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When fishing with a pop up, which hook is the most effective to use? I use muggas and wide gapes for my general bottom bait fishing would they be any good for pop ups? and also do you have the pop up on a shortish hair like tight to the hook? or like on a bottom bait you have a bit of a gap between the bait and the hook? This has always pickled me just thought I'd ask the question

Has anyone fished here? Have you got any feedback on the place/experience/the fishing etc ?

yh i suppose so, but they were all averaging 9lb with my biggest that day being 22lb 8oz

yh fair enough good point salokcinnodrog I dont tend to fish with shrink tube over the hook and line I just fish a straight forward knotless not and a long hair. My mate and I fished our local lake and we both had the same amount of carp (I think it was 20 each) we were fishing similar rigs but different hooklengths, I was fishing a coated braid hookink with a long hair where as my mate was using a mono hooklink with a short hair and we caught the same amount. I thinks its about what your confident in fishing with and I don't think theres a certain way you should fish just whatever you feel is right. Oh carp fishing is a funny sport.

I've got a theory that if youve got shrink tubing over the hook and a bit of the hair when the carp picks up your bait and spits it out because the bait is tight to the hook surely the hook will come out quicker meaning either the carp doesn't get hooked or you get a poor hook hold. Where if you haven't got shrink tubing over the hair and hook, the bait can move freely and when the bait gets picked up the bait gets spat out and because its not tight to the hook the bait will get spat out and the hook will spend longer in the carps mouth and then gives you better chance of hooking them. anyone got any opinions on this?

ESP strip tease top stuff

I fish the huntstrete complex and newton park. I fished a 24hr session at acorn not long ago only caught a little 1lber lol. You caught anything decent from there?

esp strip tease all the way a quality coated braid hooklink material Im from bristol james where abouts do you fish?

i strip my coated braid hooklink about 1icnh from the the hook

thats them

I didn't start this thread to talk about the different colours of braid for different bottoms I just wanted to see what braids other people use anyways thanks for your views alex

nah i would use a green braid cause weed is generally green

I got it in brown cause the lakes I fish the bottom is dark and muddy well at least I think it is lol I've been catching well using it

Which is the best coated braid? I use strip tease from ESP at the moment just wondering if theres any better ones on the market