elmoputney

No, no it won't, I don't want to get involved. I'm gonna maintain I don't care 😂😂

I could, I have some sensitive scales at work, I do feel that may be some next level stuff though 😂 Perhaps with tank testing and a set of scales you could also measure out the perfect amount of putty required for your rig to make it perfectly balanced 😬 korda rig skales anyone? Tbh I think the weight of a marker swivel vs say a quick link swivel probably wouldn't be that much different. Negligible

Well good luck hope you bag a biggie

You are the founding father of spending on tackle 😂

You can crimp tricklink works quite well, I've only got in 25lb and that's a bit too stiff, if you are concerned about your rig not sitting right you can always lengthen the boom, with the 15lb it does have some flexibility. Since messing with it in the margins I am convinced it's a lot less visible. I will use it with a lead clip, but I am mainly using inline leads at the moment and have been playing with shorter booms quite successfully. Another thing I haven't done yet but might consider is using a marker ring swivel,rather than a kwik change, I think because of the big ring it's more likely to sit well on the bottom. Something to think about anyway.

I do get why people prefer braided hooklinks they are stronger you would struggle to break them by pulling them,also sitting funny that's why I prefer the 15lb it is a lot more supple than the thicker heavier ones. My preferred spots are usually smooth clay/slightly silty spots tbh

I was going to just ignore this but I can't. I guess I have to justify all my opinions these days. However hard a fish pulls not all the pressure will be on the crimped boom, there is also however much line acting as a shock absorber behind it. Then you also have the clutch on your reel to further lessen the tension. The bend of your rod and your body movements to take away the impact, it won't all be on the rig. I use 15lb boom for my rigs, and 21lb line at the moment, and I will tell you why. in the unfortunate event of a break (which hasn't happened yet and I've had some savage fights with decent sized carp ) more than likely it WILL break at the boom, but to me that is preferable to the fish also dragging about 50yds of trailing line and a lead system that might get tethered and not discharge as it should (and yes i do have a robust lead set up that should discharge) if I have played a fish so hard that my set up has failed I would call that bad angling on my part. Obviously sometimes your set up might fail but things cannot be helped and that is just unlucky (act of god stuff) but... I test each boom that I make and have used them for multiple captures so I am confident my process is robust.

We have all said that too 😂

I'm not using fluorocarbon.

That's how it's starts, just a couple of new rods, then reels, then bivvy, bed, luggage, bite alarms, then you start going for non essential stuff like boats, bushwhackers, more luggage to put new bits in, more terminal tackle than you know what to do with then you find you don't use it all, sell some bits to buy more stuff you don't really need 😂 I've had a few bouts of just wanting to buy stuff lately. I've managed to stop myself so far, but for how long..........

It depends I think, personally I pull it tight enough to test it knowing that it's under tension, but I've learnt it will snap if you pull it too much, it's more like a mainline, if you did a boom of mainline with loops at both ends, you know it will snap eventually, you kind of have to treat it like that, I did also go through a phase of having doubts about them, but over time I've just got used to them and no longer worry, I use the 15lb boom with XS crimps. You definately need the right size crimps for BS.

I have varifocals, they still end up in the top of my head for close up work 😂

They can be tricky to thread, have you seen the chod ones they are even smaller 😱

I was messing about with the krimps after making some booms the other night, and made a pretty tidy Hinged Stiff rig. Much easier than trying to tie them tbh and you can easily adjust the height.

I haven't had any issues yet, if they don't click when you crush them, they tend to slip, so I would redo them, i pull them everytime to the point I think they would slip and If I pulled the granny out of it, I think that it would snap at the crimp But I also think if I made a knotted version of my boom if i pull it hard enough it will probably snap, I seem to remember doing that with some fluorocarbon rigs and snapping them someone told me not to pull it so hard 😂

You might want to check that the fluorocarbon is crimpable, some of them aren't and it makes them weak, most of the crimpable booms are made from mono rather than fluoro, personally I use korda boom for krimping.

Seeing how you all had fancy chairs, I've just ordered the new ridgemonkey umpire chair, it has really telescopic legs powered by a remote control so you can raise it up and look over the lake in comfort, and it drops down in a flash if you get a run, comes complete with rig board, carry bag and it's especially useful for casting zigs. Was expensive though £2019.99

There is a bit missing out the table, your dinner will fall through. 😳😂

Nope it's a chore. And this makes it much easier, then I just drill it off, take off the top of it, slide it off and put it in a bag and take it to the tackle shop, you just can't set your drill on turbo mode and it doesn't tangle.

You got a drill? https://www.carpspirit.com/product/d-spool-stripper/0 p} Makes life so much easier

Only thing that puts me off is you are putting all your line through a metal hole and I would worry about it damaging the line, would probably be OK but I don't want to chance it 😳

they have bought out an updated version with all black fittings and stuff I noticed them the other day. https://johnsonrosstackle.co.uk/shimano-carp-rods/27514-89330-shimano-tx2-a-carp-rods.html#/4341,choose,13ft-intensity-35lb

I recently got some pva mesh from westmore pva, they do only seem to do mesh but they do, 60mm wide mesh if that helped. It's quite cheap but also very good.

@salokcinnodrogmight know more he is a Suffolker.

I'm not interested either really, twig, wand whatever....