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Right now we're just waiting until the ice is thick enough to drive on. I'm looking forward to getting out and might walk on later this week.

The signature of the amazing IanD: The first rule of Bait Boat Club is don't talk about Bait Boat Club. 🤣 My memory isn't perfect but it may have been in response for some purists throwing shade at them.

If speaking frankly about a company on the internet was prosecute-able Fairbrass would have all our stuff at his house.

I remember this coming up on the old CAG forum, and the consensus was that honestveek is right. Iirc there are a couple of ways that sanding the spigot could ruin the rod (either making it loose or seating it flush and never getting it apart again) and nothing to gain.

Welcome to the forum. The US based forums seem to have either withered or changed to concentrate on specific methods (ie: fly fishing) so give the scattergun approach a try. https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&hs=4WW&channel=fs&ei=smt9W9-4A-2x0PEP8LW20Aw&q=carp++fishing+new+jersey&oq=carp++fishing+new+jersey&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0j0i22i30k1l4.4078.9520.0.9813.19.15.0.4.4.0.281.2069.0j7j3.10.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..5.14.2120...0i67k1j0i131k1.0.WGyJx0aB5tQ

I know someone who has absolutely ruled using huge donkey chokers, but a 10 lb carp can still suck in a boilie the size of a golf ball.

...and/or also lost what could be a once in a lifetime fish through a brain fart or not being alert enough. John Alden Knight is credited with starting the solunar thing [(I've bought the booklet his family still publishes)at least I think they still do] but market hunters and fishermen had long known that the juxtaposition of sun and moon affects game and fish. I've seen it work perfectly on cue and not work at all. There are quite a few factors involved in why and when fish bite, and the solunar table is just one of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solunar_theory

I'm a caretaker and maintenance man at a bar, never buy sunglasses (or gloves) again.

I had an offer to go paint stripes on the humbugs at the candy shop, but at my age can't see giving up my career as a whisky taster.

Thanks, I'm really enjoying it. I only got a few runs out of my batteries so have to take care of that later.

We're out at the river and each caught a few in the 12 - 14 lb range and Rob just got this 25-8. We're netting for each other so glory all around.

I buy some tackle from the UK and have it sent to Canada, and that can be tough for larger items. I had a pair of reels sent by Royal Mail and with the boxes and schematics they were over the limit for cheaper postage (a big difference), so I had a choice of getting that paper and cardboard or the spare spools. I opted for the spools, of course. I bought a nice new Nash scale off tackle trader from a pub owner who had taken it against a bar bill..... edit: I just remembered, I had them mail it to Tommy Boy in Prenton and hoped and prayed he wouldn't sell and drink it before their holiday over here.

Good opportunity for a little role-playing as well.

It was a cheap shot, he started out casting leads and driving around from lake to lake selling them (as I understand) and coinciding with a boom in UK carping made a business out of it.

TnCarper don't spread it around, but to get an extra 20' - 25' just get a bottle of White-Out correction fluid and a very fine brush and paint a tiny DF on your rod down where the test curve is.

What B.C. said. I found that every time I tweaked my gear, (filling the spool almost to the rim, wetting the spool of line before casting, switching from #15 to #12) I gained a little distance and using a 3oz lead could usually hit my spot at around 100 yds. Buying a 3 lb rod or 2 didn't really buy me any more distance (neither did a 13' rod), but my casting with bags or stringers is so pitiful I wanted to try them anyway.

That B-100 Grub is a ringer for my go-to carp hook: Tiemco 2457 large pupa hook in #6.

Welcome to the forum, big lakes grow big carp.

Bucleugh was the man who bred Labrador Retrievers from hunting dogs he purchased (at Poole, mostly) from fishermen returning from Canada. Without his vision and perseverance they wouldn't exist today. ps: those are some nice browns Levi

I wonder if they command a better price in the UK or North America, I have a couple of big zip-locks full.

I was watching this and thought of Newmarket, has he been around?