elmovillan

I'm sure the carp only take some of these things out of curiosity. Using one on a hook is taking it just too far IMO.

I can believe that.....I've seen carp take discarded dog-ends off the top! My favourite used to be sugar puffs and hubba-bubba gum can score no problem.

Chinese wholesalers where I got some very cheap......and bottles of oyster sauce and fish sauce while I was at it. Its all a bit whiffy, but gives out one hell of a carpy signal.

Very interesting thread. They do say 'keep it simple' and sometimes they can make things extremely difficult to follow. The magazines can put as many diagrams as they like in, but its not always that easy. Besides, how many people follow them to the letter? More to the point, how many rigs are out there that have had the 'that'll have to do' treatment? Lets face it, we've all seen some horror rigs in our time! I know I have! I always (underlined) use a standard approach. It works! As long as the hooks sharp, thats all I'm concerned about.

50p! What a bargain! I found a early edition of CF some time ago in a proper book repository and it was up for double figures. I dithered about it and when I decided to buy it some guy from Lithuania online nipped in and paid about £20 for it. Gutted or what? I really wanted to read it though as it was more like grass roots. I get a bit fed up these days of the old intelligence being dealt another low blow with yet another 'expert' opinion