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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:
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On 02/11/2024 at 08:08, elmoputney said:
I think it would be good idea to have a section of the forum where people post links to good you tube videos they have recently watched.
Sorry it has taken so long, but after we have managed to get server sorted there is now a section for videos:
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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.
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3 hours ago, elmoputney said:
I've gone a little bit nuts again but completed the production line 😂
Thanks to @greekskii for the tip off though. I am made up tonight.
I now have all I need to start really making some boilies.
Not sure the air dryer behind is a good idea...
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45 minutes ago, ouchthathurt said:
Hi all,
hoping someone here can help me, I have a Daiwa windcast Z5000 that I need a replacement handle for, but I can’t find one anywhere! Daiwa UK don’t have any as it’s discontinued and Jim’s reel shop have sold out. Where else can I try? Usual internet searches are not producing the goods.
or any aftermarket places I could try?
Try BASS Horning, he did do services, or Tackle Box or Johnson Ross
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3 hours ago, Dan Woods said:
Hi all, I have started going fishing with a couple of friends and fully got hooked, excuse the pun! I’m now trying to get some equipment and wanted to ask for some advise please. To start with is line, leaders and rigs. I have watch hundreds of YouTube videos and got more confused. I have managed to get some reels and replaced the line with 12lb monofilament but want to possibly add a fluorocarbon leader and use it for my rigs as well. The lake we are fishing is very clear with a gravel bottom. The reported carp are between 12-35lb. Questions I have are
What strength do I need, I was looking at the seaguar invizx
Should I put a leader on as well as using it for rigs or just use it in rigs.
If I use a leader, what length? 20ft?
Thanks in advance, any advice gratefully received
Dan
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.
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6 hours ago, OldBoy said:
Not sure if this is the right section to add this but....
Many over a certain age will remember the original series, it's now on YouTube with a new series and they have their own channel.
I have watched the first two episodes and have to say I really enjoyed it, so refreshing to not hear some bloke banging on about big carp captures, which in my opinion has been done to death.
I am no way associated with the channel, but if you want a break from the usual stuff, maybe give it a try?
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.
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19 hours ago, Roughtor said:
I know those supersonic baits you speak of ...I tried them ,had more on two plastic fake corn critically balanced and a few crumbled freebies in a mesh bag ...
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.
On 22/12/2025 at 10:16, kevtaylor said:Whilst I should play it down - last 3 trips were successful to a degree and all fish taken on Halibut Pellet wafters that barely smell of anything and very dull. Proves the point really, who are the special specials attractive to? US!
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'.
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On 13/12/2025 at 15:46, OldBoy said:
A mate of mine suggested I might like a pot of some 'wonder hookbaits' for a pressie.
When it turned out they were at least £20 a pot I had to say, are you joking, save your money, apparently they are 'cured' not in salt as I understand that is what used to be meant, but no they have gone through some sort of 'mystic process'.
Oh but they have been backed up by loads of big carp captures, well that's as maybe but I had to say save your money, get me something else instead.
Obviously a bit provocative, but what a waste of money for 99% of normal anglers?
Anyway, Happy Xmas to all 👍
On 15/12/2025 at 10:50, kevtaylor said:I bought some special cured special special pop-ups cost 20 quid a pot, bought 2 types - both are in the garage along with many other pots of retired baits.
I now just go for Northern Specials for anything coloured or the matching brown baits for my freebies.
The special specials may have worked but I didn't like the look when they arrived - felt like a mug for paying it tbh
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.
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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.
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23 hours ago, crusian said:
Hi Everyone
So I was going to go fishing tomorrow , Thursday , when the weather forcast is dry , but today it's rained all day .
I'm thinking that all todays' rain will probably mean that the fish won't be biting tomorrow ? .
What do you all think please ? .
Ta .
😃
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.
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9 hours ago, OldBoy said:
Just a thought, I use inline leads when bag fishing, no leaders or lead core.
Probably best to make sure if you have a crack off / cut off, that the line can pass through your lead set up?
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.
