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In this unboxing video, I’m taking a look at the Shimano Ultegra 14000 fishing reel. This reel is one of the greatest reel offerings from Shimano, and is perfect for both recreational and serious fishermen.
This reel is perfect for serious fishermen who are looking for a high- performance reel.
The Ultegra XTE and XSE are based on SHIMANO’s best-selling models and are set to redefine the mid-priced long-range casting reel market. Containing many of SHIMANO’s leading ‘long cast’ technologies, in sleek monochromatic bodies, these reels exceed expectations and are set to become best sellers throughout Europe.
Not only will these reels enable you to cast further, they will also play fish better, last longer and look great on whatever rod you pair them with.
If you are a carp angler and prefer dark ‘stealth-like’ colours go for the XTE, if you are a surfcaster, or prefer lighter colours, the ‘silver’ XSE should be your choice. Whichever you choose, you can be sure that you have made a great decision.
Spool Material – Aluminium cold forged
Oscillation Speed – Super slow 5 Oscillation
Type – Aero wrap II Material
Body – CI4+
Maximum Drag Force – 20KG Line
Capacity main spool Nylon(mm-m)(Mono) 0.35-550 / 0.40-400 / 0.45-300
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Excellent natural bait for the vast majority of fish
Preparation:
Soak hemp seed covered with water for 24 hours.
After 24 hours, put the seeds covered with water in a pan and boil
Simmer for approximately 30 minutes.
Hemp seeds are cooked when most of the seeds have split and when little white shoots are seen.
The seeds are now ready for fishing.
Hemp is a great way to attract fish (carp, roach, bream, barbel, tench, chub, …) any time of the year.
Some Facts About Hemp – Seeds
Hemp is the common term for a variety of plants in the Cannabis family.
Hemp and its seeds have been used for thousands of years by various cultures.
Oldest known records of hemp farming go back 5000 years in China, although hemp industrialization probably goes back to ancient Egypt.
Hemp has the potential to replace plastic material.
One of the most important hemp seed benefits is its high quantity of proteins.
Hemp is incredibly sustainable.
Hemp seed food products are also considered more allergy-free than many other seeds.
Hemp seeds are high in nutritional value and contain 20 different varieties of amino acids and all nine of the essential amino acids.
Hemp and marijuana are not the same.
It was legal to pay taxes with hemp in America from 1631 until the early 1800s. (LA Times. Aug. 12, 1981.)
Refusing to grow hemp in America during the 17th and 18th centuries was against the law.
For thousands of years, 90% of all ships’ sails and rope were made from hemp.
Henry Ford’s first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the car itself was constructed from hemp.
In 1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees need to be cut down. Government studies report that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of trees. Plans were in the works to implement such programs. (U.S. Department of Agriculture Archives.)
80% of all textiles, fabrics, clothes, linen, drapes, bed sheets, etc., were made from hemp until the 1820s, with the introduction of the cotton gin.
Almost cooked.
Hemp seeds can be kept in the refrigerator for a few days (3 to 5 days maximum) or frozen and taken out of the chest when you need them for fishing.
Natural protein fishing bait.
Hemp is split.
When the hemp seeds are cooked there is no need to add anything as the seeds are already attractive enough for fish (high in proteins, natural oils, feed stimulators and attractants).
I most often add hemp oil to the warm seeds for even more attraction.
Conclusion
Cooked seeds can be used in spod mix, a great addition to ground bait mix, hook bait, It can be used on its own, etc.
My opinion is that this is one of the very rare baits that you can cook in your wife’s kitchen (talk to your wife first anyway ?) without stinking up the kitchen with unpleasant aromas, such as cooking chickpeas, corn, fish meal boilies with the aroma of squid, octopus, liver, monster crab and so on.
The smell of cooked seeds is very pleasant, no wonder fish love it.
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This time I went fishing on a commercial lake. Fishing matches are also common on this lake, so there are plenty of fish in this lake. Because there are many smaller carp in the lake, it is so much harder to catch carp over 4 pounds. The 4 pound carp really isn’t big, but on this lake it’s a real challenge to catch it. Some anglers say there are also grass carp in the lake, but I haven’t seen or caught any in all these years. Maybe I catch a grass carp on my next fishing trip, who knows, anything is possible.
I have already written about this lake on my blog in one of the previous posts, click: Boilie waggler Carp fishing – if you want to read this post.
Precipitation: slight rain showers during the day, evening, heavy rain
I mix groundbait before I start fishing. During this time when I prepare my fishing rod and other fishing equipment, the groundbait slowly moistens.
Prepared landing net before start fishing is important especially when fishing alone and it’s so much harder to put together a landing net when we catch a fish. My advice is to prepare everything you need for fishing and then start fishing.
