Anyone got the angling direct exclusive Daiwa emcast rods? Are they any good, just because they are on a massive sale at the moment, maybe that tells the quality of the rods, maybe not.

Has any one got one and can you give me the dimensions of it please, if also like to know how long the net compartment is, just concerned about getting it and not being able to fit my net, its a standard 42 inch 2 piece net, so if like to think it would fit. Thanks

I want to get some 10 ft Nash dwarf rods (don't fancy the price of the scopes!), however I would also like to get the Nash scope R10 transporter bag and I'm wondering if the dwarf rods will fit, i. Imagine they will but want to double check. And I know I'm saying I don't want to spend loads on rods but willing to spend £175+ on transporting them, but the rod bag will be perfect for my current water and my limitations of not being able to use a barrow for this water as well as the fact the water is effectively a pure stalking water. Thanks!

Right so basically I've got a water I'm able to fish that is around 750m long and about 20 metres wide that has very little angling pressure but is home to around 30 carp, biggest is nearly a 30, this lake is very natural and has masses of natural food sources and huge lilly pads dotted around the stretch of water, I'm just wondering what your opinion is on the best approach to get some carp, I'm lightly prebaiting 3 potential spots at the moment that I've seen activity on, the lake is extremely silty and my prebaiting consists of sweetcorn, 2—6mm fishmeal pellets and hemp, putting around 500g of bait on each spot every night. Was planning on doing this for about a week to get the carp comfortable and then fish it. The fish are originals and not stocked or anything.

In reply to Post #4
The base mix is from aa baits, do you think it's worth getting some form of milk to add to the base mix, and if so what milk and roughly how much?

I've made a nut bait (the lake I fish on responds well to nut based boilies)
Here's my recipe I've made, any changes?
500G tiger nut base mix
50G Brewers yeast
24G Broacel yeast
10G Vit24 (from fishing bait warehouse)
20G health boost (from fishing bait warehouse)
12.5G Egg albumen
2ml sweet ade (mainline)
2ml almond flavour (mainline)
2ml coconut flavour (aa baits)
10ml multi stim
10ml metamino
15ml cell activator
4 Eggs

I've rolled it and it rolled very well and made some perfect 16mm boilies no problem, quick question, how much cork dust for wafters and pop ups?

As a novice roller I would like to find out the following :
Does whey gel and egg albumen once made into a boilie with your various other ingredients, does it go off? If it does how long does it take roughly vs fresh egg boilies?
Is there a difference in boilie quality between whey gel and egg albumen and fresh eggs?

I'm thinking of making my own boilies and with so many things you can add I'm wondering is there diminishing returns?
My plan (not finalised) is to possibly use the following :
AA Baits tiger nut base mix
Mainline cell activator
Mainline multi stim
Mainline metamino
DMPT (for hookbaits) I'll remove this for non hookbaits
Broacel yeast
Brewers yeast
Almond flavour
Coconut flavour
And possibly sluis clo if I need something to help bind

I know simple boilies will catch but I'd pay the extra for a "supercharged" bait

Mainline cell does well at my local lake and I'd like to get into making my own boilies, is the base mix that important when using the cell activator or could i use a cheaper alternative based off coconut?
Also is it worth splashing both multi stim and meta mino into the base mix or not?

I want to get a set of new baitrunner reels for targeting large carp and catfish, I'm torn between these 2 reels: the Shimano Baitrunner ST RB Reel 10000 or Okuma Longbow XT Baitfeeder Reel in equivalent 10000 size. They are both the same price I just don't know which is better.