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Caught a new club water, 2lb even... delighted🥰😍

French stuff has garlic Chinese stuff has sweet and sour best stuff is the Jamaican 😂 😜

Decided to try and fish one of the new lakes on the complex this year, first time out had a walk round and found the motherload of the fish all tucked away and chilling had to barrow through a swamp and lots of flooded pathways but when my rod ripped off this morning I knew it was worth it, what I realised pretty quickly though was it felt pretty heavy, when I saw it I knew it was quite heavy, I chucked my other rod in the reeds and made sure I wasn't going to lose it by playing it as delicately as I could, I needn't have worried it was nailed on the ever faithful spinner rig, as I sit here contemplating what just happened I've realised I still haven't had a proper cuppa yet today so kettle on and chill time. 31lb not bad for a first night on a new lake 😊

How much do you pay the guy from Trakker to carry your water ? ….. as you can tell from my posts I’m bored got rained off in work today 😏

Another weekend blank, racking them up. Left what feels like my peg alone (West end, back of the wind) as there were others either side and only one down the windward end but out the way (East end taking a westerly). Did Friday night in one swim and had a couple show over the rods at dawn but far more were showing in a vacant swim round the corner, so I planned to move midday get the rods in place early afternoon once it'd gone quiet. I knew the swim a little and placed rigs all around the edges of the plateau with as little disturbance as possible. Was absolutely gutted to wake up and nothing showing, just one tiny liner, area seemed dead and noticeably colder than the day before. That's carp fishing in spring, never kind to me, onto next time. Oh and pushing that barrow through floods and sticky clay holes full of random brick ends is not the one and will finish me off pretty damn soon, where's that power wheel 🙏🤣

1st bass of the spring

Don't get me wrong, it tasted nice, but on the plane home day after 🤢🤮

5kg jumbo tigers 1kg xxl tigers 15kg flaked maize 5kg hemp 25kg maize Busy week ahead 🤣

Ngt they popped up on amazon and I just thought they would be useful 😜

Thinking anglers barrow cover Speero rig tray Trakker water carrier Magnetic bivvy hooks.

Sat here this morning debating whether I should leave or stay on, at that moment the rod ripped off catching this little beauty 👌 8lb 12oz 👍

Had quite a few dogfish too 🙄

So the rods are put I'm fishing off the bottom of a slope, roughly 15ft in depth 14 wraps out. 20 spombs of tigers/hemp/flaked maize. So the traps are set, rods been out for about 6 hours. The fish have just started showing in front of me but like 5 or so wraps off where my hookbaits are. Now deciding whether to wait it out and hope they move out towards my baits or put a rod on them 🤦‍♂️anyway its good to be back on the bank🤣

Cheers lads... my heart was in my mouth when it surfaced... it's a stunner...👍😎

I have a couple of them the fox halo 96k I think it is I use if for my electric winch on the boat and charging stuff up it’s good for what I want I also have one the size of a Fag packet that will charge the phone up a couple of times that cost about £20

Ice to keep the beers cold for my 7 nighter more like😉

Just take a wheelie bin mate could double as a Bait bucket or ice bath 😂

@elmoputney nice fish fella.

No, cast it, along with about 20 others all with the same amount of baits on. When there is a rule saying 'free bait may only be put in by PVA' I can use stringers to my advantage when everyone else is fishing single baits...

That post got to be the funniest Iv seen …choked on me coffee 😄

Got myself 5kg of the French stuff on its way, hopefully the carp don't mind 🤣

Wow …Did you boat it out ?

Love the smell of chocolate orange…I use a 6mm and 8mm wafter for my feeder fishing.

My mate used the Chinese hemp he reckoned is was bigger than the French ….i go for the cheapest myself

You mean a 'Nick stringer'? Done that on 2.75lb Century NG's and SP's

They ended up in the bay, just on my left. I think it annoyed me more than the fish, expect they are used to it, with all the boats and water sports etc lol. I'm heading back there next Monday for 5 nights so will be prepping this week. Is there much difference in Chinese and French hemp?

Good ole fashioned match the hatch actually, I went with a white choc orange, match the hatch and a yellow tutti as my opening gambit, so far this year I've caught on matching and choc orange.

Sooo that’s why you didn’t spomb the paddles 🤔

That’s crazy seeing them paddling in yer swim 😳

Essex angling in Thurrock stock all his products and his factory is open Saturday mornings from 10 o clock hope this helps you, excellent bait and kenny is a gentleman if you get the chance to pop into the factory

I doubt that somehow korda kaizens have come out with a 4lb tc rod, could cast one hell of a stringer with that 😱

Throwing stick target practice?

Not so sure if it’s become fashionable but rather what the manufacturers tell us we want lol. give it a couple of years and they will go the other way again

If that's the case then it's down to fish finding or moving onto the bait. Sounds really stupid, but some waters it takes a few days for the carp to move in to an area. You aren't doing anything wrong, you get takes and land fish, so it's working. Sir Pete Springate wrote about fishing taking 4 days to come onto the bait. Maybe they were there, got spooked, and didn't come back round for 4 days. I've fished waters where I had to leave the bait in position for 2days, and an Amnesia rig you can be pretty sure is tangle free, with or without PVA.

If it ain’t broke…

Thanks mate yeah I reckon the same, they fight so hard!! And I've managed to christen one of the daiwa reels as well 🤣 This rig done the business, the bait is sitting like a wafter would. Just spoke to the bailiff and it's been fishing really slow at the moment with only 3 fish coming out in the last 2 weeks so hopefully its just the fish not feeling it and not my angling 🤣🤣 I've been watching the water and early morning and late evening they are coming right into the weed in the margins. I have very little experience fishing in weed, but wondering if I should try a chod rig on a heli setup 🤔 That being said rain is coming in tomorrow from early morning so might just do the day and go home this evening, hate packing up wet gear 🤣

I'm on borrowed time but I'm only just having breakfast and it is nearly my birthday so a couple more hours at least I think 😂

Oh and not forgetting 25kilos of boilies, in freezer and shelf life, RH The Nutty Bait, and a tub of 15mm matching pop-ups, it has a lovely smell, soft crumbly texture that should breakdown fairly quickly. There are a couple of pics a few pages ago. The bass have started showing in Suffolk, so I'll be chasing them as well. I've got a freezer full of mackeral and herring which are being added to squid on the hooks for whatever seems and likes it. That's cheaper to use up some pike deadbaits than be buying lug and ragworm as I can't dig anymore.

Well I'd go no bigger than 15mm for your pop up. I never went shorter than 1.5 inches and no longer than 3 inches for my chods and yes I'd say the bream are to busy with their heads in the silt/,bottom.

Back on the sydi, Jack seems happy! 🙂

Back on the res helping with the carp removal 👍it's full at the moment so will be cool to check the depths etc. I believe it goes down to 130ft and some old building out there. But yeah just set everything up only to realise I've left the spomb in the car 🤣🤣