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Out on a club water today... one rod only, corn and meat

Just 5 mins more 🤔

One from the other week.

I'm actualy out for a Night Saturday night 🥳🥳🥳🥳. Me, Lad n Dog (so far) mate might join. 🥳🎣🥳🎣🥳🎣😁😁

Google Earth could be a good shout too. Surprising amount of detail to be had from a careful study there.

I tell you what, if you can find some pics from directly above you could be onto a winner. If not book a hot air balloon flight, or convince someone to sneak a drone across lol. Pictures from above will potentially show features from above, even if not depths. Looking at the pic, I'd say the second arm on the right has an inlet stream, and the main feeder streams are in the devil's horns at the far end. The second arm you'll be on looks to be a ridge line bay, with possibly an inlet on the end near the green blob of trees

So I ended up booking 5 nights instead of 4 on this beast 😆 Super excited 🤣

Got them feeding

Out on my club lake...

Sounds like a plan mate, I will freeze most of it and take a bucket of fresh with me 👍

I think depending on the weather conditions you'll get 2 days maybe 3 out of your particles until they start to whiff a bit. What I often do is freeze a batch in a 5litre bucket or ice cream tubs and take that to the lake still frozen, along with the bucket of fresh. The frozen bucket can take a day or two to defrost! A day longer if you have a good cool box or one powered by your cigarette socket in the car. Hemp, tares and maples it might be possible to prep on the bank if you have a big gas stove, soak for 24, then boil. I tend to think of hemp as bait up every day. Saying that, tigers and maize and other particles, once baited into the lake, could be a decent baited area and will last... Might keep the fish hanging around the area. Some places respond to one off baiting, others are every day venues.

It's been banned already on all the waters I fish lol.

What happens if theirs somebody in your swim when you turn up to fish, or can you reserve what swim you want ?

I tried a Fox tapered mainline and found my distance suffered I had to use a heavier lead to combat the thickness of the leader ended up cutting back the leader and it helped. I now use Fox soft steel 35 mm which got a stated breaking strain of 18lb and happy with it 👍

Google Maps and Google Earth can be brilliant (see my Nazeing South Lagoon pic), but sometimes you have to go old school and resort to Ordnance Survey maps for incoming streams and contours.

It helps to use 2 spools wind the tapered mainline on and then knot normal line to it and fill up the spool then just reverse it by changing spools again so the normal mainline goes on first they are really using some strange rules lol no boilies but you can use homemade particle how do they know it’s prepared properly lol

Trying to find a legitimate reason for them. Doesn't appear to work with light leads, doesn't appear to be needed using a heavy lead. Appears to be something else that could snag up in weed. Oh My Cripes...

I think since just before it's release I've used Gardner Pro in 15lb, light or dark with no worries and am comfortable with long casting with it. I'm just going through in my mind the crack-offs I've had and one in a heavy wind when the line went round the butt ring, and two when numpty forgot to check the bail arm was open. I did used to use 15lb Sensor brown, but since I started with Gardner Pro, never gone back. Beans and peas, Molassed Rabbit mix to bulk out your particles. Hot water to soak it around 12hours before use. It's a good background feed. The rest of your particles sounds good, the maize and tigers are the important bits, and if you prep some and stick them in a liquidiser you'll get a nice cloud.

Not at the moment mate just 10 swims on a certain stretch and that's it 🫤 I've been looking but no luck yet, I think you're right about the stream and I think there's a couple at the top end of it, sadly I can't access any of them 😒 Wonder if it's worth trying to borrow a drone and take that down over the weekend to have a look 🤔 I've tried Google maps but it isn't clear enough, I've had a little look online and it's possible to download a high resolution picture from Google maps. But haven't tried yet lol, job for tonight 🤣

No fishing in the rest ? 🫣

Fubar Aint heard that in years lol

Not for me

Think the duck wanted out of the rain 🤣