In reply to Post #14
I would imagine to slow down bites from nuisance fish. Anything smaller than a 20mm hookbait on my water is just suicide in this respect. The bream and roach would be all over them. I know you'll still get bites from them, but it'll defo slow them down significantly.

I use 16mm cork balls with a teaspoon of basemix paste which leaves me with a 20-22mm pop up. It requires very little putty to critically balance it on most pop up rigs. The skin is thick but it helps counter the buoyancy of the cork. They stayed popped up for days, tested in a jar. I use a measuring spoons instead of just pinching off some paste so my pop ups have a consistent buoyancy. I test the amount of paste required by wrapping cork with paste on an actual rig before boiling, the pop up will be at its heaviest at this point in my opinion.

I have tried larger cork balls but they require so much paste to make the amount of putty needed to pin it to deck unreasonable. Its crazy how much the buoyancy goes up as you go from 16mm to 18mm cork!

In reply to Post #13
No worries mate

@808, it's all very well me guessing and theorising but you might want to drop Mark, forum member TCarper (of Specialized Hookbaits), a pm, I'd imagine there's not a lot he hasn't been asked to roll

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Purely to try and keep the bream away what ever i try is getting hammered, fishing in weed is keeping them at bay to an extent. After a number of years with out the *******s its a pain to deal with them again. I reckon I have had more bream from this water now that in the rest of my 40 year career.

In reply to Post #19
I roll 20 and 24,mm pop ups weekly 👌

In reply to Post #20
Corkball or glass?