Happy Tuesday to all of the shameless shiesters looking in...... "Buy me another Yateley-Boy"

Every breath you take, every move you make, we'll be watching you....



Edit... Forgot forum member Andy with a stunning 28lb+, GPB2 over ABS K2.


Mark Cunnington, long 40lb common. TC1 balanced over FishOn fermented particle


Forum boss Karl, 35lb+ GPB2 balanced.


Lee Petty Dinton White Swan, S2 over Trent Shrimp


FishOn Ricci, Hutchy S2 balanced over shops fermented particle


Chris Bromley, first trip back to Woolpack in months, working all Summer. 4th time he has caught Lucy the Leather on our hook baits in the past 18 months. Scopex/Pineapple balanced S2 this time over Baitworks Creamino




Jude, GPB1 balanced over MIdland Mixes particles


Seb, GPB1 balanced over Midland Mixes particles


Chris, Cherry Cola S2


Dean GPB1 bottom bait barrel


Dean, Hutchy S2

Top photo is a GPB1 that had been in the water for 24 hours.

Bottom photo is an S2 that had been in the water for more than 12 hours.

The reason both the land and water mollusc's are still SUPER attracted to both hook baits after so long in the water... Is NOT because either of them are made from cardboard, with a sprinkling of bum fluff and a nice smell. Sight lures, with a chemical signal and nothing else.

It took me 25+ years of hard fishing, messing about with what you are about to read below, to get to where we are today with the hook baits.

Both of those hook baits in the photos are 100% real food with natural cork. The actual 'thing', that is really still massively attracting those mollusc's has been impregnated into the the cork, deep inside the hook bait itself. They can still sense it. The food on the outside of the hook bait itself, has been liquified during our curing process. This also makes it far easier for the mollusc's to detect.

That's why they are all still so attracted to those hook baits, so many hours after both hook baits have been out in the lake.

Works exactly the same way with the fish.

Walthamstow, January 2013. A couple of months before my Roach Pit ticket would start. The month after SHB first started. Part of a brace of upper & mid 30's on a freezing cold day session. Long running naked chods on fluorocarbon, fished into the thickest silt. A spare rod with 30lb braid and a small 1oz lead was utilised, with a weakened treble on the end. This would be cast out into the silt, and retrieved until the popping bloodworm beds were located. Once the bloodworm had been found, it was then a simple case of getting a rig presented on top of the silt. Long running naked chods with S2's absolutely devastated them. They had never seen an S2 before, and likely never seen the naked chod before. Standard practice for most, was to cast to islands where you would find rock hard spots, or fish the areas of the lake with harder bottoms. I caught stupid amounts of fish all winter, all came from the thickest silt in the main. In some places this would be five foot of silt, and two foot of water on top. The carp did not care, they absolutely loved it. When it got dark, you could shine a bright torch out into the two foot of water and see what looked like roach moving on the surface. It was big carp in two foot of water and five foot of thick black silt. I caught two fish that winter that they thought were both long dead. I caught other big fish that had been on the missing list for a number of years. Clearly living in the silt and feeding exclusively on bloodworm, until they saw an S2.

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Think this is more to do with Cinecarps and Sticky baits user Tom makers love of Cherry Coke. Wouldnt read anymore than that into it Mark to behonest.

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Yeah, one of my blokes who uses our stuff is obsessed with the film Finding Nemo. There's Atlantic Krill in the film, so on that basis it would be cool for us to just bring out a bait called 'the Krill' 6 months after they released their Krill? That's just silliness. Do you see us selling a Mulbz pop up? Or a Buccu whatever it is five minutes after them? No.

Why were they not making Cherry Cola pop ups for him before? Why have they waited until we bring out a Cherry Cola S2 to do that? Five minutes later? And you don't believe they are watching? Really?

Would never do things like that. That's embarrassing.They have seen it and thought we'll rip that off instantly. But then I did not purchase my business, I don't have to pay everyone to use my stuff and I certainly do not need anyone else to formulate my bait for me.

