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Ooh that reminds me of a guy on the lake a couple of weeks ago with that clip. He had a fast take, the fish made the lilly pads, but he got it back. The fish then kited down the margins into another bed of weed. As he pulled it, just out of range to be netted the rod sprang back straight. The rubber on the link clip had slipped during the fight, and the hooklink as it got to the weedy margins CAME OFF the link clip. A good fish too, and I was gutted for him as 1 more second I would have been able to net it I won't use Quick link clips of any sort as I know of this sort of incident happening where during the fight the rubber tube gets dislodged, and the quick links open up, or the hooklink loop slips down the "prong" and onto one side of the link, where it is then able to either then slide off the link, or on one side of the link only has opened out.

Personal choice is that I won't go below a size 10, maybe a 12 for bottom baits when fishing for exclusively carp or even chub. If I use sweetcorn as bait then 2 grains nicely cover a 12, but with maggots I won't use Maggot Clips, so usually tie a rig ring or proper hair on a size 6, 8 or 10. With a size 10 then my view is that 4 maggots is the minimum I need to make it look attractive. With Medusa rigs (a cork ball covered in maggots), I prefer a size 6 or even 8 and the ball attached to the hair. I think that smaller hooks than those mentioned above get lost in the carps mouth, and so you often find you are unable to get a good hookhold.

I use the knot diagram that comes with the Kryston packing. I can't remember seeing it in More Knot Stickies though http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=32236 http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=25551 Tie, but don't pull tight an overhand knot in the hooklink, with the tag end go back through the overhand knot, and then 4 times round the hooklink. Then go back up through the overhand loop. Lubricate, and pull tight gradually on both tag end and loop. If you want to use a swivel, then thread that on before you make your first go down the overhand knot.

Have fun looking for all of that, the whole list does not happen! You can find cheap, you can find easy, or you can find 30lb fish, not all at the same time! Essex: http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=41099&highlight=essex You can also go down the UK Where to Fish section page or onto the next and find a thread entitled "Suffolk Venues", I basically wrote it and included almost every Suffolk venue in the whole wide world and some that are top secret, known only to the queen and her corgis, and protected by CI5

Yes, I would worry about braid and it cutting a safezone leader, I would totally bin that leader and make yourself a decent shockleader Animated knot links on this thread: http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=32236

Not sure, but the fact that Snoasis is having another problem due to damaging the environment concerns may mean that it doesn't get built. Joeyb, You have missed the point, you've seen the plans, nice. Yet the whole complex is in an area that has become 2 lakes by the Cement being dug out the ground. The lakes were heavily stocked with fish, carp, roach, bream etc. There may not be anywhere that the fish can go, they might not be allowed to be moved, and then the lakes just get filled in complete with fish! In addition to that you have the local road networks. To get to Snoasis from the A12, there will be ratruns taking through a quiet Suffolk village. The development as far as I'm aware has been put on hold despite initial planning permission being granted: http://www.easf.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Snoasis_investigation

Nicely chosen words! You know the planned Snoasis site? Its right on them

Hit the search facility on here with some of those names and you will find previous threads, and I KNOW that the weblink is on the thread, cos I posted it

Reliability of the KD? Try my rig, not KD and everything I've had since I joined the water has been 20lb+ Seriously I'm using an 18mm bottom bait and a 15mm pop-up on a snowman set-up. I have not fed a single particle in this year, all my baiting has been with boilies, so that may also be another reason why I'm not getting smaller fish If there are that many small fish and very few bigger fish I would actually forget sticking the rods out on buzzers and try to stalk the big fish. If that is not an option, then BIG baits on larger hooks.

I'm looking at what I have cut, and what I have on various rigs I've tied. When I'm just using Shrink tube to create a line aligner the cut lengths I have are 1cm. When I'm using Shrink tubing to extend the hookshank some of the line aligners are as much as 3cm long. You can use shrink tubing to go down the shank to hold the hair in place, so for that you may want a piece that gives you 10mm (1cm) above the hook eye, so the piece of tubing may be 20mm long. Or if you want the same effect and a large shank extension then you may want as much as 50mm (especially if you create a Withy Pool style bend) In other words, have a play and see what works best for you. There is likely to be no right or wrong.

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Is that the Richard Lee from AT? I know that there have been very few posts covering Watersmeet, the last was 2008: http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=36126&highlight=watersmeet http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=22093&highlight=watersmeet I don't know if there is anything else about on the search, but they may give an idea of what or how to or it fishes. I'll move this into the UK Where to fish section

I have read the first 3 that you mentioned in the "Legacy" series, unfortunately I no longer own them as I put them on E-bay when I split up with Liz, but they are definitely worth reading. The last 2 in the "Legends", I have to go get myself and think that I will also be going to the library to see if I can get hold of them.

