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Morning si , i tend to use 1.2 mm shrink tube and only use it if i feel the hooking potential can be improved by turning it " inwards". Many hook patterns these days have that already-turned angle anyway so dont need it imo . As for length of the hair ,i usually start with having about 3/4 of an inch between top of the bait and the hook and then shorten or lengthen it during the session depending on hookholds ( like Nick , if the hookholds are in the scissors or not great it gets lengthened or shortened if the hookholds are too far back) and whether i feel the fish are "getting away with it". Have you ever seen a KD rig si ? No shrink tube and the hair virtually comes off the eye of the hook . Flapping like a good 'un :)

Cor Yeah !

How close to the reeds are you ? Might be worth freelining the worms if you're close enough ?

Try mono Andy , probably allow the worms more natural movenent ???

Designed for catfishing but could be your solution jokke ? http://www.catfish-tackle.co.uk/acatalog/Rig_Tubing__Stiff_Tubing.html

Apologies in advance for the text talk BUT .... LMFAO !!!! :) Now THAT is clever lol

Golden pheasant chick ( one of 3 eggs ) hatched out literally 30 minutes ago ... This place is becoming a menagerie ....

I think you are going to have to PM me that one Mr Emm

Excellent ! :) Strangely enough mr Read is one of the few pro/sponsored anglers that i've got a lot of time for . He puts your gear over really well and doesnt appear to be up his own ( so to speak ) unlike a lot of others i could mention . I think i'd hang on to hom Ok crawling session over ....

Thats outrageous :) :) Only joking Richard BUT If its good enough for Lewis Read .....

Thank you for posting Richard , Lewis has proved the lines durability . Please thank him for me

I think fudgey was hoping it is in sarfend

Lewis read uses the light blend ? And its good for more than a year

Well found nick , thats the thread that made my mind up for me

I knew that andy . Beza told me . He's a long suffering fan

Thank you chicken george Either way they had to go . Could you imagine it ? 8 of em at 4 am ffs ... Mind you i should of kept em ....first complaint and i woulda grassed up the dealers next door in case it was them

I know the feeling mate i got drug pushing junkies living one side and 300 corpses living on the other

No mate not really , the 2 adults , the ones in the first pics , will make one hell of a racket if they have just laid an egg or they smell a fox but apart from that they are pretty quiet . What you need is a cockeral mate . We had 8 of em until they started practising cock-a-doodle-dooing , then they went off to that great farmyard in the sky courtesy of manor park's resident albert pierrepoint wannabe Its illegal to keep a cockeral in a residential area i believe but 8 of 'em , can you imagine it :)

Its gets worse ....the other night she come home with these ffs

Hello again matey , again smuft has talked a lot of sense . I use running leads myself and imo is the ideal set up especially when you are starting out . There are some good threads about lead set ups on here with pics , have a gander . Try and attach the lead to the line with a run ring as in the pics , and if you make the swivel a quick-change type it makes it easier to change hooklengths quickly. I tend to favor leads of 2.5 ozs or more . Also , just in case because you didnt mention it , if you do use a pop up , make sure you have a split shot or a little piece of rig putty about an inch or 2 behind the hook otherwise your pop up will be 8 inches off the lakebed and look strange when your freebies around it will be on the deck , sticking out and maybe suspicious to a carp ? A little pva stick or mesh bag on the hooklength will prevent the possibility of a tangle on the cast. Again , have a read up on some of the stickies in the rig tying section . Good luck and welcome to this wonderful forum. Its full of nutters

Re john roberts terminal tackle . Not only is it not fashionable its usually cheap as a result . And , imo , often the best for the job at hand . My tackle box has plenty of it

Introducing the latest additions to Grays Zoo ..... 6 golden pheasant chicks and 3 quail chicks all 2 days old . Rescued from a hellhole in northampton , tracey drove up there to get em last night . Oh and one of the quail has been named Nigel :)

I dont think k use the term "safe" in the sense that we understand it tbh although some people , usually the young and inexperienced fall for it. Maybe im just losing it in my old age . What i really need is somebody to explain to me , in words of not many syllables, how a helicopter rig that drops the lead is safe ? In the event of a break AFTER the lead ejection , HOW is the carp supposed to get rid of the leader ?