Ive been looking at buying a set of the greens in 12ft 6, 4lb TC. Anyone have any to offer advice/reviews? Obviously these would be for distance fising.

Just wondering if people have experience with either of these rods or ideally both.

Looking for a set of rods for distance and i dont want to break the bank.

Ive got it down to the kaizen green 13s or Free Spirit Helical 13s.

What would you go with?

TIA

Has anyone used the gardner suspender floats or the XL version and had much success with them? Seen a couple lads with them today and hadnt seen them before for floater fishing.

Well, this could go down as one of the worst product launches i have witnessed. He ought to have discussed it more with fishery managers before making it so public.

Lets be honest the main thing he has brought to the table is a loaded rig... rigs with some form of elasticity have been around for a long while they just havnt been pre tensioned. In this respect, taking morals out of it, it seems to work. I can understand how it will probably convert more pick-ups.

The main issue he has to address is the safety. That seems to be the number one issue that has come up and i think he will need to go back to the drawing board.

There have already been some good suggestions in this post on how to make it safer.

I do think its a matter of time before this or something like this is brought to market safely. The "box" has been opened at this point. There will only be the morals of the concept to discussed about then. That is an entirely differnt arguemnt in my opinion.

essentially what everyone thought it was going to be. i think it will work but i wonder if all fishery owners will like it. the difference between this and the hermit rig is this is essentially "loaded" form what i can tell.

I think Evri the rebranded Hermes. They always had a terrible reputation under that name.

I've never heard of that app ill give that a try.

About the weed, on my syndicate the whole lake bed is covered in silk weed its just not as bad in certain areas. Saying this, all the fish have very dark mouths and you can regularly see them routing about in it.

I've actually found fishing a wafter rig (Standard German) on a heli set up (bead slightly higher and rig slightly longer) whilst spreading boilies with a stick, picks out more fish and the bigger residents.

I've tried pop up presentations but had no where near the success. I also found that heavily baiting with particle whilst it did clear an area, the fish where less inclined to feed on it.

obviously this may change venue to venue but my confidence in fishing in silk weed now has sky rocketed with wafters after having seen fish actively finding them out. I also think the spread of boilies with a stick helps, as a moving carp is easier to catch than a grazing one in my experience. The biggest hurdle to overcome is the mental side when you retrieve the rig and it has silk weed on it.

I agree its not a brilliant idea. But some of these people producing the limited edition type hook baits are using old flavours that are currently fashionable. Once there gone, there gone i suppose.

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Great idea 👍

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I thought i had read it somewhere this must be it. Deffo gonna try the golden syrup way. Ive not had much use with tigers so ill deffo try this brown sugar method