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1 hour ago, commonly said:
We all need to chip in for better anti virus software😄
If I win , I'll gladly pay for ir
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.
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On 16/10/2025 at 18:18, commonly said:
So, I joined a little syndicate recently.
Well stocked to a few early 40's,
Initially thought there's a few odd rules, but whatever.
As times gone by (4 x 48's), I've had a low 30 on the first visit) I've sort of lost interest in the place.
A few mates are on the ticket, but we haven't been free at the same time for a social.
After fishing a reservoir and that feeling of having something no ones caught before, I've just not had the same buzz with this place.
The search for a decent venue continues i guess??
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.
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8 minutes ago, Carpbell3 said:
there was a company doing snail boilies It looks like they have stopped doing them, could be worth a phone call to double check
https://www.carpparticles.co.uk/product-category/boilies-hookbaits/
I know Rod Hutchinson do Water Snail Naturalz:
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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.
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8 hours ago, jh92 said:
That's some dedication mate, I didn't mind picking the water snails but there's no way I'm touching garden snails or slugs, can't you get ring worm or some other parasite from them? 🤣
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.
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On 04/10/2025 at 12:49, jh92 said:
There's a lot of snails on the canal at the moment and the fish seem to be hoovering them up and avoiding bait lol. Any suggestions on how I can catch a couple of them for bait, like some sort of snail trap?
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.
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17 hours ago, Golden Paws said:
1. For the ultimate in being a tart, take a bivvy, brolly and gazebo. Don’t laugh, I saw it last weekend on a commercial where you can park your car behind the swim.
2. Have a splash mat under your reels, the ultimate in tartyness.
3. Carry 20 different types of pop-up but only use 1.
4. Take a 2 man bivvy but you only do over-nighters.
5. Take a powered fridge despite the fact you only keep your sandwiches and lager in it.
6. Own a 5-season sleeping bag despite the fact you hang your rods up in October.
7. Have a power bank that could keep a family home going for a couple of days in a power cut but you only charge your phone and torch.
8. Your rod-pod has so much stainless that you have to wear sunglasses to look at it.
9. You have a power barrow with so much grunt it could stop an average scrum but you only fish a 2 acre lake with manicured lawns.
10. Your phone is permanently on FaceBook so you can keep in contact with both of your friends.
11. A pair of 10x25 binoculars is more than ample and fits in your pocket when folded down. So why do you take a set of field glasses that can spot a mouse a mile away?
12. You wear bivvy slippers to keep your groundsheet clean.
13. A head torch is a necessity after dark but you need to keep it down to keep your night-sight when you turn it off. Your 8000 Lumen monstrosity resembles the Blackpool illuminations.
14. You bring your camper van to a commercial that allows rear of swim parking and stay in it all day and night watching TV or reading a book and only come outside once a day. Don’t laugh, I have seen it.
15. You own 2 sets of rods/reels/buzzers because you fish different waters and don’t want to handicap yourself.
16. Despite having a double burner and family sized returnable gas bottle and associated cookware, your meals are delivered to your swim from the local greasy spoon and pizza shop.
17. You have a bait boat with GPS and Sonar despite your lake being as pancake flat as the day the bulldozer created it. It also has a 4kg payload despite the fact you only use PVA bags.
18. Everyone loves a bivvy table. A small one just big enough for your tackle box, scales, phone and receiver is ample. A true tackle tart pushes it to the max and I saw 2 blokes in adjoining swims with a decorating table that you use for hanging wallpaper.
19. You have a top of the range DSLR with an impressive pixel count but the deal clincher was the 40 frames per second burst shooting rate it offered. Despite the fact you will never use it. You only shoot in Auto and use the photo’s unaltered on your FaceBook page.
20. You take 3 nets with you, “just in case.” The water you are fishing is rock hard and 2 fish a season is considered good going.
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
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1 hour ago, Serenity said:
Things like glycerine,salt and sugar I would only use at the appropriate time of year, when the carp are expecting to find them and will be stimulated by them.
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.
