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On my club water it's no more than 10 wraps (40yrds)to middle of lake, Park lake is around 16 wraps (64yrds) to the features...but 1 or 2 waters I plan on fishing next year have features that are considerably longer easy.... I just want to be ready for all scenarios really, same with the Canal, I will take to lead about on it, but feed via hand/catty. I want to have a good go on it next year on some decent waters.

I'd send a letter recorded delivery. If still no response did you buy with your credit card? If so I'd contact your credit card company and let them sort it out with article 75. I know someone who has one and he had an issue that was resolved really quickly with a new boat within a few days. It was because of his experience I bought one.

Until a few months ago I hadn't been fishing for over twenty years. Since I've been back I've had some solid results culminating in this cracking scrapper that went 22lb 9. Not the biggest fish but it really put a huge grin on my face.

The Angry fish is what I use for pike fishing as well. I've had it on for a year on both with no problems, although the colour does fade. Amnesia is also used for comb-rigs or stiff links. One thing I have found with braid is that hitting the clip hard at short range with a Spomb it fails to open, whereas a spod will drop the bait.

This is what I use for spodding and marker/leading around with a leader. Worked out with a medium Spomb I can drop down to 30lb Amnesia

I love that Elmo. It is obviously an allegory for Enoch Powel’s Birmingham speech where he was brutally demolished by the media. He never ever said “rivers of blood”. He only quoted from a poem by the ancient Roman poet Virigil, referring to blood in the River Tiber in Rome. His media massacre was so comprehensive however that now, 60 years later, he is only remembered for something he never said. He had a brilliant mind which made people afraid of him and he is probably the best Prime Minister we never had. I totally agree. I think the reason that is possible is that none of the posters on this thread are pushing a party line in the manner of supporting a football team. I have a theory that all party politics (the mechanism for exerting political will) should be made illegal. Alongside this I would ban all forms of taxation (the source of political power) and replace it with an automatic levy on every single pound whenever it is withdrawn from a sterling account. This is the cheapest way to raise government finance without an opportunity to avoid it ... and would be much less expensive for plebs like me. I think "rivers of poo" is a good description of politics today.

Just had to put my dog down today and my god its heartbreaking. I nearly didn't go in with her because I was inconsolable but had to be there for her and im not afraid to say I've been crying like a baby all day. I feel your pain. Like you 14yrs old and had her since a pup. I feel empty as does the house.