adamkitson

Me too. By far the most mentioned one in this thread. Looks great!

Done a fair bit of fly tying in my time too! That's good fun, apart from when the satisfaction of catching on your own pattern is mixed with annoyance that the fish has trashed a fly that took ages to tie! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Well no I was simply throwing in the time factor as some may take that into consideration. A saving of £3 per kg may not be a lot to someone who uses 1 or 2 kg a week and has little spare time. Someone who campaigns lakes and uses kilos it may make a difference. Personally I use a fair bit of bait, but I'm self employed with no shortage of work, so yeah if I booked myself work for the half day a week is spend making bait I'd earn enough to buy much more than I can make. But I'd rather be making bait than working, so like you say, cost per hour doesn't matter.

Just worked out the cost per kilo of the baits I've been making, (for 2 nights so I have no idea if they work yet!) come in at under £3 a kilo! An unbranded quality fishmeal base mix, could probably make it a little cheaper if I sourced ingredient seperatly, but it's early days for that, and some flavours/ oils and colours. The rate I get through bait, even at the £5 something a kilo I pay for bait I would still save enough over a year to pay for half a syndicate ticket! I reckon I'd have to spend about half a day a week making bait though. If I went to work for this time I'd earn more, but it's not as much fun!

It was the red one that I snapped within 5kg of bait gaz.

Don't even want to consider the answer to that question!

Yeah I've noticed that it twists a fair bit. Threaded the eyes off the clutch and had to let the twist fall out before rigging the rods. We shall see! I can imagine loosing 50'yards to a decent fish would cause issues! May have to play fish like Mr Fairbrass and back wind!

Yeah I like my throwing stick. I just struggle with accuracy close in. I'll throw a bait 20 yards, 40+ and it's the stick. Ita the pesky middle bit that I seem to spend most time fishing at.

To be fair, it was the best I've used so far, just broke so quickly. Range was ok. Less baits, longer range obviously. I thought it may last a bit longer though.

Thanks! Mine lasted 2 trips.

Simply superb! Taken off subline, been using this for a couple of weeks. Now this stuff vanishes from the tip out in him clear water. Spools up well, knots well, handles well. Nothing bad to say! If anyone ever again hears me say "I'm going to try a Korda line, I know everyone says they're rubbish, but they say they're good on the telly. I'm going to try one anyway!" You have my permission to come to my house, take a storm pole, and thrash me with it while shouting "there are better lines than Korda" over and over again. Anyway.....

How hard can it be, really!?! A stick and some elastic that can propel a handful of boillies across a lake! I had a korum one which was ok. Did the job, but grouping was lost a bit above 5 baits and it constantly tangled. Then I got a drennan boiliepult, the red one. Great! As long as you don't want baits past 20 yards! Oh and after putting about 5kg out at full stretch the elastic snapped. I won't be replacing it! Now I've got a Fox long range (apparently) one, which fires 3 baits at a time tops, and has a hand guard! Didn't know why at first, now I do. No matter what you do it cracks the guard so hard it sounds like a gun going off! My preferred method past 40 yards is a stick, which is the best invention ever by the way! Would be nice to have something reliable to get a decent quantity of bait out up to 40 yards though! Any suggestions?

I can see it being cheaper depending on what you're using. I'm about to start a bit of home made bait making, but it's not for the saving really. I reckon I can get it to about a fiver a kg, and that's by buying a quality base mix, rather than all the ingredients, but it'll take a few kilos before I've covered what I spent today on table/sausage gun, etc. If you use mainline and buy by the kilo from a tackle shop, and go onto making your own from individually sources ingredients you could save a lot. If you have a good bulk supplier of pre mades and go on to roll mainline base mixes with their activators it'll be more. Depends what you get currently and what you plan to roll. My plan is to empty my syndi on a home made bait and not tell anyone what it is until end of the season! Just for a laugh! Mwahaha!

On that I could not agree with you more! Anyone who stands next to a running rod and doesn't pick it up as soon as possible shouldn't be fishing. That's the angler, not the equipment though.

