yonny

I agree they're the best for glugging in anything.

Your choices are decent ones mate. I've used all 3 of them. The pink almond is the best imo. The tuna one is decent too if you're after a fishy one. Pretty much mate. I do use Goo now and again. Reason being an experience I had several years ago now. I was fishing a water in the Valley and doing OK but I was getting out-fished by a close mate of mine. I was wracking my brains as to why and I ended up asking him straight out what he was doing. His answer was Goo (I'd never used it at this point and tbh thought it was a load of rubbish). He was Goo-ing his pop ups in the pink almond. I ended up Goo-ing a pot up and carrying on as I had been but with the pink almond pop ups. Long story short I had it right off, catching all but one of the fish I was after in a matter of weeks including my main target kipper, a very special one (see below). Now it could have been coincidence that it all came together after I started with the Goo, but with each capture came confidence and with more confidence came more captures. I don't use the stuff all the time (I believe it's more effective on certain waters than others) but I can say that using it appeared to make a difference on some of the waters I've fished. If that's what Goo does then I like it lol👆

Imho at this time of year you've already missed the boat. If you can bait through autumn into winter you can keep them moving all winter. But if you start baiting after they've shut up shop you'll just not get there metabolism going again. Of course, if you're fishing somewhere that's being baited by others it might still be possible to get something going.

Not me, but I do have a day planned next Friday, assuming there's no lid on the local res.

In fairness this problem with taking bait to France is nothing to do with Boris or our government. It's an EU law that was bought in when we were part of the EU. Those rules apply to anyone outside the EU. If we want to blame someone we'll have to find someone that voted out lol.

I use this stuff. It's possible to get .40 line through the 0.5 but it's a ball ache. It's much easier to go for the wide stuff. Go for the brown, not the green. It disappears on the deck even though it looks a bit bright and garish out of water.

Pretty much mate. Add a load in for the soak and leave until they swell. Then add a load more and boil. They go mental for them.

Fenugreek peanuts 👌 I agree. As Nick said, some are naturally buoyant so make sure to check the rig in the margin to see how it's sitting.

There's a proper underground scene over there nowadays. Very cool. They have their own US version of Subsarface called American Carper. Strikes me that it's similar to the UK carp scene 30+ years ago. Quite hush-hush if you get me drift. An exciting time to be a carper over there are the moment. So much untapped water.

Try just off them. I can only recall a couple of bites from directly under them but I've caught loads just off them.👍

Every water I've fished with power lines this happens now and again, particularly during or after rain. They can defo detect that electricity and there is something about it they like imo.

They used to love it under those power lines didn't they lol!!

Read this earlier. Some fish that innit!

Totally agree Elmo. Even if everyone follows the guidelines this will still take many months to get back to anything like normal. If people don't follow the guidelines who knows how long this will go on for? Like most people, I've had about enough already. The sooner this is all over the better. If that means missing the coldest couple of months on the bank then so be it.

Yes👍

For a period maybe 10 or 15 years ago I used to soak pop ups and plastics in neat Mainline Active Pineapple Activator. Obviously that stuff contained more than just flavour but it was intended to be used at 30 ml per kilo of basemix so was pretty blooming strong. I'd cast them out completely saturated, dripping in the stuff. Caught loads!

I'm actually considering cancelling my Cypography subscription. I really enjoyed it when it was one long monthly film and some of the guests were fantastic (Oz, Si Haartopp, Si Bater, John Bird etc etc). But now it's all half hour here and 45 mins there I can't be bothered. I've had next to no interest in most of the recent guests either. Real shame as I used to think it was brilliant.

Members only now I believe buddy. And even the members have to pre-book to get on. Bit of a strange set up.

Maggots are in my experience just as effective as bloodworm, easier and cheaper to use too.

End of January. No pre-orders are being taken.

And still have one on the deck😃

We are defo getting towards that time of year imo mate. The cold waters will soon be sinking (its denser than warmer water) making it uncomfortable for mr carp to feed on the deck for prolonged periods. I'd personally rather have 23 hours with a bit of foam in front of their nose than one hour with them feeding on bait.

Nope. Stick with what you're using mate. If it's working then you're setting yourself back by changing. You know you have a bait they'll eat so you know that all you have to do is put it in the right place. You're already half way there.

As far as I can tell no one has managed to buy a copy. What a shambles of a release lol.

They are the same type used for bait making mate. No different. Most cheap glugs are, as elmo mentioned, flavours suspended in VG or PG (glycerol). They are essentially vape juice!