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Our outstanding Lunatopes are your brighter than bright, luminous, non-toxic, isotope replacements. The Lunatopes come in a sets of 2, 3 or 4 and in various sizes to fit your existing equipment. Simply fit the Lunatopes into your bobbins to light up your tackle at night time, for up to 7 hours glowing time. The Lunatopes are charged by UV light, so the daylight will charge them to full brightness, or a few seconds of light from your headtorch will also re-charge. The Lunatopes will glow at maximum brightness when charged for the first 30-40 minutes and will slowly dim over the 6 hour period. Recharge at any time to restore full brightness. They can be charged repeatedly and an unlimited amount of times. I hadn't heard of them before I have used the (very low level) radio active isoptopes in the past. To be fair, the product description does specify what you can expect. Should be OK for a summer overnighter but wouldn't be brilliant for a winter session.

The forecast for yesterday was rain, really heavy rain and I hoped the forecasters were wrong. They weren't! Got to my local days only park lake at 10a.m. and decided to fill it in with the spod as that has produced in the past at this time of year. I fished until 5 p.m. with only 3 shorts beeps although the day was still pretty mild and dry. On 5p.m. the heavens opened and almost immediately I had a screamer which was a Common on 12-14. I lost another one about 10 minutes later before a Mirror of 18-2 and then within the hour another Common of about 7lb. I had several savage line bites but despite being allowed on until 9:30p.m., I packed up before 9 as rain was pouring down my back as my waterproofs weren't up to it! They are in a bucket after the hosepipe wash waiting for my missus to finish her washing before it goes in for a reproofing cycle. The brolly is drying in the garage waiting for proper cleaning and proofing as although it didn't leak, it's heavy and damp. The lake does have a habit of producing last thing and is close enough for shorter sessions and might get there later next time.

I haven't used the rest but do find Colemans tend to run out when there is still plenty of gas in the canister. Being naturally tight and with the huge rise in gas prices, I recently bought a valve that connects two cylinders together. You put the fuller cylinder in a freezer to cool it right down and then put the other cylinder atop, open the valve and the gas should flow downwards and condense and start a flow until the top one is empty. I can confirm that it doesn't work!

I can understand that sentiment. I think I paid about £300 for my camera about 10 years ago so it's not expensive but I wouldn't want to fork out unnecessarily for another one. I keep my camera in a bag in my rucksack and inside a zip and seal sandwich bag that keeps any stray moisture out. I quite often take scenic and sunrise/sunsets shots on my camera that a mobile would struggle to do justice. It's also easier to be more create with the flash and cheaper camera's or mobile phones automatically try to flood the scene with light.

https://www.srb-photographic.co.uk/srb-dslr-self-take-kit-8891-p.asp I use this set up with my camera. You can adjust the position of the firing pin and I've used it with my bridge camera (SLR size) and my compact. You've just got to press the air bulb with your knee which is pretty simple.

Still Searching For A Wingham Ticket by Terry Hearn Tackling Silt by Tim Paisley Fishing In A Time Warp by Chris Yates Travels With A Rolex by Mark Pitchers Improve Your Angling Etiquette by Jim Shelly Munga Ways and Happy Dayz by Danny Fairbrass From Hero to Zero by Ali Hamidi Yomping 4 Carp by Chilly Chillcott Short Session Carping Between Your Lunch Break by Alan Blair Through The Haze by Rod Hutchinson Ushering In A New Era by Julian Cundiff Carping Telepathy by Simon Scott No Need To Secure An Angling Consultancy by Richard Walker Anarchy In The Colne Valley by Micky Gray Running A Business From The Bivvy by Rob Maylin Step By Step Guide to Carp Fishing by Kevin Maddockes Subsurface by Rob Hughes

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/what-is-the-embodied-energy-of-materials.html Yes, found the figures. You are quoting steel made from recycled steel but to originally get to that stage it has to be extracted from the iron ore and that requires 20 - 50 MJ of energy per kilogram. The plastic packaging weighs only a fraction of that of a can so it compare weigh for weight, the plastic would be far less. I take the point that it is far easier to recycle metals and most plastics do end up in landfill. Canned can does contain more salt and sugar but I forgot to mention that I always give my spod mix a good dollop of salt whilst mixing in the corn.

The plastic packaging weighs next to nothing and doesn't require a lot of energy to produce it whereas the tin can requires being smelted in a furnace. That's my take anyway.

If one part of the swim produces more than the other, it's not particularly the spod mix that's made the difference. You could end up confusing yourself as much as the fish! I fish one swim quite regularly with a set of overhanging trees to the left and right but a good 10 yards apart and some days one produces and not the other and vice versa. I don't think that what goes into the spod mix is all that important but use a mixture of hempseed, foreign finch mix and pigeon conditioner which gives you plenty of different sizes. Hemp is pretty expensive these days so the others bulk it out. Add a bag of frozen sweetcorn (not a tin as I'm doing my bit for the environment!) and it's ready to go. If want to use trout pellets, add them to the spod or spomb before casting or else they will mush up.