You don't know anything that's been going on this year. I'll read into it what I will, because I actually do know what's been going on. You likely will soon too.

In April this year, a very well known angler paid by them turned up very publicly in the comments on our social media, asking where his £200 odd order was (they had tried to deliver three times some ten days earlier). This was all very strange indeed, considering there is not a great history between me and them, ever since I refused to go meet the boss in 2013 after our S2 absolutely blew their new Krill out of the water on Roach Pit. There have been numerous very petty instances ever since. First time this bloke who told me he gets paid £20k per year, and clearly gets everything for free from them used our hook baits.... He caught the big common out of Walthamstow on an S2 at 45lb or something. The second time he used them a few days later, he caught a very rarely banked mid 40 on a guest at St Ives lagoon. Paid full whack for them. I was told I was allowed to have the photos. I truly believed this might actually be a calming of the storm. We were about to start making Krill hook baits. So I very foolishly sent him a large amount of our hook baits for free the following day. Started making him some special 20mm bottom baits. The day after he got his free stuff, and the day before he told us that we could post the photos, the story suddenly changed. The photos could no longer appear on our social media. But he could throw us a few punters from his tuitions and new media business and wants to pay full price again in the future. Basically not let the masses (you) know, that he is actually catching everything on our hook baits. Will cause a big problem for him with his employers (bit late for that). He was told in no uncertain terms to take his selfish sponsored angler glasses off for one second and think like a normal human being. He was told that was not happening. We would not be selling tonnes of bait for his boss off our backs (again) and helping them to create some poxy illusions for their novice paying punters. We went our separate ways. He has tonnes of our hook baits, enough literally for a year or twos fishing. Will now sell tonnes of bait for them off the back of the results using them. Does not want to use the stuff he's actually paid to use and shove down your throats constantly and given for free, why not? What's wrong with it? (Chortle). Two weeks after this, one of his friends showed up on an old social media post. Shouting this blokes name saying he had been recommended. Messaged the work phone also singing this blokes name. Got his stuff, the cheapest thing we sell, and instantly tried to do a credit card charge back. Goods not as described.Clearly some ploy for me not to say anything about what had happened. (Bothered). At the exact same time as all this was going on, a near identical situation happened with another of their non paid (free bait) anglers. It will never happen again. No one gets paid by us to create illusions. No one here needs zigs, casters, maggots or worms. Ricci Connolly & Andrew Parkinson were both Roach Pit anglers. I knew neither of them when I first fished Roach pit. They have used the hook baits EVER since, because of what they witnessed first hand on Roach Pit in 2013. They do not go fishing without them ever since. Parky's best mate is Tony Kingdom, owner of Furzebray and Dynamite consultant. Does not go fishing without our hook baits. No one had to buy any of that. It's real.

I have numerous very damning audios and screenshots of the entire conversation from the very start to finish with the paid angler above. Including capture photos. I'm so sorely tempted to go show them online to the whole of Europe. It really shows the outright sense of entitlement that these idiots have after a few people blow smoke up their arris.

This was late April. The Cherry Cola post shown below is June, just a couple of months later. That's zero to do with Tom Maker. That's just them. They have also cleverly ensured that I will never appear on either Cine Carp or Joe Morgans one between those two months and the story above. I had already agreed to do something with Joe this year, that will no longer happen because of what his pal did above. Control the media, control the sales. It's been the game for years, first with the mags, now via the internet. You will notice that all of the video/media producers are also instantly connected to a couple of 'gangs'. Underwater sales pitches. Never been interested in any of the poxy noddy media anyway for the past 40 years. It's made me a 500 times better angler because of it.

Tell me again that I'm reading to much into it?

I'm in Brazil with my apparently minging missus for the next ten days or so. Made sure she's hidden so no CF children/trolls get frightened. It's only 22:30 here, 02:30am in the UK. We are completely up to date with EVERY single order on our website, right up until 14:00 today. If you need to get hold of us regarding an outstanding, or a special order you want to place... From now forwards, please only WhatsApp message the work mobile phone (free international). Normal texts will cost you a fair bit. All orders are going out rapidly now.

