Tigger
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I reckon backleads (pinning the line down behind the feeder)are better being used when using a short hooklength like that then your line isn't sticking straight up next to the feeder/bait and maybe spookin the fish. If you use a long hooklength I don't think backleads are quite so important.
Brian, did you use back leads when you used to get those huge bags of bream or didn't you need them ?
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Full of yesterdays snow fall at the moment round these ere parts.
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I suppose if you could only really use a short rod, one which would most likely be suitable would be the greys G-lite spin. I use one for perch and have had pike just under double figures on it. It's a nice soft action and is great for playing fish under the tip.
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One problem I would imagine you would have using a short rod for chub would be keeping them away from the nearside bank to stop them getting to snaggs. I've foung the extra lengh of a rod even on small rivers is more of an advantage than disadvantage.
I'd try and stick to 11ft or over.
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I just got that offer also.....a bit of a crappy offer it is n'all.
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Great stuff, I'm a bit annoyed about the reel though....I want it even more now LOL. Regarding the wallise cast, you can wallise cast in tight situations with your rod pointing straight out infront of you. I was kindly shown the technique by Alan when he gave me a lesson in wallise casting some time ago. It's well worth knowing how to do it and it really is very simple. Oh forgot..... Lovely grayling !
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I use several differant lines but my favourite one is Sensor. It's funny really as it looks brown in the daylight but at nigh in torch light it looks green...ask Lutra/Brian one night while we where Tench fishing we noticed it. Even though it's brown it's only a shade and in water it's even less brown. You can get clear sensor but I think it's only in 8lb upwards.
As you can see sensor is pretty good. The 4lb is good enough to use as a hooklenght as it's true to it's stated diameter and breaks well above it.
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A couple of years back I spotted some barbel in the process of spawning. A hen fish accompanied by one or two others (I would imagine males) where wriggling into the gravel alongside one another spawning and as they did so some of their eggs/roe along with some silt etc where floating away in the pretty strong current. As the eggs floated off other barbel kept on shooting past from the sidelines and nabbing them. Occassionally the fish actually spawning would spin round and start to eat the eggs also ! They must have tasted ok to them. It is funny as all fish seem to love eating the roe of other fish or even their own. Just think how well you'd do using it as bait.
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If fish farmers are too stupid to realise the effects of predation then they are in the wrong business!
I reckon the fish farmers should be strapped to a ducking stool and treated like Witches
Scary fact is these people have no interest in the fish or wildlife, it's just money to them and bugger the wildlife so long as they make their cash without haveing to spend on fences etc.
I can't weigh up how people can have the front to moan about a true native creature eating a few fish when half the population have cats and let them run riot all over the country and kill as much precious wildlife as they want without batting an eye. It was bloody cats that robbed a neighbours pet fish in their garden pond !!
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The grass carp was introduced to try and munch the weed down a bit in certain waters...lancaster canal for one, but they stop eating weed when they get a bit bigger anyhow so there not really much good at the job. I haven't ever seen a problem with carp eating all the weed in a pond/water. I think carp actually lay their eggs in weed so they'd be shootin themselves in the foot if they munched out all the weed
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Off the top of my head I can't remember the thread size (2BA???) but its the same as use on dart flights! If its the same as soloar etc almost all bits off ebay etc will fit.
Rich
Right, thank's for that Richard.
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I've bought some of the muddy waters bobbins (ptfe) and have just realised that you have to buy the chain/cord and attachments seperate. The thing is I don't want their chain, I just want the screw for the bottom of the bobbin to add my own cord. Has anyone got any idea where I can get them ? I don't know but I would imagine the thread size is the same as other bobbins.
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Carp, on the other hand, screw up nearly every English angler's fishing by turning waters into brown mudholes with less vegetation than the Moon. I had no problem with this when they were confined to commercial waters, but now club waters are getting stocked (often by the wet towel brigade but sometimes officially by misguided committees) and even rivers. And not just big slow rivers like the Trent, I've caught carp in the Ribble and a less suitable water for carp I cannot imagine.
