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Golden Paws

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    Golden Paws reacted to elmoputney in View from your bivvy door.   
    Night view 
    Morning view complete with still glowing green light. 

    You gotta love day ticket fishing. 
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    Golden Paws got a reaction from crusian in Need rig feedback   
    https://esp-carpgear.com/product/balance-beads/
    I've pretty much given up rig putty. I've lost too much and it doesn't seem to keep it's shape. I've been using ESP tungsten balance beads for quite a few years and can't see myself ever going back. The photo is a Flipper rig (the bottom bit of shrink tube pushes to the bend of the hook) and my bait has been nibbled away by roach or bream but the bead is on a Combi rig and pushes into the knot and pretty much stays there.
    Its dead easy to reuse it as well, just push it onto a small baiting needle.
     

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    Golden Paws got a reaction from kevtaylor in June's catch reports   
    A 31lb 12oz mirror from the weekend. Also managed a 25-4 and 18-10. After a windy start on Friday, it got really hot but managed a bite on all 3 rods by boating out about 20 Creamino boiles and a bit of pellet every 3 hours tight to an Island.

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    Golden Paws got a reaction from B B in June's catch reports   
    A 31lb 12oz mirror from the weekend. Also managed a 25-4 and 18-10. After a windy start on Friday, it got really hot but managed a bite on all 3 rods by boating out about 20 Creamino boiles and a bit of pellet every 3 hours tight to an Island.

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    Golden Paws got a reaction from ouchthathurt in June's catch reports   
    A 31lb 12oz mirror from the weekend. Also managed a 25-4 and 18-10. After a windy start on Friday, it got really hot but managed a bite on all 3 rods by boating out about 20 Creamino boiles and a bit of pellet every 3 hours tight to an Island.

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    Golden Paws got a reaction from salokcinnodrog in June's catch reports   
    A 31lb 12oz mirror from the weekend. Also managed a 25-4 and 18-10. After a windy start on Friday, it got really hot but managed a bite on all 3 rods by boating out about 20 Creamino boiles and a bit of pellet every 3 hours tight to an Island.

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    Golden Paws got a reaction from jh92 in June's catch reports   
    A 31lb 12oz mirror from the weekend. Also managed a 25-4 and 18-10. After a windy start on Friday, it got really hot but managed a bite on all 3 rods by boating out about 20 Creamino boiles and a bit of pellet every 3 hours tight to an Island.

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    Golden Paws got a reaction from kevtaylor in Rats and bivvy life   
    On the couple of waters I fish most often, the bailiff's come round most days to check the rat boxes for poison but I think they have learned to avoid them. They are probably better off with traps but you have to be careful where you put them. Shooting is another option as they are getting bolder but obviously comes  with risks and has to be on private ground.
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    Golden Paws reacted to salokcinnodrog in Rats and bivvy life   
    For years there were no problems at Taverham, then more anglers started fishing it when Anglian Water took it on and litter started becoming a problem. Klaus bought a brand new bivvy and rats chewed their way in through the groundsheet and into his bait and food bags. He found a chewed pack of bacon dragged outside the bivvy.
    We get a few rats on the syndicate now, not many, and as you can see, they don't cause me any problems, thanks to Sky. How she can wait patiently on the lead until they get close enough to her to attack them amazes me, she's normally head down and charge.
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    Golden Paws reacted to elmoputney in Rats and bivvy life   
    Why not just use a bucket?  they've never breached my ridgemonkey yet. I never leave my bait in the bivvy either. And always close my food bag, then I throw boilies in other people's bivvies works a treat 😂
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    Golden Paws got a reaction from jules007 in Rats and bivvy life   
    Had two 2.5l lockable sandwich boxes delivered yesterday which should keep them at bay. I fish several different waters over the course of the season and I'm sure they're getting bolder on all of them!
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    Golden Paws reacted to yonny in Rats and bivvy life   
    Worth having a look at the Rat Bag - it's an air-drying bag made from light chainmail with a velcro opening. Completely rodent proof. They used to be sold by a small independent company in 2 sizes - I got both and they're absolutely brilliant. A little while back OMC bought the firm out and started selling them as an OMC branded product. I'm not sure if OMC still do them (can't see them on the website) but there's certainly still stock available online if you Google 'OMC Rat Bag'.
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    Golden Paws reacted to salokcinnodrog in Rats and bivvy life   
    I must confess I do keep my bait in buckets, not just for rats but to keep them away from Sky.
    She does however act as a good rat deterrent:

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    Golden Paws got a reaction from commonly in Rats and bivvy life   
    An example of what happens when you leave your boilies inside your bivvy, a visit from Rattus Norvegicus! I seen the thing quite a few times during the day and so deliberately brought the bag inside my bivvy as I thought it wouldn't come in. I'll be storing them in some strong tupperware boxes from now on!

