elmoputney

Yep that's my dinner on the muddy floor, got to catch now surely?

Does anyone else only ever remember they need to fix their bivvy the next time they use it? I've lost a couple of screws that hold the poles in, but with some clever pegging I think i got away with it good job it isn't windy 🤔

Hopefully you can just think of the good times, if you think you need to talk about things though just talk to someone it is better to get it out your system. Hopefully we can sort something out I'm sure others would be interested too if we got a venue and got the ball rolling a bit found a nice venue and that I did see an embryo one that could be booked exclusively which looked alright

I'm really sorry for your loss mate, hope you are bearing up OK, if you need a rant or anything drop us a message I think I would quite enjoy a social if we can sort one, I'm happy to drive a bit too

This was a comprehensive and interesting read from @yonny@Yonny well worth reading

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

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