Well i apologised if you took offence at what I said, not for what I said which I stand by. It's a daft argument as everyone else has also said. I don't wish to offend anyone, which is why on this and any forum I refrain from comments and remarks about anyone personally. But I'm sorry, if you write a post stating that you think bait runners cause lost fish, snagged fish, and is a matter of fish safety used by lazy anglers, I'd say a few would be offended by that and are likely to respond in kind. I don't think I was more direct in voicing my opinion than that was I? Anyway, let's leave all that for the girls and get back to the actual subject. I don't use bait runners, but I used to. I do use reels with a quickdrag free spool function and use it every time I'm fishing. Just come back from a quick evening, one rod locked up, two on a if you really can't see any fishing situation where a free spool function is desirable then I can fully understand why you can't see the need for a bait runner or a free spool under light tension. I'll give you one from my experience. Rocked up at my syndicate to find a bunch of fish ripping the bottom up in a spot just over some reeds, no more than half a rod off the bank. I can see a handful of low doubles, and a couple of good 20s. I'm going to be lowering a bait onto the spot, retreating about 2 ft back into the reeds, and waiting for a run. I can't see the rod much further than the middle for the reeds. So I'm going to catch for sure, but I want a 20. The only way of hooking multiple fish from this spot is playing and landing the fish away from the others, so the plan is, rod on the rests, free spool spinning if you breath on it, and a drop off bolt lead. Fish bites, hits lead and hooks up, dumps lead and runs 10 yards into open water, I grab rod, tip high and move 30 yards down the bank, land fish, back up for another. I had a 13, and a 17.11 in under 10 minutes. If that had been on a tight spool and the fish boiled and turned on the spot it would have been carnage, and every fish in the area would have been 100s of yards away instantly. I usually use a fairly light clutch, but tighter than this time. This is just an extreme example. Without the free spool function this flexibility isn't possible. I've also used it the other way round. Tight clutch for the bite, ie snag fishing. Hook up and let the fish kite on a tight line away from the snag, then back off the clutch and allow it to run in open water. All round it's just a nessesary part of fishing. Nothing bothers me more than a clutch that won't loosen off enough. My Windcast Zs are borderline!

Some.

And "it looses you fish" and "makes you lazy." Just saying.

Apologies, perhaps a little abrupt. No offence meant. It's just that saying there's no point in free spool reels is, to me, akin to the sleeping while fishing, discussion. Also opening with things like "there's no point" and questioning them from a fish safety POV is a tad argumentative. Again, genuinely no offence meant.

There is no difference between bait runners and front drag systems. Both can be adjusted from peeling line off to barely able to turn. The only difference is that a bait runner switches between 2 different pre set drag settings with the turn of a handle, where as a front drag is a broad manual adjustment. What you are trying to say, is that you see no point in using a free spool function at all when carp fishing, and to that I would say, firstly it depends on the situation, and secondly there are enough deliberately argumentative and contentious posts on this forum as it is, without questioning if a free spool function, which in various forms is as old as the invention of the reel itself, is worth using or not when carp fishing, or if it may be bad for the fish. Ask yourself this; when you hook a fish, do you want the fish to be able to choose for itself how much pressure and tension it can put on your system before you pick the rod up, or do you want some control over this? I can think of many fishing situations where everything from practically no resistance, to fully locked up would be preferable.

Fox carp master. Brilliant mat, and doubles as another place to stash gear! I can get everything I need for a day session into the mat and a hold-all. Superb.

I don't air dry either. It's either fresh from the freezer or shelfies as they are. Occasionally in the past I have given baits a soak before using, but these are either shelfies or a freezer bait simply to soften them. I also find a bit of a soak when fishing silt can help. I'd rather a saturated bait going in than a dry one soaking up the silt smell. Probably makes no difference to the fish, but gives me confidence. The bait I'm on now, if I soaked it, I think it would turn to mush it's so soft. I've never bothered hanging bait bags either. Freezer baits just go in a bucket. Never done me any harm.

CARP CAST. Just discovered it! Over 100 hours to get through. That's gonna take a while! Music wise for me it's mainly blues as that's mainly what I play, but I'll listen too and enjoy anything.

I've got floorit soft on at the moment. Great line in my opinion. Supple enough, never let me down. I'll be sticking with it for a while.

Outside warrantee?

If you've got a leaking delk get it sent to Delkim. They should fix and re seal it without charge. Leaking delks is not par for the course, it's a fault that can be fixed.