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I am fishing a small 1 1/2 acre estate lake average depth of around 5ft with silt everywhere couple of ft deep in the middle of the pond. I find this time of the year especially they hold up in areas of sanctuary behind lilly pads, back of island & inbetween swims where there is less pressure I have noticed this by spending plenty of times walking the lake early morning & just before dark. Fish location is no 1 priority and getting to know there patrol routes I lead about when I am not fishing get my wraps sorted all around the lake to give me options to move onto showing fish with as least disturbance as possible I would say 90% of the anglers who fish the lake have long blanking sessions they just turn up bait up and wait I have had 4 out since lockdown and I am very happy with that but I do put the time in even without a rig in the water. My advice would to be keeping your eyes on the water and do your leading around find those areas and watch there movements even know I am fishing a small lake my binoculars are around my neak 24/7. Keep rigs simple & bait up regularly in the areas you find preferably the lest obvious parts of the lake. Tightlines 🎣

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Just finished new batch of freebies and hookbaits ready to be steamed I boil the freebies but steam my hookbaits

Yes mate, I take it all the time. It's quite compact reception is good (I rarely have to put the aerial up) and battery life is pretty decent.

Well spotted Elmo, so I need one with a speaker

The play 10 one looks pretty good for the money I think, still fairly small 18cm long 10cm high, haven't heard one though but my mate used to have a portable one which sounded pretty decent

Is that a headphones only one though? Dunno if I would want to use headphones for 3 days solid

Tesco's do a cheapest one for about £25, been using it for about 18 months

Beautiful weather, beautiful surroundings. What more could a man want?????..........................

I'm not one for glugging baits or hook sharpening. My view is the hook is straight out of the packet, it is sharp enough. There is a but in there, I use Gardner Muggas and Solar 101's, they are sharp from the pack, and they will penetrate my finger, and the carps mouth. As for glugging or soaking baits, I have not done so in goo or other soak for years. I know my hookbait work on runs waters, and my harder venues.

Just looked at a Roberts sports Dab comes with headphones small could fit in my overalls pocket £59 🤔

Roberts were always really good dab radios, mine was pretty bomb proof survived trips to work and all sorts still works must be nearly 20 years old, I do have another one now but I can't remember who it's made by will have a look tomorrow

I think you're right and I have been considering it. I think I just want to prove to myself that I can do it the other way. At the moment, I feel like I can't catch fish by sitting on rods and until I prove myself wrong, I'll still feel like I'm doing something wrong. I'll post my rigs when I get home to get those checked.. If I am to give it a go, do I just throw my usual rig out? Should I only drop it in if I actually see fish or should I also just consider dropping it in a likely spot? How long should I wait before moving on? (P.S. @cromiee Hope you don't feel like I've hijacked your post while you've been away... I imagine the responses here will help you regardless!)

As much as I like 'rare' shaped hookbaits, I do tend to just grab a boilie out of the bag and stick it on the hook, simply because I now get my bait direct from RH rather than make my own. I have caught on various specials; massive cube boilies, sausages boiled then cut into discs, boilie mix rolled flat and then cut with a playdoh cutter (Bart Simpson), cut down boilies, uncooked air dried boilie mix, then obviously the boiled brick cut into cubes.

Steaming away an smell amazing

Morning guys after walking there and 3 laps found them where I expected on the fresh wind after the 3 lap still there I put one on the bottom one on a zig nothing put a zig crust out 4ft below surface looking really good then a blooming tufty had to get involved that was that nothing they'd moved out to not make an appearance till I had to pack up and I would of moved but it's a public park lake and was packed so wasnt really an option I love camping I do 😃😃