snowmanstevo

Welcome back Woody Missed them myself Carl

Some sort of world record! That is one amazing stat! Wheres the Guinness book peoples number! I'm drinking it

Just to let you know Tim has contacted me and he is going to post the stick to me so hopefully sorted now till I can get some chubb bars. Just wanted to say a big thank you to you both for all your help and advice. Simon, I should have had a look on here before rummaging in the garage! I can't find mine so it's just as well that Tim is sorting you out. It's good to see that the forum is maintaining it's reputation for being a friendly place. Tim, you're a star! Ian The forum was allways a really helpfull place and most of my kit is from recommendations from members on here ..... Just a shame it ended up going T--S up because a stupid ego ..... I await the day that it returns to its former glory ..... Hope your keeping well Ian

I've read your post ..... Hookholds on bottom lip is good but not essential ..,, How many times have you played a carp heart in mouth only to find that it's well and truly hooked and was never coming out On the flip side the best fish I've had this year was a belting fight but lightly hooked Now you've said that you've lost a few at the net lately ... Is that a new thing ? It may be that your on a bad run If its worked for you before it will do again ... I think we're all guilty of dropping a few and the way you fight fish shouldn't come into it .... I think we all have our own style of fighting fish and no matter how much we try and change it in the heat of battle we all revert to how we deal with things .... Keep at it hook pulls no matter how heartbreaking happen I did a lot on commercials over the years and learnt to watch the rod when fighting fish on barbless ..... If there's a healthy bend in your rod it shouldn't matter how much of a hole there is in the hook hold ....

Still fish the lift method for tench ..... And I've still got a few quills in me shed .... And I seem to catch more carp than tench doing that Can't beat getting dragged around the lake on the match rod

Wow well done mate

Got a staffy and 6 goldfish ..... It's coming up to a year since I lost my other staff ...... Bad times Chickens are a definite maybe for next year down the allotment

I've watched the Korda videos and I don't doubt we get done quiet a bit ..... But just how many times I wound in my maggot rig today after 6 hrs of inactivity found a carp in the margins lowered it in and watched the fish take the rig and hook itself .... So am I missing something because I never got done once it hooked 1st time ????

I use the kd for my snowman set ups and its allways done ok for me and there normally well hooked in the bottom lip Tied some up a few years ago and stuck with them ..... Don't know how much different they are to KK but it's done ok so I still use it

5 turn grinner and polamar do the job for me ..... Polamar being my fave ..... Easy to tie and strong .....

Same as Ross

My mrs is on the 3rd book its ace .......... She aint mythered me for the last week n half

Been using the nash for the last 18 months and theve been sound

It's awesome stuff. Used it for leaders and for hooklengths for big stuff. I was shown this by a fellow member at Cromwell (he even give me some coz he,s a nice guy!) and i was amazed by it I dont know if his recent capture included this product i,ll let him comment but lets just say it was a BIG fish

The Guru method feeders are the only safe elastic feeders i know of but i dont like elasticated feeders myself

Ask the lads who had 30lb+ fish at cromwell if they hate chods Not everyone hates them mate just some people have different opinions

Slack line or backlead ??

As i said in an early post Coops the one,s me and the mate made up were solid and we did our best to snap em

Used my Zepplin pike float to good effect zigging last year Got the idea off this site

My mate got the wychwood ones at christmas and we made some small choddys up today with E.S.P bristel filament and they look really tidy and after giving them a good pull im confident that there really strong If me and the mate carnt break em i doubt a fish will

I got the little round 1 anglers mail gave out years ago I think i payed a couple of quid for my big square 1 i used in Ireland in the early 90,s I,m not sure if there still about a lot of tip anglers switched to braid in the mid/late 90,s so a target board became a bit redundant

Well in the good old days (i sound old ) 99% of tip fishing was done for silvers/bream and as cob,kieran has said it was all about sensativity ue,d set your rod up as normal and were your tip was u,ed put a little target board with lines on and then if u lined ur tip on with one of the lines you could see then bites if it move from 1 line to another !!!!! the bites really would be that shy But only for the silvers if you had a better fish ya tip just use to start bending and keep goin

I thought we was advising fantasticmrfox on fishing drayton thats why i advised the heavier tip I too started fishing on the tip for silvers and and would think nothing of using maggot on an 18 hook with a 2ft hooklenght with my 1.5oz And im sure if i went digging in my shed id find my old target board a bit of kit that was essential in the 80,s but forgotten about in this day and age

So in the summer when the fish are more active and your target size fish are 3-6lb carp would you still tackle up with a 1.5/2oz tip or start on a 3/4oz tip ???