Grand Union Canal, Shropshire Union Canal, Birmingham-Fazeley Canal, Essington-Wyrely Canal.......erm.....every canal. Just fish them, nobody else does. Ian I don't know if it is any use to you, but I know that Septembers Advanced Carp Fishing has an article on Carp fishing the Grand Union Canal. It may not cover the area you are referring to, but I reckon it may be useful

I don't know if I will get back on there as much as I want to, other things going on in my life that currently mean that Ardleigh is actually rather difficult to consider. I don't know about the Day Ticket option, from memory I only had 1 daylight take, and even that was early morning, and by the time I'd played it in it was fully light. In his TV programme John Wilson did have a daylight carp, but that was over a pre-baited area while bream fishing. I suppose the advantage is that you can put your ticket money in the box and then fish on, but to be honest for the cost of that continually I would pay the season ticket price. How far around did you walk? On the Butterfly arm a few anglers could hide and never be seen . Saying that I only fished that once, and blanked the rest of my trips were along the lodge banks, and they included a few blanks as well. If the carp shoal up you may be lucky and get a a couple in a night , or just as easily you could be there for a week and end up with nothing I honestly don't think that you could put enough of a Food source bait in to make a difference. If the carp didn't find it, the bream would, and they can clean you out very quickly. Yet I had fish over buckets of bait, and over PVA bags. Sometimes it was on the night I spodded out, and other times it would take a few days. One of the nights I had 2 20's, I had fished the swim 2 nights previously and had put in all my bait when I left (after catching one and losing one), so they may have been held in the area, or just as easily I could have been lucky and picked them straight up.

I don't hate them at all Nick. As a standard set up I use the ESP safety clips with anchor tubing. At the moment I'm only using a running rig on my stalking set up. However, that set up (using X-Line ) is proving to be quite succesful. Especially as bite are very finicky on my current water....not with the running rig! mdjones: you're right plenty of lead shapes and sizes. Personally I use two shapes....flat pear and casting between 1oz and 3oz. To some people lead shape and size is of huge importance. Have a read hear and try to adjust to your circumstances. http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=22174&highlight=pear Good luck! Wasn't aimed at you mate, Have a look at Joeyb's reply Standard lead on most waters I would stick with a Pear lead.

Hmm yeah i suppose your right. But I thought the lead clip pack included detailed instructions that made it hard to set it up wrong, But i haven't brought one so just a guess. Plus i hate running rigs You keep on hating them then . When I'm outcatching you with your semi-fixed set-up to my running lead then I'll laugh and say I told you so Far better indication with a Running rig in most cases than with a semi-fixed lead Various manufacturers do make Running rig set-ups, but as Andy said, a Link swivel or even a clean lead running up and down the mainline. To use it effectively a Running lead needs to be fished with a slack line, as slack as you can get it. Basically the line should be touching every single ring, and dropping straight off the rod tip. The only reason I buy Solar Running rigs is because I think that they are better than the majority on the market, and I like the size of the Run rings that come with them. There is no real reason to use tubing on any lead set-up, but it does help prevent tangles, and protect the mainline. With tubing on a Running Lead you increase the resistance. I'll put a couple of links in for you, one shows a Running lead set-up (with tubing), and the other is a long discussion on Lead set-ups. Read it slowly and think about it, and it may make understanding easier http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=37603 http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=26640 http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=27479

I have read a few of Raymond Feists books and I love them. I have a feeling though that you may have missed part of the Riftwar saga as I have "Honoured Enemy, Legends of the Riftwar", a collaboration with William Forstchen. Whatever, I would definitely read these books if you have any love for Fantasy Novels

I honestly cannot remember when I bought this book, what I do know is that it is a great read, and a book I pick up regularly. For bait making ideas and understanding, and also for rigs and his fishing. Rod Hutchinson is in no way a classical writer like Chris Yates, and freely admits that he is an angler trying to write, not a writer who goes fishing. However because he admits his faults you feel you are reading a real persons book.

A favourite read. One of my Carp Books that gets read or chapters picked tthrough regularly.

Chris Yates books, don't even bother checking the title, whether you have read it before, just know that you pick it up and you won't want to put it down. I made a mistake with How to Fish, I went into the library one day to kill some time. I didn't leave until I had read the book from cover to cover. So it can't have been a waste of time

I have read a few of Dan Browns Books including Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code, those 2 I just thought "OH Gawd, what pants!" Sorry, it takes a controversial subject to make him a Best Seller. I read Deception Point, not brilliant, readable, but not something I would say had to be read. It is down to the controversy involved that made me read the other two named and I have to say, I won't be reading anymore. I find classic writing a lot more readable and enjoyable, although Gone With the Wind was a bit much

I read this years ago, but couldn't really remember much of it, and I have not seen the film so I thought it start reading it again. It is about the "trials" of Jim, an English 14year old lad who was living in Shanghai with his parents when the Japanese invaded. The Japanese put vast amounts of Civilians into Concentration Camps and treated the captives abysmally. The book charts Jim's life from before the invasion through to the end of the war, his thoughts, his fight for survival. Harrowing, scary and even at the end it doesn't have a satisfactory ending. I started it last night, and finshed it today, I seriously couldn't put it down.

Hi Mate, Welcome to the forum. I had a quick search on the forum and couldn't see anything about that venue named directly, although a couple of threads came up about West Midlands if anything useful is on them

Put it this way, the majority of FMS members are, or were, Match style anglers who weren't after particularly big fish, the number of "Carp anglers" was minimal. That is not to say the carp haven't grown on, they may now be specimen size