salokcinnodrog

Just so people know, I do often do 2 and 1 on single sticks.
I do like the stability of a goalpost setup, but if one rod is better placed in another direction.
The one on single sticks is over a mix of mashed bread, particles, crushed boilies, worms and molehill soil, while the two are being fished with stringers over boilies.

Anker do seem to lead the way .

Absolutely put something they want to eat where they want to eat it and the rig can be anything
just need a sharp hook..
 
Don’t forget you can make a kilo of boilies go an extremely long way if you crumb them up so then it can become “relatively” cheap 
a sack of groats are about 20£ a sack and easy to prep even for a beginner.
and can help to make a kilo of boilie go even further and add some cloud into the water to give the fish extra confidence 
Just need do what you are happy doing 
confidence breeds success 

The only reason I can think of to justify having a heater in a bivvy is if I was going to claim on mrs B B life insurance 🤔

Ooh no, you don't need a bivvy heater.
A decent sleeping bag for night, and good clothing for day.
 
Too many 'accidents' with bivvy heaters, burnt down bivvies, and deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Even using a stove in the bivvy is a risk.
Years ago a mate I used to fish with had a run while his stove was on to keep him warm, he only burnt a hole in his sleeping bag, but other mates have destroyed their whole bivvies and woken up in A&E.

You don’t need a bivvy heater 
decent bag and a water bottle and maybe a winter skin and that should be good enough 
whatever you do 
please don’t use gas heaters it’s just too risky..

Different concepts with completely different objectives mate.
If you want your baits to last, or become rock hard, air drying is the one.
If you want to boost them, just coat them as soon as they're out of the freezer (they will absorb liquids as they thaw).
You can of course air dry then rehydrate with liquids if you want to completely saturate them (to prevent them from soaking up silty substrates for example) but it's a lot of faff.
Under normal circumstances you don't need to do either imo, and when bites get harder to come by on boiled baits I'd sooner switch to something else entirely rather than attempt to make them more attractive using little tricks.

For years I have taken baits out of the freezer as I pack my gear into the car.
I've rarely gone to the 'faff' of adding extra liquid or defrosting a day before.
I'm not saying defrosting before use does not work, but I have caught on baits that have been put on the hair still part frozen, and sometimes within minutes of casting in.
 

How many times have I said updates and upgrades are not always better?
Nor me.
That's not a mark 2, it's a mark 2.5 or 3.
I hope you get it sorted, you can always use the return of item as not suitable for use described. It is one you could win especially if you got Trading Standards or CAB involved as the description is not clear.

For years I have taken baits out of the freezer as I pack my gear into the car.
I've rarely gone to the 'faff' of adding extra liquid or defrosting a day before.
I'm not saying defrosting before use does not work, but I have caught on baits that have been put on the hair still part frozen, and sometimes within minutes of casting in.
 

Could use that part of the CRA.
would also help if you could pick up the advert to prove it doesn’t mention the fact it will only fit pre or post 2017 model.
 
 

How many times have I said updates and upgrades are not always better?
Nor me.
That's not a mark 2, it's a mark 2.5 or 3.
I hope you get it sorted, you can always use the return of item as not suitable for use described. It is one you could win especially if you got Trading Standards or CAB involved as the description is not clear.

How many times have I said updates and upgrades are not always better?
Nor me.
That's not a mark 2, it's a mark 2.5 or 3.
I hope you get it sorted, you can always use the return of item as not suitable for use described. It is one you could win especially if you got Trading Standards or CAB involved as the description is not clear.

I've got the Powa Pacs Atom which is good but expensive, bought for the plug socket and bait boat charging on the bank.
However as has been said you cant beat Anker for a good reliable power bank, got one of those, highly recommended. 👍
Anker is a good brand full stop

Surely the latest version should be classified a mk3 and it would save these kind of headaches!!
effing manufacturers

For all the members that have difficulty owning up to tackle purchases to their better half’s here’s a trick I came across …but be warned tho if you get greedy and abuse the said trick you could end up permanently damaged …
 
 

Sell stuff, never gonna happen again
 

No, cast it, along with about 20 others all with the same amount of baits on.
When there is a rule saying 'free bait may only be put in by PVA' I can use stringers to my advantage when everyone else is fishing single baits...

Oh and not forgetting 25kilos of boilies, in freezer and shelf life, RH The Nutty Bait, and a tub of 15mm matching pop-ups, it has a lovely smell, soft crumbly texture that should breakdown fairly quickly.
 
 
There are a couple of pics a few pages ago.
 
The bass have started showing in Suffolk, so I'll be chasing them as well. I've got a freezer full of mackeral and herring which are being added to squid on the hooks for whatever seems and likes it.
That's cheaper to use up some pike deadbaits than be buying lug and ragworm as I can't dig anymore.

You mean a 'Nick stringer'?
 
 
Done that on 2.75lb Century NG's and SP's

I doubt that somehow korda kaizens have come out with a 4lb tc rod, could cast one hell of a stringer with that 😱

Not so sure if it’s become fashionable but rather what the manufacturers tell us we want lol.
give it a couple of years and they will go the other way again 

If that's the case then it's down to fish finding or moving onto the bait.
Sounds really stupid, but some waters it takes a few days for the carp to move in to an area.
You aren't doing anything wrong, you get takes and land fish, so it's working.
Sir Pete Springate wrote about fishing taking 4 days to come onto the bait. Maybe they were there, got spooked, and didn't come back round for 4 days. I've fished waters where I had to leave the bait in position for 2days, and an Amnesia rig you can be pretty sure is tangle free, with or without PVA.

I use 25lb for almost everything.
If you catch it works.
The 'invisibility' has little effect as it's on or close to the lakebed so casting little shadow anyway. 

job done 👍