Same for me. Just got back from a 24 hour session and only had a few half hearted plucks. A mate 2 swims up couldn't hardly sleep due to fish boshing out and constant line bites, at least I got a decent nights kip apart from 1 pull at 1a.m.

Got myself the Shimano XTD spod reel for Christmas and extremely pleased with it. Super smooth and as you say, the line lay is ridiculously good as the super slow oscillation puts each coil of line on the spool millimeters apart . I haven't fished a water this season where I've really needed to really wang it but know it wouldn't disappoint if I did.

Here's the video.

When Rob Hughes dives down to check on rigs for filming, he gets close and then looks for the leadcore or tubing to see where the rig is. I use Korda Safezone leaders and think it's £6 well spent. I also pinched an idea from Martin Bowler and use some lead olivettes on rubber caps that pins the extra metre above the leader for good measure as well.

I've got some PVA string that withers within a second on contact with water and pulls the baits together tightly and they take an age to come free. Instead of using it with baits an inch apart, I've had to give them at least 3 inches apart which makes it more expensive.

I bought all the first 7 about 3 months ago and have nearly finished them and can't recommend them enough. Plenty of good fishing stories with the authors spin on topical subjects that inject a real sense of humour. I don't think that wokeism is coming to the Cunnington household any time soon! The only problem is that to get my Matt and Rambo fix, I'm going to have to buy the sequel book The Black Mirror Cult as well.

14lb rod??? Rods are rated as test curves and are calculated by clamping the butt section vertically and then pulling the line with a spring balance until the tip is horizontal. https://www.anglingtimes.co.uk/tackle-reviews/accessories/how-to-start-carp-fishing/ This is a good starting point.

Carp are more predatory than most people think. At frog spawning time they soon switch on to mopping them up. I chatted to a pike angler on my local water and he caught the big common on a plug fair hooked in the mouth. I've heard of quite a few carp being caught on sprats. Carp have to chew their food to make it small enough to pass into it's digestive system and that would limit the size of fish it would take. Crayfish are also fair game and I've caught a few chub on freelined crays. They have to be crushed and spat out and then taken in smaller chunks. Linear has it's fair share of crayfish and I'm sure the carp harvest them. One night on B1 they drove me mad and I was getting pulls all night and didn't hardly get a wink. I suspect the carp weren't in the swim and I should have moved but was too tired and didn't think about it at the time. The Cotswolds Water Park also have plenty, in fact one bloke makes a living by harvesting them.

Most bigger cyprinids are female. Think Mary, Heather the Leather, Sally the Common. I've watched barbel spawning in shallow water and typically you get the big girl in the middle and the smaller males are positioned around her and are rubbing her flanks encouraging her to release the eggs. At spawning time, female fish also develop a "peashooter" that looks like it might belong on a male where the eggs are released from whereas the males milt opening looks like a little girls part!

https://www.carpology.net/article/columnists/lago-di-bolsena/ Found this if it helps.

I've put some paprika in my PVA mix before now but during the "licking and sticking" process, it always sets my tongue on fire! Tuna is a great additive and I normally use a tin in my groundbait mix used for plugging my spod. They also like bread with jam on it as I got caught out one day when it was sunny and hot and had to press my sandwiches into play for floaters!

My PVA bag mix always has some crushed elips pellets that I put through a grinder. The smell is amazingly "fishy". Also add a bit of fishmeal ground bait, explosive hemp and some panko breadcrumb to make it swell up and burst out. You can put almost anything in, even hemp and sweetcorn if you drain it and add a bit of salt. I also like to inject the bag with a liquid flavour immediately prior to casting out.

Possibly due to bird life but it does restrict responsible anglers from doing what conditions dictate. I would give it a miss but unfortunately virtually all lakes are going to be rammed this year, they probably won't struggle to attract membership.

Did a short day session on my local park lake and have never seen it so rammed before. The first warm Sunday of the year probably brought out a lot of hibernating anglers (including me.) Unfortunately didn't see any sign of fish and had to slot into the only available swim. They weren't interested in my PVA bag offerings but 5 did come out including a 27 Common in the swim next door! Next time....

I've always liked Carl and Alex and admire their pursuit of their dream and the brave decision to pack in their jobs and follow their dream. Worth spending 10 minutes watching.

Partially agree. The Russians and Chinese are both trying to getting a toehold into Western Democracies so they can neuter a Goverment of any colour by funding or helping with election expenses. MI5 have just released a warning of the threat and told all politicians to beware of Greeks bearing gifts, Or Russian or Chinese, Of the big 2 parties, I suspect that they would favour one on the left wing. Especially if it was led by serial pacifist Jeremy Corbyn. Stand well back. Light touch paper. Enjoy the fireworks!