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They're no better or worse than any other 'premium' brand. I've tried 3 types, caught on the first pot, absolutely stuff all on the subsequent purchases, same lake, same spots. Bloke goes bananas on there if you don't sing his praises, what epic ranting.

I used to fish some of the South Cerney waters many years, mainly Ham Pool, Bradley's and Hill's for the tench before Watermark took the last two over. The Bailiff they had then was a annoying old curmudgeon and he used to check my ticket every single time I was there. I think it was a 2 rod rule then and I had an old pike rod set up with Heath Robinson spod made out of an old washing up bottle. The good old days, if you wanted something, you had to make it, not like the kids of today........(better stop there, I'm sounding like one myself!) After he checked my ticket, he shouted that it was a 2 rod rule and so I fired back at him that it was a spod rod and he turned away laughing to himself - the old [censored] got me! One day when he was in a more agreeable mood he told me a funny story. At Ham Pool there was a club house and bar and it included a fruit machine and one of his jobs was to empty the cash from it. You could buy day tickets on the bank then and for juniors it was £1 in advance or £2 on the bank - I did say it was a long time ago! Anyway he came across 2 lads and they came out with the old "I've only got a £50 note trick". Quick as a flash, he went to his van and dumped £46 in pound coins on them! I bet they didn't try that again!

I thought it had a spot on the test crew😀

hi, i moved to gloucester five years ago, and after fishing the scac waters (nightmare lol!) joined HS last spring.. full 1 year ticket cost me 680 quid - in my eyes a total ripoff, before folks pipe up here on the price, i was in a fishing club in my previous area for 30 years, 3 lakes no publicly, carp to 50+ lb in one pit, midweek hardly anyone fishing, all in for £370 per year that's todays price! and yeah its dead mans shoes to get in, and i jacked it lol as its too far to travel from glos..... anyways..though I've done OK on HS fish wise, i hate the place! reason being first up, the head bailiff is an absolute ******* (ask anyone who fishes it they will say the same thing) the other bailiffs are fine, and even though they know you have a ticket they check every time you set up! place is a gloried day ticket venue! they have many events so they close it so you can't fish it, essentially at weekends. on the plus side, the lake is nice, 90% of anglers are OK, you get the odd [censored] but nothing compared to the muppets on scac waters! i won't be renewing, probably this spring start looking at canals & rivers as the whole area carp fishing wise seems to be..who you know..or dead mans shoes, unless someone can tell me different? anyways apologies for moaning lol!

I should talk about my recent failure with pop ups 🤣they looked and smelt nice I wanted to try and make some super buoyant match the hatch type pop ups, so I went with 50/50 mix of base mix and polaris, then added 10% cork granules, my flavour combo was banging btw 5ml scopex, 20 drops each of black pepper and bergamot essential oil. Very happy with that. But they didn't really pop up that well and also after 12 hours in water they went soft like a pellet 🤣 I have since bought some AA Baits super buoyant fishmeal pop up mix and my next batch will use the same flavour combo Do any of you add egg albumen into a pop up mix? I think my last mix needed it but I've gone off cork dust so will just be using the pop up mix next time(although I have read this mix can take up to 30% regular base mix and still pop up so will experiment) Just as an FYI I've now made a couple of mixes of the AA Baits Tropaminamino boilies and now they are dried they are still quite soft and smell like a proper carp catcher, I'm starting to really enjoy the process of baitmaking, need to get set up to upscale it a bit but I'm going to have bait no one else is using and that's exciting to me.

Guys hes a great one from back in the old school happy days on yately, video only recently uploaded!

Just joined and want to say thank you very much for this info thread as you've saved me a lot of money, because was going to buy four different flavor pots!

Err.. I have a few more than two…

Do I admit to having 2 sets of rods and reels? Best not...

I also have a set up for dodgy waters that undesirables are know to frequent. Even though I haven’t fished any like that for years.

Same but more than two....

Don't I know it. Another series of trades with no new apprenticeships, plumbers, plasterers, electricians, carpenters. The top 10 building companies in the UK already own the 1.5million plots required by this government to reduce the housing problems, yet don't have the tradesmen to do it. In addition those building companies have the cash reserves to do the builds but won't unless they can sell for a profit, meaning local authority properties are not being built in many areas. Forcing tradesmen to go self-employed has not helped. The 'cash reserves' were often because the companies were given the land by previous governments, as far back as Thatcher, and it was 'sold' to pension investment and hedge fund companies as investment opportunities under a 'buy back' scheme once building started.

Same for the building game. Eastern Europeans working in London for peanuts, has meant my wages have stayed the same for the past 30 years. And yet every flipping thing else has at least doubled in that time

Years ago when the water companies were privatised, under Anglian Water the freshly trained and qualified apprentices were 'laid off'. I'd spent 2 years day release at college and 4days at an engineering training centre in Norfolk, with the college and training centre holidays at the Norwich waterworks learning the systems. The Suffolk trainee apprentices in Ipswich had the same treatment. That was pretty much the start of recruiting abroad for workers, and other corporations soon followed suit, the NHS, BT among them.

That's a great build, well done. As @jh92 has mentioned, please private message him if you would like to help with the development.

Good to read all the posts on here 👍. I alaso found this: https://www.totalcarpmagazine.com/icon-donald-leney-–-start-something-beautiful

Sounds like it could be a great app. Love the sound of the photo part, I would say I'd test it but I don't get much time to fish or catch enough to make full use of it 🤣

Alright lads, bit of a different post from me. I’ve been building an Android fishing journal app called AquaLedger. It lets you log your sessions properly — waters, swims, catches, photos, notes and stats — all stored offline on your phone (no accounts, no cloud). One feature that’s been really handy for me is the built-in camera: Take photos manually or Set it to auto-take photos at intervals Choose how often it shoots and how many photos it takes Ideal for self-takes when you’re fishing on your own. I’m at the stage where Google requires a small number of testers before the app can go public, so I’m looking for a few anglers on Android who wouldn’t mind helping out. If you’re happy to test it, please send me a private message with the Gmail address linked to your Play Store, and I’ll add you to the tester list. Cheers 👍

As special as they come that is mate. First class.

There are still some true leney carp around today. My old syndicate had 5 or 6 different known Leney's still in there from a stocking done in the 60's I believe. I was fortunate enough to catch one on my second trip to the lake, the others eluded me. It was 50 plus yrs old when I caught it and that was over 10yrs ago. It was caught last year along with 2 others. So still definitely 3 in the lake and it makes them 60 plus years old. I'm pretty sure the committee of the lake have the receipt in a picture frame. This is the one i had, probably one of my most memorable captures if I think about it. Weight was irrelevant but it was 28lb 02oz. Sorry about the quality, had to take a picture of my camera screen.

Corus has sold /is selling its bait making set up, I saw it on fb the other day.

I really like the corus bait range and have had some good buys from NGT but now i have enough bait to last a good few sessions i have washed my hands of the whole outfit, i have found a similar bait that i can get and will start mixing it 50/50 as my stock runs down

Interesting update Corus and NGT share a contact phone number which never gets answered as apparently "This persons mailbox is full" The annoying bit is I want to complain about a bulk spool of NGT line but they don`t answer emails either direct or through the website. Contact details for NGT would be great as they still seem to want publicity for their products through the usual promoters etc. Eventual owners "Sports Wholesale" don`t show contact details. Cheers Ian

Nice 1 @ouchthathurt Looks like it's got mouth issues, similar to the little fella I had. It could barely get the pop up in its mouth