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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.

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.

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

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?

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'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.

Put the lot in a bag, pellets, hook, bait, braided hooklink rig and lead.

I do exactly this, with dental floss, or even mono,and it can also be used as a way of turning a standard bottom bait rig into a snowman set-up as well. Bearing in mind I very rarely use bait stops, and nearly always currently fish with snowman baits. Tie a uni knot loop in the dental floss or mono, and then put your pop-up in that loop and pull the loop tight. Then after you gave put your standard bottom bait on the normal hair, With your two tag ends of the extra bit, tie a reef or double granny knot through the end of the loop, and make sure that is pulled tight. Then, very carefully, to prevent the granny/reef knot pulling free, lighter blob the two tag ends. The pop-up acts as both a bait stop, and also gives you the required buoyancy, et voila snowman

Plenty of good points in the thread, so I'll add my tuppence worth, probably going over some; I look at my hook holds, lost fish and play with hair length accordingly. A fish hooked at the very edge of the lip, or lost during playing, (especially early in the fight), I usually lengthen the hair. The bait is not usually being taken comfortably enough to 'pull' the hook far enough into the mouth to get a good hook-up. A fish hooked deeply, or the hook has scratched down the mouth from deep, the hair is usually too long. If the hook is dead centre of the bottom lip, perfectly hooked, perfect hair length. How or even what you feed can or could change the hooking potential, a large bed of groundbait or particles means if they are feeding comfortably you can shorten the hair (and/or rig) length. Your lead arrangement can also give you some different possibilities, semi-fixed leads may possibly give you worse hookholds than a running lead; not always, but tight lines and wary fish who are used to dealing with rigs in a very similar scenario can mean they can deal with the hook. Lead clips are not always the answer. Run rings sometimes are! Also small fish can disrupt what you think. If small fish are a pain, not just silvers, but smaller carp, you may find that with longer hairs the bait can be taken back and they are munching on the bait without the hook even going into the mouth. If it is silver fish, then stop feeding so much loose groundbait, or small particle, stop attracting them. If it is smaller carp, but with the chance of a larger fish, then think about a sliding or extending hair, which was actually one of the first developments from the original hair rig. The other was the D rig! A snowman with a single piece of fake corn as the topper :lol: It likely actually takes 4or5 pieces of fake corn to neutralise balance on a hook, so to add a boilie as said, however it lies, may well be on the tilt, or as local dialect, it's on the huh! Strangely I have never had a fish take a snowman bait when I have used an individual piece of corn as the topper bait over a boilie. Change to a pop-up over the same bottom bait, I'd lose count of the fish I have caught on it.

I have had issues with mono and fluorocarbon links being worn through when using a knotless knot, curved shank hooks like Muggas, Fangs etc being the worst. Here we go, I hate the word, but maybe look at a Chod style hook with an eye that pulls away from the shank, an out turned eye, as opposed to an inturned. The alternative, but quite fiddly method is to knot the hook on, and then tie on a D section.

A clear area, whether sand, gravel or clay, basically any hard area, I would avoid the bomb on the end of the line if I possibly could, much preferring my standard running or semi-fixed pendant leads. The helicopter set-ups do cast better for long distance fishing, so if I was casting maximum distance I may consider that lead arrangement. Even then, I am still convinced that you need a tight line.

Back to basics again today, free lining dog biscuits for three more chub, 2lb ish (which I didn't weigh), 3lb2oz, and 4lb2oz. I got stung to pieces, and wet feet, but when they look like this the biggest, who cares? Just noticed my unhooking mat,

Basic, simple and will work. It has caught fish for many years, and will continue to catch. There is only one thing I would change, either attaching the lead on a run ring, or instead of using a single rubber bead to protect the know I would use two. The reason for this is so the lead does not rub against the hook link, which may cause it to break over time

Mono is easy to tie, the uni knot loop at the end slides easily. Also I can put a bottom bait on the hair, then use a pop-up as the balancing bait and as a boilie stop. If I'm fishing Nazeing though I change it to dental floss or braid. Crayfish are good at snipping mono hairs, whereas the braid is more resistant. The main advantage of mono is I can tie it easily without 'fluffing' the hair, and it is easier to tie to the rig ring, just blob the tag end of the knot, as I do with my knots anyway

Specially for you then Oh look, the same, just freshly tied!