elmoputney

Cultured goo baits anyone? Been soaking these for ages now they are being coated with sticky manilla stick mix and loads of goo it's quite amazing how much liquid these can take with the addition of groundbait 😍 The pink one is how they started out 😂

Sorry to hear that mate, hope it gets better soon

Feels a long time coming, can't wait to just switch off and hear nothing but nature again, I think I may even start baiting up soon 🤔

Bream will eat boilies too mate 👍 I tend to invite all to the party when I start prebaiting, they all help to clear the spots and I always think the other fish will make the carp investigate, Everyone seems to think pellets =bream, but I also have complete confidence they help me catch carp too, Blakes baits is pretty good for pellets and particles free delivery over £40

I've almost planted the seed of a 48 hour session to the misses as it will be my birthday in April, I started thinking about all the stuff I could do, like reel the rods in, go for a walk about, drink a beer in the morning, afternoon nap and those kind of treats I don't normally get to enjoy, if I catch something it will be a bonus but I'm just gonna relax the Heck out of it and switch off from the world for 2 whole days csmt wait 😂

I think it may be the same tbh, I have a cyprinus bunker and I love it, look out for the deals on there site you may be able to get a good deal on there auctions

It is cheap because its a 50/50 mix with some added bits, the patshull Park mix would do the job better I think, and still not expensive, Personally If you want to save some money prebaiting I would use pellet and particles much less hassle than rolling bait yourself, and will do a great job

About time to get my actual fishing head back on I think, I haven't been since December 😳 I'm not going to lie I haven't really missed it that much, haven't had time or the energy, it's starting to not feel like a bad time to start firing in a few freebies out though so I may get my prebaiting hat on again and start getting ready for a couple of overnighters and prepping some spots, ready for action, need to sort my stuff out respool my reels, and get spot finding and airbombing, hopefully I can find a couple of windows for this next week, so far I've thought about it a few times, but it has always seemed to be raining and cold when I get the chance, I'm just not that hardcore at the moment 😂 Anyway hopefully this year will be a good one for us all and we can all catch some whackers,

I've still got some particle 42 pop ups nick? Do you think they will be OK? I smell them from time to time they still smell like a tub of confidence to me 😁

I got a little Penn oil and grease set seemed to help a bit 👍

If you haven't got a spod rod get one before you buy a boat, it's the rod and reel you will end up using most tbh, i use mine for finding spots and measuring distances with distance sticks,as a marker rod, creating spots and clearing spots with a grappling lead or small weed rake , baiting spots, spombing, spodding, air bombing, basically it goes to the lake more times than my fishing rods and I would be lost without it, it is the most essential rod I own 👍

I think practice first tbh, if I was to get a boat it wouldn't do much I couldn't do without it, it's well worth taking the time to develop your skills first, get good at clipping up and all that so you can hit the spots you want to, it's important to learn and develop the basics, I'm no good at fishing at distance, I've never had to fish that far really, and it is something I want to get better at but I wouldn't feel happy catching a fish at a range I couldn't cast to using a boat, I would see that as cheating, its up to you but that's my take on it, if you aren't sure of things and want to get better just ask on here lots of friendly helpful people about 👍

I couldn't see what it was the link didn't work 😳

I keep wanting an actor at the minute 😳 I think it would be useful for stealthy and quick prebaiting at night, Whack a marker out, 1.5kg per trip few trips out and hardly any disturbance and a Big bed of bait for the carps to find and hopefully no one seeing me do it 😬

One thing I found helped my back is using a chair that can sit on your bed, I used to get quite a bad back ache sitting on a bedchair, I have a trakker levelite transformer chair which can sit on the floor and also on a bed, might be quite low still on the floor but it's OK for me at the moment, and it is good on a bed, but it Definately helps and supports my back, Not sure it's the same but people swear by heavy weighted blankets or duvets for polymyalgia, I saw it yesterday, and thought that might have been good for my dad, 😢 but if it helps worth sharing 👍 I always think a power barrow might be a good investment for the future, and if a bait boat gets you fishing again it isn't cheating, I kind of want one for stealthy night time prebaiting lol, I keep seeing too many benefits for one (I haven't yet though ) 😂

Leave a steak 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳 I've never done that even if I am full up 😃 I think I probably agree with you though too much is probably better than not enough if it gets them feeding more readily, and I guess if you are feeding better quality food they are probably going to come back more often 👍

Well that can only be a good thing, and makes sense, so for that reason they are probably well worth it over the premium select ones, I used the coppens carp pellets last year and they seemed to work OK, 9%oil 32%protien I think carp can get hooked on them if you feed them enough,I noticed by the time I was on my second bag in the autumn they seemed quite keen on them last year 👍 I think it's good to stay amateur in these things, bait seems quite a rabbit hole you can fall down 🐰🐰👍

The premium select ones they do have also have 15% oil but only 34% protien, I've read a few times that anything over 33% protien is a waste as the carp can't utilise it all and it just gets crapped out , do you think there is a benefit to giving them more protien still like these ones with a higher protien value ? I don't know the answer my guess if it helps keep them coming back it's worth it😂 but if not and it's all about the oil then you may as well use the premium select, and save a few quid???? 😳

They just hang round my spots terrorising the small fish and waiting til night time to eat a yellow pop up 😪

Take it as a sign and start baiting it 👍 We have a duck eating catfish in my lake, someone in the syndicate watched one getting killed by one, i thought it must've been an otter or something, but he was adamant it was a cat as he said the fight lasted ages and he saw it rolling

I've used the black magic ones before to add to my Pva bag mix , they seemed pretty good, not seen those particular ones before they seem a new addition, look pretty good though high in protien and oil might be worth a punt, I have bought a few bits from BAF and they always seem good quality

If you want a line that doesn't break try 15lb hydrotuff 👍I've had it stuck up trees, deep into pads when I've forgotten to clip up, and I've always got the rig back 😂 Closest thing to elmo proof I've found 😳

https://www.tacklebox.co.uk/tackle-box-line-test.html Download this guide and have a look, I like Gardner hydrotuff personally, it will handle everything,you throw at it, Korda carp line is a good budget line also I am going to give the p line fluroclear a try this year also, I haven't spooled it up yet does look a nice line on the spool though 👍

I would just use a bait screw, makes life so much simpler 👍

You could get a remote from amazon for not a lot, some people use them in there hand whilst holding fish, I tried using one but found it a bit tricky ended up with an intervalometer, I know that doesn't help but I did think, if you put it in your sock under your big toe you would be able to press it OK, worth a try maybe?before selling the camera,