British carp tax makes everything stupidly priced

Bought PVA bags and mesh from Temu. Work as they should and at a fraction of the cost of UK tackle shops. I'd wage a lot of the stuff in our stores are made in the same factories out in Asia but repackaged with added Carp tax! Some stuff you get what you pay for but other 'basic' items - you can't really go wrong unless you like the fancy branded packaging (which just goes in the bin!).

End tackle is we’re they make lots of profit. Stuf like line-aligners, swivels, etc. Or the desolving foam which is just really cheap packaging material.

I’m a way it does go to show that if some of these things (spomb being a prime example) can be made and sold for 99p and someone still make profit - how much margin tackle companies make.

I’ve bought Sonik Bivvy, bank bug butt rests, Sonik gizmos 2 alar and plenty of other stuff based on your reviews in the past. I’ve got to say that you are very fair and accurate with your reviews based on the fact I’ve used stuff afterwards, so will be interesting what you say about this. Keep up the great work 👍🏻

This is a real eye opener. But curly, who'd have thought a plastic spomb would feel plasticy 😂

Brilliant, look forward to the next video when you fish with them. You have been smiling a lot recently, so I do wonder what happened to the "beads" 😂😂

Came across your videos on carpology , funny ,honest , informative and just easy watching glad ive found your channel now ... Keep doing you buddy

Good video, waiting for part 2 now the rest of and testing of the gear. Keep up the good work

I was on peg 9 on heath this week with a 20 in the cradle as you walked down between the syndicate and heath! Was awesome to meet you! I should have ask for a cheeky photo! Tight lines Joe! 🎣

Oh and loved the video looking forward to the test vid 😁

Wicked vid 😂😂do a Temu setup and do a night 👌😂

Love challenges like this, watch you catch a decent fish!! Me and some friends were going to do a £100 facebook marketplace challenge

Been using the 4000 reels now for a month and they are great for feeder fishing. Amazing value.!! The best buy is the PVA bag kits Mesh or bags both fantastic purchases and half the price of the tackle shops/

Brilliant upload, cant wait until the next one. As a suggestion for something else to get maybe a bate boat? I have a cheap one myself but surprisingly it does the job and the battery last for ages 👍

I've got one of them alarms and if your just doing a few hours and don't want to take loads of stuff they work brilliantly. Little tip put some tape over the Little hole on the back so it ain't to loud

Great watch and very interesting mate cheers 🥂

I've got similar but rests I got mine from amazon and haven't failed me yet and the little black box oter than the hooks and beads the rest of the tackle have all caught me fish

The anxiety building everytime you swiped that Stanley blade 🤣 even knowing it’s blunt, I think it’s instinctive being a Stanley blade.

The reel will certainly be interesting to see in action, looks a solid bit of kit.

Can't wait to see you catch on this lot pal!!🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

Great video and look forward to see it all in action, be great if you bagged a new pb on it lol

Back in December 2023 i had my Fox Low Level Carryall stolen that had 20 years of terminal tackle most of it new inside a Fox Double F Box as well as 60lb x 1oz Reuben Heaton scales,Fox SX alarms and other stuff totally around £800. So unbeknown to men my missus actually bought me that exact rig box with all the bits and pieces in it as a stocking filler for Christmas. Bless her she doesn’t fully get how naff most of this stuff is and most carp anglers wouldn’t go near any cheap knock off rubbish that is sold on those sort of sites. However to be fair i have used the extender stops that came in my pack and they were spot on 👌 And i have some Fox hooks from a few years back that are also a very shiny metallic so i wouldn’t be too bothered about the glare from them cheap hooks but they do look savage and maybe crimp the barb down.

U should buy boilies from it, be interesting to see if the pop ups actually pop up

I've had bits like the pva loader and bait screws etc off Temu and they've been bang on, and almost a quarter of the price so ain't all bad on there

Been using Ali for years and I can't fault them. Cheap as chips but no carp tax.

you know can have loads of fun with the bite alarm.. it you with mate and at 2am in the morning when he fast alseep you set that alarm of as say thats your car alarm going of and you just watch him run out the divvy and run to his car thinking it car alarm going off and you have a smile on face..

Most people forget the majority of mainstream tackle comes from China. If you spend time on aliexpress you may often find tackle that is from that factory. But like amazon it can be a gamble if its any good

I have been buying my braid from Aliexpress for many years normally 8 or 12 strand never ever let me down, I change it every two years because it's so cheap compared to branded ones.

Hook/boilie stops and micro ring swivels too. Buy em by the 100!

