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You will find your contradictory comments on the "How long is your hook link" thread should you need to remind yourself.

Yes, you are right David. I use small green coloured paper clips for my small river fishing. Another trick I developed for the Wharfe was to mount drilled bullets and coffin leads on thin split pins. First I put a float rubber on and pushed it up to form an eye that the mainline ran through...

I don't believe that a feeder will rotate as you claim. The lead acts as a keel and any sideways force will simply push the feeder sideways with the lead still orientated downwards. At best it might tilt the angle a little. It isn't that long ago that you claimed to have watched boilie and...

Thanks Bill. 👍 I used something similar a few years ago. The problem was that if you pulled a feeder free the clip could become stretched and require changing. That meant cutting the mainline to replace the damaged clip as it ran on the line. With the chod clips any damaged ones can be quickly...

Following on from the feeder swivel thread that seems to have got sidetracked I will explain what I mean by a breakaway link to allow feeders or leads that have become snagged to be ejected from the rig leaving the mainline and hook, and hopefully a fish, intact. They say a picture paints a...

When you cast a feeder or lead into the water in a new swim you have no idea whether it will be snagged or not. That knowledge comes as you get to know the swim. Fixing a feeder or lead direct to the line increases the chance of you losing the hook link if the feeder is snagged. A chod clip...

So basically you use pva mesh and a lead without any breakaway component and use that to make a point about swivels and feeders? :rolleyes: Let me mame it simple for you. Look back in my posts for the reference to requiring just one component if you did away with the breakaway option. One...

Four components. Add together the two components in your photo along with the linkage used to hold the lead that you haven't shown and we are about even. One swivel on the line instead of one on each feeder. That is the point. The other components are there for a different purpose: to prevent...

There is a running swivel on the main line. That is attached to a sheaved chod clip which in turn is attached to a quick release clip that the feeder attaches to. This means that if the feeder becomes snagged the chod clip releases it, entailing that only the feeder and lower clip is lost, and...

I have a swivel in the connection between main line and feeder. There is no need for another one. One swivel in the connection instead of one on each feeder. Simple and effective. In any case when you consider that the lead on a feeder acts as a keel, the feeders in heavier sizes slide rather...

A response from a French angler on another forum is very interesting. He uses hair curlers as a base to make feeders. Some will remember using curlers before feeders were offered for sale, but these are better than the ones back in the day. They come covered in velcro, but once that is peeled...

I haven't got room in my bait freezer for pulses and grains other than hemp seeds. So I rely on tinned products that I can take off the shelf, strain and mix to suit. I cook ground maize for 20 minutes then add the tinned stuff. A bit of smoked paprika and it is ready. You can get chick peas in...

For the amount that you would use in a session for chub or barbel it isn't worth the time preparing them IMO. I use tinned chick peas along with tinned sweetcorn and lentils all strained and then mixed together. Save a few large grains of sweetcorn and some chick peas as hookbaits and then...

There is a Dutch chain called Action with branches across Europe, possibly in the UK too. They have a very similar bag to the Aldi Crane daybag, but it has a drop front flap and three or four drawers for lures. Looks like the same sort of quality and the €15 price tag is way below similar...

So how long do you reckon it will be before Korum bring out a Burbot rod?

Don't you think about giving up barbel fishing until you have a Vienne barbel under your belt Bill. Your swim is awaiting you!

If someone makes and uses them I will take on board to what they say. But you are imagining issues that don't exist and contradicting yourself in the process. I have been using these for over ten years and only stopped using them when I couldn't find the grid here in France to replace the ones...

I have had a dabble at boilie making, but mainly if I make baits it is meat balls or cheese paste that is flavoured with something else. I also make solid groundbait balls by simmering ground maize and hemp like making risotto until all the liquid has been absorbed then stir in some corn...

Richard, you are imagining problems that don't exist. You started off implying that they have sharp edges, then admit that they don't and now they are suggested to be prone to collecting weed. I suggest that you make some before commenting. Then you may discover that there are no issues with...

The textile is similar to that of a birthday candle and it is coated in a soft latex like covering. As for the no extra effort: it would of course take an extra cut on each side for absolutely no reason at all other than cosmetic value. It is going to get left on a river bed, not the Tate Gallery.