I have a few old batteries laying around and was wondering if it is worth stripping it down and using the lead for sinkers?
 
I know it's not the safest thing to do, I'm usually overly cautious with stuff like this.
 
Also is there a way to safely dispose of the acid that is kind to the environment?

I had a look at my fishing gear today and it's a shambles. I need to organise it all big time. So it got me thinking what kind of storage and organisation do people have for their fishing gear at home, in the shed or the man cave etc.
 
If you have any cool car, 4x4, boat storage ideas perhaps we can start another topic for that.

With a early morning flick down the Onk with no results I came home still thinking fishing and after catching up on a bit of work and doing a few things around the house I thought I'd get stuck into making a few DIY soft plastics, I'd rediscovered the moulds in my shed recently.
 
Paddle tail and curled tail grub in a few colours. The green one glows in the dark, takes a bit to charge up but does glow pretty well. I'm pretty messy when pouring but just trimmed them up with scissors afterwards and they look ok. Also have a few jig head moulds, the jig heads came out pretty well, I'll be trying those with the paddle tails. I can't wait to have a flick and see how they go 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How To make a very cheap, very simple Rod Holder . . . great for light-medium fishing on the river for example

Ok guys n girls something a little different this month. Time to get creative!
 
Over the years this has been brought up a few times and now it has happened we have a new section of the forum How to guides and DIY projects.
 
It's pretty self explanatory what goes in here but a few ideas... How you built your fishing cart/caddy, how you tie certain rigs or knots, your great idea for a rod holder, how to use soft plastics/hard bodies, even recommendations on how to read your sounder.
 
This new section is currently empty, a few older topics may find there way in here but we need lots of new content so get posting. All posts in this section during March will be in the running for The Fishing Guru prize pack.
 
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