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Russell Fitzpatrick

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  1. hi mark

     

    few ideas for ya,

     

    definetly use a smaller rod 6-7ft is much better for playing a fish from a boat or/kayak, you will find it easier to manouver the rod and guide the fish towards you,grab hold of teh top of the trace,and chin the pike straight out watching out for flying hooks and being carefull of the pikes red gills and very delicate gill rakers.

     

    the snap links you were using are i'm afraid to say mate-crap,as you found out,the ones your going to use,dont,they too will open up under pressure especially with the temps being high the pike are livley mate.

     

    these are proper crosslinks that you need-fox safe loks,teh best easliy obtainable form a tackle shop that stocks fox-never let me down.

     

    foxcrosslink.jpg

     

    regards russell

  2. hi papa

     

    if your using a heavy feeder set up,ie 2-3oz,it may be that the roach cant move the feeder/lead once they have hooked themselves,hence you wont get a bite that registers,are you fishing at range or close in?

    i would scale down the feeder size,to say 1oz,more than enough for them to hook themselves but also enough to register a bite,also try using light in-line leads,korda ones are perfect,say 1oz and under,semi fixed it acts as a perfect bolt rig.

    for indication use light bobbins,they will show small movements better than a swinger or a springer.

  3. Buells sound good! ducatis are the best v-twins...

     

    nothing sounds like rossi's old NSR500...the new 4 strokes are nice,i have some video clips of this years assen SBK round on my phone.try and upload them later,haga's yammy sounds evil!!

  4. i not a bad angler if do say so myself!

     

    i can turn my hand to most styles of fishing,lure fishing is an aspect of teh sport i'm still learning,i often know there are predators in teh swim but at times cannot get a take,very fustrating,its easy to say their not having it but often theres something i'm not doing right that is the problem,they seem to love my hawg wobbler lure tho,no probs there!!

  5. forgot to say my rods are through action-catfish tested!! they are probably close to teh same materials as newts?-mine are no name carp rods! 30 squids each

     

    beaware with braid,rod rings can suffer and get grooved out,mine thank good are tough as old boots,no signs or grooveing,summit to watchout for with braid.

     

    also playing fish with braid is lot diferent to mono,have to go easy, allow for the lack of stretch,but when needed you can turn a fish alot quicker!

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