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Thanks for the encouragement guys👍Really looking forward to re-acquainting myself with the place. I was a member before but dropped out, which I dearly regret and have been waiting to get back for 3 years. Its gets very busy and its not for everyone but the stock is next level and there are some really good guys on there too😎

Very happy to receive my Dinton Gold Ticket invitation today so my plans for the year are sorted. I won’t be rejoining any other waters-full steam ahead on Dinton. Ticket starts in April so my plan (dependent on how busy it is) is Spring on Black Swan, Summer on White and ‘Back to Black’ for Autumn onward👍🏻

@elmoputney you're exactly right mate. Being on them is the primary key to success.

I’m a bit envious! Good luck mate with the campaign, let’s hope we come out of lockdown in time for spring!

You can only go if its essential travel 😂 You'll have to let me know when you are down there, be good to meet you. 👍

I’ll be waiting for a looooong time for a Black only ticket-nobody dropped this year and only 2 Gold tickets available too!

I did watch the latest carp angle last night, just seeing oli Davies fishing was quite an eye opener, crumbed boilies, Pellets multi rig and a bit of Sweetcorn in the scoop send it out and wallop makes it look pretty simple to catch carp around the Horton complex, he wasn't worrying about spod mix ingredients or anything just finding the fish and carefully trying to get some bait and a rig on them without spooking them too much, I'm not sure how many times I have to see this sort of thing before it sinks in, I need to be more mobile and less worried about other stuff and I will catch more fish 😳

Try em they might but my Dwarfs didn't fit properly in the scope bag... the ops might have a different reel seat position

Perfect! 😂😂can’t see any carp though... although it’s good for a bite...

East Sussex Water have a good supply 😁

Good luck in your new quest

What’s worse is that right now, thinking about the waters I fish, I can’t think of a single scenario where a baiting pole would be of use to me... yet I still want one! 🙄 when I fished a small estate lake, the best spots were right under the overhanging bushes that ran along a dam wall. Problem was you couldn’t cast there. I got around this by taking the elasticated poles from an old tent I had, gaffa taped the joints so it Didn’t come apart then taped an old forked twig on one end with a block of polystyrene lashed on... I stood on the dam bank behind the bush I wanted to place a bait under and threaded this monstrosity out under the bush and out into the lake. Then I flicked the lead and old rig over this floating pole in the water, opened the bail arm, ran round to the dam wall and pulled the pole back in to me, which dragged the rig with it. Then by wriggling under the bush to the waters edge, I could unhook the old rig, attach a baited hook length and drop it into position by hand exactly where I wanted it. I could even donk the lead up and down a few times to feel the spot or clear it of debris. Once it’s in place, nip back to the swim, tighten everything up and jobs a good un. The bush was only about 15ft off the rod tip, but where the outer branches trailed the waters edge, you just couldn’t quite get a lead under there by casting. Such a faff!

100%. You can have the best bait, best gear etc but if you're not on them then it's all wasted.

Cheeky

I’m watching carp angle now! I’d like a pole like that but they’re rather pricey. Although I’ll use spod mixes and go down that route if I think it’s necessary, I tend to predominantly just fish straight boilies. I have been feeding the same baits for years, and in my experience, I’ve not noticed much improvement in catches using a “spod mix” (hemp, corn, pellet etc) over just fishing over a bed of boilies. Shearwater would do well over a spodded mix, so I went in with that, then one session (it’s about 3hr drive from my house) I left my spod mix at home by mistake so just spombed out a bed of boilies and had just as much action. Obviously, this will be dependent on the lake etc, my waters will fish differently to someone else’s. These days, the spod rod stays in the rod bag and I just pult out a bed of boilies. I’m confident that my baits are being eaten and at the end of every session, I put the remainder of my bait in so they can have a free feed, as I make my own bait and freeze it when it’s made, I don’t like taking it home and re-freezing it and it doesn’t keep too long. So it gets spread about the margins and nature reserve where they can feed safely and I make up a new batch fresh for the next session. I just like to keep things simple (I’m easily confused!) and a bag of boilies is easier to carry around than a big bucket of particle!

Not above the mesh where it meets the leather. (You can see it better on the brown ones). I found that out when I did try to walk the outflow when it was higher than normal. However they are OK in rain, so I would say water resistant. They are decent walking boots as well, and comfortable enough to wear all day.

It is weird about spodding or Spombing bait in, for me on Alton or Ardleigh it hardly ever worked on the night it went in, it usually took 2nights to pull the fish in, but there were occasional exceptions. On Taverham it didn't work, taking a couple of days to bring them in, except one occasion when 2 of us put a whole 10kg base mix bucket of hemp in; that was a hectic night.