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Carp will pick up and spit out even definite foods, I have watched it happen with maggots, bloodworm, sweetcorn, boilies. Sometimes they come back and take them again, sometimes they leave them. We choose foods by taste, carp don't have that recognition. What tastes good to us is not always what carp want, and what they like, I'm positive I don't think tastes nice; worms, maggots, slugs... Add to that your hook, if it behaves differently from the free baits, carp (and other fish) will reject the bait. Carp and chub are specialists in the identification of hookbait. To some extent the more free bait, the less chance of them identifying the hookbait, or more correctly the pre-occupation they feed with less wariness.

I can vaguely remember an article in one of the monthly carp mags going back a bit and it showed a pic of a good size carp on a mat that brought up a couple of silver fish... I kid you not.

And pike on a double wafter 😬 I was talking to someone at the lake a little while ago and he was saying about proteins in winter and bodybuilders etc and how he would use carbs for energy, proteins for muscle growth but he made a good point, we all think they want protein in winter but if they eat this they get full, and slow down, so surely it would be best to give them energy in winter ie carbs like particles and they would stay more active burn more calories and then eat more making them more catchable in winter 🤔

I wouldn't be at all surprised if it was the same pike mate . I've seen big female pike return to the exact same spot after being caught . You might find you have stumbled on where it likes to hunker down & silt up for a week or two .

Has the sealant at the splashback or seal around sink past its best? Eak out the bank time mate

Tell her not to use the sink or fill up a few bottles and turn the mains off. Fingers crossed for you buddy

You're still in with a shout elmo, until the clock runs out anyway. Weather looks good for a morning bite

They are, when they came to turn my one off, he had to sit and wait for 2 hours to turn it back on, didn't think about changing our dodgy valve just sat and did Facebook, apparently he wasn't trained to do that 😳

Its the mains water pipe again 😭 came home and had a look took a while to spot it but a fine jet was coming off it, that means we need to get the plumber and the water board out at the same time as our mains switch out front is dodgy and they haven't replaced it get