Hints and Tips

[Banana Steve]

I was trying to find a way of cleaning up a cork handle on line, every post said soap & water, but one post said use Brasso Duraglit. So not being able to wash the handles, i dug out some of my old Brasso and tried a small section of cork. well i wasn't expecting it to work. But i was mistaken, The Brasso has brought the handle up as new. I would recommended useing brasso if you want to clean up your cork handles(Not Fork Handles) remember to wipe down afterwards with a dry cloth.

[Dubbed Squirrel]

If you tie your own flies, and find the eye of the hook is clogged with varnish, I always carry a mechanical pencil, with a sewing needle inserted. Just press the top and drop the needlepoint down enough to clean out the eye. Peter

[barbelblanker]

If you use rod tubes. Gaffa tape one end shut so it doesn't fall off into your rod holdall. Then find some thick cord or thin rope. Take the rod out. Drill a hole off centre in to the top of the end cap. Drill another in the side wall of the tube below where the cap fits. Tie a knot in the end of the chord and cut to about 6 - 8 inchs. Thread through the top of the cap, the inside side wall of the tube and tie another knot. There you go, no more lost rod tube end caps.

[Banana Steve]

when threading elastic through your pole, do not throw away the access elastic cut it up into
6 inch sections and tie a loop in each end and use them for pole rigs to secure them to your winders.

[longi]

When river fishing for barbel dont think you can just click baitrunner on so u can leave your rod. The bites are so vicious that they can cause it to tangle which my mate found out the other day he lost everything 200pounds worth of stuff gone just because he didnt reel it in before leaving his rod

[Banana Steve]

Originally Posted by longi

When river fishing for barbel dont think you can just click baitrunner on so u can leave your rod. The bites are so vicious that they can cause it to tangle which my mate found out the other day he lost everything 200pounds worth of stuff gone just because he didnt reel it in before leaving his rod

Opps

[NICK R]

a cracking thread

dont pee upwind ,or eat yellow snow

dont neglect the kitchen cupboard when looking for bait, 99% will be taken by fish

[geffski]

bit old i spose, but when making small pva mesh bags i used to tie them off with a little tag of pva!
(got fingers like bananas so tieing the knot tight was always a pain)
now just tie one end, fill bag cut it off the tube put a slice in the top and tie the 2 tag ends together
making a highly compressed ball i know will explode on the lake bed, can do about 2 a minute
and easily enough for a bagging session in 10! very tight and look pretty pro compared to the ones i was taking
yonks fiddle arsing about with!

[richard1980]

If ur making pva bags on the bank dont bother tying them just spit on the end and melt it shut