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As much as I like kamakuras kranks especially, I've had too many turn over, probably from nuisance fish or something, but enough to give me doubts, I've bought some more J precision hooks this year advanced wide gapes and his gape x hooks, not used them yet but they are sharp for unsharpened hooks and look strong and the wide gapes will do everything else I need

I would certainly try it and see how they go I believe its been tested on a very tricky water near me with good results, for me I would prefer a smell to a hook that may have gone rusty overnight (it has happened to me) it's also why I don't use sharpened all the time, I think you may be Overthinking it, I remember the first time I used coloured kickers on my ronnie rig, i was thinking this is never gonna work but now I love a pink kicker, works a treat 😏 I would test one against a non coated one at least see if it rusts or not

Ooogh Secret squirrel stuff nice

Have you looked at some of the 3 in 1 haiths mixes? Marine Red looked pretty good I thought for a base mix, I just happened to be browsing the other day and I saw them and thought that might make a decent home roller bait,

You will perhaps find the smell washed off in water

You may find some fresh nuggets starting a new one, I think if I was to buy some more now I would look at squid /garlic type flavours rather than fruity ones though, I still think proper jobs are great pop ups to use with goo though, I have some vintage ones I have been soaking for a while now they may be ready this spring

I've had a dabble, this is worth a read if you are interested, I still use it occasionally, but don't think I really worked out a must use miracle bait tbh

You could try soaking a coated one in water and see if the smell goes into the water or stays on the hook, is it a sort of boozy or marker pen type smell?

I think it is targeted advertising, so it depends on what you look at normally on your browser, although mine Is showing something scientific at the minute so it's got that wrong 😂 You will have to let us know how it works, it looks good on the blurb and that I've seen

Okumas are brilliant reels tbh, I use 8k although they might be a little bulky for you,but the inc6000 do get a lot of good write ups, @B B has some I believe, he likes nice reels, I don't think you would go far wrong with a set of those tbh

It is anti human, there is a lot of it about, the government trying to take workers rights, human rights, the NHS, they are making us all the the working poor, even if you think you are doing OK they are still taking your money back off you via taxation or inflation, now we have got to the point where the middle class is being attacked, its not all nurses that are striking its doctors, barristers etc too, Where does all the disinformation come from though its not just fat Barry down the pub having a laugh, these people have a lot to lose if workers united against them, which is why they try and divide us, the daily mail wants you to hate meghan and Harry, trans and *** folk, immigrants, and lefties, snowflakes the woke, x climate activists etc etc etc, Thing is none of these groups are any different to you or me and none are really a threat, they all need to work to survive and will all pay into the system somehow, whereas these billionaires usually inherited all the money,keep it hidden offshore, they had the best education, and they need to protect it, because if a socialist like Corbyn got in he would take it all back from whence it was stolen in the first place and we would have rights and more freedom an NHS where people got paid properly and people generally better off,

That's the point she sounds just like a crazy lady, the way the story is written to make her sound like an eco warrior animal rights activist lefty is nonsense, when there is no factual basis that is true, it is just wrong, its manipulating an incident to make out its what all the "woke" lefties do or think all the time is just go about bothering people, when in fact she encountered a nutter whilst fishing, they do probably dozens of stories a day like this online, the content doesn't matter from one story to the next, its the agenda they are pushing

Yeah they are far from impartial also lol, especially fiona Bruce on question time

You do know the daily mail lies though don't you? That rag isn't a news paper it's a right wing propaganda machine, and they will do anything to discredit just stop oil, climate change protesters, unions etc etc etc because they get in the way of billionaires making profits, ultimately if you want to protect your local lakes, rivers etc then just stop oil or any other group of protesters will care more generally than your local mp, mine voted to allow sewage to be dumped into rivers etc, My theory now if piers Morgan, farage, Jeremy Kyle, James whale, gb news, Clarkson the daily mail, the scum, or any of that lot are mentioning it, there are stories elsewhere that need your attention as they are gaslighting the nation for a reason

