappear to a lake for a few hours, so wifey suggested that I get an overnight trip in as she is working and daughter is at nursery and I probably won’t be missed!
Still, as the wifey and I have another baby on the way, due in the summer, opportunities to get the rods out are going to become few and far between, so I prepped the gear, my daughter and I rolled some bait and on yesterdays dawn I was gone, heading for zombie sheep lake.
In arriving, I found the lake looking grey, sullen and foreboding. The water level was up by a good 2ft, meaning one of the islands had disappeared completely, and the other, only a few sorry looking branches poked above the water!
As I was alone, and the wind was piling in, with this being a rather barren landscape, with little to stop the howling wind between the Russian Steppes and my bivvy, I chose to set up on the back of the wind, tucked in behind a sorry line of bushes that did at least act as a wind break. It wasn’t raining, so I took the time to have a lead about to find my usual spot albeit from a different angle.
Happy with my spots, HMS Jenny (my bait boat) was launched into the chop, where she gamely battled the waves to deposit two pva bags of boilie crumb, pellet and maggots onto the spots. With that, I was fishing.
Both rods being Fox Horizon X3S’s to Fox EOS 12000 reels, to lead core leaders, 3 1/2 oz leads fished as helicopter rigs to fox cortex braid, ESP Clawhammer hooks barbless size 6 fished slip D style.
Bait was my usual Premier Superaminos with belachan, shellfish and salmon oil with added robin red, I tend to just keep feeding the same bait all year through here and still keep having bites, plus it helps keep it established for next year. A good quality bait gets better with application in my eyes.
With the rods out, it was time to set up house and have a cup of tea. As I was crouching down by the rods, watching the water for any subtle show that there may be fish about, my right hand rod tightened up, so the tea was flung to one side and I snatched up the offending rod, on hitting it, the rod took on its battle curve as the battle was joined.
After a spirited 20min scrap, where it bored remorselessly around the flooded margins, it finally rolled over and hit the net. I checked all the fins were flat, popped the hook out and rolled it up in the mesh for the short walk up the bank.
As it is rather steep on this side, with all the rain, it was like an ice rink, and I managed to slip over, landing on my bum with a carp in my lap! Still, the fish was undamaged so I laid it on the unhooking mat and unfurled the net.
I was faced with another rig in its mouth! Hanging from the scissors was a pink boilie, attached to a rig, safezone leader and a 4oz lead that had no chance of discharging from the lead clip as the tail rubber was jammed on tight! So I unhooked it for the second time and held it up for the happy snaps
at 28lb exactly, he was in rude health, I don’t think the other rig had been there long as the mouth was not torn, but I treated both hook holds and let him go, a 4oz lead lighter!
I felt that he could be the start of a few, to get a bite so quickly, but alas, it wasn’t to be. HMS Jenny continued to battle the waves to deposit my baits back out there, the rain closed in and started hammering it down, I discovered a few leaks in my bivvy that will now need attention, the bank became a quagmire and it soon became a challenge to stand upright without slipping, let alone walk anywhere! So diving into the stand of trees, I picked up a carrier bag full of pine needles, pine cones and twigs, which I made a path from my brolly to my rods, now I had a grippy surface again, I got my head down and had a peaceful nights rest!
This morning, I awoke and redid the rods, or at least tried to! HMS Jenny, my indefatigable little Amazon special bait boat, finally gave in. Her props still spin, she splashed bravely through the waves, but when it came to drop the baits, the hoppers refused to release, the motor working the release mechanism had given up the ghost. HMS Jenny was like a WW2 Escort Corvette who’s used its last depth charge, it can sail gamely on, but not a lot else!
I chose to stick on a stringer on each rod and cast them out for the last hour or two, whilst I slowly packed up.
Sat on my bedchair, looking at the bags that needed packing away, whilst trying to drum up the enthusiasm to make a start, my left hand rod registered a rapid drop back! I leapt off my backside and promptly landed back on it again as my feet shot out from under me in the slimy muddy bank, and I landed flat on my back, picking my self up I watched the embryonic take fizzle out, I’d missed it!
This proved to be the motivation I needed to pack away and go home. With the barrow loaded, I slip and slide my way back to the car park, load the car and head for home.
This proved to be a more mentally challenging session due to the conditions, and it did cross my mind to pack up and go home, but I gave my head a wobble and stuck it out.
Besides, a 28lb common in February isn’t a bad reward!
Now time for a hot bath, get HMS Jenny in dry dock and see if I can get her back to her little bobbing best!
And I thought that I was mad with some of my sessions😅
Proper result that Mate, lovely looking fish, and the weight is just a bonus.
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On 01/06/2022 at 17:18, salokcinnodrog said:
I know this is an old thread, but worth bringing back up again regarding gas canisters.
I am positive I've made the point in the past about camping and caravan stores being cheaper than tackle shops.
This week I came back via my local George Sharman Camping and Caravan and decided to grab a couple of GoSysten canisters as I was passing.
