salokcinnodrog

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 👍

The kneeling over pic is a 16lb from a few years ago, so easy to deal with them like that. The other pic is the 23lb PB.
 
I've written a few articles over the years for Pikelines, the PAC magazine.
 

I've been chasing rays, had a few up to 7lb.
I do use plenty of Sakuma 503's in 3/0 for them, 50lb Grey Weasel as I also use it for rigs with the rays, although I go clear Amnesia for bass, oh yes, and I got some more Lead link imps and Gemini oval clips.

Latest purchase, 4.5 and 5oz breakaway leads and plain leads. Some 2/0 hooks, 60lb greased weasel, double slim crimps and some Gemini links 
time to go after a few bass I think 

Fair play a 20lb pike is a beast. 
That's the proper way. Putting them upside down keeps them calm doesn't it.

Been 4 months since I've been able to get onto the syndicate, but even in the wet weather I still love it here.

In Britain, apparently the sun is a very rare sight

With and without flash

 

With and without a photobomber, or without and with...