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  1. Kevin Brown

    Quick change hook rig - Korda Hook Klips

    I think the kicker evolved from Jim Gibbinsons line aligner rig , basically a piece of shrink tube on the shank with the hook link coming out above the eye and through the front of the tube , the hook turns quicker this way , I’ve used it in just about every form of fishing I’ve done in the last...
  2. Kevin Brown

    Milk proteins

    I don’t use any rolling tables , one egg mix which is around 4 sausages, rolled fresh the day before I go fishing, no need for a freezer and I’m sure they work better fresh, then in the shed to dry overnight Just cut up into bits then roll , I don’t want them all the same size either , most get...
  3. Kevin Brown

    Drennan 44 Specialist Brolly

    Still for sale ?
  4. Kevin Brown

    Bank chair

    I have a Fox Duralite but it sits low , the legs are probably not long enough for you
  5. Kevin Brown

    Bail arms

    Lol Carp anglers pike anglers etc No baitrunners then It was a way of giving line to a running fish without resistance, the belief was if the fish felt resistance it dropped the bait I know it’s old school and most anglers don’t get we’re I’m coming from but it’s how we used to fish back...
  6. Kevin Brown

    Bail arms

    Just think it’s another excuse to take away choice from the consumer , I have a Penn Battle II from my salmon fishing days and that as no anti reverse , apparently it’s to stop you bruising your knuckles on a hard fighting game fish if your a backwinder ?! Not that I do and always use the...
  7. Kevin Brown

    Bail arms

    It’s even bigger news to me that folk actually manually trip the bail arm , I’m assuming Shimano Mitchell Intrepid Abu Garcia Penn etc went to great lengths to design a system were the bail arm tripped over automatically on winding in . it’s probably filtered down from carp anglers who were...
  8. Kevin Brown

    Bail arms

    I can see the need casting a 5oz lead over 100 yards , but let’s face it most of us on here trip the bail arm when tightening down after cast , it’s been done that way forever . Why have a bail arm at all ? Just hook the line behind a line roller and wind in , take it out to cast out , ( very...
  9. Kevin Brown

    Bail arms

    Erm yeah for the last 50 odd years
  10. Kevin Brown

    Bail arms

    And they’ll probably double in value ?!
  11. Kevin Brown

    Bail arms

    He said it was all reels not just Daiwa , bit of a pain on a spinning reel for example Maybe the other reel manufacturers will start doing it ?
  12. Kevin Brown

    Bail arms

    Just been talking to a staff member in Bobco and he’s telling me all reels will now come with manual bail arms ? some kind of legislation about premature closing of the bail arms while doing a long cast . i was playing about with a Daiwa Castizm 25BR and sure enough it had manual closing of...
  13. Kevin Brown

    Fishing the swim next to someone

    Personally I’d have gave it an hour then moved , having a word with someone isn’t going to get you anywhere, if there in that mindset in the first place you’ll just make them more stubborn and then you’ll have an atmosphere for the rest of the day . I’ve had it on day ticket venues , they’ve...
  14. Kevin Brown

    Isotopes

    For me watching the rod tips is all part of the experience, just last Friday I was watching the tip very slowly pull round a few inches then back , then another slow pull round and back again , few seconds later it pulls round again but keeps going this time ending up as a full blown wraparound...
  15. Kevin Brown

    River Gold Book

    I have a signed copy (by some authors) it’s a good read , I’ll be keeping mine . Definitely worth having on the bookshelf
  16. Kevin Brown

    Isotopes

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256102691169?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=uXR8v-RdTEO&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=FOKP5TKMQqS&var=556065882218&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
  17. Kevin Brown

    Isotopes

    I just buy the 15x3 mm from EBay then use a enterprise isotope holder Any bigger I find they break on tackling up/down There plenty bright enough for me but buy green as that’s the brightest colour I believe...
  18. Kevin Brown

    Advice on new rods

    Yup sounds good 👍
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