£5.50 each compared to £5.99 or £6.99 in a couple of my local tackle shops.✅
Right for the anal out there, a list of canisters I have used and I think the best to worst, these are all Propane/butane/iso-butane.Primus and GoSystem. They both will run until empty with no need to shake or warm. In winter they are my preference
Sunn Gas, I hadn't seen these anywhere except one of my local tackle shops, it did require a shake but worked until empty.
CADAC, will work, but in winter may need tipping on its side to completely empty.
Coleman, the premium name, yet the worst gas canister. Even in summer they need shaking or tipping on their side to empty. In winter they need heating up before you can get a decent burn out of them, even at almost new.Bringing this up again, as I have found a couple more decent brands of canister:
Taylor and Brown.
These were an eBay search after I got annoyed at Coleman going from £20 for a 6pack to over £30. They were priced at £21.99 including carriage. Admittedly I have not used them carp fishing, but I think cold, wet, windy days and nights under a Beach Buddy or umbrella while pike or sea fishing might be a serious test. The canisters ran until empty with only a little reduction in flame due to low pressure.
This one was a surprise to me, NGT canisters! My mate Will mentioned them last summer after we had sworn at the Coleman canisters together previously. He picked up a bargain through Ebay and again, pike fishing mornings were the test. While I have not seen the canister run low, Will praised them for not being a problem when low.
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6 hours ago, kevtaylor said:
Strange I always get a case of Coleman propane gas - never had a problem, what's gone on with yours?
It doesn't empty properly, even when put upside down when nearly empty. Always have to heat a bit of water up in a pan, then put the gas canister in the warm water in pan to get a decent burn, otherwise the flame is too low.
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On 16/02/2026 at 19:36, elmoputney said:
I've been buying some bits for the upcoming year.
12 cans of ngt bargain gas
28lb katran wild carp camo line
And I have had to remodel the spinner rig as some key parts have become less easily sourced.
So I've been on JPrecision and ordered some gape x hooks and some different kickers and bait screws and bits to play with. I have used kranks before and seem to remember them giving decent hook holds. I looked at alternative rigs even made a nice soft hinge rig , but it all seems too much faff 😱
The NGT canisters if you are talking about the 500's are actually some of the best gas canisters out there. The ones to avoid if possible are Coleman!
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On 17/02/2026 at 11:57, elmoputney said:
That's a can of worms Kev, I'm sure someone will be able to assist but I used Co pilot to try and understand bio active ingredients a bit better. Still don't properly but this is something I learned which may help 😱 😂
Funny thing is that many freezer baits become bio-active by a simple process called efflorescence, where salts and sugars come to the surface of the boilie. It is why some baits are more effective after a couple of days out of the freezer.
There were a number of bio-active ingredients, from meat meals to milk products, to pineapple juice (bromelain).
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On 16/02/2026 at 20:01, elmoputney said:
Yeah it's good stuff I've used it before, I've also used katran though and just fancied giving the heavy stuff a go. I remembered how cool it looked on my reels 😱 😂
On 16/02/2026 at 21:24, B B said:That’s just reel porn … I’m surprised the mods let you get away with it
On 16/02/2026 at 21:56, elmoputney said:Yes Its certainly a phwoooar rated image 😱
That's nearly as pornographic as DPM slinky underwear under her bib and brace...
Much as I like it I'll stick with Gardner Pro. The only thing that has worn that through is a pike charging through the line.
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1 hour ago, daveyyyyyyyyy said:
Hi ,some pointers please on inclusion rates of flavours for a 1 egg cork ball pop up mix ,i have lots of flavours but I am always paranoid of over flavoring so anybodys thoughts would be helpful
I have put these 2 together in my head
Strawberry 🍓 and cream 😋
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Nutrabaits cream cajouser. 0.35 ml
Nutrabaits strawberry jam 0.25ml
Talin 0.3 ml
Betaine.0.15 g
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦
⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
Solar quench
Solar quench mixmaster origonal .0.5ml
Talin. 0.3ml
Betaine 0.15g
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦
would my inclsikn rates be to small or about right
Thanks in advance
It really depends on whether you are trying to use the pop-up as a single hookbait or as a food bait hookbait.
If as a single 'high attract' hookbait, then for a 1egg mix, then the same amount of flavour and additive as for a 4 or 6 egg boilie mix.
If it is as a food bait hookbait then use ¼ of the amount recommended for 4 eggs.
So if for 4 eggs the recommended is 4ml, use 1ml.
Now as a personal note, I dislike the 'false' taste of strawberry flavours, yet I absolutely love real strawberries.
In simple terms, I know that I'm not a fish, and they 'taste' chemicals and ph levels over flavours as such, but other than specialist hookbaits, and certain flavours, I don't like overloaded flavour levels. Remember that less is more.
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How many bait companies are already producing specialist pop-ups?
Dynamite, Rod Hutchinson, Baitworks, Mainline, Crafty Catcher, DNA, Sticky, CC Moore just off the top of my head.
On the 'right time, right place' note, our syndicate lake fishes badly in winter. The few fish that come out tend to be caught on pale pink pop-ups, not yellow, but pink. Even the difference between purple and pink is enough to not catch in the same spot.