I fish the ribble and there are some members on AN who know the river inside out and have fished it most of their lives and I would imagine none of them have caught more than a handfull of carp in there if any at all over many years of fishing it. We know that they're present but not in an ammount to cause a problem to other species. Lets face it they've been present in the ribble for many years and haven't exactly "bred like rats", and if they have all they've done is provide a food source for other species of fish as I've never seen any offspring swimming about.
The only way carp can turn a water into a mud hole as you say is if they are put into a water in large ammounts/overstocked otherwise they wouldn't be a problem...well in my opinion. I know waters that are crystal clear, full of weed and wildlife and abundant in lots of fish species that contain carp. By the way trying to catch one of them is no easy task !
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kids start out catching carp like that instead of gudgeon and little perch and roach.
I know which I'd sooner of caught when I was a kid and it wouldn't have been little gudgeon etc. Regarding overstocking established ponds etc then that's up to the owner how they stock it wether you or I like it or not. I'd prefer people to build purpose made puddles to fish for their stockies rather than spoiling natural waters by overloading them with carp or any other species for that matter........ but that's life, and it certainley ain't the carps fault.
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While we are on the subject, do you know if any other spools fit the 5010
Thanks
Here's one on the bay 300389707816
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I reckon the fish that would least bother the majority of anglers would be Catfish and/or sturgeon. Lets face it there arn't really that many waters containing them and not that many anglers who target them.
I can't understand people who dislike carp, I love em even though I rarley target them. They are also enjoyed by the majority of anglers so where the hate comes in beats me.
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Then thats good enough for me mate! Theres always plenty of them on Fleabay.
Check these out budgie 250570030351.............250570030165
I know there not the metal lipped ones but if they go cheap enough they might be worth a stab.
I suppose if you keep your eye out you'll get the 6010 spools anyway.
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Depends on the area where you live really.
Not really much point in nameing a river 2hrs drive away.
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Budgie I have two (well, had two 8010's just gave them to my m8) and I had several 6010 spools which fitted them perfectly. I think the later 6000gte's and 8000gte's fit one another also.
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Budgie, 8010's will fit perfectly the spools are exactly the same but deeper to hold more line. I'd say your best bet's ebay, there's usually some on there for auction.
This might be ok 180460359742
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A 125 yrds spool of Berkley fireline Crystal in 10lb breaking strain, loved by some, hated by others including me. If anyones interested they can have it for a tenner including post.
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Tiger Im not a great lover of Fireline as its a fused line and not a true braid.Try some Spiderwire in a suitable size before giving up on braid totally. Are you coming to the Itchen I cant remember?
Unfortunatly I'm not going to the Itchen Budgie. I have used braid (power pro) before trotting for grayling on the river Eden on several occassions and appart from the horrible sound it was ok. I used it with a 18 inch mono bottom attached via a micro swivel. Even though I haven't used the Fire line Crystal and have only looked at it and felt it I just dislike it an awfull lot. To me it feels gritty(unlike power pro which is smooth) and it deffo isn't translucant as is advertised. It looks like white cotton in and out of water. Also it is no way as thin as 2lb mono as stated .....it's just not for me....I hate the stuff lol. In future if useing braid I'll stick with power pro. Obviously some people love it and that's great if it works for them.
If anyones after a spool of fireline crystal, 125yds in 10lb give me a shout !
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Yeah I know what you mean Brian but the thing is the float fishing line is slack and if a fish bumps it it will just slide past , where as a tight line going vertical inches from the heavy lead and bait may spook the fish (not the colour) if it bumps into it. I honestly don't know how true any of it is or if it has any relevance at all but the mind keeps coming up with these questions
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I think i'll get some 10lb sensor in clear for my barbel sessions this coming summer and see if it works.
Years ago I swore by using clear line but I tried dull coloured lines and it seemed to work exactly the same.