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Mat - I have a solution - take a cheap fibreglass telescopic 5 or 6m whip. You can trot with it on the rivers, use a light weight pole float up the dykes or a heavier float if moored on one of the broads. Last time my family went I took one for the wife and in laws to use - most of the time they got more bites than me and the father in law who were using 13ft float gear or feeder gear from a dingy. One sister in law even landed a small Jake pike with it! Bait - not a problem - there are plenty of tackle shops on the broads or just use bread or corn. Dingy - well worth hiring - many times we used ours as a ferry when moored away from the bank (on broads) and even as a tug boat at places like Stalham where mooring was tight. Dingy - Wroxham bridge - I am glad someone else has also had a dingy incident there! Our holiday boat was to high to fit under (for the whole week) so we had to turn round (very quickly using a lot of power due to big flood tide sucking water under the bridge at a rate of knots), the boat was so old it had a turning circle of an oil tanker, we completed the U turn just missing a jetty, the dingy trailing behind didn't as we motored away, lucky the cleats were a bit rotten and ripped out with ease (still making a very load bang attracting the attention of several hundred tourists), the dingy disappeared under the bridge and eventually after a lot of chasing I rescued it half a mile up stream by running across a group of moored boats.

Good luck I caught a bloke breaking into cars one night and gave the police a running commentary of his actions for ten minutes as they took details. FORTY minutes later a patrol car turned up - the offender was long gone, I could of tackled him myself but at what cost?

All I can say is that the 'Traditionalists' have missed out on six weeks of good fishing. Then again its up to the individual and that's all that really matters.

Plenty of Bream in my area - been fortunate enough to fish two waters containing doubles within 10 mins from my house and lucky enough to have caught a few as well.

Used map parabolix for years and rate very highly but in April received a shakey mach3 for birthday. Never heard a bad word said about them and with good reason. They are very very good rods and make you wonder why people pay three times as much for other brands.

A noble idea, would have been better if ALL fish came under the umbrella. Will it work? Very doubtful. Otter fencing cannot be put up here there and everywhere. Public footpaths, bridal ways, RUPs, SSI's, bye laws, possible planning consents and round my way the deer knock fencing down as a hobby! Non profit making? Any club has to make a profit to cover running costs - the club benefits from the profit. If you ask me this is one of the best marketing ploys devised by an angling equipment manufacturer yet. How many Carpers are going to want to be seen as part of the Korda( such and such county) syndicate - loads I suspect. Will all the waters be affiliated, have same rules, stocking policy etc? One thinks not, they will be just like syndicates we have now, nudge nudge wink wink with blooming great Korea advertising everywhere.

I fill up an old Britta jug, let in stand for half an hour then put in a glugs of molasses, stir it in well then mix up ground bait. Also use same method for making up paste or for soaking pellets/expands pellets.

Drennan bait table with three 3 pint bait boxes on a long screw tipped bankstick or a storm stick/pole. On the fourth corner velco on a shallow 1 or 2 pint bait box to balance it out. You now have ten or eleven pints worth of space for bait / sundries.

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This made me chuckle, every summer my family have a trip to Cornwall.Every summer I take a travel rod, feathers etc. The local mark involves a hard 40 minute coast path walk, a cliff scramble and then fishing off a ledge with 20ft plus deep and one strong tidal rip. Every year I have a go, lose a good few sets of tackle and have never caught a mackerel from there yet! That is one punishing mark!!!

I use these for my main pole kits:http://www.anglingdirect.co.uk/store/preston-top-tubes?gclid=CIq_iuG_yr0CFTMetAoda1AA_w Or these in my margin pole: https://www.tackleuk.co.uk/app/milo-doobry-elastic-protector-p-547203.html

