Well, welcome to the cart fishing podcast, episode 86, and we are back again, and it only feels like yesterday mate it does man we were sat very

close and cozily recording this kite fishing podcast uh but yeah a month has gone by as it's flown by

but uh what a difference what a difference of months mate we're sat at uh at the lake and i've

chucked two rods out because they were all set up ready to go pretty much from my last session. So I've literally just screwed a couple of bottom baits on and whack them out onto a clear area and who knows, mate, the rods are fishing. Yeah. I reckon you've got more chance of catching. Sorry, you've got more chance hearing a duck fart than you're catching right now.

Why is that?

Why is that? Because, one, you're using a bait screw. Who uses bait screws? Well, there's nothing wrong with bait screws. I ate bait screws, mate. Like, they are the epitome of the worst rig component ever known to man. Really? To be fair, I think the rigs, the screws can be improved on

because they're all bar them from sort of China, aren't they? Yeah. And they're all like on the

screw bit, the head of it is quite big, isn't it? Yeah. And then you've got this little swivel.

Yeah. Yeah. And I think they, yeah, definitely that can be improved on um i mean it actually

works in your favour actually i'm being i'm being unfair because actually the bait screw on your rig

that i've just seen you cast out you've got like um a hard and bottom bait on and then you've got

a little pop-up on because your bait screw's quite long isn't it so you you're managing to take a little layer off the top of the hardened bottom bait. Yeah. So the bait screw sort of pokes through the top and then you can screw the pop-up on top as well. That's right, yeah. I get that. And also if you've got too much buoyancy in that combination, the bait screw with the weight of the metal actually adds a little

bit of weight to make the rig. Yeah, it's buoyant, doesn't it? It does. Yeah, yeah. I do think they can be

improved though, those bait screws because they are a bit, a bit thick in the wire, and particularly

the islet that goes onto the screw. That's usually quite thick and doesn't need to be.

I'm surprised a tackle manufacturer hasn't gone and made them a bit more sleek because they

are really useful in the right circumstances.

Yeah, I'm being unfair. I just think they look hideous. And the other thing that I

are paranoid about when it comes to bait screws,

because I've seen it on the underwater, I think,

is that birds can pluck baits off screws, can't they?

They can.

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