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Hard work but very rewarding buddy. I'm due to go fishing tomoz, just a day session, for the first time since the wee man joined us. I came off my bike 2 weeks ago however and have a nasty chest injury. Plan is to head over later today to bait up. The way I see it if I'm able to spod, I'm able to fish, Time will tell.

Great attitude to your approach. Alot of angler's are put off fishing in Canadian weed. Only the brave!!

Absolutely buddy, no good putting all your eggs in one basket, you have to be adaptable to really succeed on any water.

Hope so too it's an area I've been baiting for a while now so they should be used to finding it there but last time I kept getting a lot of liners so I have decided on 2 new spots a bit closer in, the only other people fishing it are tench anglers at present but we shall see if it's unavailable there are other spots to try it's all about discovery for me at the moment so fishing a different swim isn't the end of the world I might learn something important from it

I've thinned it out a bit and left some bait on it so hopefully the fish/birds will thin it out some more for me but happy enough I'll be able to present a bait on it

The floss !!! We don't let him play fortnight but all his school mates do , so he picked up the floss off them last year it was non stop ! I told him it would give him hip problems when he was older & started fining him for doing it lol .

Mine is 9 also...loves the Bivvy part of fishing and the fight...but when it comes to technology he thinks he is from Fortnight (a game ??) dancing as if he is the bees knees.

I think nowadays there is so much info available there isn't a lot that should really be an issue, I've not really fished anywhere this weedy before but it isn't putting me off too much intact I am enjoying the challenge

Glad to hear it. About little fella. Good luck fishing, I hope you have recovered enough.

The biggest risk is other anglers spotting it and capitalising on your hard work. Carp can make it very obvious what they're up to when feeding on a spot surrounded by weed. Hopefully you'll pull it off mate, best of luck to you.

Well after my exploratory pre baiting session tonight I think I might be in need of chods, pulled out about a tonne of Canadian pond weed but it still kept coming