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    Getting More Distance

    in Beginning Carping

    Posted

    Great tip Skammer! I was thinking the same thing. Ice does float. and in a river, they would prolly drift out of range before melting. The gravel should do the trick. Oh Great! Something else in the refridgerator/freezer for the wife to whine about. ha ha

    Ive used this for getting hemp out a distance in the past,didnt have propblems with floating as the particles mass out sizes the water mass in ice cube. Another time i baited a place where i wanted to get it out quick(no real distance involved) particles were frozen in disposable cups, if they were filled to the top with particles and topped with cooking juice they would sink, i wanted them to spread a bit and found i had to cut the particles down to about 2/3 thirds of the cup topped with juice/water in order to get them to float. Just for the record i was throwing these large ones by hand 15-30 ft 7 or 8 of these got a reasonable amount out in a short time.Baiting spoon and long handle would give a lot more distance.

    slack or tight line

    in Beginning Carping

    Posted

    Didn't fox make some backleads that come uncliped on strike that were on lines that attathed to pod.

    You could use something like that with its retrieval line attached to a bank stick on oppsite bank, assuming your using a boat each time.

    are boilies over rated???

    in Beginning Carping

    Posted

    WRONG!

    Len Middleton and Kevin Maddocks came up with the idea because the common practice at the time of burying the hook inside the bait led to mostly unhittable bites and twitches. It was initially used with particles (sweetcorn being the first tried) and proved to be an instant success. Not due to the bait (which was getting picked up before) but because the hook was free to hook the fish with more efficiency.

    It also allows separation between the hook and bait which which doesn't happen when fishing with the bait directly on the hook.

    If you don't believe me here's one of many reports on the origins of the hair rig:

    http://www.carptalk-online.co.uk/homepage/hall-of-fame/89-len-middleton

    Hooray, it was invented for any bait you wished to use it with.

    are boilies over rated???

    in Beginning Carping

    Posted

    I notice that less than 23% of anglers here think the boilie is king. I wonder then why use the hair if not using the boilie?? The hair and boilie go together hand and glove. It was invented to accomodate the boilie.

    Tom.

    The percentage you quote may not be that accurate as in my situation, i voted tigernut as they seem to work anywhere, however i do think in the right baiting situations boilies are better.

    Leaderboard

    in ATC 2014

    Posted

    SILLY THING ABOUT THIS IS -- Quite simply, the idea is -- you have to have a Smart phone or something else to view the internet whilst fishing, and turn your scores in. I go fishing to forget all that BS -- don't need it in my fishing life. I admit my business life is screwed without internet, but -- fishing ---- that's my sanctuary, and even a steam powered cell phone (all I have) is not really what I need to enjoy being out there. I WANT to commune with NATURE -- NOT look at stuff I can do outside fishing hours.

    So -- my partner has all the up to date crap, and can spend hours bankside looking at anything but what he needs to be seeing - and understanding. Learning Watercraft doesn't work too well when you are playing games/talking on the web. Sorry -- I'm 60, and still love learning my waters -- never gets old. I guess we're set.

    LOL thanks needed that :lol:

    Quick Drags

    in Beginning Carping

    Posted

    Quick drags,is that a tranvestite runner.

    Joking aside,i found it came very naturally after years of bait runners and like the system and find it a bit more instant than the bait runners, i have Diawa windcast Z's and i find the small window as you call it ok, as you can adjust one click at a time. Also have shimano XTB's with the baitrunner spools and find them nice too.

    Just cup your hand over the front of reel/spool when you set the hook then tighten up the drag, about as instant as you can get and no wobbling the rod around while your turning the reel handle or fumbling when the lines flying out.

    Maple peas

    in Beginning Carping

    Posted

    We used to get them from a feed store around $40 for a fifty pound bag, then they became difficult to get, only reason i dont use them regular now.

    If you drop a few on the bank by accident they dont show up to the wrong people like corn will and because you need to know what they are and where to get em its harder for the unwnanted people to cash in too.

    They guy who loads them in your truck at the f/s thought i was using them for rearing male chickens that argue and said they have a lot of protien and are good for the birds with a wink,not sure if he believed me when i told him fish like them.

    blowback rig

    in Beginning Carping

    Posted

    In case op popups I would place my hookbaits directly pasted to the hookbend. In case of bottom baits I like at least a 10mm space between bait and hookbend.

    Agree'd

    I would put your rig ring near the barb of the hook.

    the length of the hair will work. You will find your comfortable hair length eventually on any rig.

