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You have to wonder what makes fish spook off a baited hook... is it a sight thing, or a detection of magnetic field...? having watched carp spook off my rigs in the margins its hard to say, but when you use multiple metal components in rigs (and often different metals) I think the latter may be true to a degree... my young apprentice is a dedicated fan of the Ronnie and we all know it works, but I think the Multi has almost the same presentation without the attendant mix of metals... I think I shall experiment with the multi and the Ronnie side by side and see if one outscores the other.... I will even go as far as using plasticine as the weight, so the only metal content on the multi is the hook and therefore offers no scope to create a magnetic field...

I always worry that the hook point looks too closed off with those rigs

The majority of the rules are not enforced anyway... the bloke wobbles round takes the money and wobbles off again... in all my years I've only ever been rig checked at Linear...

As soon as the fish start pairing up I pull off the water and won't go back for a week or so after they've spawned... the old close season is out of date... and as we all know water temp and conditions are the key drivers... I think its incumbent on all owners and managers of waters to spot the signs and close the water off as soon as they start pairing up... its only common sense

Back leads... you have to backlead on a canal otherwise the boats will wipe you out every time

Went out round some club lakes this morning... took the two photos while walking round the waters.... those two were taken next to an "out of bounds" section of one of them... all the fish were sitting up there while 20 odd blokes were lashing the water with every method under the sun...

A 12lb Common from the Dam at Redmire

There used to be one called Meatimix... very heavy... if you want to make the balls get to the bottom without breaking up get yourself a bag of PV1 Collant Binder... a cup of binder to a bag of groundbait will get it down to swims about 6 feet without breaking up... another way is to "Skin up" your groundbait balls by forming them with dry hands first and then wetting your hands and squeezing the balls again to put a slick skin on your groundbait...

Cheers... the Mother in Law insisted I keep standards up... yes those are sugar tongs😜🤣

The Chase, Carpology Social, have to keep up standards dontcherknow

simply brilliant...👍 Thanks for posting

Have a look at Okuma and Sonik... both have good reps and a bit cheaper than Shimano's and Daiwas... that said Second hand Shimano's off the bay of E is a way forward

Addendum ( too late to edit) I had the plain X Lite... not the recliner... I moved it on to my young padawan last year to get him started

I did... I moved it on a year ago and bought the Aeronium

JRC X Lite Korum Aeronium Both in the 2.5- 3 kilo range and damn comfy both also clip onto the Korum Rucksacks for ease of transportation

Nash Sirens seem to get good reports too (can't remember if its the 3's or 5's though... the expensive ones) a buddy won a set and he's over the moon with them... used them for half the season, autumn, winter and start of spring and he's in love with them

My last pair of bins cost nearly £400... I have to have special prisms god knows how much a pair of these bad boys cost... even using old frames is a mickey take as they charge £75 to put new lenses into old frames... bit of a rip off really..... add in the cost of those lenses and it's going to be prohibitive

Spent a wee while searching as my prescription is up this year... came across these... https://www.transitions.com/en-us/why-transitions/the-technology/variable-polarization/

I had a pair of glasses made up by Specsavers and they were next to useless... they had forgotten to install the prisms into the lens .... I went back to my optician and she sorted my glasses for me, I'll always use a proper optomerist/optician, my eyes are precious.... on the offchance, does anyone know if it's possible to get polarised reactolite lenses yet... swapping glasses is a pain and I always lose the clip ons

Have you tried "Puckoon"...?

Have a go at Ian M Banks's "The Culture" books... great sci-fi in the same vein as the foundation books... (Don't confuse with Ian Banks... (same person) he uses the 'M' to differentiate between his crime novels under the name Ian Banks)

If its out on Amazon as a kindle edition you can read a sample of some books... as far as I know its not out yet... some question as to when

I too had trouble getting through it... his new book "Winterwalk" is supposed to be coming out this year... maybe.... To be honest, if its the same vein as Nightwalk I may give it a miss...