nathanhuynh Posted February 5, 2013 Report Posted February 5, 2013 How to you lot tie up your bags and mesh? I just put my bait down the tube and compress the bait the size of a golfball, then push it out and cut the mesh 1in above the bait, then I cut the tag end into two strips. Then I use a treble overhand knot to tie the bag onto the hooklink then slide it down onto the hook shank. For bags I use the korda way of putting a small layer of bait, then my lead, then two thirds of the way up, then my hookbait and then fill up the rest of the bag. I would be interested to see if there were any other ways... Quote
james666 Posted February 5, 2013 Report Posted February 5, 2013 you do both of the ways i tie my bags/mesh mate. Another way to tie mesh is just to do a overhand knot once you have filled and compacted your bait in the tube. Quote
nathanhuynh Posted February 5, 2013 Author Report Posted February 5, 2013 I generaly use mesh, I have never had a single split off with mesh. Quote
matt859 Posted February 5, 2013 Report Posted February 5, 2013 er why is filling a bit of a solid bag then putting your lead in the Korda way? Did you get a load of Korda stuff for christmas or summit lol. As you evolve along your carp career you will soon realise that Korda are not the be all and end all of carp fishing gizmos. There are other ways of catching our quarry apart from long distance spodding the granny with loads of expensive munga. Do you shout GET IN when you catch a carp ? Quote
jamieh90 Posted February 5, 2013 Report Posted February 5, 2013 Nathan, be careful mentioning the K word on the forum it winds a lot of people up! But agreed there are other companies who supply better end tackle! Quote
nathanhuynh Posted February 5, 2013 Author Report Posted February 5, 2013 see the nash tackle DVD on youtube!! They must be cheating in some way. Their leaders claim to be invisible and from the filming it does look real!! I am interested in korda but you are right, the presenter behaves like a typical teen Quote
nathanhuynh Posted February 5, 2013 Author Report Posted February 5, 2013 Do you shout GET IN when you catch a carp to be fair I am somtimes worse and jump up in the air doing my victory dance!! Quote
peteblount Posted February 5, 2013 Report Posted February 5, 2013 dont forget a bit of pva string also does the trick quite niceley Quote
phippers84 Posted February 5, 2013 Report Posted February 5, 2013 from my experience of the Korda solid PVA bags, if I moisten the top and twist it round the rig to secure it I always seem to have a blob of it still on there when I reel in 5 hrs later. Never happens with any other bag I use but I now always use PVA stape or string to tie it now just to be safe. no problems at all and always alot stronger i think. Quote
salokcinnodrog Posted February 5, 2013 Report Posted February 5, 2013 A fair while ago Joe (Useph) started this very handy thread: https://forum.carp.com/carp-forum/viewtopic.php?t=32920 A fair amount of the time I put my baits onto a double length of PVA cord or string, and then loop the PVA round the mainline/tubing and then put the tag ends and boilies through the loop. It holds it onto the line nicely with no knots. The tag ends then get used to create another loop which holds the hookbait in place. I then have a line of boilies down the length of the hooklink. Or just as easily I do a number of baits in a mesh, split the PVA down into a length and use the tag ends I have created to tie around the mainline/tubing, without pulling it tight so that the knot doesn't get left around the line. As for bags, I can get long or short ones, and either lick and stick or tie around the line with a double granny. Also make sure you get hold of decent PVA. I still use http://www.moscopva.net/ ; far better PVA than many tackle brands, and at a decent price, cheaper than Korda. Quote
gazh Posted February 5, 2013 Report Posted February 5, 2013 I've been using mo's pva for a long time now and I would reccomend his bags highly, far superior to many others on the market. Quote
nigewoodcock Posted February 6, 2013 Report Posted February 6, 2013 I tried mo's a few years ago. Got ripped off with them not sending what I paid for. Emailed them and spoke to a lady there. Still nothing off them. Once bitten and all that!! I have heard a few good reports off them but I won't use them again. This of course, could just be a one off occurrence but because it happened to me direct, it has stopped me using them. They do seem to get a lot of recommendations so they can't be that bad all the time. The amount I use though, I am just as happy buying the odd bits from my local tackle shop. Quote
matt859 Posted February 6, 2013 Report Posted February 6, 2013 I mostly use the stuff from Carp Craze cos its cheap and you get loads. Quote
nathanhuynh Posted February 6, 2013 Author Report Posted February 6, 2013 has anybody ever fallen for the trap of accidentaly using fox arma mesh as PVA, I took all of my mesh re-fills off of the tubes to check for damage after I dug them out of the shed and forgot about the arma mesh and just put it alongside the other strips of mesh, put them all back on the tubes and ended up somhow with the armamesh on my kord micromesh boilie strip tube. I made a bag, cast out and soon found out!! I always found that fox arma mesh attracts bream because it holds bait like corn, tuna and hemp so it is best used on bream free water...dont tell andy that I said that!! Quote
nathanhuynh Posted February 6, 2013 Author Report Posted February 6, 2013 where do you get the cheap PVA then matt, if its a secret then dont worry,,,thankyou!! Quote
stoogi Posted February 6, 2013 Report Posted February 6, 2013 where do you get the cheap PVA then matt, if its a secret then dont worry,,,thankyou!! The clue was Carp Craze......... Quote
andy52 Posted February 6, 2013 Report Posted February 6, 2013 I always found that fox arma mesh attracts bream because it holds bait like corn, tuna and hemp so it is best used on bream free water...dont tell andy that I said that!! Humph Quote
andy52 Posted February 6, 2013 Report Posted February 6, 2013 Really loving the Avid mesh and solid bags, best I've used Quote
salokcinnodrog Posted February 6, 2013 Report Posted February 6, 2013 Oh, and don't think that Fox Arma mesh is crayfish proof . The little blighters will still cut through the stuff to get to whatever is inside. Quote
nathanhuynh Posted February 7, 2013 Author Report Posted February 7, 2013 there goes my hopes of a distance cast with luncheon meat!! Quote
lardybloke Posted March 13, 2013 Report Posted March 13, 2013 there goes my hopes of a distance cast with luncheon meat!! Nathan, have a look at my post on Spam in a Hula Hoop, I invented it to cast Spam long distance. Quote
adam77 Posted March 13, 2013 Report Posted March 13, 2013 I get my PVA from 4thirds free 1st class post and its relatively cheap ive used korda bags and will never use them again left a nasty gloop over the rig and a chemical smell on my bait and rig Quote
carefulcarping Posted March 13, 2013 Report Posted March 13, 2013 I use Carp Craze stuff, pretty cheap and does what I need it too and never need to change. I once heard a story of a company who accidently ordered the wrong material and made a batch of solid bags with them. Anglers who used them wondered why they where not getting bites when they should of and when they wound their rods in for a mornign re cast after a quiet night they found their rigs where still nice and neatly packed into the bags Quote
rosstheangler Posted March 13, 2013 Report Posted March 13, 2013 Really loving the Avid mesh and solid bags, best I've used Ditto. Great stuff. Been using it for a while now. Quote
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