brighton_carper

Welcome to the forum. A mate of mine is the bailiff there. I'll drop him a text, see how it's fishing.

And I think the waiting list is closed at the moment, but there's enough decent waters in that part of the country. I'm sure someone on here can point you in the right direction.

Is that the one run by The Carp Society?

Has any bloke actually read it?

Looks interesting. Have you fished it yet?

But if one fails they all have to get sent back together anyway by the looks of it exactly the point...why would I want to be without alarms completely because one head failed....I dont have that with any other alarm....its just design for designs sake...no practical thought involved Look like a load of rubbish. They'll be inventing the square wheel next. korda already have the patent on it...its for their new "workout barrow" Korda Boooo!

But if one fails they all have to get sent back together anyway by the looks of it exactly the point...why would I want to be without alarms completely because one head failed....I dont have that with any other alarm....its just design for designs sake...no practical thought involved Look like a load of rubbish. They'll be inventing the square wheel next.

Well, if they're anything like the G2s I'd stay well clear. I bought a set of G2s a few months ago, and they're rubbish. Every single time there's heavy'ish rain they just totally pack up. I've gone back to using my old Fox Ultrons. Currently saving up for Delks.

Brobably better off with a dinghy. There is some serious wet stuff on the way.

If these Eastern European savages were catching and eating birds they'd have an army out protecting them, but sadly no one but us cares about the fish.

If it had only happened to the one at 40 yards, I'd make you right, but it also happened to the one I flicked under a tree by my own margins. I actually had dreams on Friday night about massive PB Carp shaking their heads and ejecting my hooks. I'm going back tomorrow or Wednesday night to try the new ideas and exorcise those dreams.

That would be great if you could, thanks.

About 7-8 inches I think, although I don't actually measure them. Just an idea, Why don't you make the hooklink twice as long and tie a loop at the opposite end to the hook. Thread the loop through the eye of your swivel, and pull the loop down towards the hook, so now the hooklink is doubled up, push the hook through the loop and pull down an inch or so,tie a piece of pva round both bits of hooklink and tie another pice of pva by the swivel. When the pva dissolve's the loop is now free to travel up the hooklink until it hits the swivel, the hooklink might just be enough to make the fish panic and bolt giving you the best of both a running rig as well as a bolt rig. Just an idea i used many years ago, Can't really visualise that sitting on the train, but will try to recreate it in the shed tomorrow, see how it hangs. Cheers

One was in my own margins and the other was at about 40 yards. Sorry but why are you using a Heli rig for close range work, as it is designed as a long range rig and has no benefit at close range? Because it's safest way of using leadcore, and when using it with pva mesh it never tangles.

About 7-8 inches I think, although I don't actually measure them.

2oz flat pear

Soft braid

One was in my own margins and the other was at about 40 yards.

Not full on slack, but I tend to leave a little slack so the leadcore can settle into the bottom.

I haven't just been done, I've been double done. Don't worry, would never dream of glueing the bead on, that would be a death rig, plain and simple.

Last night I was fishing helicopter rigs. I banked an 11lb'er at about midnight, then in the night I had a couple of what I thought were line bites, 2 or 3 bleeps up, 2 or 3 bleeps down, then nothing. When I woke up and checked everything this morning, I noticed that one of my rigs had definitely moved, and another one ended up in a snag. When I reeled in, I noticed on both rods that the top bead on the helicopter rig had been pulled up so it was running lose on the line, allowing the hook link to move up and down. Were the carp are using the weight of the lead to throw the hooks without giving a proper indication on my bite alarms? And if so, I might be better switching to running rigs? It's just that most of the fish in my lake are over 20lbs, but this season all I keep catching are the 10-12lbers. I'm wondering if the bigger fish have just got a bit smarter. What do you think?

Have you done a night there yet?

Is it a water where you have to fish your way through the smaller stuff to get to the big ones? No dont think so, fished it Wednesday had 8 runs landed 5 fish up to 14lbs saw some bigger ones on top. Did you try surface fishing for em?

Is it a water where you have to fish your way through the smaller stuff to get to the big ones?

Doing 48 hours on Sinah, if I don't get blown away. Haven't tried Soake Pond yet. The general word is that Soake isn't what it used to be, but I'm alway suspicious of that kind of hearsay. Did you fish Sinah much?