I ended up recently deciding to just make up a load of leaders and I now have 8 bags with plastic dumbell wafters ready to rip for when I next get out,the yellow thing has extra spare leaders on, the only thing I may change for summer when the weed is up is to make them drop off leaders with another ring on the swivel, I did buy an ngt case just for solid bag fishing though Everything solid bag in one place (apart from pellet mix ) hooks, braid, leaders, scissors, bait stops, needle, pva bags, pva tape, I'm also going for a hookbait / liquid pouch this year with a couple of goos/Liquids and a few types of hookbaits in so I can goo up the bags when making them on the bank, I was meant to be fishing yesterday but someone in my family always seems to be ill with sonething or t'other at the moment, It's giving me time to over think though so every cloud lol

My MIL swears she doesn't need glasses and yet the font on her phone is set to massive 😂 I treated myself just before Xmas to a cygnet megapult it's a big boy with a big pouch, I saw one in the new handy tackle shop near my mums new house and had to have it, I also bought some more innovate pop ups and a glug 😂

I need some more new bait 😀 the mice have been in my bag, the only pop ups they took from about 10 pots were the proper job KLS, 😢 If you haven't used these they have been my go too ever since I got them, it was always the one to go first, they haven't managed to get in my bins yet though the little pricks which is lucky I guess 🤔

For me the reason is the same, I would rather sit at home and make 20 or so, than keep tying them on the bank all the time spent tying bags is time I'm not watching the water, plus if a bag goes without a bite in a couple of hours I will assume its a single hookbait and lose confidence it's still presented, the amount of quick bites I've had on bags seems to justify that logic, and people can't be bothered to do that, so it's an edge in itself

Good idea, I like the gemini stuff tbh, the booms make rigs nice and neat, they seem to have some good products, the hooks aren't bad either, pretty sharp out the pack, I just prefer a more supple leader that will go with the contours of the lake

Thanks tablecloth ala dunelm it's exotic 😂 No the knot would be fine no different to any other I don't think I use the gemini tidy stems and they fit a fox lead which has a 5.75mm bore with the insert removed so it should always free the lead on a break, maybe it could be neatened with a short length of silicone or tubing to cover the loop and knot might be OK but that would need to be the same thickness as the stem so the lead didn't catch on it, as Charlie said gemini do connectors, i couldn't find one that may just neaten it up a treat

No annoyingly I hadn't because I think it works a treat now I've done it 🤔 That makes bag fishing as simple as it can be in my book what do you reckon?

I did try those already but I found the using them a bit of a faff tbh, i like simple lol

Dear guys. When wanting to use solid bags one of the things that puts me off is the need to use lots of leaders to switch them quickly,they tangle and get knotted when in storage, I have a load of bag stems which I could easily prep but would it be bad to use a splice able leadfree leader with a big loop at one end, so I could just loop to loop the bag stem rather than loop to looping the bag and leader on, thus needing less leaders and an easy change solution? I will try and make one later so I can try it, but I just want a quick change solution and I found the tubing doesn't seem to work as it always seems to slide up the line

I couldn't resist buying those hair raisers at the top they smelt lovely squid and octopus fruit and black pepper,banarama hairaisers and choco malt jaffa pop ups, well happy with my bait collection, proper carp anglers, proper baits, reaper nut mix smells and tastes great, not heavily flavoured quite soft mmmm😋 the fix is a little firmer but looks like a proper red fishmeal and has a nice low level peachy flavour, all shelf life too, 😳 I think I did well, hopefully I can catch some nice fish on them now and if I need bait in a rush I can just pop in the car and get some, happy days

I've been through some phases lol, I would've used the original company I used as Nick did, because I had caught quite a few using them before but when I returned to fishing they were no more, I went through a few baits and couldn't settle,probably me not the bait but then I had 3 good years with retro and would have stuck with them but sadly that wasn't to be, now I am going local and trying innovate, I did quite a lot of research and had a chat with them, it's always a bit of a gamble but they seem to have a good local following and from looking through social media, there baits have caught some decent carp and I also mean tough to catch local carp too, including some of St Ives prized residents, they list a lot of the ingredients I like to have in a bait and time and results will tell but on paper the baits sound decent they have been around for a while and they steam baits rather than boil them, which I also like the idea of, hopefully the results will follow, but I do have the Elmo factor which doesn't help 😂