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just an indicator, this beauty came out of Grebe at dog lane in 2007 at 29lb 0oz, be nice to know if it is still in there my apologies to my buddy stan for posting his ugly mug on a forum and scaring the locals

Hey Cyborx, Thanks for that, certainly interested in Doglane looks decent, already fished Bishops Bowl once last year, my pal had 3 fish towards the end of the day all 20lb plus, found it tough going myself as the water seemed mega deep. Plus when we arrived we got told we couldn;t fish the lake we wanted to as all pegs were taken (Mitre Pool) so we went arounbd the complex to look at the other lakes and I have to be honest I was caked in mud by the time we'd had a look around and was not happy taking the drive around the very rough tracks to the other lakes. Bit of a messy place if i'm honest. Mitre Pool is cracking though which was the oriignal water we wanted to fish and in the end after wasting 60 mins walking around we found two pegs that were free so we fished it anyway lol. Lovely fish my pal had though. My lad caught a cracking tench too. I'll give the Doglane venue a go though and report back as to how we get on, cheers for the tips mate. Regards Brian

You know the score fella. It's not uncommon to hit a new water and struggle early doors, I'd go so far as to say it's normal. I actually think that's an important part of the story on any given water - it's supposed to be difficult, that's why we do it. All those blanks are time spent learning. At some point all those things you've learned will come together and you'll have a fish in the net.... and the longer the initial struggle goes on the better you'll feel when that happens. First fish from a tricky venue is always a massive buzz - happiness, achievement and relief all rolled into one. You can also rest safe in the knowledge that once you've caught one, more WILL follow - because if you know what has caught before you know what can catch again...... Looking forward to the next update.

Great bit of kit Best on the market, in my humble opinion

Had one for a while but not used it yet, as the large spomb is doing the job perfectly well . Heard you need to check the pin has its ends rounded off as there was a problem with them moving & bending under the forces. The only person I have seen using one was filling a spomb with it