When my time is not involved with my family, or bet365brasil, I''l be continuing the basically free book on here. That's how interested I am in carp fishings media. You lot reading in can have it all absolutely for free. You'll get far more posts about my previous angling over the next ten days, because I have a far more time than usual. When I get back, the S2 specials page will be going onto the website. S4 balanced, TC1 & TC2 barrels will also be added. The TackleBox & FishOn will both have full stock within weeks. The plan is for Johnson Ross & Yateley Angling to follow just afterwards, that's if they both still want them.

The cameras in our work place are ready to go online when I get back. I can't bloody wait for that!

'Kent carp', or 'not Kent carp'. Johnsons Railway. Whatever its name is. I'm terrible with fish names. I caught this fish or its alter ego as a very young child on sweetcorn. It was nice to have it again here, as I have zero childhood fishing photo's due to a family break up. I was fishing the Road & Island at this time, hoping to catch Limp Tail, it was already dead without me knowing. I went back over the Railway, just through nostalgia for a couple of trips before I started fishing the Ocean again. There was only two or three mirrors left in the Railway. One of them was Kent carp. I grew up fishing this lake/complex. My dad and his brothers fished it very extensively many years before I was even born. I was taken as a very young child, caught special fish from all of the lakes. When I was around ten, The Carp Strikes Back was first launched. Rod still fished the very first week of the season on the Railway or the Road & Island. This particular year it was the Railway. I was sent around to his swim to pick something up for my dad. Mr Hutchinson was on the floor in front of his bivvy, I wrongly as young kid thought he was dead. I ran back around the lake screaming all the way like a lunatic. I got a clip round the ear for that. He was obviously not dead, I'd just never seen anyone that drunk before. It was a tradition to open the season up with a good drink back then. He had a massive influence on me as a young kid. He was such a lovely man. For the best angler in the country, he still always had time for a young kid. I wrote to him not long before he died. SHB had been going for a couple years. I had never written and sent anyone else a personal letter in my entire life. I wanted to thank him.

The swim in the corner of the road bank where this photo is taken, one of the really big fish in the Railway was found dead here by me when I was a very young child in the margins. The fishes head had been chopped clean off. Talk between my dad and his pals, was of voodoo practices, people sacrificing the carp. That's what they thought. A few weeks later while there with my old man, a load of jet ski's had turned up. Old man Johnson had apparently given permission for all these blokes to Jet ski on the lakes (for a few quid). One of the little speed boats that came with the jet skiers had clearly killed that big carp. Likely sped over it as it was sitting in a weed bed I guess and chopped its head clean off. I don't know what happened to them jet skier blokes, but I do know after a few very heated altercations, they never returned to the Railway ever again.

I was allowed to fish whatever lake of old man Johnsons that I wanted on the complex for free as a child. My old man had a sporty XJS Jag, it was really low to the ground. The track regularly smashed the bottom of his motor up. He got the ump with it so much, he hired diggers, purchased all of the materials, and took one of his charge hands and five of his scaffolders down Johnson's, sorted out the worst bomb craters down the long track/road into the venue. It's a long old track. Paid their wages all weekend. Old man Johnson (multimillionaire) would not even pay for the petrol for the diggers. That's how tight he was. I was allowed to fish for free, whenever old man Percy on first the bicycle, then later the moped would come round for the money..... He always thought I was trying to have him over bless him. I think he was paid on commission. Old man Johnson must have become absolutely mega rich when he sold the land the snag lake was set on for the houses. They filled the lake in, and a large part of the Ocean too for the housing estate. The snag was my favourite of all the pits. It was full of absolutely pukka fish. They all got stolen when the housing estate was built. All the stunted commons got thrown into the Ocean next door. If the mirrors that went on to become giants elsewhere, had of been put into the Ocean.... Carp fishing would have seen some really special carp, at British record size. Greed, as usual, they went into some new **** stock pond type lake down in Kent near Milton Pan instead. Grew into monsters some of them. I caught a tench just ounces off of the British record at the time when I was a kid from the snag lake. Fred Wilton, who always fished the Island side of R&I for tinca's as an older gentleman, was totally blown away by the amount of big tench I caught from that lake. He made me feel really special when he looked at my polaroid photos of them. He was absolutely dribbling. Told me that I would never understand how lucky I was. I was never fishing for them, they just loved my sweetcorn.

