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I've binned off all my tech this year, sold the boat, my deeper stopped working so I'm more or less a traditional angler these days, next up split canes and a pipe 😬

I'm sure I can find a stroke to pull somehow. They are banned on a couple of the lakes I fish so I couldn't use one anyway but if the need came and I felt it beneficial I would definately use one, not cheating just making use of a tool, good angling I say

No cheating for you then lol Not taken mine since a social last year as not needed, however I have recently identified an area of massive interest to me where I will need the boat as no casting headroom whatsoever and I'm not opening it up for all to see. Cheat time!

When I used my boat I always knew the "wraps" (12ft) to the spots, so if the Oxford vs Cambridge boat race did happen to pass through or boats suddenly got banned, I could always cast to the spots. And you still feel for a drop with the boat so you know what substrate feels like, only you also get a much more accurate baiting spread at the same time. Bit of a win win really.

And what do you do if bait boats are banned on that venue? Or even simply impractical? Running a bait boat in between 24 sailing dinghys on a day only water on the day they have their tattoo... Not every feeding spot is going to show up on a fish finder; some feeding depressions fill up with silt again, only knowing it is slightly softer than the surrounding area will tell you it's a carp spot. Holes under the weed, a fish finder is going to be screwed looking through that, yet my eyes can see the froth and bubbles coming up.

It's only scanning right under the boat not an area as such, you have to pretty much go right over them to see them. Suspended plant matter doesn't help and gives false readings. Eye's first, tech second IMO

My kind of spot

Spot on that 👆👀 The only way to find where the carp are naturally feeding is to be watching from before first light IMO, last 2 trips the feeding activity ended by 6am from first light. Miss it and you're clueless it happened. Effort = reward which is this case is understanding exactly whats going on whilst most others sleep.