In reply to Post #30
It's the swims that fool you into thinking it's a lovely 'natural' swim then 1 inch in you hit concrete or heavily compressed stone and the peg bends as a result 😬.
It's the swims that fool you into thinking it's a lovely 'natural' swim then 1 inch in you hit concrete or heavily compressed stone and the peg bends as a result 😬.
In reply to Post #30
Real Etiquette is not setting up next to anyone. Getting pegs in some times however is a basic requirement. I would love to rock up to mud / grass lined banks and just step pegs in. You lot really seem to get your knickers in a twist some times. Obviously if you can get a peg in by hand / foot that's what you do, but sometimes a touch more force is required in certain situations. If I can get a peg in manually that's obviously the way but sometimes certain situations and certain swims require Timmy to get involved. As it happens due to the nature of the substrate on the waters I fish I would say that 90% carry a mallet/ hammer to utilise if and when required.
You seem to have missed my point. My point was that the top notch tackle pegs are solid and can withstand serious abuse if needed.
Real Etiquette is not setting up next to anyone. Getting pegs in some times however is a basic requirement. I would love to rock up to mud / grass lined banks and just step pegs in. You lot really seem to get your knickers in a twist some times. Obviously if you can get a peg in by hand / foot that's what you do, but sometimes a touch more force is required in certain situations. If I can get a peg in manually that's obviously the way but sometimes certain situations and certain swims require Timmy to get involved. As it happens due to the nature of the substrate on the waters I fish I would say that 90% carry a mallet/ hammer to utilise if and when required.
You seem to have missed my point. My point was that the top notch tackle pegs are solid and can withstand serious abuse if needed.
In reply to Post #32
If any of that was aimed at me - I 100% haven't missed the point and it's proven by your back tracking. You e gone from ‘it doesn't scare fish' to only used when necessary.
Like I say each to their own - what winds me up is selfishness and am lucky that I avoid waters where 90% of people have mallets .session anglers can on occasions have a selfish way about them - you may be there when the fish return from club hammering but you've ruined a large area of the lake for others.
Knickers in a twist - probably but only in the same way I do with any displays of selfishness.
If any of that was aimed at me - I 100% haven't missed the point and it's proven by your back tracking. You e gone from ‘it doesn't scare fish' to only used when necessary.
Like I say each to their own - what winds me up is selfishness and am lucky that I avoid waters where 90% of people have mallets .session anglers can on occasions have a selfish way about them - you may be there when the fish return from club hammering but you've ruined a large area of the lake for others.
Knickers in a twist - probably but only in the same way I do with any displays of selfishness.
In reply to Post #28
This, I've been carp fishing for 40 odd years and have never malleted pegs in.
This, I've been carp fishing for 40 odd years and have never malleted pegs in.
In reply to Post #34
Just to be clear I'm anti mallet and don't carry one but I can assure you if your swim has a compacted crushed substrate with a covering of tree bark you could be tempted.
Same with bank sticks, by all means use them if the ground allows but there are people who refuse to use a pod because they think only noddies use them.
I find pushing bank sticks and pegs into nice firm ground very satisfying, I get a semi lob on
Just to be clear I'm anti mallet and don't carry one but I can assure you if your swim has a compacted crushed substrate with a covering of tree bark you could be tempted.
Same with bank sticks, by all means use them if the ground allows but there are people who refuse to use a pod because they think only noddies use them.
I find pushing bank sticks and pegs into nice firm ground very satisfying, I get a semi lob on
In reply to Post #24
Wow, that took me back to Christmas 1981 when I first got interested in making things.
I've not seen a manual drill in years, was nice to see one again and have a little cerebral wander down memory lane 😍
Back to the subject in hand, I never take a mallet. Getting pegs in can be a P.I.T.A and often the centre of my palm will be black/blue from spending 15min trying to wiggle/twist and force a peg between type 1 aggregate.
I recently acquired a JAG bankstick auger 'thing' which I keep forgetting to put in the van so I always have it with me. That might be an option.
Found it, it's called a digging stick. Bit too much 'girth' for a peg, but you could always use it for the first 2/3 inches as often it's only the surface that's rocky
LINKY POO™ https://johnsonrosstackle.co.uk/jag-316/22423-jag-products-digging-stick.html
I have in the past taken an SDS drill and 8mm masonry drill bit to slowly/quietly tease a 'pilot hole' through more challenging substrate to make sticking the peg in easier. I didn't use it on hammer/SDS setting, just preferred that drill for drilling as it's got a bigger better motor than my everyday DeWalt drills
Wow, that took me back to Christmas 1981 when I first got interested in making things.
I've not seen a manual drill in years, was nice to see one again and have a little cerebral wander down memory lane 😍
Back to the subject in hand, I never take a mallet. Getting pegs in can be a P.I.T.A and often the centre of my palm will be black/blue from spending 15min trying to wiggle/twist and force a peg between type 1 aggregate.
I recently acquired a JAG bankstick auger 'thing' which I keep forgetting to put in the van so I always have it with me. That might be an option.
Found it, it's called a digging stick. Bit too much 'girth' for a peg, but you could always use it for the first 2/3 inches as often it's only the surface that's rocky
LINKY POO™ https://johnsonrosstackle.co.uk/jag-316/22423-jag-products-digging-stick.html
I have in the past taken an SDS drill and 8mm masonry drill bit to slowly/quietly tease a 'pilot hole' through more challenging substrate to make sticking the peg in easier. I didn't use it on hammer/SDS setting, just preferred that drill for drilling as it's got a bigger better motor than my everyday DeWalt drills
In reply to Post #36
Digging sticks are very good, think Defiant MPS came up with the idea.
They might be overkill for bivvy pegs.
Incidentally, I might be the only person to nearly break one of the MPS digging sticks.
I had the great idea to screw it into a tree so I could use it to bunk me up to the first branch, of which it did brilliantly, and held my weight But when I went to get it out, I think the heat from the friction it produced managed to nearly twist the bottom section out. Nearly being the operative word, as although it looks mangled, it stayed together; a true testament to the build quality.
ATB
Ash
Digging sticks are very good, think Defiant MPS came up with the idea.
They might be overkill for bivvy pegs.
Incidentally, I might be the only person to nearly break one of the MPS digging sticks.
I had the great idea to screw it into a tree so I could use it to bunk me up to the first branch, of which it did brilliantly, and held my weight But when I went to get it out, I think the heat from the friction it produced managed to nearly twist the bottom section out. Nearly being the operative word, as although it looks mangled, it stayed together; a true testament to the build quality.
ATB
Ash
In reply to Post #36
They might be expensive but the Jag Xcavator bivvy pegs are worth every penny.
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The Xcavator Banksticks are also absolutely brilliant.
Setting up on rock hard ground now takes minutes instead of hours. 😀
They might be expensive but the Jag Xcavator bivvy pegs are worth every penny.
LINKY POO™ https://johnsonrosstackle.co.uk/jag-products/27685-jag-xcavator-bivvy-peg-std.html
The Xcavator Banksticks are also absolutely brilliant.
Setting up on rock hard ground now takes minutes instead of hours. 😀