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Try making your PVA bag around your lead, then put your hook through the corner of the bag. As it settles and dissolves the hook will break free from the bag. The pile of bait will be disguising the lead, and the hook will be on or in the bait...

Loop to loop, exactly as match men do it. Works well, means you can change the rig. Strangely I use that method for chub and other species when using lighter hook links. I do prefer the swivel for carp and tench fishing as two lines pulling against each other, can cut through. Other species don't pull quite so hard, with the exception of barbel, so I would be looking at swivel or rig ring for joining the line and hooklink together.

I use both a ring swivel or a loop knot tied to the swivel, if is simply a case of which I grab when I grab a combi rig out the rig bin. I only use a ring swivel, with the rig tied to the ring, for combi-links. I am happy to tie a loop knot on combi rigs as well. For braid and coated braid, I think that the braid is supple enough to allow enough movement, but with combi-rigs I want a loop or ring for the added movement. If on very rare occasions I use a silt or chod rig, then obviously the ring end of the swivel is on the tubing I use and the rig on the other. I don't often get tangles, and on many occasions I fish without tubing. A run ring sliding up and down the mainline, then two rubber beads protecting the mainline to swivel knot and to stop the run ring sliding over the swivel, or run ring on tubing, and the tubing pushed into a buffer bead. It also helps that I cast out with PVA bags, stringers or mesh every cast, that prevents most tangles, but even without it, I am sure my rigs are tangle free. I always tie a fresh rig onto the mainline, I do not use quick links, I don't like them, I have seen too many lost fish down to them, and I have lost fish myself down to them, and I don't do stick mixes as such. I attach a PVA mesh bag by the simple means of an overhand knot around the mainline or tubing above the run ring, and then the hook point pushed through the mesh.

Brendan Rodgers worked at Swansea because he was able to develop his team, from promotion to the Premier League to competing against the big clubs. He walked into a club with problems wanting instant success, who were sellers rather than buyers, and who had no development in place. Gerrard saved his bacon on occasions, but the loss at the end of last season to Stoke (?) cooked his goose. He should have been gone at the end of the season, not 7 games in, but the club were hoping he would have pulled it right at the start. Jurgen Klopp is a big name manager who made Borussia Dortmund a success again, but he will need to be able to choose his players at Liverpool, who he gets in, which Rodgers wasn't able to do under the NFL American owners. Although Liverpool have won so many championships and are probably the most successful English team in Europe, it is strange to think they have never won the Premier League, which is what needs to be put right.

For the record, I find the word 'ent' bad grammar, and I would reckon, ' isn't' or 'is not' better, your wording is not a quote from anyone else, it is your words. The question asked was on a particular lake, which you gave your reply, but it also implied you expect to catch fish every time. I like fishing hard waters, I like fishing waters which give me a chance of a pb, but no way do I think I will catch every trip. You said the outside chance of a thirty, nice, you mentioned numbers of 20's, a challenge. That is what some want.

There were the occasional carp in the non tidal stretches, and a few barbel as well. The upper Wensum was better for carp as a few escaped from the fish farm at Hellesdon.

I saw Def Leppard and Whitesnake at Wembley. Absolutely brilliant gig, but I reckon seeing them at The Don really topped it, hometown band! Sad Don Valley is no more, that was a nice sports ground, played in a couple of American Football national finals there, once as a winner, beating the Devils Norfolk scum, and twice as losing finalists, both times to the Knights.

I had a cruise through the UEA Broads website, some good catches showing, a nice looking lake record, caught by someone who used to fish occasionally on Taverham, Nick Waller, nice enough guy, and what appears to be an honest bailiff report. Unfortunately I couldn't see if there is a particular bait that numbers of anglers are on, and large numbers of anglers mentioned, so I reckon that there are a number of different baits going in. Reckon you stand a chance of a few fish, groundbait and particles may be a bream attractor as there seem to be more than when I was living nearby.

Tonight is a bit of Def Leppard, one of my favourite albums http://youtu.be/uyhVjEemGK8

UEA Broad is pretty well known, the only lake actually inside the city boundaries, and right next to the River (which has some decent chub in itself) If you check the link above I've put in, there is season ticket costs etc, although night permits are extra. The whole of the Wensum and Yare valley's did get hit quite heavily by otters, chub, barbel, carp, pretty much everything has changed, although they have been changing for years, roach disease, rise of chub numbers etc.

