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The bait presentation covers plenty of options, whether you are fishing over pellets, particles, boilies or a single hookbait. In that little lot you can change your hookbait and how it is offered very easily, PVA Bags, stringers, spod loads of bait out, orput your boilies in groundbait. Far better to get the Carp eating the bait comfortably whatever the presentation than changing rigs just because you have been sussed on what you are currently doing.

Matt, Do you have any worries about gluing the Knots? I know I started a thread about Superglue and Knots ages ago, because I was worried about Superglue cracking or reducing the movement and cracking/breaking the knot or material. (Edited to include link) http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=20072&highlight=superglue+knots

Or a soft Hookable pellet (or plural) straight onto the hook.

Don't know if its any use to you, but I have been tying a number of rigs as a Combi rig with a Stiff upper section of Amnesia and then a supple section of Braid at the hook end. If you knotless knot the hook on it makes for an easy life Loop knot the amnesia at the swivel, then tie an overhand knot at the hook end, but don't pull tight. Thread the braid through the overhand knot and then Uni knot it down the Amnesia, wet and pull both knots tight. I've found that the best length of the amnesia is a minimum of two thirds of the hooklength to reduce tangles. The same sort of effect can be created if you want to have the braid section attached to a Rig ring as a junction between the 2 parts. Either way works well as a pop-up or as a bottom bait rig. Putty can be moulded over the knot or the ring to give you your counterweight. It doesn't PVA Bag very well, because of the stiff upper section, but I've been lowering my hookbaits in on 1 water (Hintlesham), and the pop-up rig gets cast with no freebies around it.

With a Line aligner you can use Shrink Tubing or Silicon tube to protect just the hookknot or extend it to make the hair come off the shank of the hook where you want it to. If you look at http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=22185 you should see in the pics where in the (my) rigs I have used Shrink (black) tubing to position the hair and protect the knot in one. Then if you go down to 666 pics you can see where he has used silicon tubing on the shank, but not covering the eye. At the same time in some at the top I have allowed the knotless knot and the whipping to position and hold the hair.

Just out of interest as i'd never heard of it until now, how would you know if weils disease was prevalent? I just googled it and it doesn't sound pleasant! You don't! Also bear in mind that Weils disease can be spread by Rats, Squirrels, Foxes, Badgers and some other mammals as well. Obviously if Rats are present and a problem you are not going to be licking your line.

I think I've just about worked out what you are trying to say about what the hair material is made from. With a Knotless knot in most cases the Hair is a continuation of the hooklink, so whatever your hooklink is made from that is what your hair is made of. On most occasions I'm lazy and use a braided Hooklink of Merlin, or strip the end of a coated braid etc Snake Bite, Mantis etc. and tie the hair with that and have a short section of uncoated braid above the hook on the hooklink. If you go to this Sticky: http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=22185 you have a guide to the Knotless knot. On occasion though if I'm using a Mono or Stiff Hooklink then I want a soft hair. When I do that I use either Uncoated Dental Floss, 4lb Mono or ESP Hair Braid, dependant (lazily ) on what comes to hand first when I put my hand into the Tackle Box. I tie the Hair onto the eye of the hook, then tie the Hooklink material on and use Silicon or Shrink Tube to cover and protect the knot. A small pice of silicon down the shank of the hook holds the hair where I want it to be in place.

For just about every knot I have switched to the Grinner/Uni knot whether it be on braid or mono, I know it won't give way, but the Palomar is just as effective, in fact it is almost 100% efficient. Blood knots can be very bad for some monos and nearly all braids, although with Amnesia the 2 or 3 turn blood knot is probably the best knot going. With every knot, wet it or lubricate before pulling down tight or you can create a weakspot. A simple dab of spit on your knot works, or you can use Lypsil which some people do to avoid putting their mouth near the line which may give problems if Weils disease is prevalent.

Luck to make up for the bad times I'd been having My two pennorth worth: It is a nice place with nicely laid out swims with wooden chippings on most swims. The islands will look better with leaves on the trees (I saw it in COLD April), and most swims have a fair bit of good open water to aim for. The fish fight well and are in good condition from those that I have seen. The other thread: http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=34096

When I used to use Leadcore I used to splice my own, and never had one give way with ESP (although I did have a batch of Gardner Leadcore that did, but that was a case of the (melted) Needle knot frayed). The advantage with Splicing your own is you can get different size loops, a small loop at the Mainline end and a larger one at the hooklength end for fast hooklink or lead changing. It is also possible to splice certain Braided Hooklink materials which gives you some nice presentations if you care to think about it

Do we head to the Ctitically Balanced Bait too early when using Pop-ups? To me the Critically Balanced bait is the last step in Pop-up presentation when you are trying to create that "suck and in it goes". Yet that "Suck and blow" could be moving the Critically balanced bait around preventing it being taken, especially when the fish are really moving the bait around with the swirling around the baited area. I know a few people reckoned that the Critically Balanced approach worked best in winter when Carp were mooching more. Jez, Like you I like the Over weighted Pop-up, but I think it works best for fish that pick up the hookbait, or it does in the way I tend to fish pop-ups, very close to the lakebed.

