frustrated.carper

what kind of bait ingriedents are you after, birdfoods, fishmeal etc ????

thanks for the help guys, plenty for me to think about before I start to fish the place, want to do as much homework as I can before I serously start

hi Newt thanks for the advice. In answer to your questions, Yes I am in a position to bait the lake regulary as it is only a couple of miles from my home and it not even run by any local fishing clubs, the only problem i can see with that approach is that I intend doing plenty of day sessions with the odd nighter thrown in through the winter months and would be worried about overbaiting my intended fishing spots as at this time of the year I only use small stringeres and pva bags and I would be worried about there being plenty of left bait in the swim when I arrive to fish. The weed is thick in to the margins but is a lot thinner, more like a blanket in some areas of the margins, the weed itself is the long stem type that kind of look like small fir trees when you wind your rig in. As to raking the swims within the margins that would not be a problem at all, but could you explain how this advantage would actually work for me, a silly question maybe, but a bit of clarity on the subject would help, I know of plenty of people who do this kind of thing when faced with weedy water in front of them (not on this water as far as I can see, no sign of dead weed piles in the margins. As for swopping to braid, I am a fan of the stretch that you get with mono and know that you dont get this with braid, the mono I use is shimano Technium with has a much lower strech rate than standard mono's and has great abration resistance which suits me great, so I'll stick with that, but thanks for the idea, A question now: hooklinks and hooklink materials, braid or mono? short or long? any tips would be great thanks for the help, tight lines

Hi all, I need a bit of help with a local water I have chose to fish which is very weedy and silty The water itself is what you would class as a marsh and is an average of 4 - 6 ft deep, it has lots of reeds in the center of the lake with a shallow area at one end. Scattered around the lake are also visible snags ie: sunken bushes, dead tree trunks The weed itself does not reach up to the surface but covers the bottom of the whole water upto 1 -2 ft in some parts but on the main from what I can tell it is more around 1 ft for most of the lake ( I expect this to change quite drastically in the warmer months) I am aware of looking for "holes" within the weed but these seem to be virtually none exitent and was hoping someone would be able to give me a few pointers in the right direction on how to tackle it If you need any further info in order to help me dont hesitate to send me a message

Hi all, Can someone help me, I am looking for a supplier of large quanties of feed pellets, the kind of pellets i am looking for is betaine, salmon, trout, halibut etc etc ect,in a quantity of different sizes these need to be supplied in a minimum of 25kg sacks up to much higher quanties in the summer months. I would also be intrested to know if anyone knows of a manufacturer who would be able to supply pellets that are based around specific boilie ranges thanks all