From memory you had to join to fish it http://www.ueasaac.co.uk/permits/4548903703 Some good fish, but it has like many waters in Norfolk had otter problems.

I would really like to get myself another Canon Eos, but can't afford it. In the end I bought myself a secondhand Fuji Finepix A330 through Ebay for around £15! It plugs into my iPad, with a Camera Connection kit, that will take the SD cards and a direct link to the camera so I can upload my pics easily. The camera is easy to use, has 3x optical zoom, 3.2 mega pixels, and with an adaptor will fit onto Bankstick or tripod. You may find newer Fuji versions are available, but this one does me. The downside is that I have to use self timer rather than a remote trigger. I put the camera on the bankstick, sort out my background with the mat, and then work out the frame size, so preferably I don't cut off my head on pictures. I then get the fish in the landing net and lift it onto the mat, unhook, weigh etc, get net out the way. The self timer gives me around 10 seconds to get back to fish, lift and pic. It can be a pain if you have a fish that wants to wrestle though. At night it is even more important to make sure that your background and frame size is sorted, and (unlike my last pics) make sure your flash is set to prevent red eye. With a bit of practise you will get it right, but the random is always a wriggling fish.

Unfortunately I don't have Sir Bobby Charlton's, but here is Rooney's list before the other day

See the one on the right? That's my preferred football...

Grief, can't believe it, another England win. Sam Marino last week was as easy, but tonight they actually gave a half decent performance against a half decent team. The first half though, bit of a urgh, no show, yet in the second they woke up. Kane, hasn't scored for Spurs this season, yet two class goals for his country. It's all about records though, you wouldn't have bet against Rooney taking any penalty would you. I do however think this was the most important goal of the night though https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=946114085427174

On rare occasions I use a Chod rig I still use Amnesia in 20lb.

I heard a 16 year old lad in East London was asked what he had in his pocket today... His answer, 'iPhone, iPod, and Ozil'. Reece Oxford Result for West Ham, well played

I hadn't thought about it, but stopped using it when I started thinking about lead weights and fishing, realising that using lead between size 8 shot and 1.1 oz is illegal anyway.

This is an addition for a couple of reasons. The first is because I remembered to photograph these to show the cheaper way over the carp anglers mugged off version. Or a simple pop-up rig showing the weight in action. I have put the hook on knotless knotted on a coated braid, with the hook end being stripped. The rig ring has a pop-up tied on with dental floss Is that simple enough?

Just posting on the old thread brings it back to the top But I'll make life easier by merging the two together

Tim, I know you have problems with some knot tying, and remembered my other post below, I noticed something I do when making the hair and hair loop, which may be of some use to you: When you tie the Uni knot loop at the end, have your little finger of the hand holding the line go through the loop as you make the turns with your other hand. Keep it in their until you tighten up.

I don't think you are the first to query about this lake, I seem to remember a thread previously about it a while back. I'll have a search for the thread see if there was anything on it. 'Twas yourself! http://www.carp.com/topic/20280-manningtree-lake/?hl=manningtree

I'd be really interested to see pics if you have any of how it sits in the water.

Reading back my first answer, I must apologise, the first line 'honestly?' may seem slightly sarcastic, not my intention at all, just how I thought it through in my head as I started answering. For a quite high pop-up, it is only recently that I really started thinking how a pop-up sits in relation to the hook, either leant over or straight up. With a plain straight pop-up tight to the hook, I think the hook sits naturally at an angle, but I really do need to tank test to be sure.

Honestly? How do the fish feed? Do they suck the hook in, or do they clamp down on it? See question below How close to the bottom is the pop-up? Do the fish clamp down and pick up the bait from close range? All might have some relevance as how you fish it? If the fish solely suck the bait then straight up may be preferable as in the bottom pic. If they also come in from above, the bait is low to the lakebed, and the fish almost pin the bait, clamping down on a bait individually, then at an angle, but it may also give possibility of hooking if some fish suck.