salokcinnodrog

Wonder if you could fit an isotope to them...

You probably won't get all of the problem line out, whereas walking it all off will cure the problem

Can you walk it off somewhere and reel it back on? If not put onto a spare spool or reel and then back on.

Only thing is my pop-up counterbalance is below the boom to minilink swivel.😉

Carp rigs catch more anglers than carp, and go through fashions. The simple answer is one, maybe two: A knotless knotted rig, with maybe a line aligner. That rig can be used for pop-ups, bottom or snowman baits. It is simple and it works. For pop-ups, if you use coated braid, on the 'strip back' end or braid, a power gum stop knot, attach putty or even a match anglers olivette as your pop-up weight. D-rigs or Ronnie/Spinner rigs cover your specific pop-up rigs. I gave you an answer 'over the road', but here I can give you a link. On a knotless knot rig, with a snowman or bottom bait adjust the hair length dependant on where you are hooking the fish. The perfect length for the hair is when you are hooking the fish dead centre of the bottom lip. This might interest you as well

Personally, I would avoid second hand reels unless you know their provenance and life history. Some may be genuine 'used once only in France', some may be 'I didn't like them'. If the angler didn't like them, then why? Alternatively they could be absolutely battered and abused! If you can pick up original Big Baitrunner LC's or Big Blue's, Aerlex's or Biomasters then do so, they were built to last. (I still use original Aerlex 8000's for bass fishing and have one on one of my spod rods) I worked in a tackle shop for a number of years, and I personally think the newer Shimano reels are not as high quality, nor built to last like the Shimano reels of the 1990-2010 years, with the exception of the cheaper and smaller ST baitrunners, the Beastmasters and the extreme expensive top range. As has been said, have a play and feel.

The fish haven't moved into the margins yet, still a bit cold, so everything is going on any shows, which can be rare to see, or previous spots. Problem with that is that once an area either becomes pressured, or the natural food is gone, the fish can avoid the spot. They also don't seem to follow the rule book on wind direction. I've waded out to past feeding holes, and the carp haven't fed on them for a couple of years. They have just filled up with soft silt again. This week 4 of us saw fish in an area, so between us we 'bracketed' the area. Only 2 caught. I know some members have gone over a year between captures, it is low stock in a large water. You can easily miss rolling or jumping fish, simply by not looking in the right direction. I heard fish in winter, but they were rolling in the dark, so pinpointing them is not easy. Winter captures are rare, equinox to equinox. Bruce saw fish feeding in the margins last year, lowered a bait in and had 2 in a Night. Good angling! Nowhere near Russian Royal family. Originally my Grandfather had a Germanic name which he anglicised on coming to the UK around 1905.

There is an alternative option and it is a lot cheaper but still with Shimano. I use the Beastmaster reels myself, and find the 'Baitrunner spool' is very easy to get used to. They do handle Nicks abuse, I am hard on my fishing tackle, out in wind, rain, waves and mud, reeling in through thick weed, so they have plenty to deal with. https://fish.shimano-eu.com/content/fish/eu/gb/en/homepage/Product-detail.P-BEASTMASTER_XB.html/#product_image_2 I would suggest you shop around for best price! I have played with various reels you mentioned and the Cl4 just seemed too light. It is probably my imagination but they didn't seem strong enough or sturdy enough. Oh, and welcome to the forum.

Strangely enough, my ancestors come from a town on the Ukrainian Romania border called Reni when it was under the Russian Tsarist Empire.

Strangely enough I just sold a Nash Siren to one of the guys on my syndicate to make up a set of 3 for his dad's fishing. I found it walking along the River this winter, along with a ND PTFE bobbin. I was sewing the landing net mesh this week to increase the number of holes, (work that out 🤣) I can't however repair the Spomb I broke. The nose release broke on impact and is somewhere in the lake.

This is my simple PVA bag or mesh mix, ground up Vitalin, boilies and a dash of white bread crumb. I might add a handful of molehill soil when I get to the lake.

I only tend to buy new gear when I actually need it. My bivvy being the last big 'splurge' to replace one that was dying from use, starting to leak and wasn't big enough in the winter for Sky and me. I don't like getting up and kicking and tripping over a big dog who has taken the only available space on the floor to keep dry. Rods I have been thinking about, because The Ones are starting to feel a bit soft, but they still land fish, despite a bit of worn varnish. Reels, I like my Beastmasters, they still do what I need. I can repair a lot of bits and pieces myself, re-mesh a landing net rather than buy a new one. I'm with @yonny in that get the right gear for what you do saves money in the long run, so my essential purchases tend to be PVA and gas canisters.

Strangely enough, one of the guys who manages the syndicate has been comparing pics of stocked fish to my 23 this morning. We have come to the conclusion it is one of the rare 'Quarry' fish that rarely get banked, (don't think this one has been caught before) so it looks like the rig has confused it from the norm into making an error.

I'd tried Ronnie and Spinner rigs, D-rigs but felt I wasn't quite getting it right. The pop-up wasn't sitting high enough above the still growing weed on the 'patchy' areas, so had to play around and remembered I had this tied up so dug out the rig wallet. Puts faith back in the mind, especially as the first fish was perfectly nailed dead centre of the lip. I think John Claridge used something similar as well.

