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1. For the ultimate in being a tart, take a bivvy, brolly and gazebo. Don’t laugh, I saw it last weekend on a commercial where you can park your car behind the swim. 2. Have a splash mat under your reels, the ultimate in tartyness. 3. Carry 20 different types of pop-up but only use 1. 4. Take a 2 man bivvy but you only do over-nighters. 5. Take a powered fridge despite the fact you only keep your sandwiches and lager in it. 6. Own a 5-season sleeping bag despite the fact you hang your rods up in October. 7. Have a power bank that could keep a family home going for a couple of days in a power cut but you only charge your phone and torch. 8. Your rod-pod has so much stainless that you have to wear sunglasses to look at it. 9. You have a power barrow with so much grunt it could stop an average scrum but you only fish a 2 acre lake with manicured lawns. 10. Your phone is permanently on FaceBook so you can keep in contact with both of your friends. 11. A pair of 10x25 binoculars is more than ample and fits in your pocket when folded down. So why do you take a set of field glasses that can spot a mouse a mile away? 12. You wear bivvy slippers to keep your groundsheet clean. 13. A head torch is a necessity after dark but you need to keep it down to keep your night-sight when you turn it off. Your 8000 Lumen monstrosity resembles the Blackpool illuminations. 14. You bring your camper van to a commercial that allows rear of swim parking and stay in it all day and night watching TV or reading a book and only come outside once a day. Don’t laugh, I have seen it. 15. You own 2 sets of rods/reels/buzzers because you fish different waters and don’t want to handicap yourself. 16. Despite having a double burner and family sized returnable gas bottle and associated cookware, your meals are delivered to your swim from the local greasy spoon and pizza shop. 17. You have a bait boat with GPS and Sonar despite your lake being as pancake flat as the day the bulldozer created it. It also has a 4kg payload despite the fact you only use PVA bags. 18. Everyone loves a bivvy table. A small one just big enough for your tackle box, scales, phone and receiver is ample. A true tackle tart pushes it to the max and I saw 2 blokes in adjoining swims with a decorating table that you use for hanging wallpaper. 19. You have a top of the range DSLR with an impressive pixel count but the deal clincher was the 40 frames per second burst shooting rate it offered. Despite the fact you will never use it. You only shoot in Auto and use the photo’s unaltered on your FaceBook page. 20. You take 3 nets with you, “just in case.” The water you are fishing is rock hard and 2 fish a season is considered good going.

Not sure if this is the right section to post this in, but guess it gets the most views on here. I don't do faceache etc but if others do, this should be spread as much as possible. Recently watched the docudrama 'A Dirty Buisness' on C4, also remember Feargal Sharkey saying this for years about sewage etc being illegally discharged into rivers, lakes and the sea. Didn't take much notice until now, the situation is actually criminal, imo, and needs to be acted upon, not sure the EA come out in a very good light at all tbh. Another site that opens your eyes is the SAS, not the army one, but Surfers against Sewage, they now do a map showing discharge history in almost live updates... Certainly opened my eyes to what is actually going on!!!! No I am not a 'tree hugger' but blooming hell... this is bad

Yes, they are fragile. This should not be a problem when float fished near the marginal reeds where perch lurk. For carp, mount a prawn on the hair with its tail closest to the hook. For anything other than short range, it can be cocooned in PVA to withstand casting. Prawns are outstanding until into October when the carp change their food preference.

Uncooked prawns (greyish) at this time of year, deadly for perch - and carp

Cheers for that mate 👍 I took the head apart and found a wire had parted from the led so I've soldered it and it's working again 👍👍

Thanks , Nick

Probably not earth shattering news for most of us but it's worth spending 5 minutes on.

nice one Nick