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Feeling a bit defeated this morning, no fish and got absolutely done by bird life yesterday, had swans, coots and ducks smashing my spot, they kept picking up my rigs and dropping them off the spot, pulling pop offs etc. Probably redone each rod about 10 times yesterday I couldn't keep one in the water 🤣 Packed up this morning and drove round to the other lake, just having a look now, the spot I normally fish is free, i could jump in there but I really cba 🤣🤣🤣

Yeah mate they don't seem to be as bad on this lake, I've had a few coots pick up the odd boilie but ain't being done by them yet. I've just had a tench about 3 - 4lb so atleast there's something grubbing around there, hopefully the carp ain't far behind 👍

I hope the birds leave you alone mate. Bd lucky

Not gonna catch them at home lol, done a lap of the lake and haven't seen anything so jumped in the swim I know the layout of, I'm fishing into an open spot of 6ft -7ft of water, a little bit of silt with weed surrounding it👍 I'm getting a nice donk with the leads so baits should be presented nicely 👍

Done last night and had nothing, gonna stay on for another night or two, still chasing my first one from this lake 👍🤣

Bought the 8ft fox baiting pole and also some fox spomb shock leader for my spod rod.

I bought one, I went for the 8ft fox one it's 2 piece and longer which means it should give me a little more distance by being the most flexible and be easier to transport.

I use my ridgemonkey light on a bankstick with the flash on. Worth getting your camera settings right too. I use this as a starting point and rarely change it round. Just the f value. 1/125 shutter speed, f4-f5.6 & ISO 400

I didn't notice til afterwards this is a battery one mine is rechargeable. I just use it on top of my camera without a flash seems to work OK but I don't catch that many 😂

These are great for providing enough light for the camera to find it's focus point - I use one myself - but a flash is still critical to great night shots imo.

I've got one that's sort of like this, This is a bit of a bargain https://amzn.eu/d/h8WXJ12 Well done with the carps mate, great effort.

26lb 8oz at first light this morning 👌

Another night, oposite end - seen a dorsal waving around close in my water, then it lazily shuffled out 3 times. Whilst packing up it came past again to say goodbye or haha you blanked you nod. Freezing cold overnight. Good frost and ice in the edge.