Worse than that, a helicopter set-up and 3.5oz lead

I know that I always try to keep it simple, and most of my rigs are the same as 20 years ago, but I have been playing with rigs recently. It might look ungainly, but has the curve of a chod rig, the spin of a 360 or Spinner rig and the hook attachment of a Multi-rig, with 2 tungsten pop-up sinkers. Boom material is a doubled length of Snakeskin, and the mini link is 20lb Amnesia with a lighter tagged knot to prevent it coming off

I can give you a full breakdown on the RH Cabrio Hybrid Brolly, it is what I am sat in right now. The brolly itself is big, must be a 60inch brolly with sides. The groundsheet is provided, and clips in place. You can set the brolly up with just the front bars, but also comes with Storm sticks. The brolly pushes up on a central pole which is then unscrewed and a 'stop blank' fits in place. You do have a spoke protector 'membrane' to stop you hitting the spokes, but that can be fiddly, and isn't an essential fit. Door system zips into place on either the brolly, or the extension, and is able to be pegged down, or tied back and door up. It has mozzie mesh on the side panel under the 'blank'. The standard extension, (there is a Euro version as well) is a 450mm extension that zips on, with additional front bar and spacers to keep it pushed forward, and a groundsheet extension. Overwrap, it does work at reducing or even preventing condensation, there is a decent gap between brolly and wrap. Although it does sit on the top spokes, it can pull out at the sides to give the gap. It velcroes to the front bar, and has decent pegging points. With overwrap Plain brolly, no storm sticks. Full Hybrid Brolly with extension

West Ham and European Quarter finals, could be a regularity. There is quite a good write-up on Ashmead in Tim Paisley's More From the Bivvy, a few chapters on his fishing there. Yes it does look good, but sorry Mate, I can't justify the cost of the Carp Society plus around £140 (minimum) for 2 days/nights fishing, and a £100 security deposit. Last year I paid to fish Redmire, but due to unforeseen circumstances couldn't go, I couldn't get a dog sitter who Sky was comfortable with. My syndicate is £400 a year, and has produced some big fish to over 50lb, on natural food, along with at least 2 other 40's. I may moan at blanking but with 150 fish in 50acres... I mention in response to a post, think it was Highy, it is hidden in plain sight. My reason for being a member of the PAC is that the club does educate, even lobby on behalf of protection of the pike, both locally at club and venue level and nationally. They also arrange via Region, junior fish-ins and teaching as well as other fish-ins. Do carp need that lobbying and protection? (Devils advocate) If however there was a national angling group covering all species I might be interested. (Something along the lines of the old National Association of Specimen Anglers). I don't think that the Angling Trust is quite right, something I can't quite put my finger on.

Funny thing about my syndicate is it is hidden in plain sight. It has the same sort of rules, although I can share captures with my sponsors, and it does allow 3 rods. We do have our own FB page for members only and have to report every capture to the syndicate manager. Enjoy your new venture mate, sounds special and at a good price

My floater rod is a 1.75lb Specialist rod, which swaps between roach, bream, tench and chub as well as carp. Years ago I bought a Shimano aero 4000 gtm fighting drag with spare spool, but one of the current 4/5000 size baitrunner reels should be perfect. Obviously match your line to the lake, some places 8lb is fine, others it is 10-15lb plus. The 8lb I use for feeder fishing for the 'little' species as well, including floater fishing for chub. Hooklink wise I tend to water knot an arms width of hooklink, Berkeley Trilene xl below 10lb, Preston Reflo above 10lb, usually to a size 10. Hooks, Drennan Super Specialist, Solar 101's work for me. As for dog biscuits, a box of Bakers Complete gives a mix of shapes and sizes and a very nice hook bait with the big square ones. If close enough freeline, if further out a decent controller, and wait for it, but a Nash Tackle recommendation (I feel faint and ill saying that, 😆) the Bolt Machine.

You're itching... Jdgc...

I'm sure you can. I have wandered around and gone up my own backside; on pop-ups alone at one point I had 12 different types, and only caught on a few of them. I was getting pellets like no tomorrow, bloodworm, Green Lipped Mussel, Betaine, various sizes of koi and some trout pellets. I watched the fish over the Betaine, GLM and Betaine pellets and realised they were an 'oversprayed' basic pellet. There was not a great deal of difference in the interest from the koi pellet. Groundbait, I figured Vitalin pretty much serves all my carp, bream and tench fishing needs, although I can change the mix with those koi pellets, worms, casters, maggots, sweetcorn or a few shaves of papers in or luncheon meat. I have a few boilies 5kg of freezer Rod Hutchinson Infusion 7.5kg (roughly) of Shelf Life Infusion 1 tub of Ballistic B pop-ups in white 1 tub of KMG pop-ups in natural 1 tub of Aniseed and bunspice pop-ups in yellow (to match the maize or corn in Vitalin) 1 tub of Monster Crab in purple to match the Infusion colour or as flavour topper on snowman rigs. Mate, I know how you feel. The E10 doesn't help, my MPG dropped when that took over from E5. I would normally drive the A14 at around 80 according to my speedometer. Now I'm sticking to 65mph. In 2020 it was 99.9p a litre, now we are up at £1.65 in East Anglia at Supermarkets, higher in Branded stations. £1.69 at Esso last night. I do think I get a few mpg more from branded petrol though which is why I used it, well as well as Nectar points...

I have the Porterlite. My water bottle fits nicely in the drop in bag, which has a 'pocket' either side at the rear which takes a 5l bottle, or a bait bucket. In front of that is another bucket, of dog food. Soft bits and pieces fill up the space, trainers, waterproofs, boxed tablet. The bedchair goes on top of that with the RH big boy unhooking mat on top and tackle box, food bag in that, and rods strapped across front to back I am occasionally on 2 trips as due to my back problems I sometimes need to take a proper recliner chair, so that comes on second trip with rucksack..

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