    If you put it anywhere on the bend it has a habit of working right round to the point, unless you mean opposite the barb/point.

    i too would put the hair gap a little closer

    yes

    agree with the shorter hair, i think curved hooks are better for pop ups,

    also long shank and long shank curved.

    As a beginner myself. I do not see any difference between this "blowback" rig and a regular hair rig that I use except the weight, I use a split sinker. ???

    The idea is that when sucked in the hook goes in bend first with point facing out of the mouth but when spat out the bait travels up the shank and and stops at the eye tugging the hook with the point still facing the right way rather than turning the hook round going out bend first, a reason why long shanks are good with it. But nothings infallible, they can still spit it out LOL

    VOTE NOW FOR FUNNY FISH STORY WINNERS

    in CAG Online Contests

    Posted

    This is one from around the early 80's, there was a day ticket complex a few miles from me that had just created and stocked a new lake with lots of double figure mirrors, this was exciting to a friend and i who i'll refer to as 'S' and i 'so went the privalige info that he got' ,as most of the places we normally fished held mainly commons and the only mirror lake was full of small ones.

    Niether of us could drive or had a car at this time, i rode the 8 or so miles there on my pushbike after work one evening, just to check the place out,on the way onto the property there was a chestnut wood just over a ditch and behind a barbed wire fence, plans were forming! On my way back after getting to the top of a large hill on my bike i stopped for a breather in the drivway entrance of a fairlyposh house, an older lady that looked upset at having some guy on a bike in her drive and came straight at me, i got out of the way in time and she clipped my handle bars as she went by without batting an eye lid, after she parked on the drive and went into the house oblivious to my presence i got going thinking it could have been worse!

    Why the plans- we wanted to get there just before first light as at the time there was no night fishing on this lake.Without a car and all our gear represented a problem, we had too much gear for bikes LOL. So it all came together, S and i met at the train station around a mile from my place and got the last train around midnight out to the nearest small town to this lake that was going to be so easy, we were going to catch loads of doubles on mere sweetcorn with no one elses baiting campaign to worry about.

    The train pulled into the station and then we had a good 2 mile hike with ruck sacks and rod holdalls along a country lane that is used a back road cut through between a couple of towns with no sidewalk. We truged along the road getting blinded by headlights and cars going by anything up to a good 70 MPH on the straight sections around the weaving bends was another matter.

    S and i got to the property without getting squashed on route, after making sure no one was around we quietly went down the track towards the lakes where there was an owner/managers house on the site.This was where the woods came in, after getiing us and our gear over the ditch in just far enough into the trees to be out of sight we stopped.I had bought a sleeping bag S just had a very thick oversized "donkey jacket"

    he propped himself against a tree and i lay out on the leafy floor in my bag.After we'd quitly talked for a while we were to sleep with S having a small wind up alarm clock set for about 4 am.The excitment of the day to come made it hard to sleep and as i lay there a rather large amount of bird crap came from the tree above and landed on the ground right in front of my face! "OMG 'S' i said a load of bird s**** just landed in front of me" to which the tent like form of the donkey jacket leaning on the tree replied "no it wasn't, it was me having a w**k" after a couple more choice words were exchanged we fell asleep.

    Drrrrrrrrrzzzzzdrrrr S's alarm clock went off, and he turned it off as quick as he could,there was allready a dog barking down at the house,after a bit it went quite and we got out to the track unseen, crept down th rest of the way and picked our spot on the 'Lake' which couldn't be much more than a whole acre, we couldn't miss. Those of you going to the UK with an idea of fishing some dayticket waters be aware they are not as big as they look in adverts.

    Corn was catapulted and baits were carfully placed the anticipation was incredible, as it got light the the newly carved yellow clay banks and mirky water didn't look so appealing but were were going to load up so to speak so we could ignore that for a day.

    Sun up came and went the bailiff came around to collect our money the day got into full swing but we hadnt had a bite there was no sign of any fish or bubblers! S got a very short run which he didn't connect with,

    That was it the whole day went by fishless so much for best laid plans, perhaps the info 'S' had got on the grapevine was not quite right or perhaps the fish just werent interested and were still settling in, i'll never know. Luckily i had my dad coming out to pick us up and take us home in the early evening. Whilst fish wise it was a dissapointment i feel lucky to have had times like this and even if we had caught it wouldn't be the biggest part of the memory, unfortunatley 'S' is no longer with us, miss fishing with him.

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