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Nice write up and fish…But I’m very surprised that you’re pic got past the mods 😉

I admire your loyalty to the Sonik brand Highy… but that’s a hell of a lot of faults 😳

It was almost new bivvy time….but apparently it’s a bank holiday today and the tackle shop was closed 😏

Here’s a hack to get your dogs dry after a fishing session….

I’m on the lookout for a lightweight shelter, my local angling shop has kindly ordered a Trakker Tempest 100 to see if it’s ok for my needs, got to have a small pack down size ideally fit in a quiver. Any recommendations Gents ?

You’ll be surprised how much little gear you need to take. In the pic iv got a fox pop up mat, weigh sling, net with a 2 piece handle, umbrella, 3 ESP QuickDraw rods 10ft 3.5lb breaks down to just over 4ft, one of them doubles up as a spod rod, and reels, alarms , sticks, food and flask …. Apologies to any gear I haven’t mentioned…you just got to find room for the bike 🤔 Almost forgot to mention the chair

There’s exciting for you Elmo, done 3 trips, 1st trip Abbey lakes lot’s of 20’s, second trip I’m trying to forget that one 🙄 and the third well the best experience of my life 👍

Nice reels 😍

Iv used a set of the Cross Cast X5000’s for years got them to go to France and to use at Linear waters, them must have been improved with the newer models. I needed the larger spool that my Aero 10000xte didn’t have, was happy with the Dawia’s performance, got me the extra distance and dealt with big fish in weed… but they are a bit flimsy and plasticly. …

Good luck lads 🤞

The XTD is mentioned in this vid… I like his vids 👍

Almost a sunset

I’ve used there tidy bag stems 👍

A blank from oxlease but my mate had a 19lb Common a long fish what yonny would call a cricket bat fish, he also had a 25lb Mirror so made up for him…. I learnt the need to cover all bases and eventualities. I knew the swim I was going to fish a little bay to my left only I access to it and it was a 151/2 wrap cast to under the trees, feed them by hand and cast close to them. Well I fed them by hand cast to them and that was that lol. I should have realised after a day that they were there just to chill and hang out, should have had a plan B taken a marker rod find a spot in open water bit of spod and fish that…. But what a sight I had up close to carp in gin clear water over a clean sand gravel bottom, hours of just looking at them lol Apologies for the quality of the pics

Breakfast, Iv pushed the boat out and gone for the extra one…

That do look very rare… is it still twitching ?

On the rig in the pic Iv got 2 pieces of rig putty on and should have said will be using a Korda flying back lead. Il check out the vid with the olivette 👍

Looking at the bag pic on the Tips for testing PVA in water thread I like that you can’t see the weight and hook length but not happy about the lead free leader 🤔 the spot in the swim on oxlease that I’m fishing tomorrow is usually clean with a sandy bottom 6 ft ish deep and you can see the lake bed….also the carp 😳 I realise that’s once the leader is on the bottom it will hopefully blend in better than in the kitchen bowl but still worried…so im thinking fluorocarbon leader…but then thinking £6 a pop no way 😳 iv got a spool of the Fox illusion fluorocarbon in 20lb it’s 40mm diameter looks better in the side by side pic. Any thoughts will be much appreciated

I like to use the 5mm tape

I agree with that, a mate of a mate purchased 100 bags off the Bay, when he was in my swim we compared our bags in the shallow water and his literary exploded on contact with the water, he was gob smacked, I suggested bin them or double bag and dip them in a bit of oil…but Iv been using them all year he says 🙄

Tip 1 You must use only cold water as to replicate the water temperature of the lake at this time of year, so you must, and I can’t emphasise this to much BE very quick in testing pva solid bags in the bath as you will freeze your 🥶 🌰 🌰 Tip 2 When testing pva bags in the bath I recommend the use of barbless hooks … just in case for the obvious reasons 😏 Tip 3 The use of oils when testing pva bags in the bath is also strongly NOT recommended as in a blink of an eye you could be impaled on one of the taps … or if unlucky both taps 🤔 Heres a pic of a bag in a kitchen bowl with 2 and 4mm pellets and a bit of ground bait with a small wafter with half a syringe of sticky baits cloudy krill liquid

Good write up that 👍

Apologies for the half naked pic, if you look closely you can see what’s left of a crayfish claws on the outline of the carps belly must have been painful trying to push that out .. I read a article way back in one of the carp mags and saw the picture of a carp on the mat that regurgitated two 2 inch carp. Cannibals as well

It’s all gobbledygook to me but it do look a bit like my fish tank 🤔

If that’s light what does heavy look like 😳 … soo no chance of a pic with you holding your Rudd then