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It's OK seeing that it's pretty much all the same. It's when I see pots of this and that, bags of this and that from every known bait company, that's when in my opinion its too much. Just stick to one bait, maybe a few different colours of hookbait but that's it.

On my old lake they were banned and yet my particle mix was full of them, yet when the bailiff checked the bucket, he couldn't see any. There is always a way 😉

They used to do these years ago and they were so oily. So for me personally I'd wait for the water to warm up a bit first. First time I used the dynamite peanuts was on an 11 acre lake on a windy spring day. I was on the back of the wind and my 2 handfuls of nuts literally flattend the entire lake due to the oil. Once the fish get on them though they can be devastating.

The last time I took baileys with me fishing in winter I drank it all in my coffees. Never did get round to using it as a glug.

Marmite thinned down with fish sauce😉

Sorry to split hairs here, but are you saying for 30yrs you concentrated more on rigs than location? Surely Location is 99% of the puzzle, for me it is anyway. The last 1% is putting a bait in front of them that they will eat, attached to a rig that works. As everyone knows, if you aren't on the fish , then you can't catch the fish.

Dental floss for me. Tie it around your pop up and then tie to ring. Keeps your pop up much more buoyant if you don't pierce it.

I once told a mate loads of my spots on my old lake. For the life of him he couldn't find anything in any of the swims I told him about. Only when he asked me what length my rods were did we realise what was going on. He uses 12ft and mine were 12ft 6in 😂

Well they are double DD's, or bigger 😂

This rod builder doesn't gain anything from slating daiwa though. And as I've stated , He is a rod builder, not a rod maker. He mainly builds on Harrison blanks and forgive me if I'm wrong but I think Harrison's know what constitutes an excellent rod blank, especially seeing that they make them for all disciplines in our sport.

I'm guessing he means he brought the blank and built the rod to his own spec'. Everyone's choice/opinion will differ on every subject. All my carp rods have been and are custom built. First set were century and since then all have been Harrison blanks. A mate of mine once asked this rod builder if he would strip and rebuild a set of daiwa magnum tapers, the rod builder said he wouldn't use daiwa rods to grow runner beans let alone fish with Haha. But that's his opinion and plenty of anglers would say otherwise.

I was gutted I didn't buy a set when all my mates were buying them. I was a bit reluctant as in my mind chub weren't a name I associated with rods, especially when my rods at the time had seen better days and instead plumped for a much more expensive set. They are excellent rods that I brought but could have brought 3 sets of chub with what I spent. You live and learn.

Buy what you can afford. After all it's the last 6-8inches of your set up that's out in the pond that catches your fish and your watercraft obviously. Carp don't care if you've got a £50 fishing rod or a £500 fishing rod. I'm pretty sure I've said this before on here somewhere but mates of mine swear by the lower end chub rods. To the point of using them over their much more expensive other rods.

I wonder what we would find if we went into your "search history"😳😂

Take some maggots next time. A few pints of reds will have them, especially if you're seeing fizzing up. If you see fish showing but no fizzing then chances are they're up in the water column and zigs may well do you a bite.

It could just be a fish has died and a fox has dragged it out the lake after its washed up in to margins. You start seeing numbers of partially eaten fish then you'll have a problem I'd say.

One of my mates wanted a beefy set of rods a few years back for france but didn't want to pay the earth. He got the chub outcast in 3.5tc. He was that impressed with them that he has stopped using his top of the range free spirits and also brought a set of the chub 13ft 3.5tc and also quite a few of my other mates have them now. Preferring these rods to their much costlier other rods. If you're on a budget then these rods seem pretty damb good. I'm guessing they still make them.

You're not wrong there mate. The house feels empty. No barking or seeing a wagging tail through the glass as you get to the front door. Same as when I come downstairs every morning, she would always be sat there waiting for me. Going to take a lot of getting used to.

Just had to put my dog down today and my god its heartbreaking. I nearly didn't go in with her because I was inconsolable but had to be there for her and im not afraid to say I've been crying like a baby all day. I feel your pain. Like you 14yrs old and had her since a pup. I feel empty as does the house.

Are you sure a Typhoon didn't pass through your swim in the night 🤣. Sounds a busy session, nice one 👍

Any wholesale place will do it. A Costco, Makro type place or look out for special offers in the mainstream supermarkets.

When fishing deep silt I nearly always use the chod rig. I'll use a length of leadcore to suit the slits depth and add a couple of feet. Set the top bead a couple of inches down from where your mainline is tied to the leadcore and the rig is always fishing. Used this method on a gravel pit where the fish would regularly visit an area where the old gravel wash was, the silt here was 3ft plus deep in places and when the fish were there the water was the colour of milky tea. The fish could be from 20yds out to 100yds out in this area. The further out then I'd plump for a 3.5oz lead, when that is buried In 3ft of silt it becomes one hell of a bolt rig.

Just use marmite, carp love it.

If you tend to "get into the larger ones" then in my opinion that is good angling. Is it luck you fish the right spots, use the right rigs etc etc, not for me. That's all down to good angling. Don't get me wrong, i used to think the same but I'd find the fish, find the spot, apply bait correctly and present my bait in an acceptable way, no luck involved there, just good angling. Is that big headed, no it's a fact. I'd rather be a good angler than a lucky one.

Day session? That's what I take for a 72hr session Haha.