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14 hours ago, jules007 said:
Having been back at carp angling for a year after the massive long break, i did not figure to go back to doing any overnight sessions at all, years ago i sold of my bivvy and bed chair, i also promised my good lady i would not do nights, so as a compromise i have found a lake i can do 24 hour sessions on and my mrs can stop at a good friends house close by in catterick 5 mins from green lane fishery.
Seeing as this night fishing is gonna be limited to less than 5 24 hour trips in a year i have decided to do a bad thing and get a pop up green tent, single air bed and generic 4 season sleeping bag, all this gear is a nice way to avoid carp tax with the whole lot costing less than a bedchair and taking up a tiny bit of room, i have brew making and cooking gear in our main camping kit, sadly this will have to wait till next year before i can go, but moving in right direction
Fish to your own limits and conditions.
I think that we have conditioned ourselves for fishing to be plotting up at the lake Friday night, popping the bivvy up, making ourselves super comfortable, then catching or not and packing up Sunday. That's 'carp fishing'.
I went through a stage on a particular park lake where I didn't want locals knowing
(a) I was there.
(b) I was catching.
I would sleep on a camping air mattress roll, with a tarpaulin cover after arriving as darkness fell. I could get the rods out more quickly, and in unfished areas.
I've posted this pic before, but I could get up close with minimal disturbance and be off very quickly in the morning.
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1 hour ago, elmoputney said:
Guys I read about how glycerine is used to preserve some baits, I am looking into making my own boilie chops and was thinking I could make a cheeky glycerine liquid using the same flavours and liquids that will be going into my baits. If I was to use a 50/50 mix of glycerine and the extract I am planning to use and some flavour to give it the same label as the bait and boost it post boiling. Is this a good idea and will it work still as a preservative (just a bit not enough to smother it just a coating) will it also slightly harden the baits?
Also I would like to make a hookbait spray to match but not sure where to start with this if anyone has any pointers would be appreciated
Thanks.
Elmo
A glycerine and sugar syrup is now frequently used to make 'identical' freezer and shelf life boilies. The base mix is the same, but instead of freezing after drying, the baits are given a run around in the bath and then dried again.
Freezer baits tend to have an attraction 2 or 3 days after thawing as the enzymes, salts and sugars migrate to the surface due to moisture, where I personally think shelf life's have the added instant attraction due to the glycerine. They may both be food baits, the same recipe but the glycerine make them more instant. The two can be used together, or separately.
Shelf life boilies I have found to be harder, and the longer you leave them, the harder they get to the point of drilling.
You can air dry, without freezing the standard bait to rock hard, it will need drilling to go on the hair, but they take on water more quickly and almost explode.
Back in the early 2000's I played around with bait soaks and glugs, with ideas from the original Nutrabaits Bait soaks which were Nutramino and Multimino PPC and added my flavour and essential oil combination; the Peach Nutrafruit was on glycerine/glycerol. The hookbaits after a couple of weeks were rock hard and able to withstand the attentions of small silvers and chub in the lakes and rivers.
I have played with other glugs, often based around Liquid Yeast Extract
I did play with matching of flavour sprays, but they did need watering down to put in an atomiser bottle.
One thing I did find was neat flavours could be a repellant or create a feeding area or attention area actually away from the hookbait. I can't remember which Tim Paisley book it is in, probably Carp, but both him and Rod Hutchinson came to the conclusion that the flavour was acceptable a distance away from the bait, and it is there that the carp boiled, rolled or attempted to feed.
So use flavours at low level, or avoid them altogether and stick with natural attraction.
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On 27/09/2025 at 18:51, elmoputney said:
I can remember most of the captures just about, not sure about all the rigs and hookbaits now though,maybe a p42 pop up for some though, too much life in between and I've always been bad at keeping notes.
I'm Autistic and can remember back years. It's not always a positive!
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On 26/09/2025 at 09:46, elmoputney said:
I only went back 3 years because that's how long I've been pretty much exclusively using pop ups and my version of the spinner rig with the avid kicker. I just penned those figures to highlight that really 😉
I'm sad enough to be able to remember the majority of my captures from over 25years ago, albeit some do take a picture reminder.
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