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I have recently encountered a problem at our club lake. I normally target the roach and rudd. However, the lake contains a rather large head of carp. To this point catching the odd one "by mistake" hasn't been much of a problem. I have been using my scoop net to land them. However, the carp are getting to a size (double figures) where they no longer fit. This in itself isn't an issue as I have two traditional net heads big enough. My problem is that I don't really like landing roach in these deep nets. The solution is to take two nets. Not ideal but sensible. Therefore, I knocked up a roach specific net pole. Cork handle, whipped ala early Lucky strike, with silk, like the nodes. The butt cap is the top of a port or sherry bottle! It is 5'4" long. Should do the trick.
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Odds and ends shot tubes..

I had a few bits of bamboo left from Landing net poles , that were a bit too large for the poles, but too narrow for anything else, and was loath to throw them away,coupled with a bagfull of wine corks, which were just gathering dust...... so after a bit of work ended up with these..

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I am thinking now that it may work if I turn some hardwood /cork "stoppers " for them , in preference to plain cork, something to do in the days ahead before the season starts.

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Very nice indeed. Like the idea of the hardwood/cork stopper.
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Old Man River wrote: Mon May 25, 2020 6:14 pm Odds and ends shot tubes..

I had a few bits of bamboo left from Landing net poles , that were a bit too large for the poles, but too narrow for anything else, and was loath to throw them away,coupled with a bagfull of wine corks, which were just gathering dust...... so after a bit of work ended up with these..

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I am thinking now that it may work if I turn some hardwood /cork "stoppers " for them , in preference to plain cork, something to do in the days ahead before the season starts.

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They would make lovely salt and pepper pots for days out or at home on the table.

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I like those very much :Hat:

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Very fine, Old M.R.. The bottom three are my favourites.

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Very nice indeed :Sun:

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Ouse Wanderer wrote: Tue May 26, 2020 12:16 am Very fine, Old M.R.. The bottom three are my favourites.
I tend to agree OW , I prefer the tubes with a bit of flaming , and no whippings , tbh they only turned out flamed as they were made from the end section of an overly long flamed net pole that needed to be cut down, a happy coincidence that seemed to work .

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They are superb, I especially like the flamed ones. Very, very nice....Well done
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