robtherake

If you're actually using your pellet waggler rod to fish the pellet waggler (I know, bonkers isn't it?), then the depth of water doesn't matter. The technique involves very regular feeding of small quantities of pellets to bring the fish up into the surface layers, so you're unlikely to be fishing deeper than six or seven feet even in very deep water. Fishing the bottom is a different matter entirely. In water deeper than the rod, and up to maybe 30 yards range, I like to use a leger float (Polaris or similar) in conjunction with a small to medium feeder. Ironically, because it's more robust than a normal float rod, a pellet waggler rod suits this approach just as well as it's intended use.

Chester. My computer skills are pitiful, but I seem to have worked torrents out. Before you do anything else, try this. You might want to make a note of any settings you change, just in case there's no improvement. Whatever torrent client (program) you're using will have an Options button, usually at the top somewhere. Enter the options menu. Choose Preferences, then Connection. Make sure the following boxes are ticked: Enable UPnP port mapping, Enable NAT-PMP port mapping, Add Windows firewall exception. Change your port number. I use a number in the 40000s, 406**. I'm assuming here that if you use the same port as everyone else then it's got to be slower, right? Now click on the Bandwidth option. By trial and error I arrived at the following settings. Maximum upload rate 40 Max. Download rate - maximum (if you have a fast connection) Max. number of connections 200 Max number of connected peers per torrent 5 Number of upload slots per torrent 4 Tick the two boxes marked: Apply rate limit to uTP connections and Use additional upload slots if upload speed<90%. These settings give me great download speeds for torrents with plenty of seeds. Bear in mind when you choose a torrent you should choose one which has plenty of seeds (uploaders with 100% of the file). More seeds usually means faster download speeds, though (through some perversion) not always. I don't see any reason why these settings shouldn't work for you also. If they don't, then it's someone else's turn! Best of British (whatever that means these days), Rob.

Chester, you make The Pub Landlord look like a fence-sitter. That said, I agree with every word you've written.

Didn't he always travel on an ass?

Anything by Little Axe. Youtube Video ->

Civilisation is a myth; the thinnest of veneers. Remove the restraining influence of the police and military and we'd be back to barbarism within weeks.

Surely, in waters where carp rarely see another bait, an alternative will be seen as less suspicious. It's just tunnel vision, isn't it? Part of belonging to the "carp club", where ultra-cult is the name of the game. I think we can all be rightly accused of being single-minded at times, but the mega-baiting boilie bashers abuse the privilege.

Under-rated - Prawns. A big confidence bait for me. Also bread, which you hardly ever see used these days. Both are great fish catchers. Over-rated - Boilies. If you believe the hype, then you'd never catch without them. In the old days, when a bait was blown you moved on to another, not just to a new flavour. I really don't understand boiliemania, except as an exercise in marketing. Don't get me wrong, they're useful on occasion (I usually carry some 10mm Ringer's white shellfish), just not as a nothing-else-will-do wonderbait.

17lb 6oz carp on a spliced-tip match rod, 1lb bottom, fine wire 20. I didn't so much play it as baffle it, really. I thought I was snagged up under the rod tip until it moved (I'd been undoing a tangle so it was a proper fluke). It's debatable whether it knew it was hooked; it just went round in circles in the margins for an hour or so and then gave up.

Yes, you can. Refer to the thread entitled "Hooking the worm" for more advice.

Does anyone have any experience of the TFG pin which is currently heavily discounted? My pin of choice for many years has been a Gypsy D'Or, although I have one of the Marco Cortesi reels which I'm secretly rather pleased with considering the budget price.

That's British Justice for you. How much were the legal and court costs to boot?. The only winner is the thief.

I'm green with envy, you lucky so and so!

Macaroni cheese is meant to be good. I'll never find out though 'cause I can't abide the pong of it.

I've been going to boot sales since they first became popular and have bought tons of gear. If the price is a bit high make a silly offer. Most will haggle, but some agree on the spot, and often enough to make it worth persevering. The best ones are when mummy is doing the selling, and daddy or son has sent them with spare gear to sell, but haven't told them what to charge. Serious bargains to be had in that scenario....Leeds centrepin £3, Drennan Bomb rod £16, Shimano Supermatch reel (mint) for a fiver, and so on. As for the criminal element, unless the seller is an obvious scally how do you tell? Most folks are selling all their junk, not only fishing kit. Now, if they were standing there in track suits with a full match or carp kit and nowt else it may be a bit more obvious, but that doesn't seem to happen (in my experience).

You tell 'em to stuff it. Fifty nicker for a rod at a boot sale? That's already criminal. I've never had to pay more than £16, and that for a £180 rod.

You can add "proper" carp anglers to that. I'm sure there must be some pleasant ones out there, but most of the ones I've come across are proper t*ssers.

I notice the line's coming off the bottom of the 'pin. I could never get used to the line coming off the top and it never seemed to make much of a difference anyhow. Interesting that you only caught grayling. Is this the upper river? Nice vid, by the way.

As boys, when we were running out of bait at a local pond that only held perch we'd kill one and use parts of it for bait. Strangely, the EYEBALLS were best!

Phone Interesting post. On the puddles, I guess they run out of places to use as "depositories" of partially digested food and it then carpets the whole area. I read an article on commercial fishery roach, which are growing fat on the nutrient-rich droppings from carp fed large amounts of fishmeal-based baits. From your earlier post about the dangers of luncheon meat, it would seem that either the nutritional value of luncheon meat waste is so poor that it isn't re-ingested, even by the other species present, or that so much is going in that they have no need to use pre-digested bait as a food source. Rob.

That a FINE religion! Where do you join up?

Sorry for butting in, but is there a version of this for Vista and 7?

Unlikely, Dave. I use a Korum accessory chair (with trolley kit - very handy) for most of my fishing nowadays, but it's nowhere near as comfy as the old Fox one.

By golly, what a cracking fish. It was only days ago that members were chatting on here about pike and growth rates, and then this monster turns up. I just hope that the captor keeps tight-lipped about the venue, if that's possible. It would be a real shame for such a magnificent beast to be hounded to death. Hearty congratulations though - what an achievement.

[quote name='BoldBear' date='Mar 19 2012, 11:52 AM' post='5123311' I also bought a Fox low Carp chair once and the welding came apart on the rear legs but that was a long long time ago and Fox have improved ten fold since then (I am told). Ha! I had the same experience with mine, only it was the front legs. Got a mate to weld it back together and it's still going now, so faded you can't tell what colour it was. I remember being desperate to "move up" to a carbon rod, shortly after they first came out. Came home with a Kevin Ashurst match rod, showed it to all my mates (who were suitably green with envy). I then spent the next few weeks cracking off hooklengths as fast as I could tie them, much to the amusement of said mates. It had the fiercest action of any rod I've ever owned. I'm sure I could have found a use for it, but not as a piece of fishing tackle.