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One thing I will say about this year is that I don't regret any of it because I have learnt from it messing with rigs has taught me loads about what I want from my rig,how I want it to present, how to make the hooklink work in your favour, how to select the right hook pattern for the job, and most importantly with a sharp hook on the line you will catch more fish

I've been using the avid outline leader in 20lb for a while now, I am quite happy with that as a leader seems to work nicely with the hydrotuff

Confidence has been a funny one for me this year, spent a long time feeling out my depth,feeling like I need to catch up with the years I missed, spent a while messing about with baits and rigs and all sorts of presentations, before ultimately deciding what I used to do 20 years ago is still as effective really Things that have helped me with confidence this year Hand sharpening my hooks Going back to running rigs for better bite indication Finally finding a bait the carp seem to like fairly instantly Distance sticks I believe I am now fishing more accurately than ever before Not being afraid to fish in weed,silt or pretty much any substrate now I now believe I have a great simple rig and a nice balanced snowman presentation,which I know should always be fishing for me and behaves in a suitable manor I am going for an overnight session on vermuyden Thursday night, probably going to be setting up on darkness but I shall be more organised and ready this week,my rods are already prepped and my rod bag is packed already,will sort out all my other items this week so i am super organised and only taking what i need, the good times are coming I just want to catch a few more now to prove it wasn't a fluke

I've been using 15lb hydrotuff in green all this year it's brilliant line in my opinion, I've only stripped it back to refresh it a couple of times so far it casts nicely seems to lay nicely and doesn't give me any bother at all ,I can now recommend it with absolute confidence I've actually just put fresh leaders on and stripped them a little tonight so they are ready for Thursday night gotta love strictly come dancing gives me a pass to play in the garage 😀

You can buy the floats that go on your handle if that helps

Yep quite common round my way tbh, If not pub it's those were having a social types, if you get a gang of youngish anglers then it's snorting and drinking and smoking all day long that can ruin an antisocial a bit 😀

If you want a really cheap but better than 50/50 basemix have a look at quality baits they do some good but cheap mixes Cm60 is loosely based on the cell I believe

You will soon be casting 7 wraps like a boss like me 😮😬😁

I've recently become a fan of distance sticks tbh,having fished without them for years I was sceptical but I've never fished so accurately Ngt ones £8.95 money well spent in my opinion

I meant then bowling back to there bivvy before getting the rods out,

Very sad news,but unfortunately i think it's all too.common nowadays everyone seems to want to be part of the yahoo crew or something,and going to the pub all day seems acceptable still I do take a 4 pack of beer fishing with me usually but never feel the need to get smashed I just enjoy unwinding after a hard day to get to the lake,

That's kinda where I may be heading tbh,Ive been using longer rigs lately and they just make a mess in the rig wallet

My rigs never stay that organised,I try but somehow they like having an orgy while I am not looking 😮

I've got the 10ft Vader's tbh if you don't need to cast to the moon they are good for the money, but if you can a 12 ft set may make make a better all rounder,I did see some Shimano tx1's on offer last night at a good price on one of the big sites they looked nice, not used them though I have quite a lot of ngt luggage and find it quite good enough for what I need, it's robust, cheap and will carry your stuff, cyprinus do good reasonably priced brollys and bedchairs, But Facebook market place seems to have some good deals on second hand bits too so well worth looking there also

I probably have too but when I found I had foul hooked one that had probably just swam straight into the rig whilst feeding I thought how silly if I had used a bottom bait it would've hoovered it up no worries

I'll second that very impressed with mine, super sensitive and reliable so far

I was talking about a Chinese takeaway and that was fact it was in the local news and everything

That's nothing the police raided one near me a good few years ago and found loads of dead cats in the freezer katsu curry anyone 😀

https://www.carpology.net/articles/rigs/d-rig-in-detail

I would just go for a d rig with ring and baitfloss or a bait screw tbh

That is how I did my rigs on Thursday with just the hair stripped but I added a 1cm split in the coating to make a supple hinge

I learnt a lesson last night used a simple knotless knot rig with a snowman absolutely nailed it,I think the main thing I've learnt is using the hook with the right bend in the shank/eye for what you are trying to achieve,if you want to get an angle on your hook use an inturned eye and the silicone will do the rest I didn't use any though I didn't see the need it was stiff enough with semi stiff coated braid The lesson I learnt was don't fish pop ups over particle, my guess was the foul hooked common must have been feeding so hard it went straight into the rig would've probably caught it properly in a bottom bait or snowman

Don't get me wrong I appreciate a big group of anglers like say from on here as an example and calling it a social but but when did a guy going fishing with his mate become a social ? I think that is exactly what I am trying to say thanks i also don't like any phrase with done bites in its done me a couple of bites meaning i have caught a couple of fish from here previously 😀

I hear this phrase all the time and it really bugs me, What does it mean really ? I want to fish with my friend We want to get really drunk and camp Me and my mate have got some weed and we're gonna smoke it together We don't want to fish effectively because we need two swims next door even though the fish are far away I don't really even like being that sociable in the bank, I am polite and do chat but I much prefer to watch the lake and will actively seek solice in anti social swims 😀

Of course they used propaganda during Brexit they all did to try and get people on there side, Sadly I fail to see what I said that was funny,