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Another dark, dank, day ....

I used to grind halibut pellets or boilies in a coffee grinder, sieve, grind, sieve, grind ...then add a flavour to mirror my bait's flavour. Now I tend to buy Elips Paste (£7/300g, with multi-buy offer available) and flavour that. If you want to stiffen the paste after flavouring it then gluten...

Yeah, could have been me Jon. I've used them for ~20 years but I've never mounted them as Enterprise recommend. My line goes up the top end of the central bar, then straight down the other end (I don't thread my line around the bar). This was fine for ledgers up to say 14-42grms on the Teme, but...

Fish love breadcrumb ....and that's considerably cheaper 👍 😂

That's true ... how 'slippy' the braid is depends of the grade of polyethylene used to make it, and the number of strands within the braid. E.G.. compare Powerpro regular to Powerpro 8.

I totally agree Mike. For cautious carp then maybe*, but for barbel ...nah. And sleeves and booms? I can't remember the last time I had a tangle on casting out a barbel rig (not this decade anyway). I'd suggest any novice, or any seasoned angler that regularly get tangles on casting, uses the...

Suggestions .... https://barbel.co.uk/forum/threads/what-is-the-ultimate-setup-for-a-long-walk.22097/

The 'EVA' (ethylene vinyl acetate) is the generic, whilst 'Duplon' is a specific form (i.e. it's a type/polymer/isomer) of EVA. EVA is a 'synthetic rubber' and can be very hard or very soft, and each grade will be produced with a specific or suggested end-use in mind.

I'm not one for cleaning rods as they're made so that mud/dirt won't harm them, and the last thing I'd want is to get precious about them on muddy winter banks. They get washed when it rains, and that's it. But .. in the past I have oiled cork handles on some 40+ year old rods. I thought long...

Sooooo .... it's designed so you can walk around with a stool sticking out of your ar$e. Nice 💩🤔:eek:

It's a Shimano Bum Buddy Jim ...rare as hen's teeth these days. They have a shoulder strap, a Velcro fastening handle, one large and one smaller zip-up pocket at the back, two steel reinforcing strips to add some rigidity, and enough room between the actual seat surface and the back for an...

Mine .....

I watched one fat lad using a bait boat on the Teme (as his wife 'n child looked on ....bored). He ended up going for a (necessary) swim. 😂 🤣 😂 There We Are Then.

You've got toooo much time on your hands mate to be that f'in bored 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 Oh, hold on, I can see where you're going with this. Maybe give Ali a call ....

Loved in iconoclastic nature of the OP (thank you Nigel). Loved Mike's very sensible reply (thank you Mike). What I do know is .... we don't know (the 'truth', the reality, on many aspects of angling). At best, we surmise. N.b... we do actually know though that an awful lot of sheer bo11ocks...

The last thing I'd be worried about getting on my hands on a rat infested, swan sh1te bedecked bank would be my luncheon meat, that's been in a plastic bag, inside a tub, in and out of the freezer (especially if it had a light covering of garlic oil).

I totally agree. Let's say I'd got an aversion/intolerance/fear of lobworms so I asked a friend to bait my hook with one for me, then I cast that bait out on a rod that I had rigged up myself. If I caught a fish on that rod, I'd be ok with claiming that fish as my catch. But if I kept on missing...

Before the deluge ....

I've been using Krystonite (12lb/0.31mm) almost exclusively* since 2002. I've always been very pleased with it so I see no reason to change. It's fluorocarbon coated, supple, supplied in bulk spools, and it too is a 'copolymer' (but I wouldn't think there's any actual monomer lines made for...

I use #2 or #4 Gripz .... really sharp, stay sharp, much easier to remove from a barbel ... but I've not lost a single barbel/fish using these.