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Six hour lunch in our rich friends' garden today so I had to take a BHK from my 2010 box. Great creamy nutty flavours but same burn issues as last time and it needed four relights!
Six hour lunch in our rich friends' garden today so I had to take a BHK from my 2010 box. Great creamy nutty flavours but same burn issues as last time and it needed four relights!
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Never seen burn issues on bhks. Too wet?
Originally posted by Simon Bolivar
Little medical correction there Steve, you will surely die...but not from smoking these
perhaps. or perhaps a bad box... common issues on heavy BHKs
i weigh all BHKs when buying them. 54s should be between 14 and 15.5 grammes. but once it goes above 17 grammes, there's a chance it'll be plugged and very good chance it'll burn badly. you can tell the feet apart, too. But i find weight to be something a tad more objective.
before you call my quote bullshit, i've found NO behikes between 16 and 17.5 grammes. if you can't see a bad correlation there, i can't help it. there're obvious inconsistency issues there.
never seen the difference on BHK 52s and 56s, though. so i'm sorry i can't give you an accurate number on what the weight class for 52s should be.
Finished off the day with another Backwoods in my own garden. Its amazing how a raggedy little machine made cigar can taste so smooth.. 83202.jpg
(Raggedy Ann in case you wondered, thought you'd all enjoy it!)
Got up @ 04:45 to drive to the Netherlands, assemble & inflate my Zodiac, fishing by 08:10. Within an hr I had my first Dutch pike of the season, a wee 3lb'er but a start & I was chuffed as I never caught any here last season.
Had 2 sticks wit me, if I didn't catch by after lunch, than I would smoke a Belinda Princess. If I caught then I had a handmade Party Aristocrat. So after lunch, I lit up the Party & paired it with Juplier Lite 3% (driving home after all).SAM_5096.jpg
So after lunch the question was whether to move or stay put, SAM_5102.jpghaving an other hr casting jerkbaits, whilst having a deadbait out on the other rod, fished against a massive lillybed. After changing lures a dozen times since lunch, I was just watching a Spro Deviator approach the boat, mirrored finish, with rattle; when a massive pike shot from the left & hit the lure just one rod length out! It engulfed the 7inch lure & went ballistic. I managed to give some line & deliberately didn't land it as soon as I could have, as I didn't want it thrashing about in the boat. It leapt out & twirled on it's tail. It calmed a little & I slipped it over the landing net & brought it inboard.SAM_5103.jpg
Unhooking was simple but the photos were pretty crap but I couldn't delay returning the fish any longer, so here's the best I got. It was 19lb 06oz & beat my previous NL bestof 19lb 04 in 2002 & my first dble landed on my boat.SAM_5104.jpg Finally its justifying the cost. Post pics in a sec
Last edited by Simon Bolivar; 03-07-2014, 08:21 PM.
Reason: add photos
Simon Bolivar: Liberator of Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru & Venezuela.
Recieved my first Behike the other day, bought it especially for a special occasion in december and I hope I dont have issues, for ?27 I at least want a good draw/burn.
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