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I had a good night sleep, apart from the lost 1 yesterday, not a bleep during night. Mat has had 2 mirrors, both about 7lb, also lost 1.... This is what the bottom looks like, luckily not been snagged yet.

Delaware Bay, NJ, USA.

Hi thanks I’ve already missed out on a couple on there. That’s why I’m trying to see if anyone else might know of some.

Thanks . After I’d calmed down a bit 🙄 I tried it again and this time it turned out a lot better . Not perfect by any means but a lot lot lot better and more than acceptable to me thanks . I hate maintenance .

I try to use as much as I can with mine, then when I've found my spots, I use my bare lead to feel the bottom... Wide beam for area, Low beam for in depth look, then a bare lead over it.

The other lake I fish is completely the opposite, no weed but has 1/2 structures. This picture is of my Club water, the little mound in the middle (to me) is a concrete lump lowered into the water which has chains attached to under the Aerator and I'd say greenery had grown over it, this is the only thing I can think of as when I was using it at this moment I was doing circles around the Aerator. Everywhere else on the side of the lake I was fishing is like a continuous flat bed with hardly and greenery or bumps/holes. It will be good to see what I find coming into the summer months.

The Brown are humps I can feel when I was dragging back to feel about, the green is the roots coming through.... Looks bad but its not as bad as I thought, but I'm not fishing in it, I'm fishing before/off em.

That looks weedy Highy, I can recommend a good weed rake if you want one 👍

Most bigger cyprinids are female. Think Mary, Heather the Leather, Sally the Common. I've watched barbel spawning in shallow water and typically you get the big girl in the middle and the smaller males are positioned around her and are rubbing her flanks encouraging her to release the eggs. At spawning time, female fish also develop a "peashooter" that looks like it might belong on a male where the eggs are released from whereas the males milt opening looks like a little girls part!

Some of the fish caught the past week have been dripping milt and have all been caught near where they spawned last year. I believe males get ready earlier than 'the ladies'. We know the bigger fish in the lake are female. They aren't up the other end at the moment. Plenty of walking Sky around when I'm there, and I've not seen a fish. Casting at the showing fish and they move away. If you can sneak a bait out quietly you stand more chance of catching.

Google mark Bryant Meccano rig it’s similar in make up

Strangely enough, one of the guys who manages the syndicate has been comparing pics of stocked fish to my 23 this morning. We have come to the conclusion it is one of the rare 'Quarry' fish that rarely get banked, (don't think this one has been caught before) so it looks like the rig has confused it from the norm into making an error.

Sorry to split hairs here, but are you saying for 30yrs you concentrated more on rigs than location? Surely Location is 99% of the puzzle, for me it is anyway. The last 1% is putting a bait in front of them that they will eat, attached to a rig that works. As everyone knows, if you aren't on the fish , then you can't catch the fish.

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