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Well the rods are out, the bivvy went up first just before it rained hasn't really stopped since, got plenty of smelly bait out, bit all over the shop though but enough where it needs to be , happy with them all though, chicken flatbreads for tea tonight, then I might get in the scratcher cos it isn't that warm 😁 Confident tbh already had 2 occurances on the left hand rod, wind is hacking through, it's got to happen surely 😬

Got a Nash Titan Hide (not the xl) 2nd hand with zip in door, groundsheet and winterskin for £200... in nearly new condition... job done...

Slightly off topic but I gave some kids a night to remember. I was all night barbel fishing right out in the sticks when at 3 in the morning I heard some kids on the far bank coming down from half a mile away singing what could be described as "racist rugby songs". When they got opposite to where I was fishing, I dipped my isotope underwater and let out a piercing werewolf howl! They absolutely crapped their selves and and a few more howls had them running away. Well worth disturbing the swim I was fishing at the time and I dare say tales of the "Beast of Wiltshire" still get told!

Good luck Highy hope you smash it today

My car loaded, having dinner and should be there about 1pm...2 mates been there since 6am this morning

I've been granted permission for a quick overnight baiting night again tonight woop, gonna be a wet and windy one though so I might take the bivvy and my proper sleeping bag 😁 Why do I always feel like a kid at Christmas, everytime I can go fishing, long may that continue I say, love it 😁

The bottom bait and snowman rigs rigs were identical, only the pop-up rigs were shorter. The rigs were like the pictured combi-rig, or coated braid. I could actually swap a bottom bait rig to a snowman rig. I don't know if you have seen my sliding ring rig? A sliding ring on the hookshank, with the hair tied to the ring, so I could tie on the hair and use the same rig for either. It gave me the option of changing hair length as well to suit my 'rules' about where I was hooking fish: If I am hooking fish hooked dead centre of the bottom lip the hair and rig length is right.If I am hooking fish at the back of the mouth, the hair and rig is too long.If I am losing fish to hookpulls, nothing on after indication of a run, or hooking right at the very front of the lip, then the hair and rig is too short. Everything was hooked perfectly. My lost fish (on pop-ups) were actually down to hooklink snapping after being chafed on blocks on the bottom. Looking at that, I have not changed my rigs for over 12 years, what worked then, still works now. Its weird. I basically had a rod on each at all times as I never knew which one would produce at any session, until by the bridge I stopped, after 3 sessions, fishing snowman rigs as it didn't produce and fished only bottom baits and the pop-up. It was also the spot where I could bait up by hand directly over my hookbaits, tipping my bait off the bridge. The other locations were Spomb loaded, plus the stringer attached to the hook. In any session, it was only one rod that produced, with one exception by the bridge where I lost a fish on the pop-up and landed 3 on the bottom baits.

Taking the wife and only catching bream.