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" I'd just never seen anyone that drunk before." 🤣🤣

Great story. Keep em coming. 👍

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Reminds me of the time I was fishing peg 5 at Rainbow for two weeks I was with an old time angler, Tim Paisley who'd given up his swim for Rod & Mally rang my mate John who had also known rod since the early days of Savay when Bob Davies had started the syndicate to say Rod was turning up Friday afternoon as most did back then and could John go around and introduce him to Pascal etc...

We had been on a week and around mid morning John got a call from Rod they were at the gate it was to be their first ever visit to Rainbow, John went round to meet them and they spent about 4 or 5 hours in the lodge John came back to the swim pissed as a fart and said Rod and Mally were on their way round, within minutes there was a massive bang up the bank as Rod parked his 4x4 into a pine tree which was lucky as it stopped him careering down the bank and into the channel between 5 & 6, he fell out the truck rolled down the bank where I'd just landed a 48lb common he was very excitable to say the least, I met him several more times at Rainbow, the man could drink.

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You did not reply after I gave you some more information Kells. I am guessing you read it as you have posted elsewhere since.

I'll say it again. Zero to do with Tom Maker. I knew him from Stow when he was a kid. He's a lovely lad. I'd imagine it's likely very little to actually do with the other paid angler either in that other post either. He's only doing as he is told by his employer I'd guess. He went and caught two incredibly special fish the first two times he used them. Imagine that. Then you can't have them for fear then of losing your job. Whatever has happened I don't want the bloke to lose his job. But do I just sit back and let this stuff happen without saying anything? Someone tell me? Because this is a fairly new situation. Our customers span a majority of the bait companies now. But the people using their bait, are actually catching the carp on our hook baits. I'm not stupid by any stretch and I understand why I/we are a problem. Tough luck though, make better bait or suck it up.

Would you like that if it was you though Kells? How would that make you feel with that extra information? Watching other people create illusions, with not just your stuff, but the free stuff you helped them with. Then you are getting attempted chargebacks on top.

Then just over a few weeks later after all that, Cherry Cola pop ups.

I've always been lost with the situation. When they first got Ricci using their freezer bait, they used to post up on their page the fish was caught on one of our hook baits, and we would post their bait on our page like we do everyone else's. At some point, that changed. They stopped mentioning that the fish were actually caught on our hook baits. I have no clue why. I've never had any dealings with them to know what or why any of it. One minute things are okay, next minute nothing is.

No problems for me or mine whatsoever. They just constantly create awkward situations. They just created one between me and at least four of their anglers.

I DON'T APPROACH ANY OF THEIR ANGLERS TO USE OUR STUFF. Never approached anyone. They end up using it because they want too. I'm not sure that any of these companies actually realise the damage caused for themselves when normal everyday anglers watch fish banked on our hook baits appearing on these companies social media, loosely implying something else. I don't even fish anymore to see this stuff myself. I am just told constantly by people seeing what goes on. The carpworld talks. Information spreads fast.

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Maybe we have met?
Tom's dad used to take him to Walthamstow in the 00's.
Me and a chap called Pete Graves used to meet them there, Pete took his son Aaron with him, Aaron and Tom were roughly the same age.
Steve the furniture man was also part of the group.

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Yes we have met I think Bob now you just said that. I took photos for The Furniture Man up the Lockwood down by the far tower. Lovely bloke. I know Tom's dad Andy. That's where Tom get's his nice bloke personality from.

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Bob, are you Dempseys mate Bob that I gave the Trakker Ultralight nylon cover to from one I had for spares?