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Easily! You can do it a couple of ways: Distance sticks, you know how many wraps it takes to get your fishing rods to the spot, the spod rod will be the same number of wraps. The distance between the sticks is the same no matter what length rods you use. You can clip up and walk your end tackle down the bank to a physical mark; bankstick or even something like a bramble bush or tree trunk. The spod rod again can be clipped up on that physical mark. That physical distance does not change.

Like other things, I should have patented and registered the idea to stop tackle companies ripping anglers off😖😉😀

I've used wooden balls for baits, so I countersunk some, counterbored others to stop crayfish pulling boilie stops out. Thought 'hang on, that looks tidy, i'll do some real baits' so used the countersink for them. Colour coded? Would you like fishing colours? Yes I use my local tackle shops, yes I have worked in my local tackle shops, and there is always a rep coming in and trying to sell the latest 'must have'. Do you know how much stuff gets purchased and then ends up in the '90% off' bucket after being unsold for 5 years?

Don't be facetious; jewellery screwdrivers are tightened with fingertips not with hand pressure. My point has been, the countersink itself, the head on that is exactly the same from manufacturer to manufacturer. Come on, admit it, you work for Nash, this is taking the mickey out of anglers. When Rolson or Famag, Screwfix or whoever sell their hand countersinks, none are above £6.20. You by choosing manufacturer can get the handle size or shape you want. I can go into B&Q and buy one from a choice of manufacturers, and I am willing to bet that I could find one in the exact same shape as the Nash one. (Just to say, I have been in B&Q recently as I bought myself a new tile cutter, dowel and edging to renovate a bathroom and make a new bath panel, including countersinking the screw heads). Nash Bore Tool is more expensive than all of the countersink tools on sale there.

Do you really believe that? Or rather have you convinced yourself that? Or even worse, who pays your wages, and be honest, because your bias is noted? Nige, I have had one for years, like the Nash one which I got from Screwfix, the countersinks are designed for wood, which is why they are hardened steel. The difference in handle size is for the size of the hand using it, NOT for what it countersinks into. I could stick a countersink from my drill bit box into any of my removable bit screwdrivers if I needed to. The handle could be Stanley, a generic, or Rolson.

Nige, Would you prefer to pay £4.51 for the Rolson hardware countersink or £5.99 for the Nash countersink? That is my point, carp tax being added on non fishing items just to sell them to sheep...😖😉

Don't get me started, £33 on a cushion when B&M or Argos can do a grey one for £5.

I have a feeling the Fox Royale Barrow is not supposed to be available in UK. (I could be wrong). As standard it comes with the Under Barrow bag. The spare code for the under barrow bag is Fox CTR009-03. I am pretty positive the TFG is universal, but that is from when I worked in the tackle shop.

I use the garlic infused cooking oil spray. Not the nicest smell, but it does work. You can spray hookbaits, inside and outside PVA bags, even just on top of Method ball groundbait on the feeder.

Please tell me they are joking! https://www.total-fishing-tackle.com/nash-bore-tool Come on Nash tackle, you really are scamming the carp angler now. What a waste of money! If you are so inclined stay Carp tax free: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rolson-3-Piece-Countersink-Set/232854214242?hash=item3637315662:g:BoYAAOSw-d5bTzDY

I have Shimano Beastmaster 7000 XTA's, which have since been updated, why I don't know, they were a blooming good reel for the price. The lastest incarnation is the Shimano Beastmaster 10000XB https://fish.shimano-eu.com/content/fish/eu/gb/en/homepage/Product-detail.P-BEASTMASTER_XB.html Shop around for best price though, they go from £65-75 I think from what I have seen.

I've caught carp, pike, perch and chub on slugs, in fact I freeline slugs specifically targetting chub on a size 2 or 4 Super Specialist. I have thought about using snails on the hook, but found putting a hook through the shell created a larger than needed hole if it didn't crack, and I never fancied drilling them. The furthest I got was putting live snails in my spod mix as I got to the bank. I do not know if they added extra attraction.

Sadly Mate, I don't think pictures of what discarded tackle has done will deter some, as the notices prohibiting fires are ignored. The nearest car parking area to the park lake near me is sometimes used as a 'fly tip point'. Some of the anglers who fish there really don't care about other animals, dogs etc. Just before the end of March I walked round with Sky, and found a pike trace and trebles just dumped on the ground. It is not the first. I have put fires on the bank out myself, then wished I had called the fire brigade, just to draw attention to it. If the fire brigade keep getting called out then they might put pressure on the council. In all the times I have walked round Chantry Park, I have only seen two park rangers this year. They are spread too thin, no on-site full time staff. 15 years ago a ranger went round every day emptying the bins and clearing litter with a trailer on his quad bike! I keep on emailing the council with pictures of the litter, of overflowing bins, so maybe it was that pressure that got those rangers down there, but I haven't seen them since, and I do walk Sky around there frequently, and I still email the council with pictures and information when the bins are full.

Tie an overhand loop in the thicker material, then the thinner material put through the loop parallel and tie a Grinner or Uni knot around the thicker material. I lighter blob the tag ends. I would suggest checking leader to mainline knots regularly, and please make sure any end tackle can be ejected in the event of a crack or break-off. If it goes anywhere, it is nearly always at the leader mainline knot.

