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Good luck mate 🤞

Might work!

Perfect timing..... my first sesh of the year on Friday!

Love the updates, especially the bit about the Albino Grassie. Seeing your journey really gave me the final push to stock up my own pond this month. I just placed an order with Next Day Koi. I trust them because they were the first online retailer to offer a 14-day worry-free guarantee, which takes a lot of the stress out of buying online. Since they’re the original pros at next-day shipping, I know the fish will land in great shape. Can't wait to see Whopper hit that 30lb mark!

Good try mate, but you're facing milder temps, winds from the South and by Friday it will be 988 pressure, DEFFO should give it a go if you can, seems bang on TBH I should be on a work party Saturday, may do the night after.

Hi Kev. A tackle shop on their facebook post has pointed out that Weds. - Friday the air pressure is dropping , but not a super low ?, so I'll probably stay home in the warm safe from the rain , and the mud . 😁

Agree that investment has lacked but can’t say they don’t invest at all. I’m part of a £5billion portfolio…which does need an extra 2b to deliver fully. that’s over 5yrs. Most of that is to just keep up with either tightening regulations or demand from development. The underinvestment in the 80s/90s isn’t rectifiable now. Not quickly anyway. Even if the money was there, the workforce isn’t. It’s catch up and plasters to the tune of enormous sums of money. whatever’s happening with your water company is shocking. Be interesting to know exactly what the issue is. Must be major to be offline for so long!

another go for 2hrs today, another blank! My little girl had a fair few roach and rudd though.

I tried to go last week but it was frozen solid! 🙄 hopefully get another few hours in over the weekend

I see you are fishing in the same swim that you were in December , and if ayone was going to be daft enough / dedicated enough to fish in this weather my money would be on you , Ouch .

Would anything ever get done or voted through if that happened probably still blame the previous liars.

sat behind the rods in a wet and windy low pressure system, the lake was frozen last week. blanked unfortunately, but try again soon!

Don't think we will ever get a parliament of 100% all independent

Too many adverts on this, think it was filmed on Bury Hill Bonds lake.... awfull place but the guy proves his point.... maybe:

Still no flipping water

We need a change at the top, unfortunately, it would appear Labour are our best option , but the mainstream press (as always) seem to turn the majority of sheeple against them??? After the mess the Boris crowd left it's going to take quite a few years, not months. Starma might not be charismatic, but we don't need that. Someone with their head screwed on who will put the people first, not the big corporations.

Anyone with morals hmmm 🤔 none of them then lol

Oh god that's terrible. Hope it gets sorted soon,water companies are a bunch of criminals.

Anyone with morals that would actually put the working class first.

You are right I had a brain malfunction when I thought it was £3, I still maintain you can get better bait for that price. Have a look at mirage baits £60 for 10kg and they all sound like great baits tbh

I listened to the Marcus watts podcast again today. Frozen sweetcorn glazed with MPG, apparently it's good. I've tried to keep my baits gut friendly, good leakage for the solubles, wallet friendly and sustainable, that's the things I strive for no expensive milks not loads of fishmeal, no krill etc, I even dismissed an ingredient because it contained palm oil. AI could probably work out the costings and savings for you. but I guess it's all about buying power and speed of process etc.

I have never paid £3 per kilo, i think corus were not rolling the bait but bulk buying from a place in Europe and maybe the big place put price up and corus could not sell it on at higher price i was paying £30 for 5kg

If its Gardner its good...

It's expensive because it is sold through a shop. The shop buys from the manufacturer and still has to make a profit selling themselves. If the shop buys an item at £7.99, it will be sold at around £11.99. Bear in mind that the manufacturer selling at £7.99 is going to include profit for them, and that may not be much! Indeed, I remember from Bill Cottam that making Hi-Nu-Val as a base mix was not far short of £10. If I told you that the shop bought a 50oz bag for £9.32 and it was sold at £13.99. (Sad that I can remember original buying prices after all these years 20+). Hi-Nu-Val went up to £14.99 a bag while The Biollix was £14.10. A bait maker selling direct at £7 does not seem that expensive when you read @framey 's post if £6 at home is a very good bait. I honestly don't think that ingredients available now are as good as 20years ago. Fishmeal prices have gone silly sky high and very few non meat ingredients give a decent usable protein source, with the exception of fungi or yeast. Liquid hydrolysates have a potential problem, they are water soluble. That sounds weird, but once they have 'dissolved' out of the boilie you may be left with nothing in the bait that the fish want. This is where you may well want or need a solid protein source left in the bait. The best baits don't need millions of powdered ingredients, get it right and I think six maybe 7 will be the most you need, possibly with some additional liquids. I will try my best to work it out, I can remember what it cost me to make Trigga buying the base mix, eggs, Liquid Trigga, Sweet Cajouser and Liver Elite as a standard.

Neither did I until I was getting serious grief afterwards lol