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I put a length of rig tubing on the hook on normal multi-rigs. That stops the loop pulling tight. Don't use silicone tubing as that can split, I think mine is a thin rig tube.

I have gone to these for winter fishing: https://www.jackpykeshop.co.uk/tundra-boot-evolution.html As I'm mostly pike fishing they are OK for walking to the swim and actually fishing.

Yes, but more when I've put a carpet of bait out, very few on just stringers, bags or individual baits. Add to that, put out boilies with a throwing stick, you don't tend to create enough attraction for them to feed on the spot, the distance between each bait is not always enough to hold them. Put those same baits in with a Spomb and it can be as the baits tend to be closer together. On Alton Water, if you avoided bream patrol routes, you could put out big beds of groundbait and catch only carp. The closed ends of bays weren't areas they were comfortable going in to, whether it was too close to the bank or too shallow I'm not sure, but I've caught very few bream at ranges less than 5 rod lengths from the bank, yet carp come in very close. Put very little bait in and they don't usually feed on the spot, there isn't enough to hold them to feed, unless you happen to bait up over a natural food area, like a bloodworm bed. Chilli flakes and crushed chilli sauce also have an advantage in that swans are often reluctant to feed on spicy particles and groundbait.

Possibly because it also has a reputation as a bream attractor. Saying that, I don't think it is the molasses in itself that attracts bream, but how bream feed, hoovering up big beds of bait, totally cleaning an area.

To all those catching, some brilliant pics and write-ups. Well done. I've split the camera tips and advice into a separate thread in UK Carp fishing, so they not been deleted, just moved. I'm sorry if this thread seems slightly disjointed now, but the advice I think is worth a thread in its own right. https://forum.carp.com/topic/33337-camera-tips-and-advice-from-september-catch-reports/page/2/#comment-385983 @yonny thanks for the tips for all, very helpful.

I usually have a couple of books to read when I'm fishing, The Secret Carp and Reel Time ll by Chris Yates are currently in the rucksack, along with my tablet with a couple of downloads and games. Sky gets a 2mile walk round the lake, and it's a slow walk as I combine it with fish spotting. Strange thing though, often if I see fish on the way around, then get back to my swim, I'll see fish there, so be reluctant to move. The nature here is amazing, swans, coots, ducks, muntjac and roe deer, along with owls, buzzards and red kites. I've even seen stoats and grassnakes as well as newts, frogs and toads.

Salt can definitely stop hemp splitting, so if you do add salt, put it in the bucket before you pour your freshly boiled hemp back into it. I prep up hemp and pigeon conditioner for 4/5 day sessions; the first 2 days buckets have no extra water, the last 2 I leave extra water in. If hemp dries out it will float, so the water prevents that.

I don't like or even won't accept being ill, I'm too active. Being stuck pretty much indoors for a week just walking Sky and doing small bit shopping was a nightmare, so Monday on the Wensum was a relief, although I was shattered Tuesday and was in bed by 10pm. Today is off to the syndicate to fish for a few days, best place to recover i reckon...

Well I have had the throat surgery, been good, pretty much isolated myself for 7days. On Monday I drove up to see my daughter and granddaughter and have a few hours fishing the river Wensum. I'm now in the still painful stage of the scabs in my throat falling away, so on the recovery road. Decided to have a few days chasing rainbows on the syndicate. One thing I can guarantee is that having abscesses burnt away and tonsils removed is not as painful as the recovery. Struggled to eat for 4days, but now nearly eating properly although slowly. I do have to regain the 10kg I lost from January to now.

Brilliant!

I have a cheat, one of my banksticks which I use as a distance stick has a Gardner camera adaptor and phone bracket mount screwed into the top. Get the unhooking mat in between the two and I'm normally at the right distance. Add Selfie voice trigger app on the phone, and it is good to go.

25 times 3.66metres is 91.5metres, not big casting in today's world. I learnt years ago that rods are the key, and 12 feet 2.75tc rods will do it. With 2.75lb Century SP's, 15lb mainline, 30lb Amnesia leader and 3oz leads I was hitting over 125metres around the early 2000's. My current 12ft 3.25lb RH The Ones I was going even further with no leader and 3.5oz leads. Look at your rods, as @yonny says.

On the spring nose trigger, turn the clip round, that sorts many problems including premature ej, sorry opening I wish I could replace springs, but I keep forgetting to grab them as I kill the spomb. For me it is the tail spring that pops it open is what breaks, pike teeth don't help...

I must have seen the same reviews, Tackle Box rods definitely worth the money from my recall was the views

The Waveney has benefitted from a 'wash-in' of Ocean pit fish. The two were connected from October to January and part of the bank was washed away, despite there being a field in between. Is Marsh Lane near Carlton Colville? I don't think that there are any Mills between Harleston and there, so all species are a possibility

I've played with various Spods and Spombs, and the honest answer is the genuine Spomb is the best of the lot in my opinion. With braid and a low angle cast the Spomb won't open, it skids not hitting the nose trigger. Get a vertical drop, even at 5 rod lengths no problem. Note, adding a mono leader reduces not opening or crack-offs as the sudden clip hit allows a bit of stretch, not break, and also causes the Spomb to drop straight down. Retrieve is good if you can get it 'penguin walking' over the surface, although pike love 'em. The Dot spod, quality is awful, looks homemade and the spring is not the best it can bend out of shape. Getting it to shut can be a pain. Retrieve is ok'ish. As for the Fox, don't go there, didn't always empty, and it came in like a bag of poo. The Wolf Spod I've not used, bit pricey as I seem to break spods or Spombs after pike attacks and have to keep replacing them.

That doesn't sound very nice. It's amazing how much our ears affect us, not just hearing, but balance as well. I hope it does get better for you.

I put off getting one as I usually manage to position my bivvy so my stove is sheltered just outside the door. The past few trips though, it's been a bit gusty.

Funny you should mention that, as I ebayed myself a new Stove Windshield this week. Then we have another 10kg of Rod Hutchinson The Nutty Bait in 18mm, yellow 16mm pop-ups and another tub of Monster Crab pop-ups in 15mm.

Every time we try to add the shop onto the forum it knocks off the SSL certificate. Strictly speaking the site is secure, but Google doesn't like it. I've found sometimes DuckDuckgo and Firefox could access the site when Google wouldn't.

Mine have been with very short Multi-rigs, either size 4 or 6 Solar 101's or size 4 Gardner Incizors, made up with Kryston Jackal or Merlin, and around a maximum of 150mm. The Multi-rig is a doubled up length of material, no knots other than the hooklink swivel knot.

Fishing gets in the blood

Out of hospital at 5pm yesterday, and stayed the night at my mother's house so she could Childmind and Sky-sit. I did have a typical reaction to morphine in the middle of the night, made me physically sick. Had to get up, get downstairs and into the bathroom in a hurry, not fun. Then of course that upset Sky, so after I'd sorted myself out I put her on the lead and took her into the garden so she could pee. Poor dog, from about midnight until 5am, I was waking up, every hour at least once, so she simply did not know what to do.

Not just me then.