bivyman

Bakers compleat dog food has hookable chunks in it no need to soak or glue they even sell bags of just the meaty chunks without all the other bits

Drill and soak the 17mm hallibut pellets hook baits in salmon oil and use double baits with pva bag of smaller pellets both cats and carp love them

Agree gardner rolling tables are good i started off with the small tables which are ok but the double handled ones are better to use and makes more boilies at once,look on fleabay plenty on there for sale all the time,keep them well oiled with vegetable oil save the baits sticking to the table

Ive used a double sided box from B&Q for years cost about £10

I use 15lb synergy mainline and 25lb snake bite hooklink,main reason i use stronger hooklink than main line is due to braid being much thiner than mono and in my opinion can have a cheese wire effect on the soft mouths and damage them more easly.

Yes im sure any of the Nash boilie dips would be good to use in a mix

Only visited it to see the place but from what i gather its got a silty bottom.

Mostly doubles to 26lb i was told so is hardly a specimin lake and £20 for 24hrs to fish a puddle seems a bit much,although it is a prity looking "pond" with what looked like lots of features ie lilies and overhung margins i never fancied fishing it to be honest,but good luck and have a good birthday bash

(I have tried a pipe with a plunger, but after an hour of this I am buggered, but still end up rolling them into a ball by hand.) Can you get hold of mastic guns? For compressing the mix you could get a empty tube clean out any mastic left in the tube and re-use the plastic plunger poke it out with a stick fill it with your mix,use the gun to squeeze out the sausages (without nozzle) and then cut to size and roll the balls?

I would sa find the visible features like over hangin trees,moored house boats,turning bays ect and bait up a few likly spots and go down after dark with a 1 mil candle power torch and go lamping for them.

I would never personaly make fishmeal boilies without adding shrimp block 1 large desert spoon per egg

Double 22mm halibut pellets soaked in salmon oil worked for me in France so dont see why not here too

First of all is that your mix just vitalin and fishmeal? Has this combo actualy worked and made good boiles? Reason i ask is i make my own from scratch and never used what you are suggesting so cant work out whats going to bind the bait together and would of thought they would break down too easly and come off,maybe with the addition of some semo,ground rice,soya flour ect would help the boilie mix to bind?

Yes the Cat has 2 doors which can be operated 1 at a time or both together,you pass the lead and rig up through the door to your other hand,then close the door at the same time,put some bait in and so on.

Dont know about lakestar ive never had or used one they maybe good for all i know,but do have a micro cat and it does exactly what i want it to do and have had no problem with it at all,depends on amount of bait you intend to use,procats only take small amounts at one time 1/2 kilo i think were as the cat can take small amounts or up to 4 kilos depending on how the carp are feeding at the time.