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It does need renationalising. We should own our own utilities.

Makes me think seriously about not buying a rod license the cover up by the environment agency was disgusting

Not sure what this gizmo actually is supposed to do, if you want to wet your mono before casting just tip water over spool? Years ago, remember a company - maybe Kryston?? - brought out drops to put on mono to help long casting, err never seemed to catch on 😄 Myself and @greekskii have often had - 'words' - in the past, but for me not worth falling out over tbh 👍 I do have to agree with his comment: I’m not sure I get the whole point of all this, but you cast line out and leave it in the water for hours on end. It’s well soaked up to the distance you’re casting anyway.

It makes a change for me to start one! Started well yesterday morning, got here around 7, saw a few shows, small bag with a few 10mms and pop up combi rigs put out in that direction. Literally within 5 minutes (whilst I was down the margins putting out a few freebies), my left hand rod had ripped off. I felt it on, felt a good weight, then the dreaded snag. I just kept tension & bump, it came off. Dejected I redid the rod and put the kettle on. Just about to pour & the middle ones off. Good little scrap and lovely little scaled 16lb mirror. Went a bit quiet, sun was up so tried zigs in a few different spots , moving them about every hour or so. Not even a liner! As the sun dropped , I thought I'd switch back to bottom baits as I'd already caught and felt more confident for the night. Nothing through the night and just as I was stirring the left rod was off, happy days. This one felt a bit heavier, then the line went slack, I wound in faster and found the tension to the fish, it tussled a little bit, but was easily netted. As I pulled her out I thought this is a good 30 odd, could be a new pb? Scales topped out at 43 exactly, it is a new pb! Sent a pic to my mate (who's also on here), turns out to be the big girl of the lake. I'm absolutely made up

👏👏 congrats

Have you seen the crimp-it or whatever it’s called. Same thing but not a toaster, could use it to prepare them before your session and then just pop it in a toaster device if you’re choosing to heat it up. Interesting to look at RM as a business. A redesign of a toaster device, simple and easy, has propelled them in to what they are now. Goes to show how something incredibly simple can lead a business to be extremely lucrative!

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

And the Green Party are otherwise extremely dangerous. Their 'progressive' policies are followed by people who have little or no common sense. Take into that what you will! There is no political party that actually has the common sense to run this nation; political parties are run to suit one group of people, and it is not the actual population.

There is only one political party that want to renationalise our water. To me it's simple people either want waste dumped in their rivers and to have our assets owned by billionaires or they don't. I think if we all stopped paying our rod licence the present government and most other parties would just ban fishing as a consequence sadly.

It's fishing, and I am sure carp waters are affected by sewage. Some will have stream or river fed inlets, with possibly sewage treatment above them. In fact, just as I was writing this I thought of 7 venues and lakes in my local area that are nearby to sewage outlets on my local river. Our MP's continually voting against stopping sewage firms allowing outflow into our waterways is disgusting, as is the continued private ownership. Feargal Sharkey has explained on television how easily water companies could be nationalised again, without the water companies being 'compensated', their billion Pound demands.