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I have an Ultimate sleeping bag cover, for keeping the sleeping bag dry. My extra or spare clothing is always kept in the rucksack until needed. I've just been boiling up some particles for a session from tomorrow. The last of the birdfood sack I bought earlier in the year. Looks like the Nitehawk combat boots are getting an airing.

I've used various shaped hookbaits, and some like discs, 'halves' or cubes are definitely harder to eject than round baits from what I have seen.

I've missed this, had my own problems to deal with and health problems are not going to make any difference to this thread, somethings are good to be 'spoken' about. I managed to get an appointment on the day after a telephone consultation with my doctor. I woke up with the most intense fiery pain in my right arm from shoulder to wrist. I had thought for a couple of days I had a pulled muscle in my arm. Along with the pain and lack of mobility in my right leg, it got too much. After doctors appointment and first hospital visit, I have a severely damaged or trapped nerve in my back and back damage. So much so that the hospital consultant called me back with the next appointment a week later. I've had the joy of having to decide whether I can work or not and claiming ESA and PIP. Carp will show and feed in as little as 18inches of water. You should see the videos... It can definitely be a place to fish. One of the big commons on our lake will feed with its dorsal and back out of the water, the Parrot almost lives in the margins. I'm really not sure how to overcome this problem. I made some Catfish sized pop-ups for lifting deadbaits for pike fishing last week, using BAF pop-up mix, no problems with the big 50mm baits, and they dried a treat, so I think your mix is the problem. I might have an answer, just came in to my head as I was writing this; how coarse are the ingredients? Are they a mix of grades? Different 'meshes', (I think the correct term), will dry at different rates. It may be worth putting them through a sieve to take out larger lumps, and grinding the whole lot down to a finer powder.

Can you pop into a hardware store and see if they have any 'grub screws'? Take the old ones with you they may have a match.

Real porridge is my breakfast! Not that I don't like the 'convenience' of pots, but I need 2 or 3 to fill me up; at £1.20 a pot compared to £1.50 for a kilo of porridge oats... While I totally agree that many waters are 'time' waters where fish may have specific bite times, and definitely some do, if you fish a water a fair way away you may need to make the journey worthwhile. Me personally, I can't justify a 50mile drive for 1 days fishing, so I tend to make it at least a night, or even two to get the most fishing time possible. The hardest part of autumn and winter fishing if you do do nights is the length of darkness, at the moment from 6pm until 8am. I have 2 headlights, and a small Rolson bivvy light, and spare batteries. So my 'evenings' are sat reading, watching and listening to the water, rig making or watching or playing on the tablet. I mentioned boots earlier in the thread, it may be worth looking at Jack Pyke Tundra boots, I have seen some bargain prices around.

I have spliced 25lb Kryston Merlin and Silkworm in the past, more actually to take away the knot on the eye of the hook, although I did try Multi-rigs with it. I actually stopped bothering in the end and just used it doubled up straight to the swivel. I'm on the last of VMC hooks I've been using for my very short version of the Multi-rig. The silicone tubing on the hookshank stops the bait moving on the cast, although the whole lot has been bagged. When playing fish the loop just pulls down to the eye. With a cut down pop-up hookholds have been dead centre even with that size 4. It is perfectly balanced, although my only concern (possibly overthinking) is that a carp has to take it in facing me, towards the rod tip. (Pics in PVA Bags or October Catch report)

I know this is an old thread, but it has some interesting comments from many people on it. I've quoted a section of a post by @sir axeman about 'no spodding', and @elmoputney has a lovely reply, one of which I have used, as Brackens had a No Spodding rule, bait could only be put in via PVA. However instead of just casting out with 1 PVA bag, I put a bed of bait out with them. I used to make up a load of PVA bags, (with a lead inside) and attach each one, lead and bag to a Breakaway Spinlink clip. The key to making many rigs effective is location and baiting/feeding.

Around a metre, or 3feet, of leadcore. I've had more fish with totally slack mainline and running leads on mono or fluorocarbon than with anything tight, and at short ranges on this lake. Only one fish came from anything like distance, at about 100metres, when the weed hadn't come up in April time, and I was using 30lb Amnesia with a 3.5oz lead and a homemade helicopter setup, 2 beads at either length of a short section of tubing with the rig swivel in between. Everything else fish wise for myself and others is at short range, less than 40metres, even when the weed hasn't grown up.

You may also be able to get spares from Gardner

Sounds like him.

Can't remember. Think it's C, but not sure. He's an ex police officer

Welcome to Carp.com Say 'Hi' to Geoff for me. Got a mate who has a lodge over at Waveney himself. There are some decent fish in the lakes still, carp and Pike.

I just had to go wading to retrieve this after it caught up my Spomb. It was snagged up to a bundle of weed. Leadcore with a Korda heli-safe at the end, a mono or fluoro Ronnie rig caught up a kink. I'll bin it and keep the lead. We have lost 'thinking' anglers. How many times have I ranted at people using leadcore in weed. Any time the weed, even though it will easily pull free like below, leadcore is a NO NO. Even in that weed, I am still likely to have to go out in chest waders or a boat if a fish gets into it. Leadcore just snags up and makes the whole lot immovable.