3 hours ago, OldBoy said:Exactly right mate 👍
also to answer point 2. The big common from a club pit has been caught on SHB multiple times over. It’s a club ticket. Plenty of day ticket and easily accessible venues amongst the catches.
Can’t understand the point you are trying to make about venues tbh. Makes no odds on if they are effective or not. People might look at the fish and go “I’d love to catch that I’ll try get a ticket”. But no one goes “SHB is catching those fish, I’ll get a ticket so I can use it on that venue”Can't be to bothered, honestly, but some of the captures were made from a couple of North Devon 'holes in the ground', and were very expensive venues, some from syndicate venues, a few from london club lakes which I give respect to.
Anyway, the point I was trying to make, obviously unsucessfully, is that the ' what rod, line, hook size etc newbies' will lap the catch reports up and no dought part with dosh for these 'wonder' baits ☹️
I get the feeling that so many new hookbait 'companies' will be popping up soon - no pun intended - it will be a war out there!
1 hour ago, greekskii said:Can’t stop it. At least they’ll get a good hookbait to use instead of rubbish. But Mark doesn’t push his baits apart from the other forum and posting catch reports on socials. He doesn’t need to. The baits do the talking.
Can’t deny how good they are in the right hands, even in Mediocre hands to be fair. Think you’re the only one classing them as a “wonder” bait though so keep your point going. -
12 hours ago, yonny said:
I can't say I pay too much attention to branding. The value of branding is down to one's individual perception based on the product and, I hate to say it, marketing. Most of what I would consider to be 'premium brands' offer their fair share of stuff I'd never use but I'd not want to devalue any brand based on that fact (apart from Nash, obviously 😂).
A brand is just a name for a company imo.
Do I think SHB make decent/premium hookbaits? Yes, absolutely. I only use them for certain applications, but I've done so for probably 10 years + now. They have caught me some very special fish and that breeds confidence. Confidence is as important as anything in carp angling imo.
2 hours ago, greekskii said:I use SHB pretty much exclusively for pop ups nowadays. Caught plenty. Probably would have caught a proportion of those on another brands pop ups.
Do I believe they’ve caught me fish that I may not have caught on a different hookbaits? I’d say maybe a few. But I’ll never know.
Have I blanked on them? Yes. Down to the baits? Probably not, my decisions on location, rigs, baiting approach, etc at fault.you’ll catch a carp on a lego head in the right place. You’ll blank using an all singing all dancing hookbait in the wrong place.
I’d choose SHB above any other pop up though. As Yonny said it’s a confidence thing. Plenty of options priced similarly with much less to them.
I’ve looked at making my own, similar but obviously not comparable as I don’t know his process in and out. I’m talking cork chunk pop ups with a curing process of my own. Doable but I don’t have the time.
IMO buy with confidence but they aren’t a miracle worker.
And that's what catches, confidence in the bait.
Do I use SHB? No, not because they don't work, simply I have confidence in my homemade Garlic Spice thingamajigs.
There are others I use, again I have confidence in them, RH Monster Crab and Fluoro Yellow Nutty Bait.
Annoyingly others I really rated are no longer made, or have changed.
@greekskii mentioned Lego heads, I have used plastic corn over Vitalin and had 6 carp within an hour, although I no longer use plastic baits.
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7 hours ago, elmoputney said:
Thanks Nick what I meant when I asked was what % would I need when adding to my basemix to make a matching pop up? I know it's not going to be exact and basemix dependant I was just looking to see if I could make a food bait pop up with it.
AI isn't perfect but it can be a good tool, I've made loads of basemixes from scratch with it just for fun and I would be happy using some of them.
That's where I used 50% base mix and 50% sodium caseinate to have a matching pop-up to the base mix.
The base mixes I used that ratio with were New Concepts Mariner mix and Nutrabaits The Biollix, which were both fairly heavy base mixes.
Usual procedure was make a 4egg mix of normal baits. While the base mix was out I would put around 1eggs worth of powder to one side for the bit for pop-ups and I would sieve the base mix to get rid of larger lumps and then add the same amount volume of sodium caseinate. So if I had 1 measuring cup of base mix, I would add 1 cup of caseinate. One egg in a bowl, add the required flavours/liquids if using any at 1/4 of what 4eggs took then mix as per normal.
I usually had enough pop-up mix left over for another 1 eggs worth of pop-ups.
A mate did the same when he used Enervite for his pop-ups, and that must be sieved!
Specialized Hookbaits
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Sadly I have had to do a bit of an edit, so this thread doesn't read as well as I had to take out a few debatable posts.
We can get back to specialised hookbaits, what makes them work?
Is it the flavour combination, the attractor package, or additional ingredients, even the ph of the lake or in that area?
We keep going round in circles, and its possible that glycerine is an attractor, or maybe the flavour itself, be it spicy or the base of a product.
Vanillin, iso-eugenol, glycerine, black pepper oil, garlic oil, bromelain or n-butyric acid all have their place, maybe even lemon juice or citric acid or flavours containing terpenes