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    Golden Paws reacted to kevtaylor in New purchases   
    Just ordered a fireproof charging bag (Amazon) for my fishing batteries, big enough to store them in too.   Too many horror stories, should have bought one long ago.
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    Golden Paws reacted to yonny in New purchases   
    Well as purchases go they don't come much more exciting than a new home and a return to my beloved Nene Valley. Carpy in more ways than one; I'll be 3 miles way from the Valley itself and there's also koi to 30lb+ swimming around in the back garden! Offer was accepted on Friday so now I just pray that nothing goes wrong and we're not waiting too long.
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    Golden Paws reacted to Roughtor in June's catch reports   
    Across the border, forgot my passport and facial recognition but made it...OK.. lol
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    Golden Paws reacted to ouchthathurt in June's catch reports   
    22lb common caught today 
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    Golden Paws reacted to Carpbell3 in Today's thought.   
    Finally finished the van build, reckon a few laps of a big lake Is due
     

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    Golden Paws reacted to salokcinnodrog in Stupid Mistakes to Avoid   
    I've done that one, and required a hospital visit for a grass splinter in the eye. 
    As for other stupid mistakes, leaving the tackle box at home a few times, requiring journeys home to pick it up from Weybread No.1, Suffolk Water Park and Earith.
    I've left my rucksack at home, and this trip my hookbait bucket which also contained my medium Spomb.
    Not checked a combi-rig knot after landing a fish, I just recast and on the next take the hooklink parted at the knot.
    I've forgotten how many times I've fallen in from leaning over too far, a couple of times from a tree, and the numbers of pairs of sunglasses I have watched go 'plop' from the top of a tree, although at Yew Tree I did manage to recover a pair that fell off. 
    Oh yes, the wading one, I even had a wading stick in hand, but as I waded back to land a large pike decided I was invading it's territory and went for the stick and me. I fell backwards and over the top of my chesties in water up to my chest. 
    Oh yes, and I think possibly the worst, leaving my insect repellant at home and getting a bite that caused the blood poisoning which despite not being a disease, caused the life threatening illness I had last year.
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    Golden Paws reacted to kevtaylor in Stupid Mistakes to Avoid   
    For me it's the things I forget like: mug, frying pan, leads although I have all except frying pan spare in the car now and gotta remember to put the spare mug back in the car from last trip.
    Also forgot my sling and mat at Bluebell but luckily borrowed one off Trev the bailiff 👍
    Have I lost a fish due to not checking the line - maybe I imagine, must have happened at some point.
    Stupid things: stepping into 2inch of water just past the reeds, ended up sinking upto my shoulders in silt - very very scary, never go in without a prodding stick, falling in several times - head first once whilst reaching to clip backleads on, climbing a tree in waders - never do this the grip isn't there and never climb a tree whilst on a lake alone and over the water - I literally could have fallen and hit my head and noone would have known until the next day at the earliest.
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    Golden Paws got a reaction from kevtaylor in June's catch reports   
    Went to my local days only park lake and started at 4:30 and had 5 doubles to 18-8 by 10 O' Clock and packed up in time for tea at home. I boated out a fair bit of spod mix to the far bank trees to keep the bites coming.
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    Golden Paws got a reaction from commonly in June's catch reports   
    Went to my local days only park lake and started at 4:30 and had 5 doubles to 18-8 by 10 O' Clock and packed up in time for tea at home. I boated out a fair bit of spod mix to the far bank trees to keep the bites coming.
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    Golden Paws reacted to ouchthathurt in May catch reports   
    few from last night on a tricky little park lake the boy got one too
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    Golden Paws reacted to elmoputney in Today's thought on Recasting   
    I use Airbombs or x spods as long as you hit the clip right they are both pretty stealthy compared to a spomb. I do use a pult or throwing stick also though if I just want to bait some boilies. 
    Everything has advantages and disadvantages though. I mean you can just fish singles but most of the time "you gotta get the bait out somehow" 
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