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Taking the kids for a spot of rudd fishing tomorrow, they have never used a rod and reel before so it may be fun, the misses is also coming to spectate, can't wait, I might sneak a pva bag snide rod out just incase, but really looking forward to it, can't wait to have a bash at all those rudds, bought them a couple more drennan crystals today and another disgorger, and I got them 1/2 pint of finest white maggots so we're all set, going to try and go early as its going to be a scorcher 😎😁

I go into every session confident I'll catch. I go onto every new lake confident that I will catch, Be that a syndicate lake, club water or day ticket. Of course you don't catch everytime and the reason for that 99% of the time is down to the fact you're not on fish. Be that because the lake is rammed and you can't move, the fish are too far out etc or you can't be bothered to move onto them. I know my bait works, I know my rigs work and most importantly I know my watercraft and if on a syndicate lake the knowledge I have of it will put me on fish. If they want to feed I will catch. I know we are all in varying stages of carp angling but when I see threads like " I'm trying this or trying that this week " I just roll my eyes. Ive got news, There is no wonder rig, there is no wonder bait. Keep things simple, spend more time finding fish and less time chopping and changing rigs and bait and your catch rate will go up. Rigs - multi rig, ronnie rig, chod rig and a wafter/bottom bait rig. That's it on rigs, I use 4. Bait - anything premier baits for me, 100% confident. My spod mix, hemp, corn , *********, and ********* ****. 🤣 Put the rigs with the bait and if I give 100% to a lake I'm going to rip apart. Big headed no, confident, you bet.

I still can't help looking at bait companies websites to see what I am missing lol but I've learnt to just look 😁 Its funny though but nowadays I think it is relatively simple, you get a decent bait in the right spot, with the right rig to suit your baiting approach/conditions and hopefully you will catch one at some point, if you get the timing right and they want to feed and happen to slip up while your there great 😁 I am not often that right and it rarely goes the way I think it will, but I'm focusing on the more important stuff like Location and accuracy and creating the right feeding situation rather than what rig, bait, set up will work best, I know my hooks are sharp and my rigs present well enough and should reset, that takes a lot of the headaches away and I can actually sit back and relax and enjoy my hobby even if I am blanking 👍

Confidence is king go back to when mike Tyson was at his prime most people were beaten before he even punched them as they were beaten in their own heads by his ring of confidence he just knew he couldn’t be beaten and then came Don King lol

A little off the topic of confidence but a true story regarding hypnotherapy. Client phones up and asked how much he would be charged to quit smoking. "Right", I said, "work out how much you smoke in just one month and that's what I'll charge." "Well I smoke around 30 cigarettes a day and each packet costs me .......... blooming hell", he said "I can't possibly afford that", and he slammed the phone down.

There's a difference between what I think of as confidence and recklessness. To be confident you need to try and anticipate every possible outcome and what the consequences are. I know nothing about horse racing but perhaps hard or soft going, form of your horse compared to others, what it had for breakfast etc. If you do this thoroughly you can nudge the odds in your favour but you will only see this over a period of time not on one race. Alternatively you could stick a pin in a list and live with the consequences. After a session of hypnotherapy to quit smoking a client went outside and lit up straight away out of habit. He immediately demanded his money back because it had obviously failed. He was asked to come back in 1 months time when he would get double his fee. He never returned.

I only ever messaged a few tbh they never seemed to get back to me,😁 what I needed was self belief and a method of knowing when and when to not pull the trigger the issue I believe was self doubt, I had the tools I just subcontiously self sabotaged my good work with some bad 👍 I'm totally with you on the mindset thing though and mental preperation is probably the greatest tool you can get on your side,

I do agree there, it can definately send you up the wrong path sometimes, and it's very easy to make mistakes, there are things you can do though to improve your chances, though I will pm you some bits, so we don't take this off track too much 😁

I've found being confident when gambling can bite you on the butt. I was super confident for a horse on friday and one yesterday, oh dear how wrong was I. Don't get me wrong , I never bet more than I can afford to lose but seeing that I've not worked since March 23rd and my boss still has no work for me , i need to be more careful.

I've dabbled with using hypnotherapy before you can get loads of apps now, that you can just listen to, I went through a phase of using them to send me to sleep, funny though I do believe they helped, I was trying to become a better gambler(outcome investor) at the time and not make so many mistakes, if anyone is ever trying to get rich from gambling btw, stop thinking of it as gambling,just the word gambling has negative connotations as we are all programmed to believe this from an early age, so you may self sabotage yourself, I read loads of things abiut it also, one of the most interesting was Dr Howard Sartin, where he made some prisoners who were gambling addicts become less addicted and more successful, he did this by sharing a more successful method to follow, which helped them win more but also changed there mindset and reprogrammed there thoughts, rather than just making them stop, which is usually quite unsuccessful, I went through all this myself, I had to ask anyone that I cared about who was concerned, and people were concerned about it, but I asked them for permission to become a winner, sounds mad I know but for a while it really worked, and before you all say we'll why aren't you rich now 🤔I got sent off track trying to chase easy money by becoming a tipster, then I got into trading and other grey areas, and in the end I decided my family and work took up too much time to really focus on this and it became too much and had to go 👍 Bit this doesn't mean you can't apply things to your fishing, I've read about Terry Hearn staring at pictures of the fish he wants to catch so he can visualise them and get them in his head Sports people use methods to visualise things, like the rugby kicker that goes into a trance when he gets a penalty, he is visualising the ball going between the posts, So confidence in fishing is probably the only edge you need to be successful at it or you know as good as you can be with your skill set 🤔 (I never found a hypnotherapist that wanted to help me become a successful outcome investor only plenty that wanted to try and stop me gambling ) 😁

I use a long anti tangle sleeve with a Combi rig. A few freebies in pva mesh and never had any problems. I guess if you use a supple hook link you could have issues.

It's that simple. 👍

I agree very important. This is a HUGE subject and one that is difficult to comprehend if you have not experienced it. For my sins, I qualified as a hypnotherapist. The power of the mind is phenomenal. This not just some mumbo jumbo, pseudo-science speak. It actually works. For example, if you think you are in control of your own actions, try getting on a bike and forgetting how to ride it or try jumping into a lake and forgetting how to swim.

I am humming and haa'ing about splitting this topic up as Elmo and Yonny have put in a very important view, that I follow. I go onto almost every water, even every session, knowing I will catch. My confidence is in my bait, which I know works, I know my rigs are effective. That does not mean that I am using the most up to date super fashionable rig, but that I can find the fish, put my rig in front of them and create a feeding situation that works to get them to take my hookbait. Strangely at Nazeing, on The Central and South, at times I think I was not confident in what I was doing. I was beaten before I arrived. Yet the times I caught I had had a good walk round, seen fish and set up on them. I wasn't able to spend time there when I wasn't fishing, so may have missed out. On Alton, I didn't necessarily see them, but somehow knew I had got it right, possibly because I had spent so much time round there. It is 5miles from my home compared to 70.

🤣😂😂Exactly this ^^^^^^

If you get them feeding in a competitive manner in an area they are happy to feed in you can catch 99% of them on anything rig wise and bait wise. the 3f’s come to mind find em feed em catch em lol