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I dont think they sell them anymore ? Did they ever ? Hybrid seems to have taken over . You can get it for £11.25 a kilo if you order 10kg or more of it ?

From the home page go in to whichever subject ie bait & bait making , and there should be a start new topic/thread box At the top . I think

Thats what its all about mate and i couldnt agree with you more . Long may it continue

Just make sure you air dry em out for about a week in the bag & give em a shake every now & again , keep em on the move . They'll shrink as the moisture leaves em , a kilo wont weigh a kilo ,and they will swell up again either when you chuck em in the lake or you can rehydrate em before you use em

Hello tom welcome to the nuthouse . Cant help you with Dream lakes but air dried boilies will last indefinitely . Hope this helps mate

Certainly not young man , there was a certain match fisherman

A good victory Dal mate

I refuse to rise to that The wet spam thing that is . City need a break to get back into it methinks

Can you get hold of PVA bags in OZ ? Or a Spod or a Spomb ?

Sounds like a good 'un Jim , fished along with your hybrid you cant go wrong eh ? I'll probably be targetting a different much harder lake this year and can do with as much help as i can get so anything you dont blank with mate , gis a shout

Always a straight forward running lead for me , unless im naked chodding Been experimenting lately with a few different set ups including inline running leads and shocker rigs and will probably continue to do so . Cant stand lead clipped semi fixed set ups , i get fed up with single bleeps , getting done and im convinced the Carp use the lead to throw the hook, although i have used heli-rigs and would afain if i deemed ut neccessary . Everyone to his own , you'll get loadsa different replies here A good read ...http://www.carp.com/topic/1872-semi-fixed-bolt-or-running-leads/

Where did i say that pray ?

When i mention tangles Liam i'm talking about after being " done " following single bleeps on the buzzer .I switched to running leads and , until recently , completely eradicated single bleep syndrome and improved bite indication tenfold . Until of course i bumped into mr Bream

Strangely enough Liam , when im fishing i seem to be the only one slack lining albeit with running leads . I just wonder whether they are slack lining yet back leading too ? Would that make it APPEAR to be a tight line ? I used to do what you do , with lead clips etc but got too many single bleeps / getting done / tangled hooklinks etc so switched .

Im out at the moment but i'll refer to it again later Dan . I've always been taught slack lines wont work with Bolt rigs . Lets see what the others have to say

I was reading earlier , an old issue of Carpology , and there was an article by/with a fella called Leon Bartropp. He's pretty well known i think and a regular in the mags . The article was something like "a rig to catch a carp to save your life" or similar . Now i cant remember much about his actual hooklength , i dont think it was anything special but the thing that caught my eye was his lead arrangement . Basically , semi-fixed lead , average length hooklink , lead clip and the usual stuff . With SLACK lines . How does THAT work ?

That'll work mate , i think if these fish are relativley unpressured then what you have there , with a few free bits of corn/maize around it will do the trick . As they keep telling me on here , and i'm not very well equipped for it myself , ....location location location . Which is where , if you can , the prebaiting comes in

Have you gi ven any more thought as to how you will fish it ?

Dan , was there any progress here ?

Good stuff ! Nosey [censored]s aint they ?

They dont . BUT if your a bit para about it then i've been known to use a rig sleeve . You just have to make sure you get em in a bog enough size to fit over the swivel . They also kick the hooklink out on the cast to prevent tangles. Explanation on the packet mate. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=360374132117

Dan try these mate on your mainline and use a perfection loop to add the hooklink . These swivels in the size of your choice are so much easier . You can google the perfection loop , no kinks , straight as a die mate . http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=261216044712 Problem solved i promise .

DD which quick link are you using ? Can you post a pic ? There are so many out there

I apologise if i offended you young man there is absolutely no reason to rear up so aggressively . I have no wish to drag a lot of small carp about a lake , unhooking 'em and throwing them into a net in one motion by the hundred, potentially damaging them , in the name of monetary reward and call it angling . Im sure there is a lot that specimen anglers can learn from match fisherman with regard to baiting and feeding patterns but as far as i can see that is where the similarity ends . In my opinion again of course . I wont bother with the smiley this time .

No mate it never appealed to me it all looked a little bit frantic and , well , un-fish friendly to me . In my humble opinion of course