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nice winter pike that, i think the colours are much more vibrant in the really cold weather, well done

dont think they can find you a multi millionaire blond barmaid with a penchant for carp anglers from the east of England bud

would have been less contentious phill :lol;

Now your just taking the pee [emoji38] sent from my bivvy while holding a 50

i just bung all my gear in the back of my toyota hilux crew cab with a snow plough fitted (takes care of fences) and given enough room for extra fuel i can go for days without needing to take extra kit was tempted to upgrade to one of these but may be a bit of overkill, views please!!

looking at their website i would do one of two things. 1) avoid like the plague on the basis that EVERY one of those metric weights is off by almost 100% and if they cant get that right then it throws everything under suspicion. 2) phone them up and ask for clarification and possibly put the persons job in jeopardy who was responsible for the listing. 1 kilo = 2.20462lb and that would make the 0.35mm a whopping great 25lb breaking strain and not the 12lb listed. i just dont believe it

i would say that is a very unusual size bud, presuming that they are cm it gives you a size of 4ft 3in or 52inch by 1ft 11/4inch or 13 and a quarter?? strange size indeed. at the very basic level i use similar to this for stalking only. https://www.fishingrepublic.net/carp/unhooking-mats-slings/ron-thompson-unhooking-mat-standard-29111.html?gclid=Cj0KEQiAhNnCBRCqkP6bvOjz_IwBEiQAMn_TMcw_F6A8vKU2OpCAk1e7p3uNg5zC892vIDJdvAQdi9oaAqvj8P8HAQ when i am camping and stationary i use this https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unhooking-Safeguard-Protection-Foldable-Carrybag/dp/B00I5LSD6E/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1482076703&sr=8-4&keywords=carp+cradle if you are really on a tight budget the cradle can be found cheaper elsewhere

plum sauce mate

Love it [emoji12] damn this tapatalk

so i would say just use three rods with different rigs and see what works then??

Nick, i get the theory, i really do BUT!! in practice it has got to let you down, say you are at a lake with mixed stock, say mostly lower doubles 8 - 15lb with a smattering of clunkers up to 30lb. now, you are targeting the larger carp but would welcome any scaley item on the hook so you start off with your hair at 2", you then get a couple of hours of beeps so assuming you are getting dropped by the smaller stock and gagging for some action you drop the hair down to 1". straight away then you get a screaming take and eventually net a corker of a mid 20 but the hook is way at the back of the mouth. now according to the hair length theory posited by yourself, that should never happen!! A short hair won't allow the bait the freedom to be sucked in, so the hook doesn't even go into the mouth. If the hair is long enough the hook will follow it into the mouth, then with that hook following the carp 'realises' a foreign object is attached or the bait has something with it it shouldn't, so attempts to blow that foreign object out, giving the chance for the hook to pr ick into the lip. The hair needs to be long enough for the hook to be taken in in the first place. yet it has and does quite often so what the hell am i missing here? if this were so then the D rig, german, and all others that utilise ultra short hair or other mechanics would just not work and everyone would be on long hairs up to 4" long?? god help me

think david may have found the manufacturer of many top range reels bud, it is identical in every way but the script on it and a damned site cheaper too

Now THATS what is confusing me, you see that if the bait is in and out that fast the hook on a long hair wont even go into the mouth so therefore a short hair would work better yet the advice is to do the exact opposite?? Confused much. damn this tapatalk

i hate cats, both kind

hahaha!! last time at a local venue i was talking to the bailiff and trying to sus where they were biting and he happened to mention that the top lake had just had a 70lb cat out last night, that sealed it for me, bottom lake it was then

im with smufter on this except when im not. anything over 60yds and i expect my needle sharp hook to do its job.

sorry bud :oops:

heres a couple for ya smufter http://www.tacklebox.co.uk/bait-presentation/soft-bait-and-maggot/thinking-anglers-hook-ring-swivel-screws.html http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Taska-Carp-NEW-Fishing-Matte-Black-Threaded-Swivel-Bait-Ring-/232127257110?hash=item360bdcda16:g:66MAAOSwMVdYExuI

what the hell did i post that saved your sanity? and here i am losing mine

since getting confused by the hair length thingie a couple of years ago i developed my own take on the german rig and found that i was nailing them quite acceptably all of a sudden instead of having to firk the hook out of the scissors which actually makes a mockery of Nicks explanation above (sorry Nick, no insult meant) and that was the reason that i asked as it still dont gell i must be a lost cause

Nick, please elucidate, just for the thicko's out their (and me ) if the carp sucks the bait into its mouth it will suck with almost the same force every time (imo) therefore the bait should stop in the same place every time, back of the mouth or just in etc. now comes the confusing bit, surely if the hair is long IE distance from bait to hook point the hook will be toward the front of the mouth, thereby shortening the hair would put the hook further into the mouth and not closer to the lip? surely too the bait on a short hair would place the hook toward the throat and not the other way round as you state above? i have read many comments that state it the way you have but i just can not for the life of me grasp the concept... help!!

yes i stand corrected on the feeding thing, i have got my wires crossed. what i should have said is that the maggots will absorb the flavour and colouring thru the skin, i have successfully done white maggots to red (cochiniel) bronze (turmeric) and green on many occasions, try it and see

liquids are a no no!! if you want to colour or flavour them you need powdered gear, curry powder, turmeric and or garlic will add flavour and you can buy all manner of powdered food colouring too. powdered cochiniel (red) if mixed with bran and added to your maggots as long as they are active will give them a nice deep red shade. food colour and flavour will have to be mixed with bran tho as they have to ingest it, or you could always use a feeder and add a glug to the ones in the feeder to match your hooker

some good advice from Nick there, a couple of things that i would add tho is 1st if you keep them clean by riddling and cold in a fridge they will last anything up to 8-10 weeks before turning to casters. and 2nd the black spot in the maggot is its feed sac and a large black spot denotes a well fed and happy maggot so rather than keeping them in clean sawdust you can dust them with bran (buy a bag from your tackle shop) and they will munch on this for a while everytime you wake them with riddling. failing the use of a fridge i once kept some for over a month in the summer just by putting the bait box in a dark corner of my garage floor so that is another option

could try ringing jims reels, just a thought. you know that Diawa recommend that the line clip not be used when casting dont you? its purely a line tidy http://jimsreelshop.co.uk/epages/50de3a2f-b72e-4eac-861b-30c18ef9512f.sf/en_GB/?ViewAction=View&ObjectID=4896551&PageSize=36&OrderBy=NameOrAlias&OrderDesc=0