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Well impressed with free spirit in 12ft. Ordered the 13's. Nash holdall, 5k krill & 4 bags of end tackle bits. £460, got £40 left to spend on beer & grub for the weekend 🙂

Not a sausage for me, i did take a photo of a nice 20lber for someone though, one day they will feel sorry for me again 😂 home, unpacked, clean and fed (mcdonalds) now mutt walk then back to the old grindstone.

How did it go Elmo ?...did the Carp God's grace you ?...check this out.

I'd figured it out that you were talking about Earith. Originally Ian didn't think or know there were any catfish in Virginia, but I think at some time Pingrees and Virginia had joined in floods and a couple of cats decided to go for a visit.

Tbh I kind of knew who was where before I got there, and that was pretty much as good as I could've hoped for. There was 5 on last night so I kind of had the choice of 2 areas one which I could've been hemmed in but probably would have had a small chance or where I was where I thought I had a big bit of water to try and find them. You are right though, I could've and should've looked a bit more but I knew the rain was coming and it had been a long day ☔🙄 I'm still trying to make them work at the minute, I learn something each time so it's OK, I will have a chance at some point ☺️

But it can take some time before the balance is met. Zander went through my local canals leaving very little, and took at least 10 years or more for things to start balancing out. And who's to say it'll happen again, as there becomes more prey fish, and so the predortary fish population will increase.

I think its nonsense to say that if you have cats you wont have prey fish, there is a balance found. Big cats are in Bluebell Lakes yets all hold good numbers of Tench, Bream, Roach , Perch etc and I've seen these prey fish masses on sonar in the winter so I know for a fact they are rich in prey, despite holding many huge cats, many! I was a young angler when they used to say kill Pike because they eat everything, I left one on the bank then thought hang on this is nonsense I'm never doing that again. It was ignorance on the part of the clubs or whoever was supposed to be running the venue. Predators will go for the weak first and foremost and that can be seen as a good thing for a healthy population. Biggest threat to prey fish is Cormorants, carp Otters. I'm not a cat fan at all btw

No nothing yet will chase him up tomorrow, he hasn't replied to my email yet

I did it once with my lad n a mate, set up Friday night about 10pm, until Sunday teatime. Never again, as it takes 10times as long.

Elmo setting up in the dark is not easy and I take my hat off to you, them sessions are well gone for me you deserve a good result 🤞

Good luck elmo, let us know how you get on mate. 😁👍🎣