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Si , i dont know how to post a link to a different thread but take a look at the sticky in this section entitled "safe lead set-ups". Theres some pics on there mate and it'll sort you out .

I missed it woody , post it again

Now THIS thread might get deleted ...

I tend to have the bottom bead at least a foot from the lead and usually nearer 2 feet to try and reduce the chances of the fish getting clumped round the ear'ole but i use slack lines . I cant get my head around the probability of the hooklink floating in mid-water if fished on a tight line . Nick , how do you combat this ? Are the sinkers (i dont use a leader) sufficient to keep the business end pinned to the deck ? Cant see it myself ...

Bones

I think "characters" is the expression your looking for . Oh and eccentric

Mick brown was so proud of himself he looked like he was going to cry , proper emotional he was and thats what i remember more than the actual fish liam . I realise that the stocking of foreign fish grates with a lot of people and i think everybody , in an ideal world , would like to catch a proper old english beaut , but its not the fish's fault and it still had to be landed . If a garlic chewing 40 wanted to eat one of my hookbaits i wouldnt be drop kicking it back into the lake lets put it that way ...

The passion for angling episode with the unfished estate lake is my fave . Along with the matt & mick episode where mick catches his 40 ... Anyone remember jack hargreaves' out of town ?

Cant believe its taken me 4 years to find this thread . Keep it up boys , best thread i've come across in years . I havent laughed so much since grandma died.....

Thanks ian but only doing what you and most on here would have done mate . Stevo your 100% right mate long may it continue . You never did pm me with regards to your last comment ?

Yeah you got a bit of a deal there i reckon even without the missing part and even if you end up paying £20+ for the chub bars your still coming out on top . Cant beat the jrc bivvies imo

I know you wasnt to know but i still cant believe that geezer flogged on the bivvy without the central tension thingy ? Hope the price you paid for it reflected it

Or , of course , you are very welcome to mine if your more in my neck of the woods

Try putting chub tension bars in the search engine .

Ok , now , chub used to sell a set of 3 bivvy brace bars which do exactly the same job only they are a lot more solid . Trouble is THEY are now discontinued as well BUT i recently picked up a set on fleabay for a bit over the odds so they are still about . I heard that trakker do something similar but i'm not sure and taking a look at the jrc contact bivvy , that middle pole looks similar to the chub bars so maybe jrc do them now for their own bivvies ? Either way the geezer who flogged you that defender has had you over because the bivvy is useless without that middle pole and he would have known that too . On a more cheerful note , your better off getting the metal brace bars anyway cos the pole supplied with your bivvy is more trouble than its worth mate , a real pain to thread through ! I was told about the chub bars by ian (welder) who posts on here . Eventually he will be along to give you his tuppence worth but he's at the social at the mo so probably as drunk as a sack

Well you have a similar problem to the one i'm having at the moment in that the defender range has been discontinued and i dont know whether the (new) contact range of bivvies has the same set up ie the middle pole that you are missing. Google the latest jrc bivvy range and take a gander mate . If they dont use the same part then there IS another way ...

If its the same as the sti's then there should be an elasticated fold-up pole which threads thru it from the back to the front just above the door . It keeps the bivvy up mate .

Ah gotcha so you could probably deduct what type of silt it is by leading around a bit beforehand . I suppose its common sense really that no fish would want to dine IN something that smelt as foul as some of that stuff can . Thanks mate its good that you are still around for me to pick your brains , so many regulars seem to have disappeared from the forum lately. Apologies to the original poster for hijacking the thread.

Nick , how would you know whether the fish were feeding IN or ON TOP of the silt ? Or is that a noddy question ? It IS still early

As most people have said , try & keep it simple . Maybe its just as simple as shortening or lengthening your hooklinks. Same with the hairs . Theres a superb thread on here somewhere entitled "complicated rigs" i should check it out if i was you mate

Ian , my fingers are the same mate , tieing pop ups on with bait floss is just way too fiddly . I tend to use the "u" section of a paper clip , pop one end of it through the D and push the "u" into the pop up . I know this involves piercing the hookbait which a lot of people frown upon , but a good quality pop up will remain bouyant plenty long enough. Just for the record , i use the esp choddies too but the gardners are a great substitute when the esp's are out of stock.

just for the record i used `em at the weekend and they work fine (on test that is , they never went off during the night but thats another thread) so as usual thanks for everyones helpful input and mr keen for the cabaret

How on earth ?