I've been using premier baits basemixes and other ingredients for many years, I have so much confidence in their products, I won't use anything else. I'm currently using the superaminos base mix. What I'll do when they finally shut their doors and retire completely, I don't know!

I much prefer fishing the near margins, on my waters they are always overlooked, especially as the far margins are SSSI sites so people can't enter that bank, everyone casts tight to the far margin, yet the near margin is where their left over bait or the boilie you take off the hair on a recast ends up. Last session, I fished both rods on the far margin to begin with, but baited the near marginal bushes, moving one rod into the near margin produced 4 takes, the far margin on the “going spot” produced one take - which I lost! Most of my biggest carp have come to a rod flicked up the side.

I've got a pair of Okuma barbarian bait runners on mine, they'll might be worth a look

I fished Ronnies with korda curves for ages mate, never had a problem. Had my best season in a long while fishing that hooking arrangement