I decided to use a 0.5 gram float for fishing today. Lightweight, sensitive and visible, perfect combination for today’s fishing ?.
The first carp caught after a few minutes of fishing. The beginning is promising.
Spawning time
In addition to hook baits I had with me, wild strawberries grew nearby. I didn’t eat them all, so I used some of them as bait on a hook.
The most beautiful part of float fishing for me is enjoying nature, observing the float and of course catching fish or two.
In addition to groundbait, I also fed the fishing spot with home-made particle. Because there are quite a few fish in the lake they ate the fishing food quickly. That the fish were active I noticed after the muddy water rising to the surface. I didn’t have a specific feeding timing, I only fed by my feeling.
And the float disappeared beneath the surface ………. fish on ??.
One of the many carps I caught that day. Happy day ?.
Damage to the gill cover probably occurred during spawning. In this case, we must be very careful that the antiseptic does not get between the gills. If we do not apply the antiseptic carefully, we can do more harm than good. If you are not skilled in this procedure, you better not apply anything.
While waiting for the fish bite, it’s time for a hot challenge. But they’re not as hot as I expected. Maybe next time I’ll try to catch some fish on these Smoki Fun Hot Challenge.
Perfect, the groundbait ball landed nicely next to the float.
It started to rain and the fish became very hungry.
Because it started to rain heavily, I decided that I would end up fishing that day. For that day I caught quite a few carp, I didn’t count how many. The number of carps is not even important to me, but the fact that I was by the lake and enjoyed fishing to the maximum.
Tight lines!
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Crack three whole eggs together with the eggshell (crunch effect, calcium, simulates carp food – crustaceans, shells) If you use boilie gun, you need to dry and ground (coffee grinder) the eggshells because boilies will be difficult to roll (cracking the boilie dough, …). As a substitute for egg shells you can also use fine ground oyster shells.
If you do not want to use the eggshell or similar, you can easily remove them from the boilie recipe.
Add 2 tablespoons of powdered ginger (natural fish attractant, lemon scent) and 4 – 5 tablespoons of ground pepper (flavour, sharpness, fish attractant) to the egg liquid. Always add all the additives (liquid and powdered) to the egg mixture (preservatives, aroma, stimulants, color, spices, oils, etheric oils …). I almost never use flavour because boilie paste already have their own specific smell and attractiveness.
I also add liquid CSL attractant – corn steep liqueur (amino acids, protein, natural sugars, enzymes, dried boilis turn dark brown) to the egg mixture, about 3 dcl/ 1.27 cup/17 tablespoon. You can use any other liquid instead of CSL or simply skip this step.
Slowly add the mix to the liquid. It is very important that a dry boilie base mix is always added to the egg mixture.
Mix the mixture with a fork or similar cooking tool until the paste becomes harder.
When the paste becomes harder I start kneading with my hands.
When the paste is done (it looks compact, it doesn’t stick to the surface, it’s not too wet, it can form into boilies, …) I oil (olive oil, hemp oil, fish oil, …)it from the outside. The oil prevents the dough from drying out. Then put the finished boilie paste in an airtight container or wrap it with plastic foil. I leave the boilie paste so prepared for at least 3 hours (I usually leave about 12 hours or more). But of course you can start making boilies right away when you finish making the boilie paste.
Next day – boilie making and boiling day ?
First prepare the pot and the electric cooker. I pour water into the pot and then add the beef stock cube. Which contains ingredients of course depending on the manufacturer: salt, sugar, yeast extract, powdered herbs, protein, fat, dehydrated vegetables and other ingredients written on the product packaging. I use a beef cube because in my opinion it adds some extra attraction to the fish, better than cooking in the water itself, adds to the nutritional value of boilies, …
Once the boilies are made it is time to boiling them ?.
The only thing to do is always boil boils in boiling water and only so many boilies at a time that the water does not cool. When boilies are boiled they float to the surface of the water, but in my experience, in some of my boilie base mixes, boilies do not rise to the surface. Then it is necessary to look at the clock for how long they boil.
Boiling time:
⏱ 14mm – 16mm boilie ? around 60 – 80 second ⏱ 18mm – 20mm boilie ? around 90 – 100 second ⏱ 20mm – 24mm boilie ? around 110 – 120 second
This is an indicative boilie boiling time, which can vary due to the boilie mix.
When boilies are boiled, let them cool and dry. Leave them to dry for about 24 hours at room temperature or outside in the shade (never in direct sun). When dried, they can be used for fishing or stored in the freezer. After drying, the total weight of the boilies was approximately 1.1 kg.
Next day ready to freeze.