The lasy info I had was pretty basic. It is Day Ticket controlled by the National Trust, with Carp in. I don't think that Googling it brings up much either The best place to gain any information unless someone has fished it may be to purchase a copy of John Wilson's Guide to Fishing in Norfolk and Suffolk. It may receive a mention in there. If not you won't have lost anything as that will mention loads of other waters in the region

I know I carry loads of different Hooklink materials, but seem to use 2 in particular for most of my fishing; Merlin or Snakebite. And no I don't read the mags Fish with what you have confidence with , but be aware that at some point in your fishing you will need to be different to other anglers or that the Carp may have learnt how to deal with your "usual", so always have something you can change or experiment with.

If teflon slides in better do they use teflon coated needles at hospitals Thin Film and Interfaces at Cambridge University were researching the possibilities about using them for syringes. I know that Teflon is used in other Medical Situations I think you will find that PTFE| is Teflon, as Teflon is the DuPont Trade name for the produced product http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene As for the occasional bad hooks, it could be down to the surface having to be rough to apply the coating to allow it to "stick" or seal. That roughening could be weakening the hook itself as it will be creating heat that is not "in the right form"

How about a few reasons for a Teflon coating? 1) it prevents water getting to the base metal and stops it going rusty. 2) it allows a better penetration as it does not stick and slides in and penetrates better (in theory) 3) Non flash finish. That quote is from the Fox Armopoint hooks, all the reasons in 1 quote, but if you don't believe me then this Patent from 1992 should cover it all!

I hate to destroy your illusions, but the Helicopter rig is a form of Bolt Rig Have a read of this: http://www.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=26640 As to what bait you use on a helicopter rig, then the main reason for the helicopter has recently become so that "we" can present the Frank Warwick Short Pop-up rig. The fact is that Helicopter rigs are able to be used with any bait, pop-up or not. Best used ofr absolute distance as they are best cast hard to reduce tangles and short distances seems to create tangles when the Helicopter set-up is "lobbed"

To be honest I think that it depends on how you want to fish it and what pattern you feel comfortable with! Looking back to my previous post and D-rigs; I usually use them for Snowman presentation more than Standard Pop-ups, sorry for any confusion, with the D-rigs I'll stay with the Centurions and Nailers. I often seem to prefer an outurned eye for Pop-ups when I want the bait close to the hook, yet a straight or inturned when I have some separation, the inturned for a longer separation than with the straight. Seriously, I couldn't explain why, probably that thing called confidence! Its the same with Stiff Rigs, I feel an outurned eye is slightly better for that as well. I can't remember ever feeling comfortable with the Withy Pool rig and the extreme curved shank extension, I've not caught on it when I've tried it and normally go back to my favourite patterns. I've caught a number of fish on B175's and pop-ups and the hair is normally about 10mm long. The Hook eye has putty moulded over it to keep the bait as close to the Lakebed as possible. I don't think that a larger Carp that doesn't "see" the bait from straight in front or below can tell the difference of a bait that is 2cm above the bottom to a bait that is on the bottom.

I know more than you reckon! what? you where that guy? :s :S im confused No I'm not that guy, but have an inside track on some venues "That" guy is definitely fishing it at night and going to work during the day, but I know that some of the weights don't quite correspond to what you have said

I know more than you reckon!

It's originally from The Anglers Mail Guide to Carp Fishing by Andy Little, and I think we had another discussion on the best place to position the exit point of the hair on the hook, so I put it up on here in another post a while back

I remember that Andy Little, Jan Wenckza and Chris Ball used to put a piece of non dissolving foam on the hook to lift the hook above the bait when Fishing Burton (Frensham(?)). The bait was resting on the lakebed with the hook above it, I believe it was christened the "Over Rig". I'll have a look for a pic later and try to edit and include it in here Nige, Do you mean this drawing?

Rib Valley The Trout Lake is currently having the Trout removed. Anglers who catch any are allowed to take them. Carp are being stocked into this lake. I gather that one of the lakes has produced a couple of Carp up to high 20's this week to an angler who was there for a couple of days

Welcome to the forum. Can I suggest a quick look through this and see if any are suitable? Fisheries in France (click me) If you then go onto the Search facility and see if any have been mentioned as a good or bad venue.

I keep on removing threads about Newland Hall Fishery as I know that it has been mentioned in the past. I found a thread by using the search facility What I have done is deleted these details off a previous thread and copied them onto a new post I would suggest that any more questions on Newland Hall go onto this thread

I've been speaking to a friend who has moved into Hertfordshire for work and he has recommended this place, Rib Valley Fishing Lakes Proprietors. D.J.and D.M.Vigus WESTMILL FARM WARE HERTS SG12 0ES LakesTele. 01920 484913 From what I can gather I have heard that the Carp are pushing up to 30lbs and there are plenty of other fish species as well Before anyone asks, I've never fished it.