wilfster

angling is hard this time of year with high temps and pressures mate. so much natual food knocking about. stick at it pal, autumn is round the corner.

oh o mate. your gonna get told off when one of the almighty powerful mods see that you aint searched for "what hook" threads. grab your tin hat and run for cover.

lightly steam over a kettle on the bank.

did you use alot of tape to tie them off. bet this is leaving the residue behind as i have found in the past.

is it in the area where you have tied the bag off? also, did you tie it off with pva tape?

Not really as he said he switched the snakebite to mono and then caught 2 fish, so im guessing he had rod in same place. I think snakebite pretty rubbish to be honest. Its really thick and stands out like a sore thumb. But i imagine you caught because mono is less visable than snakebite. Keep it simple and just concentrate on watercraft. nah mate, just wasn't fish over his spots. it really is that simple. there is a science to rigs and how they behave differently to different fish that feed in a different manner, but generally i feel that we dont get sussed like alot of the time we believe, more like they got away with it through feeding the way they do naturally or they just weren't feeding. granted that braid can stand out more than mono due to the fact that braid allows no light to pass though it, but seeing everything is one thing and knowing what your seeing is another.

because you had your rig in the right place at the right time when fish were feeding. SIMPLES

what bait you using.

take loads and loads and loads of bait and spod and then spod some more, and the spod again. dont forget your floaters. and always consider a zig should the fishing "seem" slow.

might be worth a visit, a bailif is bound to turn up sooner or later.

give harefield tackle a bell mate should the above post be out of date as he said it may be. sure they'll have up to date information if what 666 posted isn't.

keep things as simple and basic as you can and you wont be going far wrong.

what about thorney weir in west drayton, middlesex? not a runs water but has a good head of carp. 14 acres, £14 a day for 3 rods. hundreds and hundreds of 20's with a very good chance of something better. neither easy nor hard. http://www.britishcarpchamps.co.uk/venues2008/thorney.html

x-line fished slack. job done.

in all honesty mate i'd never cast out a supple link like silk worm without it being in a solid bag mate. Never gonna tangle off the cast. But there still come back tangled, so i'd say your tangled rigs are happening on the retrieve.