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isPermaLink="false">http://www.masterblanker.com/?p=1588</guid> <description><![CDATA[following my previous post about using fox arma mesh to fish with a whole load of new / old baits I thought I would give a quick update from this weekend. This weekends session on Thorney Weir whilst a blank was interesting as it did prove a point in that you can fish bread in [...]
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.masterblanker.com/?p=1573</guid> <description><![CDATA[Like many carp anglers I have gotten blinkered into believing that boilies are the only way, I have even written reviews of boilies here and pretty much all of my carp have been on boilies for the past few years. However all that is going to change as of now&#8230;. well last week. Last week [...]
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.masterblanker.com/?p=1257</guid> <description><![CDATA[Well this is the 1st post after quite a while and as it has been a while I thought I would start with another &#8220;How to&#8221; and this time on a knot that you use so infrequently many anglers forget how to tie it. The knot I am referring to is of course the Arbor [...]
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.masterblanker.com/?p=1209</guid> <description><![CDATA[I have written a lot about rigs and how to construct various types for various fishing situations, I even &#8220;invented&#8221; my own rig the Big Pig line aligner. However recently I find myself slipping back to simpler times and discarding complicated rigs and moving back to a simpler time, a time where we used standard [...]
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.masterblanker.com/?p=1194</guid> <description><![CDATA[I know that I said that I hated tying pop-ups onto rigs for chod rigs etc but I have had a change of heart. No I am not about to knock spikers but i have seen another way that actually seems to work. In the past I was always shown that the way to attach [...]
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.masterblanker.com/?p=1001</guid> <description><![CDATA[As I don&#8217;t have any popup rigs on the site ( Apart from the chod) I thought I would chime in with my implementation of the Multi Rig, sometimes ( incorrectly ) also called the Jon Mac rig. The rig is exclusively for popups and create a very aggressive hooking angle, coupled with its ease [...]
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isPermaLink="false">http://www.masterblanker.com/?p=947</guid> <description><![CDATA[Well after a previous post indicating how to make the &#8220;CV Safety Rig&#8221; with lead core I thought I would show you how it was meant to look. As I have now found a reliable source for &#8220;the bit&#8221; ( the black piece of curved metal in the pic above) I though I would make [...]
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