In reply to Post #1
Always makes me laugh this. Cheating? Cheating at what? It's not like we're in a match or playing fishing against someone else.

As long as we have respect for our surroundings, other anglers and our quarry who gives a rats ass how the fella in the next peg gets his baits out? If you don't like bait boats then don't use one...they're not for me, but as long as someone is using it sensibly and without causing havoc I couldn't care less.

Do what you have to that lets you keep getting on the bank buddy!

In reply to Post #12
Top man, looks like that could make a decent baiting pole. You think it would be up to the job?

If I filled each with a little expanding foam would also aid buoyancy I suppose.

Might have to opt for more 2m lengths rather than lesser 3m lengths for carrying them up and down the canal as 3m may be a bit cumbersome.

In reply to Post #1
An old boy once told me when I was a lad that he'd had carp taking his fag ends off the surface in the margins when he'd been flicking them in. Might have been bull**** but I believed him at the time.

In reply to Post #196
It's not mate, no! PA water in Mac

In reply to Post #55
Not all clubs will allow you to start trimming back overgrown swims, I know a couple that I'm in would give you a bollocking for it.

I've not yet got a set of 10ft rods but I've been intending to for some time just so it's easier to get into overgrown, un-fished swims and also for the canal.

As said though there's also the fashion element, I can't deny that I think a set of small rods with some nice baitrunners look good on the bank...and if people can afford to have different sets, enjoy having nice things and aren't harming anyone else's fishing then why not