Hey Clamdigger if you keep telling everyone how great GS plastics work we wont be able to get any for us. First time I fished them was in Feb. on the Thames and I had a ball. The second time was last Sat. and we were hitting fish on almost every cast. Thats not to say that other plastics would not have worked but Bobs stuff works and it last longer must be the super duper plastic he uses?