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Finally got permission for a quick overnighter tonight it's been a tough couple of days negotiations but will be doing a quick in and out with bait up, and home for breakfast going to use the brolly bareback with no groundsheet, no need for food and stuff minimal for me anyway, got the rods set up having stripped some line off bosh bosh bosh bait up and crack a beer and hope the carp are playing ball tonight, steak and chips for dinner first then hit the road, in theory it's all gravy let's hope there are no spanners in the works 😁

Good luck Elmo 🤞for you mate

Tight lines , Elmo , don't fade away from hunger 😁

Rods are out... blowing a hooley... been on the go since 6am... knackered now

Plumber did sort it btw, and for free well happy, he replaced the connector bit and it's sorted, he couldn't turn the main mains water off though so had to do a risky one with towels, so still need the water board to do there thang at some point but at least we are not leaking anymore 😁

Me too... this is my 2nd trip here... apparently its bone hard for the bigger fish so just any size carp will be an achievement for me... vintage gear will be used with the Sharpe's and my Merlin pins... lets hope I'm graced with a carp this time round

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

My prime spot rod just went, I thought hmmmm came out the weed OK, tench, then it felt a little bigger hmmm carp, I didn't have my head torch on at this point, landed it thought hmmm too long for a tench but didnt quite fight like a carp got it in the net, got my head torch and this pair of evil eyes were looking at me it was a blooming crocodile, on a double wafter I told you I saw one the other day, unhooked it in the net, and sent it back home, that is after it broke out my net by smashing it apart first, I didn't weigh it or take a photo because it was evil looking 😈 It was quite a big pike though not a little jack it was at least 3 foot long, I would say a double figure one but not the carp I wanted, had a liner since probably a Conger eel, must be a veggie pike cos if it can't survive on all those rudd available it's got to be a hippy but An evil one More beer, tonight seems weird 😂

Well it turns out I couldn't get any definitive sightings of carp, however the spot I've been baiting there were a lot of bubbles happening in the area, so worth a go I think on that, plus if I blank I can blame the wife as she told me to fish the spot I've been baiting before someone else does 😁 In being forgetful news jeez us, I've forgotten water carrier (luckily remembered in aldi so got bottles phew) Anything to cook with, I said aaaagh can get by with a toastie tonight, so got bread pepperoni cheese, no butter or peanut butter, haven't got my toastie maker or a pan, so no bacon sandwich in the morning, just a dry old cheese one 😣 And all I have otherwise is 1/2 of a pack of chocolate hobnobs ,and luckily beer 🍺😁 Aldi have got some rather splendid pineapple milkshake IPA's at the moment so I bought some 😁🍍 Now all we need is some big chunky carps to make an apprearance so I don't cry in the morning 😭

Chilli oil 2 birds with 1 stone lol

I think I've definately disturbed something whilst raking last week that in hindsight probably was a pike, and actually forgot the pike that tried to eat my spod lol, I just wonder more when it broke out of the net it sat around near my middle rod line for a bit while I got the net back together, made a few lunges again, could've done it then maybe but not really sure, it also ran through it when I was playing it I did have some incidents where all 3 bite alarms went off, that's usually a dirty rat running through them all my bobbins were on or nearly on the floor and my reels were quite close last night so I dunno, I still think that was a carp though just seemed a more positive carpy take, so I am still upset 😭 Lost 2 now recently, 7 blanks and a wafter eating pike ruining the plan (at least it wasn't a bream 😁) Still baited heavily on departure let them eat cake I say, hopefully it will come together soon and I'll start catching them, I am starting to feel I deserve a red letter day 😂 I also seem to keep bumping into anglers on there that catch 7 in a session and /or haven't blanked yet, doesn't do the confidence any good to hear that when you keep blanking 😁😭

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

Well I've woken up a little sad and deflated, this morning at 3am I had a belting take, lifted Into it nothing, the line had parted somewhere near the rod, been mulling over what caused It, still not certain, but I guess it was my fault somehow, was it the line clip, was it a bit of gravel on the reel, a weak spot, that pike, A rat I dunno really can't be certain but I will be stripping all my lines back and everything for next time, bit gutted to be honest, it was on a hinged stuff rig so I am certain it was a goodun too 😭