I have a confession to make to fellow ANers and I do hope it doesn't get me banned! Yesterday I fished a commercial match pool - AND ENJOYED IT! After giving up match fishing I vowelled to try the many fisheries in my area and also to try the many methods out there to vary my fishing. At Christmas I was given a voucher for a nearby fishery which has several lakes including a specimen, a predator, a match lake plus a few others. To be honest I fancied a day with plenty of bites, as most of you know I regularly fish a hard water where I receive very few. Had the place to myself and plumbed up a pole line next to an aireator 12m down the bank in 5ft of water which received a ball of ground bait and a few pellets. Also set up a 10ft feeder rod with a maver mini head banjo type feeder to cast to the end of an island and an 11ft pellet waggler rod with a Styrofoam pellet waggler set two feet deep. After feeding the pole line I fished the mini feeder for an hour with a small cube of meat on a hair combined with ground bait and a few 2mm pellets. Whilst fishing the feeder and catching plenty of skimmers and small Tench I pinged out a few 6mm pellets halfway along the island every 30 seconds. It wasn't long before the pond pigs started swirling and searching for pellets. First cast with the pellet waggler saw a low double grace my net followed by one of around 5lb. I then switched to the pole but kept the pellets going out on a little but very often basis. The pole line produced a string of 2 to 3lb Tench, some bigger skimmers and a few Rudd. After a few fish I would refeed and switch back to the pellet waggler where I found a method to get bites: The constant feeding a few pellets had the carp competing but casting out the waggler didn't get instant bites so I came up with this by trial and error: Before casting I fired out around 8 to 10 pellets waited ten seconds then fired out 5 or 6, waited then a third pouch of 3 then cast. This worked well and I hooked a carp once in about six or seven sequences. After landing three I switched back to the pole and so on but carried on with the little and often feeding. When a tea break was needed I switched to the feeder! The pellet waggler also yielded ten very nice Roach over the pound mark along with a few tiddlers a golden rudd a skimmer and a decent Tench. Finished the day with a very nice mixed bag of well over a 100lbs on several methods and must admit it was very enjoyable!

With pole fishing you need to balance hook/hooklength/main line and elastic. I would recommend a white hydro or 6-8 middy high viz with a puller bung for open water or a middy 8-10 for margins/snags but up hooklength. Anything heavier and you risk snapping hooklength, bumping fish off or hook pulls. With puller bungs you can land larger fish with ease. Do a search in You tube as there are plenty of guides done by top anglers.

What did you get in the end and what are your impressions? I took my own advice and bought an 11ft Mach 3 pellet waggler. Yes I will use it for pellet waggler fishing but also needed a short waggler rod for float fishing tight swims where I struggle with my 13ft Map rods. It came in a rod bag with rod wraps, inside a plastic storage tube, inside its own ready rod bag. Specs (on below link) include Fuji guides, a good reel seat and decent cork/carbon is used. For a rod that cost me less than 50.00 brand new I am very impressed with it indeed. Can see why this rod is classed as One of the best 11ft P/W rods out there. Not sure why picture is three piece as the rod is a two piece? http://www.cheshirefishingtackle.co.uk/shakespearemach311ftpelletwagglerrod/prod_228.html

He/she is selling all sorts of junk!

Baits with a hook/line attached do get ignored and often. I have watched Carp, Roach and Crucian creeping around baited areas in shallow clear water, when happy they feed, introduced a baited hook gently and they became cautious backing off in an instant. There is a reason why the method feeder is such a deadly method for most species - your hairrigged hook is buried so they don't see it, the first they know is when they get pricked.

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The Mach 3 xt reels are very very good for their price. Sport direct are doing Mach 2 FD for 21.00 - that is very good. Line, I use sensor for heavier work and it does the job very well. Drennen float fish good for up in the water waggler fishing and maxima if you need it to sink.

I have seen carp go into a surface feeding frenzy in the depths of winter - they were feeding on old floating casters. I have watched and feed a single Roach in a clear pond and within minutes had hundreds of them arrive from no-where, they must send out some form of feeding or getting excited signals to other fish. In both cases they were feed little and often to create a competitive frenzy - I suppose if a feeding chance arises fish have to take it and grab what they can before it all goes.

Ordered mine online on 21st and received in post yesterday. I keep mine in a fancy soft John Lewis ticket/card holder (along with club tickets) that has pictures of Carp (Cyprinus carpio) on it that was given to me as a present, TBH it is very handy having licence, club tickets and car park permits in one place, on occasion I have arrived at a water and then gone elsewhere or set off for a water and ended up elsewhere but had correct tickets with me! I also keep the email sent by post office in a folder on my smart phone - it is unlikely I will forget to take the phone fishing with me - therefore I always have something to refer to if checked by an EA baliff - an event yet to take place in 32 years of coarse fishing - 29 of them requiring a licence that I have always purchased!

Always could, they are known as political parties although they smell as bad as each other!

I cannot smell anything underwater, last time I tried I almost drowned so find this thread irrelevant to coarse fishing unless however we consider the amount of bait additives/glugs/oils etc on the shelves designed to catch anglers not fish.

Yes, the I am not catching its your fault mob never listen or learn. The waters I am bailifing are in my village and on one of my nature watching bike routes. The only time I tend to drive there is when fishing or passing close by.

No but steer clear of MAP offerings, zips broke on carry all and holdel within a year.Should have stuck with Team Daiwa, carry all still good after near on twenty years of use.

They must be some big mackerel