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Now I know why old men wear flat caps. Perhaps it's that time already.

Welcome to my world, had concussion twice last year smashing the back of my head on the car door frame whilst loading the kit. Given myself a perforated ear drum doing it on the last occasion. Spend 3 days on the bank wondering why I felt funny 🙃👎

out for 4hrs today, just to enjoy the sunshine! Had this 15lb common on a single NS orange pop up

out for a few hours enjoying the sunshine 😎

It's been a long hard 6 months of Autmn & Winter. I haven't been able to get out since last August. Glad to finally be back at it again. Its a rock hard water, but today's not about catching. It's about being out and enjoying life for a few hours. Tight lines anyone else out there today. I hope this isn't a false spring......

If it helps I clean shaved my head on Sunday I am nearly on double digit times I've banged it and it's only midweek.

Twice! 🙄

And I thought that I was mad with some of my sessions😅 Proper result that Mate, lovely looking fish, and the weight is just a bonus.

Don't go for the FlipFuel gizmo that Jag marketed. You can get the same thing from China for peanuts mate.

Yeah you do struggle to completely drain, especially if it's cold. Was considering one of those adaptors to drain one into another tbh

There you go Mate, I know it's an old thread, but a bit of thingy on gas brands

Bringing this up again, as I have found a couple more decent brands of canister: Taylor and Brown. These were an eBay search after I got annoyed at Coleman going from £20 for a 6pack to over £30. They were priced at £21.99 including carriage. Admittedly I have not used them carp fishing, but I think cold, wet, windy days and nights under a Beach Buddy or umbrella while pike or sea fishing might be a serious test. The canisters ran until empty with only a little reduction in flame due to low pressure. This one was a surprise to me, NGT canisters! My mate Will mentioned them last summer after we had sworn at the Coleman canisters together previously. He picked up a bargain through Ebay and again, pike fishing mornings were the test. While I have not seen the canister run low, Will praised them for not being a problem when low.

It makes sense to me now you've mentioned it. Thanks

Hi Yonny, Thanks for the positive comments regarding Trent Shrimp. I've decided to go for it. I only hear praise for Trent and they've got those white cork balls back in stock at last Cheers for also sharing your common capture, what a creature!! Luke

I do like my 12 footers, I find the eyes a bit flimsy though. One of my butt rings is quite bent already.

Times like that, I bet you wish you'd kept the boat?

Thinking of going to the BIG ONE at the weekend. Not sure, but thinking about getting 9-10FT Helicals, the 13's are bit too big fo the estate campaign.

I bought a second hand 12ft daiwa super spod rod the other week. I used it for the first time this weekend. Was nice to go back to an anti frap tip again. That was really bugging me on my old chub spod rod. Seems a nice sturdy beast too 17 wraps seemed like a flick. Very happy with that purchase for £45.

They don't call me the stringer flinger for nothing 😂

Maybe try using a stringer, no problem

I would guess by the ingredients of the SAS it’s initials are for the Squid based fishmeal and the salmon flavour.

This bad boy! Does nearly 60 lb now this one!

Yup! Been using it for 10 years+. I don't use a lot of boiled bait but when I do it's always the Shrimp. I had just dropped a bait deal back in ~2015 and was looking for something new. I'd bought 20kg of Essential B5 and was really struggling. Literally couldn't catch a cold. Given the track-record of the B5 I was reluctant to believe the bait was the problem but a pal of mine put me onto the Shrimp. On my first session with the Shrimp, 4 hours after casting out, I caught the big common I was after. It was like flicking a switch.... just started getting loads of bites. Just yesterday afternoon, with the temps in my koi pond rocketing, I decided to see if the fish would eat boilies. I chopped up a handful of Shrimp and plonked it in each corner of the pond. Given my koi have never seen a boilie I expected they'd take a while clear it up. Wrong. It was gone in about 1 minute! They absolutely love the stuff. I can't help here I'm afraid mate. The Shrimp is that good I'll not try anything else. I have 100% confidence in the stuff.

I like the Korda subline in 20lb, its over 0.4mm in diameter, not busted on me yet.

I can't cast that far 😂 probably 60+wraps