neil r
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I keep saying im going to rejoin but never end up doing it . Think I’ll have another go in the new year
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I forgot about the Yorkshire Calder . You’re right about the grayling there , I was shown some photos of some good ones from there when I was a member of Ryburn and Halifax . It was actually the Lancashire Calder that goes into the ribble I meant , it’s full of grayling and 2lb+ fish are not uncommon when I’m fishing the stickfloat .
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The ribble is good for them but the Calder is better , it’s absolutely full of them and some good ones aswell .
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Managed to get out this afternoon for the first time in ages for a couple of hours . Strangely didn’t get any pike at all but managed a couple of perch that must have forgotten to disappear with all the others . Both on the supercontinent nimble copies in the morning dawn colour
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I’ve not been for ages because I’ve either been busy or it’s been hammering down , double windy or frozen when I’m free . I’m hoping to go tomorrow but it will be pike only probably because when it gets cold on the canal round here the perch just vanish and you won’t start catching them again till April
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I’m pretty sure the bearking zues is one of the many reels that are based on the dark wolf ultra so it’s not a bad replacement , maybe not cast quite as light as the zues without mods but in reality you’re probably not casting 1 gram very often so it doesn’t much difference
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That’s no good , right hand wind is only any good for the cack handed and Americans . Was it off Ali or temu
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Thanks for that . My draw length to the corner of my mouth is 736.6 so it works out at 147.4 and +10 mm to make 157.4 will be 6.19 inch or bang on 6 if I do +5mm . The stuff I’ve ordered won’t be here for a couple of weeks but I’ve got plenty of sets I can cut down till it gets here .
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lol , should be alright then . Reels are actually pretty easy to work on so you shouldn’t have any problems
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If you can take it apart and get the spool bearing’s out and flush them and just put a couple of drops of light oil in them or even replace them with some ceramic bearings and no oil it might cast a bit better . The bearings on most reels come packed with grease and slow reels down . If it’s got heavy braid on it will struggle with lures at the lighter end of the scale . If you do try taking the bearings out be careful of the wire clip on the one in the side plate . Either put the reel in a clear bag or keep your thumb over the hole because them little clips can spring off and have an habit of
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I know , I’m going to cut a few down to different lengths when I get home later on . I’ve just ordered some stuff for cutting my own band's and I’ve gone for one of the adjustable ruler type ones so I can do different tapers rather than one of the templates that let you do a few of one size at once . The lighter .55 bsb ones I’ve got go through drinks cans no problem but not the thicker soup tins so I’ll cut them down first . The .60 snipersling green and yellow will penetrate soup tins though .
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Should do alright with the mavellos and bearking , from what I’ve read it’s one of the few reels that can cast 1gm out of the box without modding . Never seen an advanta baitcaster before . Was it just backlashing all the time . If it was it might be the same type that a mate bought off Amazon and that had 2 sets of brakes . 1 was the obvious one on the side plate but the other was a dial inside the reel . We only found out when he asked me to take it apart and have a look at it
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I’ll have a go a cutting them down , I’m assuming from the pouch end rather than the forks . Might aswell forget the 8mm lead then or get a 10mm mould , I did have a 12mm mould but must have either lent it someone or forgot it last time I moved . Not a good enough shot yet to do it consistently so I won’t be doing it till I can but I’m going to practice most days
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Shouldn’t take that long surely, I’d be surprised if it did
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I’ve had a few things off aliexpress that said they had long delivery times but they’ve all come in 2 weeks . Never ordered off temu though
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Is it that the kingdom skx8 spiderking one , seems a bit thick for an 8 strand at .14 for 11lb , that cant be right . My kingdom micro fly 4 strand is only .07 for 9lb
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Is that pe .08 or .08mm . If it’s the pe rating you might struggle to cast lighter lures very far but if it’s 0.8mm it’s spot on . Braid can be a minefield with the different rating systems like bs , mm , pe and now goh aswell . I still look at diameter and bs
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Just measured my draw length at 29in . I just put the ready made bands in to try . I tried some .65 bsb white and .60 snipersling yellow and the yellow seemed similar to the green power wise and only needed pulling to my mouth but still an easy draw . The bsb .65 seemed to be similar power to the lighter snipersling just an heavier draw so I took it back off . My other catty has .82 green gzk but I’ve got some .70 snipersling green aswell . Been using 9.5mm in that one but I’m going to get an 8mm mould to do some leads
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Got this wasp stinger and some spare bands from wasp plus some 8mm ammo from balls of steel and just tried the 18/12 .55 bsb white at short range ( about 6m) in the yard and it wouldn’t penetrate a soup tin , it put a dint in it but that was it . Tried snipersling green 18/12 .60 and that did go through but like the bsb white I had to pull back to my ear rather than my mouth like I’ve done with my other one with heavier bands . What tapers are people using with 8mm and lighter bands for hunting before I order a template and start making my own . Also what do you use for tying pouches , the ban
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Should do alright with that setup , think the mavellos comes with 2 tops , solid and hollow aswell . What lb braid did you get , I’ve not seen that one before . I use the kingdom microfly mx8 4 strand in pe.02 , 9lb , 0.07mm and it’s spot on . One thing to watch with 8 strand is it’s not as tough as 4 so keep an eye on it for any damage . You’ll only need about 70-75 turns on the spool and that will give you enough for 3 fills from the 150m . You’d be aswell starting with 3gm+ to begin with till you get the hang of it and not trying the 1gm . This is not a bad video to give you a better idea
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When your reel comes be careful putting line on because the spools are so light it’s easy to crush or warp them and don’t put more than 50m on because you don’t want to add unnecessary weight to the spool . Rawr fishing on YouTube has a vid showing how to load braid on these little bfs reels without using any backing or tape . When you’re first starting casting bfs gear it’s different than using ordinary multipliers because they are faster and if you try to cast hard or whip it to get distance like you would with a fixed spool or ordinary multi you’ll blow it up . The trick is to slow every
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Kuying rods are not bad , I used to have a 5ft teton sul 0.8-3gm that I used for trout . You might be better getting the ul version just for a few extra grams casting weight because of pike . The mavellos delicacy gets mentioned a lot on the bfs groups . Tsurinoya elf and dragons are well thought of aswell . If you don’t know about these shops it would be worth having a look at Needhams specialist tackle and nine seven tungsten for rods and if you’re on Facebook message Jon Sykes from Barnsley , he’ll have rods and reels , some new some used of all price ranges but half his stuff wont have bee
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I’m on a budget bfs page on Facebook and there’s loads of the lads using the reels from tsurinoya , soloking/dovella etc . If it’s for ultralights the tsurinoya dark wolf ultra and genius , soloking accura hicc50 which comes with shallow and deeper spools and bearking zuess get a lot of good reviews
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It’s well worth getting the soft plastics from there , there’s always something that are copies of bigger brands but just as good . I get braid off aliexpress for my bfs setups aswell . It’s called kingdom microfly , it’s about £3.50-4 for 150m and it’s spot on . I’m not as keen on the hardbaits from there though . I’m a sucker for high end jdm lures but saw some copies being recommended on Facebook as being just the same so I bought a dozen to try and while they looked the same the build quality wasn’t close and they also more importantly didn’t fish the same , the 12 only cost the same as 1
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I used to buy crazyfish nimbles from agm till I saw the supercontinent copies on aliexpress and that’s all I buy now . They are brilliant and there’s no difference between them and the originals . Never bought off temu but it wouldn’t surprise me if supercontinent didn’t sell on there aswell