Do a temu one next Ive tried some of their bit tight lines bud

You need to clip that high pitched alarm to some low level line on ground pegs around your swin as an intruder alarm 😂

Everyone complaining about british carp tax. Its everyones fault. We all watch the fox, korda an nash videos an buy the stuff. Get online an there are lots of unbranded suppliers at quarter the price an a lot is the same. The thing that gets me is the price of goo an dips an glugs. 15 quid for what is a bottle of flavored corn starch. I get boilies, they need nutrition an must be good quality.

But the equivalent NGT items are just as cheap, or cheaper - and no delivery delay

The price we pay for end tackle is a joke, for all we know these are coming out of the same factory, or at least the one next door. I’ll never understand paying upwards of a fiver for 10 swivels

Awsome video joe. the butt rests look decent for the money🎣 that rape alarm😂 i bought some pike lures from Wish workd great

There’s more of this stuff manufactured in China, perfectly good, badged for sale in the U.K. massively marked up than most realise. As far as budget alarms go you shouldn’t laugh I have been putting £6 alarms to use for ages to great effect stalking. They weight nothing, fix to the rod directly, have a roller wheel to operate them, the same principal as our normal alarms. Ok there is one tone and volume but they also have a small LED reacting to the spin of the wheel too. Much smaller than your admittedly rubbish “rape alarm” they are brilliant for poking that stalking rod through bushes and urban fishing where there is nowhere to sink a bank stick. Not for night fishing they do a brilliant job and you are not worried about losing them at a dodgy venue as there is no resale value. Hunt them down, they are held on the rod by a rubber O ring.

I got the fake wolf toilet and its brilliant 😂

Anyone tried the pva mesh? I seen 5 meters for £1.80!

Send me them beads 😂😂 hahaha

The sougayling travel rods are not that bad. I have 4 and there flawless

Even the stanley knife seemed as tho it came from Wish ;)

Buying fishing kit whilst drinking cider. When can that ever be a bad idea? Let's find out...

Yes I got some spombs ok temu £1.19 each x 4 on my second one now 1 one lasted about 6 months

Top get kids into fishing perfect but that's it no point spending shed loads just for them to stop

i bought a genuine spomb and could not believe how cheap it felt. Utter rip off

When's part two?

Bought plenty fly tying materials from temu and as good as the big brands that will have your pants down.

I’ve got them butt rests They’ve all gone rusty but still kinda work 👌🏼😂

I buy from terug,they have redfishy pop ups cheap fake maggots...one on top of boilie groundbait with maggots....tight lines

The sad thing is Joe 90% of high-end bivvy hook links etc etc is from China, Wish do some top water carriers with tap hose even rubber grommets, to allow free flow, without having to losern the lid, 12 ltr at 7 quid I bought many, they now selling at 14 quid on wish, they also got fishing scissors, like multi tool crush shot etc, but the scissors are superb, but 90% is rubbish🔥🎣🤣🤣🤣

not a full setup? where is the rod at?

How do you know what a rape alarm sounds like Joe? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Korda buys this stuff then mark the prices up

"This sounds like a rape alarm" - pissed myself laughing

Just goes to show how much the main companys are making

Iv seen 100s of videos of people buying tackle from Temu, but it’s always predator fishing. Never seen anyone do it with carp gear.

Any good day ticket waters anybody????

They are cheap,but more to the point,shows how much carp tax is put on everything 🤬

Wow! How we are robbed in this country!

I like it

Come on, as you’ve said you’ve been in the industry for quite some years…you know what OEM means 😂

Wish, Temu & shein are all the same

TEMU. The Emporium of Mostly Useless.

Bro update your video quality u can't stream in 480p 😂 it's 2024 wtf this video 😂

Feels a bit plasticky! Maybe coz it’s made from plastic 😅

Wrong site wish is shit its aliexpress the one you need to use like spider spod is 4.50

Fishing is not an industry, its a hobby, but as with everything leisure related these days , every bugger is an expert and in it for the money. It’ll all collapse one day and you’ll all be skint.

Shall we just say you've a pair of balls on this channel... Easy to slag off the Chinese but, and it's a big but, why don't you slag off mainstream stuff on your work channel?... Bought a bivvy on your advice, utter shit even for £120... Ripped 2nd time putting it up, now what you should've said was "Don't buy this bivvy it's utterly gash".... You crack me up fella.... Get a set.... Fulla...

I think if you're careful, some of this stuff is pretty good. I was impressed by the Reel..£16?..Can't argue with that