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Agree. Pre-baiting is a thing of the past on many waters nowadays. Certainly on busier ones.

if an angler who only fishes once or twice a month as that’s all his time allows turns up at a lake and proceeds to do what the “stars” say and finds the fish how is he doing anything wrong he doesn’t know anyone has baited that area. if you have baited an area and the fish are on it that’s not really his fault. unless he’s in with the clique which most of these type of anglers are not he will never know on a club water it’s “lottery fishing” trying to get anything going you have to pray no one is in there when you come back.

What is the fly anglers guild that sounds pretty exclusive?

Hello, I was wondering does coloured mainline have any effect on catching carp ?

So far my plans have gone totally the wrong way, trying to complete a side job through March - April with fishing in May at the forefront of my mind, it's turned out I should have fished then and put the job off till May - June with the hot-still weather and now new members and other lake members on top it feels like a bit of a disaster at such an early stage. Really think the bulk of my syndi fishing has to be Sept - April, hardcore through early spring when it's nice and quiet. This place is busy May until whenever the weed gets up lol

We have a problem in that 1 member was the membership 'secretary' for two syndicates, and one of them has a April to June close season. The secretary would 'recommend' members to this syndicate from the other so they would be members of both, but only fish here during the others close season. That then creates @elmoputney 's problem and freshly cut, prepared or baited swims are suddenly taken by people who only fish the lake for 3 months without doing any work themselves. I was gutted this year to cut and dig out a new swim, keeping it in keeping with the rest of the lake, prebaited it, gotten fish feeding and then finding someone else fishing it and catching one of the fish I was after. His publicised 'campaign' for a bait company was actually fish for 2nights where someone else had been baiting and dive in when they had gone, not as it was published. It's not the first time it has happened to me or another couple of mates on the lake. It's these other syndicate members who don't do any work themselves who wind me up.

I feel the same about winter tickets. You get something going the normal anglers are fading a bit then they all turn up and start taking over like they own the place.

I always keep mine with the alarms, banksticks and buzz bars. I haven't forgotten it yet. It's not an issue really

Springback is just the recovery of elastic deformation (you even get a little after plastic deformation). The fact remains that yield/tensile strength of steel has to be exceeded to straighten a hook and this prevents recovery of deformation. Ok so we're now saying it didn't straighten and spring back into shape which I guess makes more sense. Although I'm very interested to know how you determined that the elastic deformation was just enough for the fish to slip the hook? Close-up slow-mo camera or a tiny tensile tester hooked up to the rig on the take? I believe you're mistaken Nick. You need as much elastic deformation as possible in a hook. More or less than optimum and the hook will either bend or snap.

There was a lot of stinky winky talk in the early days leaving the receiver at home !! can honestly say I don’t think it’s ever happened as usually the receiver is kept in the same bag as the alarms. what if the receiver packs up !! what if a normal receiver packs up you still missed the bite either way. i think in the 20+ years they have been available they have proven very reliable and the only problem anyone reported was sticky cases..

I was back home by 9.15 pm, lap of 2 lakes, swims I wanted gone, could have stayed and fitted in but thought better of it, going Bluebell Sunday anyway. Wrong attitude but bit fed up with members from other lakes being allowed to fish ours coz theirs is flooded. I can see why a mate fishes a nature reserve with 5 fish in it now, seems crazy but its you verses them nobody treading on your toes 🤷‍♂️

It was just enough to allow the fish to slip the hook, not total opening and rebending. Elastic springback is I think it's name. From memory it is where the outer layers stretch and the middle is compressed. Once the force is removed it returns to shape

Looks nice, I have been getting mass gainer shakes as I lost near two stone last year now take half the recommended amount of a protein shake each day works that's for sure be perf3ct on the bank in summer, the one from Optimum Nutrition is packed with all sorts not just protein. Definitely works I shot back up to 9st lol.

Tuesday was a Co-op chocolate cookie day.

It is if you don't bring it with you😉 My overnight kit is in a rucksack, and the receiver lives in a pocket in that, my day kit is my tackle box, so I don't bring it with me. On a day session it is not like I am miles away from the rods, or deep asleep.

It has been a while since our bankside cuisine has been on show so as Google does not like old threads, I'll start afresh. Last night I had rump steak, so tonight's dinner was the steak trimmings turned into a curry with a diced potato, baby corn, chopped mangetout, fine green beans and half a tin of chopped tomatoes and Garam Masala and a dash of chilli powder.

I've got to try and entertain 2 kids on the bank this weekend, god knows what I am going to feed them. Good luck Kev at least you have pastries 👍

I think they have missed a trick and not using the same type of speaker as the old optonic would have still been waterproof then and no different in style maybe a little fatter to account for another little PCB?

When I belonged to the fly dressers guild once we mounted a hook into a vice we were taught to ping test it if it didn’t ping get rid. if a hook could straighten we could go back to using the bent hook rig safely lol

This is what I've realised 👍 Must be an age thing coz it seems that every year I forget what my main meals were on the bank in the previous years, suddenly I haven't got a clue what to take. Going late tonight and it's steak, new potatoes and peas Friday night, then back home Saturday and planning the meals for a 2 night social at Bluebell Sun - Weds. Weathers looking good for the following weekend down the syndi again, westerlies and rain - fingers and toes crossed for that one, gonna be there Thurs night for first dibs on swims for the long weekend 😎

You won't catch if you ain't got a pastry selection.

Just have your receiver with you it's not complicated really put it on a lanyard, I sometimes just leave it on a bucket or in my bivvy pocket somewhere I know I'll hear it.

Sorry but 6 for £2.37, looks like an essential tackle purchase to me:

If you ever decide to buy the front bars with bucket holder or just the front bars with shelf to take the weight of a heavy front bag - you're looking for the bigger sized bars as it's the Mk2 👍 Also got wider wheel forks if you need a replacement wheel

Got the front bag and barrow tidy on the way plus sides, so long as I get my tea kit at the front, the side bags take all the pod and bank stick gear alarms scales and baiting up equipment that sort of thing, be a fat boy evo once I get the rear wheels on it