I'm the same, but I worry since Kryston is or was in The Taska stable that it has changed since I last bought any, so I started checking alternatives. I rarely lose any, although for some reason crayfish love the stuff, picking it off hooklinks. The best I found has been Gardner Critical Mass.

I know this is an old thread, but thought I'd bring it back up. I keep on going on about my local park lake, even back then, some things just don't change, this was yesterday, right next to where a bin has disappeared from.

I thought that was just me salvaging bits from where I have found other peoples rigs. 😳 Saves me a fortune in micro ring swivels😖😆 Like you I clear up the swim so Sky (my dog) is safe. If she finds food, a boilie or hookbait, she will snaffle it quicker than the blink of an eye. I do the same on my regular dog walks round the local park lake, picking up and clearing rubbish.

I've been splicing Merlin for years, (since the original olive green and white), probably before Kesmark's Octo-splice, it also works with Silkworm. It is a sneaky way of creating Multi rigs with a simple single tidy knot to the swivel😉

Once used they get cut down and I save swivels and rig rings. Old hooks go in a tin can, squashed down and into recycling bin. Swivels and rings can be reused. Hooklink material gets added to my line for recycling.

I've seen carp concentrate on one food item to the exclusion of others; bloodworm, pellets, even hemp. I've put boilies in when they are feeding on a visible patch of bloodworm, the boilies on the bloodworm bed were ignored totally. Hemp was fed as part of a particle mix, they totally cleared that up, ignoring the other particles and boilies. A few years back I fished Vitalin, sweetcorn and maize, with a few boilies in there, them and the boilie hookbait were ignored. I had to change to maize and sweetcorn to get a take.

Maggots you very rarely fish as an individual, you tend to fish a quantity, a pint minimum (usually) around your bait, and they create preoccupation. Maggots do have a reasonable protein composition. They consist of up to 60% of protein alone. Such animal protein is very suitable for animal nutrition, in fact, better suited than soya proteins. Tigers and peanuts, i'm sure I have said before, contain enzyme inhibitors. These inhibitors basically prevent digestion, but are addictive, so carp continue to feed on them even though no or limited nutrition is being provided.

That can be a bonus in itself, use unprepared maize to fill the ducks and swans up, it can be put on the bank rather than in the lake. Because ducks and swans do have stomachs, it does swell up, once they are full they just go mooch and 'sleep it off'. I'm not sure on the digestion of maize, i'm sure it is mostly broken down by the pharyngeal teeth before swallowing. However, I am sure it is more attractive and more nutritional once it has been soaked and boiled. If it is sprouted then I think it is at its best. I'm sure a number of fisheries use raw wheat grain to supplement fish diets. With nuts, grains and legumes that are not broken into pieces, only the outside is giving nutrients. The rest is contained inside the unbroken pieces. I think you will find that is why despite peanuts being rich in Vitamin E that vitamin is unable to be used. Even in our acid rich stomachs, you will excrete peanuts, tiger nuts, sweetcorn or unchewed grains. In sweetcorn you excrete it almost exactly as it goes in. The carp's alimentary canal can only take nutrients from ingestion to excretion, (sounds obvious), and they will eat until the nutritional need is fulfilled, not, being as they don't have one, their stomach is full, which we do as humans.

In order to raise money to fence a fishery and to raise money to replace fish lost to disease, Julian Cundiff is doing a tuition or two.

Confidence is everything😉 I've said in the past I don't think fishmeals are the be all and end all, I found a meat based protein as effective on a few waters where fishmeals were supposedly best. In fact on one of them, I know how a fishmeal bait dominated proceedings for a number of years. One thing I think with milk proteins, they need to be able to be digested. A standard milk protein, just powders, needs an 'active' protease enzyme to break them down or they are no better than other baits. I'll put this here for you: "Dairy Protein Digestion: Life in the Slow Lane Proteins take longer to digest in the stomach than do carbohydrates, and milk contains some of the slowest digesting proteins. Casein proteins are soluble in milk but form insoluble curds once they reach the stomach, making it hard for digestive enzymes to break them apart." I know carp don't have stomachs, so their digestion is as it goes through the alimentary canal and intestines. DT Baits N-Blend may be close to what you are looking for, or possibly Rod Hutchinson Ballistic B

I get the same feeling, although it usually happens to me when I can't fish my big fish water as I don't like many of my local waters. I enjoy the challenge of trying to 'beat' the 100 odd carp in 60 acres, but I just enjoy being there as well. My local waters, only one really floats my boat, maybe because I do the occasional bit of work on there and is an almost guaranteed catch pit, although I rarely do nights after fish only just going to mid doubles. Thinking about it, I could go for the challenge of a 300acre plus water with unknown stocks! I do fish fish for other species at times, pike in winter from October (if it is cold enough, later in the year if not), roach, bream and tench or even just plain silver fish from March to June, and definitely some chub fishing when the rivers are open. I don't want to give up my Nazeing ticket, but circumstances this year may mean I do for a year at least as I simply can't afford it. Ultimately, I personally found carp fishing has become stale, maybe down to the increased numbers of anglers and media coverage, so the other fishing mixes it up and keeps me excited.