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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!

Maggots! Dunno mate, I had 6 takes over a gallon of wrigglers last week. Just this last week we have defo seen a drop in temps. It'll start getting tricky on a lot of waters around now imo. Of course, it's all water dependant. Some of them fish right through winter.

I have used all of them but tend to use the large nowadays simply as its quicker to get the bait out. If I have to top the spot up and I know the fish are still about I'll go down to the medium in an attempt to cause less disturbance.

It depends completely on the angling situation. I'd add that this question can apply to any bait, not just boiled baits. You need to bear in mind fish stocks, session length, time of year, conditions (temps, pressure, wind direction), form (of the lake/swim), substrate/topography (spot fishing vs. area fishing), etc. etc. No one can give you a figure of how much to use. If they do, what they're really giving you is a figure that suits their own angling situation. I will use anything from a couple of hookbaits to several kilos of freebies depending on the angling situation (in fact I've used tens of kilos a week in pre-bating situations). If you look hard enough the carp will tell you how much you need to be baiting. As a very general rule if activity levels are low then baiting levels should be lower. If activity is rife it's time to fill it in.

Been waiting a very, very long time for this one lads.

The fields were white with frost on my drive to work this morning. Looks like winter is here already!

He's doing great mate. Proper little bruiser lol. These ☝️☝️☝️☝️

Nope, bog standard off the shelf rods mate. It always makes me chuckle when you hear guys judging the capability of a rod based on what Terry can do with them. I agree with you mate that it's largely irrelevant. I'm pretty sure Usain Bolt could do a 100m in 10 seconds wearing walking boots. It doesn't mean walking boots allow you to run faster. My small water rods are X Lites. I can fish effectively with them at an absolute max of 120/130. Terry can cast the same model 180 yards. It's completely irrelevant, he is a freak of nature when it comes to casting ability.

Dip the rod underwater, the carbon will contract slightly which should loosen it enough. Odd time of year to get the rod stuck together. Normally happens in summer when the rod expands due to temps.

Isn't the Black Label stuff notoriously bad quality?

I have no idea buddy but it sounds like a very tall order to me.

Don't get me wrong, they are defo worth a look👍

Decent distance rods but very heavy. Hard work to use at real range, but certainly capable.

Thing is mate there is simply no such thing as a rod that will cast 170 yards which is not a broomstick. You'll probably hear people say there is, but they either don't know what they're talking about or they're lying. Stiff rods = big distance, it really is that simple. I've not used the Fox's but I do have a mate that has them and doesn't complain.