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probably when you nipped over to the social bud, i thought i had whipped em off in time

now there is a great idea, we ask a question and you often get conflicting replies. to come back and give a positive response about which answer worked best not only gives more positive info to the forum but Kudos to the supplier of said info too. well done Richard

same reason as he nails bream to a tree, he dont think!!!

when you tighten down on the knot you can see the loops start to wind round the hook shank, if you hold the hair in the opposite direction to the loops it minimizes the misalignment, baiting the hair first tends to stop most of the twist too.

my post was just a possible suggestion Nick as believe it or not, i have NEVER seen a crayfish in the flesh as we dont get them round here

how does this look? https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=KORDA+SUPER+WRAP+

i didnt get any of those in my kit, i think a stern email to ridgemonkey is in the offing. I WANT THOSE BITS OF USELESS PLASTIC

i picked up a magmatex last year for £50 from eBay and it is the best bag i have ever had a bit bulky to carry but warm as hell on those cold nights plus it fits to your bed so no creep.

well, heres a novel thought!! why dont you get yourself a fly rod and use them as they were intended? dont mean to sound condescending C9 but just saying, when the carp are on top i have some of the best action ever on the fly rod (and it dont take long to learn) you only need to flick the fly out 30ft or so for some of the most exciting fishing you will ever do.

OO OOH you have sold me, i think im gonna get one oh yeh, i already do hahaha!! gotta agree tho, two wideboys and all your kit too lol

do you unzip the front to give you even more room? i reccon you get almost half a meter more that way lol

+1 for the hurricane 2 man, a little on the heavy side to haul to the bank but well worth the effort, i also have a wideguy bed and could still hold a disco in it

http://www.dragoncarpdirect.com/diem-lite-fishing-bedchair--942180?colcode=94218099

i have this trakker stove and warm or cold weather it has never failed me, when im on the bank i have at least two cooked meals a day plus numerous cups of rosy and dont forget the boiling of the kettle to shrink tube new rigs and the occasional 'guest' dropping by for a cuppa too. i get thru about 3 canisters a year, i carry two and rotate them.

I have one of those, what tabs are they, you got a photo?

gotta say gagna, we have to go back to the roots when we look at things like this, a good mate of mine and his new girlfriend were waiting for my girl and i to meet them in a pub in brum before hitting the clubs, barbarella's, lacarno and rebbeca's etc but as we got off the train in new street we were told all station entrances and exits were closed for the night so we had to go home. being in the days before mobiles were widely accepted it was after my mate turned up absent at work the next day that i found out that the bernie inns that i was to meet them in was in a little disaray. after packing in my job that very day as i was working for an irish builder and held him 'in naivety' and his rellies fully responsible for the actions of the perpetrators i actually did a lot of reading on the irish problem and from whence it stemmed. imagine my surprise as i found out that it was the british rampant murdering of their wives and children, the appropriation of their land, the rampant slavery of anyone old enough to work land that once belonged to them. the exile or outright murder of anyone old enough to cause trouble ( the reason for the massive irish population in the usa today) all because of the englishmans greed for a root vegetable, the humble potato. after that i could see what they were trying to accomplish and that in the light of what had gone before. i had to also accept that they had only been shown the way by their oppressors of a generation or two before. we really do have to think about things these days

richard, i have got the cyprinus wide guy bed chair and you just cant fault the workmanship so i would see if you can find somewhere local to have a close look at the bivvy if you can. on a side note that bivvy looks almost identical to the hurricane that i have, goes up in exactly the same way and with the same components, you could bet that its the same one just re-branded and at a third of the price too

my last bivvy was a TFG 2 man pop up and that was why i got the hurricane 2 man but you could literally put the tfg inside the other and still walk round it, as for folded i would say that they were both about the same size folded but as the hurricane has aluminium poles as opposed to carbon it comes out at about 6-7 kilo without the overwrap which comes in the price too.

hey richard, i have got the hurricane AS 2 man bivvy, it is ginormus. you can easily fit two beds in and have room for a tea party in the middle if you fit the overwrap on and then remove the bivvy front you extend the size by another half metre and at around £200.00 its a bargain. they are on the EBay atm for as little as £130 too

modern day wizardry bud

me too, i am also driven by the inescapable fact that the individual bits that go to make up £150 worth of Delk can be picked up online for pence and so the only benefit in buying them is that they come ready assembled for you. it is the fan base that drives the price and if anyone was to come out with a set that equaled the Delkim for performance and at a lower price you would see that £150 tumble rather quickly in relation to the fan base shrinking

why are you starting off with so many rigs?? 6" hooklink with a knotless knot and a short hair has been catching carp for generations and is still a good place to start. the addition of a rig ring to create a blowback rig is the next logical step and every rig that is in use now is just a variation on the theme, kicker here, shrink tube to hold the hair on the bend there. there is an old adjective that i always think applies more to fishing than anything else and that is ''slowly, slowly catchee monkey'' start small and build YOUR OWN style from there would be my advice

dayvid, i think if you do the math you will find that your suggestion is a little bit more than a bit more, in fact it is fast approaching 4 times as much

do they catch you more fish than fox or prologic??

i have got a few banksticks and an unused pod with adjustable goalposts, can post pics later if you want? £500 the lot