One boilie from the freezer for the test in water
After 12 hours in the water, I easily crushed the boilie.
Boilie test in a bottle.
Testing how boilies dissolve and the release of attractants in water can be tested at home (transparent or glass packaging, aquarium, pond if you have one, …). This home test provides approximate information on how boilies dissolve at the bottom of a lake, pond, or river. Approximate because at home we cannot create the conditions and environment that is in the water in which we fish. I’ll list a few: water temperature, ph or acidity of water, type of bottom, small fish activity – bream, roach, F1, crucian carp, chub and more, crustaceans, the time of year, weather and so on.
Summary
Making home made boilies is really a little more work than opening a bag of readymade ones. Of course, readymade boilies are nowadays more or less very good quality, as I use them myself, but catching the carp on the home made boilies in which I put so much time and effort is really invaluable (especially pb).
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You probably know that terrible feeling in your fingers (especially in winter) when trying to crush 15 or more boilies for pva bags or mesh, spod mix, groundbait mix and more.
There are quite a variety of fishing tackle available for crushing boilies and other baits (nuts, cooked partickle, …). After comparing between different crushers, i decided to buy Korda Krusha (size Small). On the advice of other anglers I chose the size Small. My opinion is that larger size does crush more boilies but it is much easier to crush more times with smaller ones than to bother with bigger ones. Of course the decision is yours. Since my local fishing shop ran out of Korda Krusha size small (so the size of the small is really quite popular against the larger), I decided to wait for the purchase until they got the product back in stock. When I received an email that the product was back in stock I immediately decided to buy it.
It looks very monstrous.
The package came in the mail and when I opened the package I was surprised by how imaginatively they designed the box.
Video Korda Krusha (size Small) Unboxing on my YouTube channel, to watch the video click below ??:
At the back of the box are some instructions and tips on how to use the product.
Now i open the box and see what a monster grinder is hiding inside.
In the photos below, the ingredient Korda Krusha has broken very little or actually nothing. I was expecting that as well, as these were ingredients that are very hard. I wanted to try and crush as many ingredients as possible so that I could see for myself in practice. I still have a few ingredients to try out for the crush, which I will show in the next blogs when I go fishing (hopefully as soon as possible). But you can try the crush yourself (if of course you have any crunch gadget – the brand doesn’t matter), which I haven’t yet and write in the comment section below how it crush.
Pros and cons, my reviews on Korda Krusha (size Small):
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As usual, when I get to the fishing swim, I first mix the groundbait (meanwhile, the groundbait is slowly moisturizing) and then throw in a fishing spot small amount of bait (corn, boilie, pellet,…) with a spod, fishing catapult or throwing stick. In the meantime, when I am assembling a fishing rod, rigs, bait, rig system…, free bait attracts fish without unnecessary danger to them (monofilament, fishing lead, fishing hook, rig tube, hooklink, …).
The Fishing Religion restaurant is open ????.
Fishing rods waiting for action. I hope the swans have left me some fishing luck ??.
Someone was looking for food on this rotting trunk, probably a woodpecker. For someone waste for someone important for survival. Nature took care of everything.
I know it doesn’t look like a super perfect tied carp rig from some famous fishing magazine or video from internet but the rig works and that’s enough for me.
FIrst mirror carp and…….
…… very soon another a little bigger mirror carp ??.
Some don’t have any feel with fish or they don’t care about our water friends. Please take your time and fight the fish slowly and not at all power to pull the fish out of the water. Because we go fishing to enjoy nature, catch fish, be they big or small, they all deserve the same fish care respect. We need to look to the future for fish to be healthy and in best shape. I’m just wondering who wants to catch a crippled carp, even if it’s 40 kg or 80 pound or more. I definitely don’t ???.
Proper carp care is important for carp as well as for the future of fishing.
Any kind of garbage does not belong to nature (these also include monofilament or braid pieces that fishermen cut), so everyone who brings with them should also take with them and throw away in the dedicated trash can!
I picked up that trash (and other trash I found) and took it home and dumped it in the trash can (just a reminder, I don’t need any medals and compliments, anyone who appreciates nature and hopes for a better future would do it).
The last hour to finish fishing today. Fingers crossed ?? .
The buckets and other fishing accessories are empty and partially cleared (finally is cleaned under running water at home, not to transfer any fish diseases to other lake, pond, river,…), which means that the fishing day is over for today..
The last rays of the day are still trying to illuminate the sky through some clouds. The singing of the birds slowly slows down and the lake slowly goes into its nightly rhythm. For a few moments I still admire this beauty of nature and then go home hoping to visit this beautiful lake soon.
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I had with me, wild strawberries grew nearby. I didn’t eat them all, so I used some of them as bait on a hook.
