yonny
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Good luck @greekskii.
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Trent View is half hour from Grantham buddy might be worth a look.
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MCF the best for sure. All I used when I did use them.
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Agree, I'm sure we'd all love to plan our regular fishing trips around the moon phases but in reality it's just not possible for most with real life getting in the way. We go when we can! Funny that, I have it booked off too lol. -
Lol. So Mr/Mrs Spomb cashed in when their patent was rumbled by a new design (dot spod). Bet they didn't get anywhere near what it must have been worth a couple of years ago. Still, good business for them and good business for Fox I guess. Now the two options (dot spod/spomb) are owned by the biggest firms in the business they are free to do as they please with prices.......
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Henchman style! I have heard of anglers seeing this. Not seen it myself but I have seen carp seemingly protecting others i.e. nudging them away from hookbaits!
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Just use the one you have dude. See B.C.'s post.
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For sure Vik but I don't think a pit with 8 carp in it can be compared to a water stacked full of pasties!
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Interesting that this weekend I saw nothing on each morning despite getting up at 4 am every day. There was no feeding activity at all until the hot conditions subsided. Then when the winds got up and rain started falling they started showing like clockwork. Just goes to show that no matter what we think of bite times sometimes it just won't happen if conditions aint right.
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I'll let you persevere with that one bud!
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I just use my carp rod with a bare lead to mark up. I carry a spod rod, needs must, but a marker is just one more thing to carry which offers no major benefit imo. Never use a float tbh. I can count the lead down to get a rough depth. Feeding carp probably serve as my most effective marker. If I can find a clear spot where they are or have been active I'm more than happy.
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It looks like it has a stiff fluoro boom so it'd be good for cleaner gravel areas. Over the silt and weed I'd go for something less stiff buddy.
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John Llewellyn? A very interesting piece. I don't buy it one bit if I'm honest B.C. I've caught plenty of bigguns over freshly baited areas. In addition to that, older fish are not necessarily bigger fish - plenty top out at 20's. Some even less than that. That makes sense to me fella.
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How did you get on @B.C.?? It still looked banging around here when I left the lake yesterday morning. I would have killed for another night!
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The moon does more than just affect the tides, it causes them buddy! Very interesting theory mate and something I've not really thought about.
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The stiff hinge is a pop up rig bud. If you want to fish a snowman have a think about a simple fluoro D rig.
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There's mo such thing as a cheap dull copy dude. It's a simple mix of chemicals, they're all the same thing. They only dull with age. Get the cheapest you can find.
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Some anglers swear by this as a big fish tactic (fishing off the baited area). I'm not so sure but defo worth a try fella.
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Imo if anyone thinks they can feed off a lake full of small carp they are wrong geezer. Not a realistic solution imo buddy.
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Nah..... as you know carp don't have a stomach Nick, they can't become full up.
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There lies a problem. Small baits are a great tactic for big carp. Imo upping the size too much will reduce the number of bites from big fish as well as little'n's.
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I agree Vik. There'a not much you can do to put little'n's off. When I was a lad I spent too much time trying to single out bigger fish in waters full of smaller carp. It took me too long to realise that the best way to catch bigguns is to fish water with bigger fish in!
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Premier Baits do baits up to 24 mm fella.
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So tricky at the mo with this heat - bite times are short, very short. First morning is spent spotting where they're prepared to feed. Second morning you have an hour or two window to catch them. If they've moved there's no second chances - that's it for the day unless you can get something going on the top.
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"HE CATCHES WHEN HE WANTS" lol
