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Good nighttime self takes.
Ricci, one of the A team, GPB2/S2 over Krill.
Forum member Gary. One of 4 on an overnighter. GPB2 over HydraK.
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In reply to Post #1723
Pecs like a flying fish 😄
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Nigel with an impressive Italian. S4 13mm cc over Manila. Size of that bloody pec!
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CF member Ian, pair of recent 30’s, S2
Ricci, S2/GPB2
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Chris on his social again, another one of the lakes bigguns yesterday and a great photo with his friend Sam. Good memories on a social with mates. GPB1 over Tuna & Garlic.
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Andy, beautiful zip, 32lb, GPB2 over HydraK.
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Chris, on a social at Creedance fisheries. One of the lakes bigguns, GPB1 over Urban Tuna & Garlic.
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In reply to Post #1715
All of us when we buy things, have very set habits mate, not just fishing kit either. My mate Gary from the Tackle Box first wised me up to all this, as I was totally clueless to it. I'd been a plasterer most my life, casinos before that. Never retail.
Some people will only buy something they perceive as a 'bargain'. They will buy something only on low cost, that something has to be 'discounted'. The product quality itself does not matter to them, as long as it is cheap. The concept of real value is often lost on these people.
In exactly the same way, that some people will only buy the very most expensive things available. They will buy something only on brand & a higher cost.
And everything in between those two extremes.
Some carp anglers are totally pre programmed to need a totally, and perfectly spherical pop up. It triggers something inside them, if it is not aesthetically pleasing to themselves (like that matters to a carp). Does not matter to them if it's just an insoluble rubber/cardboard ball... As long as it is spherical, they are happy.
The list goes on and on and on. People have very different purchasing tastes and criteria, and you can never please everyone.
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Forum member Rich. First night back this weekend at Welly, white S2 balanced.
47lb12oz
36lb+
Ricci, Masons, GPB2/S2 over Krill & particle.
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In reply to Post #1713
I just gave Parky some 13mm S3’s as I rarely use them (prefer the crushed corks). Should’ve kept them safe along with the 13mm S2’s I’ve got and put them towards the retirement plan 
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I also like the way the crushed corks are not a perfectly round ball. I can’t think of much a carp would naturally eat that is perfectly spherical, but some people are very precious about their balls.
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In reply to Post #1713
100% I much prefer the crushed as there trimmable and I like having a flat spot on the top
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We will likely just stop selling the cork balls eventually Carl. That will upset a small number of our older customers.
We sell 20 times more crushed corks than cork balls now anyway. They are simply a far superior hook bait anyway. They contain 50% more of the liquids. You can pierce or trim them. They are far more durable.
We don't have to be held to ransom for the cork balls, so we will not be mate.
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In reply to Post #1711
Yea it’s not good pal. Hopefully you can resolve it
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In reply to Post #1710
No Carl. Cork plays a very important part in our hook baits and not just for buoyancy. It's a completely natural product. This is all to do with the old man who died of Covid in Portugal in 2021 and to a degree us leaving Europe too. These kind of high quality cork balls are cut from one piece of solid cork. Anything else is a mulch of glue and cork. Crap. The machinery that he used was sold, along with everything else just after he died. I know this, because we actually looked into purchasing it when we found out that he had passed. But unfortunately we did not find out soon enough, and it had already all been sold by the family.
He made 95% of the cork balls used by UK carp fishing. It left a vacuum where for a year, demand far outsripped supply. That's why we stopped selling 16mm cork balls. The 12mm corks we used were impossible to obtain in the quantities that we required. Now anyone making these things are just taking the utter piss.
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