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Not sure if you have heard it emmcee but the latest bait works podcast has Simon Bartlam on it talking about Dinton, thought you may enjoy it, I'm finding it quite interesting thus far

I had a pair of glasses made up by Specsavers and they were next to useless... they had forgotten to install the prisms into the lens .... I went back to my optician and she sorted my glasses for me, I'll always use a proper optomerist/optician, my eyes are precious.... on the offchance, does anyone know if it's possible to get polarised reactolite lenses yet... swapping glasses is a pain and I always lose the clip ons

Guys I've been using the Fortis glasses for a few years now and never really had a problem with them apart from me breaking them but a just recently I was chatting with someone and they were advising me to invest in what he called a proper pair (Costa del mar) and a few years back someone also tried advising me to get a pair aswell but was put off by the price take but after thinking about it if your eyes are your greatest tool in fishing it's worth the investment but is there really that much of a difference??

Well I've never listened to a single podcast in my life until now. Simon certainly knows his stuff and top bloke to boot. Some of what I mentions I was witness too, the floods being one of them. There was about 10- 15 of us down there on the sunday morning. It would have burst its banks sometime during the saturday night. Fish were indeed everywhere. I enjoyed it, cheers for pointing it out 👍

I have moved this into Tackle and Equipment. Apparently these are what Dave Lane uses: https://www.totalfishinggear.co.uk/carp/bite-alarms/tf-gear-mag-runner-ignite-bite-alarm I have seen them in the flesh when I used to work in a tackle shop, they do look pretty good, never had any returns, and according to Dave Lane in the TFG catalogue article, pretty bulletproof

I think you may struggle to get anything any good for that value especially 3 of them the jrc radar get good reviews as do some of the sonics you could also look at the Nash s5r

My last pair of bins cost nearly £400... I have to have special prisms god knows how much a pair of these bad boys cost... even using old frames is a mickey take as they charge £75 to put new lenses into old frames... bit of a rip off really..... add in the cost of those lenses and it's going to be prohibitive

Molecules that align 😮 That is some serious tech there. I best they cost a fair bit.

Well found! I stand corrected lol.

Spent a wee while searching as my prescription is up this year... came across these... https://www.transitions.com/en-us/why-transitions/the-technology/variable-polarization/

As an all-rounder the copper/green mirror are the ones mate. Have a look on the Costa website, there is some great lens info with a funky comparison thingy: https://www.costadelmar.com/us/en/performance-technology/580-lenses

So what's the best lens to use for fish spotting and sun protection mate? I need a new pair as my oakleys are scratched all over now.

Yep I won't be going back to specsavers either and I will certainly get some better glasses next time My specs are scratched too now better lenses don't scratch, I got an anti scratch coating on them too 😁

The Bwana (Eric Balson) wasn't what I'd call competitive, but he was all business when it came to putting them on the bank. Ha ha, I had to erase a 1,000 word biography. He was a heck of a man.

I may just add a bit more to this I used the same optician for 20 odd years and my eyes were fine better glasses always and more expensive, , I went to specsavers last year for my eye test and glasses, got cheaper glasses but I also can't see as well and have had to go back to get the prescription checked and changed, I guess that is down to the quality of lense

You will not see anything with Costas that you cannot see with 20 quid Fortis, but what you can see will have A LOT more clarity. Hope this helps.

Fishing is all about opinions and using what you are confident using, its the only way to go really, I don't really get too jealous of other anglers tbh, I have no desire to be on the front of carp world every month or be the best angler, I just want to be better than myself, which is why I enjoy coming on here so I can learn more, I don't understand Lenard for this reason he seems a knowledgeable angler but he seems to want to be seen as the best and brightest but without giving anything away. It's almost like he wants to be taken seriously but people never have, and now he is angry about it, either that or he has an axe to grind with a growing number of people on here and can't see past that,

That's the spirit! I won't bother trying to clean this up on my phone (it's just after midnight here). When the Bwana was still alive and coming out from Alberta to fish for a month each summer he tied big paternoster rigs with huge razor-sharp shark hooks, and they were cruel looking things. I tried to steer him toward more conventional methods but no go. He rarely lost a fish and caught a lot of big ones, so I think I was just a bit jealous.

Thanks for the advice. Luckily for me I've just taken delivery of some korda helisafes and boom material. Spinner rigs will be tied with korda kranks, no carp will be safe once lockdown is over .Their stuff has never failed me in 30 yrs of fishing so if it ain't broke , don't fix it.

Havnt had my bivvy buddy since jan. I miss him everyday. 100%, my best freind