I just made a pot of my 10mm Garlic Spice pop-ups with Seafood Extract, and some Catfish sized pop-ups to lift pike deadbaits as I'm trying to avoid using foam or plastic poppers. 1 egg, BAF Fluoro pop-up mix, RH Megaspice, Seafood Extract and an hour to roll that lot. They are in the pot with another 3ml of Seafood Extract; I'll let them dry out some more when it's soaked in as I want rock hard hookbaits. The pike poppers I will let dry out normally.

I'll go back to the original post again, hopefully with some more valid input from my last 2 sessions. The first of the 2 saw a very good result. I have a video of carp feeding on the margins, sadly too big to put up on here. I found the carp feeding, definite so set up on them. Rig was a basic short Multi-rig with a whittled down pop-up, to sink but slightly lighter than the hook, essentially critically balanced to the 'n'th' degree, and a proper running lead, slack line. The whole lot was put in a PVA bag, rig, lead, bait, a handful of pellets and chops. It worked and produced a decent, hard earned carp. The second trip was different, in that the conditions made fishing a slack line rather more difficult. A wind and tow pulling silkweed down the lake through my lines meant I had to tighten up, although my rod tips were well under water. When fishing at such short range tight lines can make the carp wary of feeding on the spot. I have seen fish spook or eject baits on semi-fixed leads, which is why I have a preference for running leads and slack lines.

Casting to infinity and beyond is about the only time I will go PVA free. I may use a single bait stringer, but when I am going for maximum distance I rely on knowing my rigs will be tangle free, and I can do that with uncoated braid, or any other hooklink material. I stopped using foam nuggets after watching them in the lake water, and dissolve times in a bowl of water. Putting the hook through the foam, piercing it, when the actual dissolve time can be over 12 hours is fishing a foam pop-up. 'Lick and stick' a squashed nugget around the hook could effectively blank the hookpoint stopping hook penetration. You have to watch to check the foam nugget surfaces!

I use all at various times. Stringers for just boilies when I want a varied presentation; I can push boilies close together, touching, to slow down dissolve time and have 2 baits (or more) away from the hookbait, looking like a hookbait. I do use mesh for just boilies, but I can also add chops, pellets, dry or dampened Vitalin etc. I can tie it off at both ends, one end to the hook, and the other to the line above the lead, or just attach to the hook. I prefer bags around weed, when I'm not 100% sure that it will be right on the lakebed. A solid bag will, unless mega thick weed, get to the bottom and 'push' the weed down giving a presentation. This is where a small pop-up in a bag works.

Oh Mate, I went fishing with Levi down to the local park lake, didn't even think about any scales. He hooked and landed a massive perch, which I gave him an estimate of 2lbs. When I look back at the pics, I reckon I have done him out of a lot of ounces. Well over 2lbs, the fish of a lifetime. I caught a fish out of Bromeswell that made double figures, I was chuffed to bits, yet a week later I had a 10lb carp out of Nazeing and was upset or annoyed. 10lb from Bromeswell is a big fish, yet from Nazeing must have been the smallest in the lake. I too have a couple of weights to fill in in my list, never had a 27, 29 or 31, although the other weights up to my largest fish are in, and of course I'm fishing a lake that can provide a personal best largest fish.

Worked very well for me on Ardleigh reservoir, actually moulding it around the lead like the Method as well, meant I could have the hookbait right in the middle of the feed.

Avid and Jag both do a Net-loc or Lock down Landing net holder as each one calls them. I don't weigh every fish, pike I frequently estimate, unless it is a decent fish over doubles, and I have probably returned a few of them unweighed, even chub, unless I reckon it's 4lb or more straight back, roach I take a pound and a half. Each species has its 'special point', be that 8lb, 10lb etc. The only species that I currently do weigh every fish, ironically, is carp as we are trying to gauge growth rates of every fish in the syndicate lake. On other waters I return most unweighed.

I don't think that it is Mate. I think that used in the right situations, original ideas are brilliant, but we take that original idea, copy it and use it absolutely everywhere, but in many cases where that set-up is not suitable. I'm not extolling it's use, but Terry Hearn and leadcore on Yateley, for a particular purpose, now used in every situation without thought. You can go back further, the Bent Hook rig, invented specifically for very big spooky Longfield fish I think, went everywhere and caused damage and mayhem. The thinking anglers are few and far between. There are very few articles in Carpology or on Carpfeed that are original, no matter whether about a water, a fish or anything. It is as if almost every article could be written by the same person. This non-thinking is a product of today's world, not just angling, but society wide. Let's for example say I fish a 45 acre lake, stock level of 50lb of carp per acre. To catch in that I really have to think. Do I become creative or do I just copy 'bait and wait'? Bait and wait doesn't work, what next? Many anglers fish the same old waters, you could be on the same water in Essex as in Somerset, only the scenery is different. That's club or day ticket, overstocked with carp...

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There was a very well known big fish water which had fish to over 40lb.

I'm sure we are forgetting something, like a pop-up is a pop-up whether it is on a D rig or a Ronnie rig, a 360, Multi rig or even the dreaded Chod rig, and the height we fish it off the lakebed. A Ronnie or 360 rig is going to present that pop-up very low and close to the lakebed, a Multi rig may be higher up and a D rig can be anywhere in between. What and how you feed may be totally different for each one.

Welcome to carp.com I reckon Interax covers it, although I did notice you will have to wait until the new year when I checked their website.