elmoputney

I use 12ft 3.25lb and don't find them too stiff, I don't feel like new rods are as broomsticky as they used to be, if you are wanting to continue using solid bags I wouldn't want to go under 3lb tc I have daiwa crosscasts I think they are a nice all rounder, I also think before you go chucking loads of money at rods, just try a different rig material. You may find your rods aren't an issue.

You must be thinking about voting Reform party then lol.

Not at all I've already spoken to them about it, while they don't fundamentally agree with it, they don't mention it directly in their policies and you know if we keep letting the tories and labour dump turds all over the shop we won't have any fishing anyway, apart from poop fishing. https://greenparty.org.uk/political-programme.html

You might get richer hunting for nessie then. 🐙🐙 😁 Glad you enjoyed it though, sounds like a nice adventure to go on,

I thought there was going to be a pic of you with Martin Kemp 🤣 Are you rich now?

If only the nation hadn't lost its mind and allowed Borismania to sweep through with a long trail of destruction, I hope you will be voting green next time as they are the only ones serious about stopping it.

Wow not at all contrary, imagine if you were more outraged at water companies that dump Actual sewage in our waterways.

It's sounds like you are fishing in dictatorship not a fishery. If you are using barbless you won't need to file down the barb to remove the old hook from the kicker because the barb isn't getting in the way of the kicker sliding off.

Looks pretty cool doesn't it, can you see where your lines go even without the blue lights?

Are you going to get the police down to make it glow up?

Good luck mate, How is the new line?

How will you know what part was the problem if you ditch everything at once?

I just looked on the proper job website gone up to £10.25 a tub now. Good job I have tonnes already 😳

If I had a pound for every pop up in my collection I would be pretty wealthy right now 🤣

The esp tungsten soft is a good coated braid there are plenty out there though, I think it is something that is possibly overlooked tbh, I did a quick search and some lakes have banned uncoated braid,perhaps more should,

That's pretty much my rig nowadays 👍 @crusian

The krank type hooks are good with a Ronnie Rig, I've recently developed a love of these with the Ronnie, these are now pretty much all I use now, great hook holds so far. https://www.jprecisionhooks.co.uk/products/advanced-lgs I also use avid D rig kickers as my go to Ronnie kicker, I like having the d rig to add a little more seperation between hook and bait (bit fiddly) and when I need to change hooks I now always file down the barb of the old hook to aid removing this 👍

If you like a krank you will low these 😍 https://www.jprecisionhooks.co.uk/products/gapex-1

ESP chod hammers 👍

Then it must be the braid with a heavy lead swinging about in front of its face I would say., try a soft coated braid and see if it still does it.

I think it will be cuts from the braid whilst the fish is going away from him a bit too much pressure and it is slicing through the scissors from what I can understand.

Then it is the hooklink

Without knowing what one you use it would be difficult to ascertain what to suggest. I find uncoated braids can be a bit rough to the touch though and if you have flecks of kevlar in them they can be quite sharp too,

You can buy a broken down ferrari and it will still be broken, personally I think it will be the uncoated braid that is causing the mouth damage.

2 things I might consider. Maybe use a different uncoated braid. Maybe consider using a drop off inline lead