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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

Best of luck Elmo 🤞

Welcome to the forum, Alas I can’t help you but sounds like a exciting Journey 👍

Nice Tench 👍

This would be the last song we played before we hit the club

Not much room for the milk then 😳

Have a polite chat with the other anglers pick there brains, when the weather warms up take a loaf or two of cheap bread walk along and flick pieces out.

I get on with them very well and the batts do last for ages…. Could be i don’t get many runs tho 🙄 had them over 10 years, the one light packed in couple years ago but I still use it no problem. My nephew used to borrow them when I wasn’t fishing so they been used a lot. Il get the ones that light up the wheel when you get a run … recommended 👍

Got no bivvy up so it’s a view from the chair, 5:30am start fish til dusk

One must try… was thinking of upcycling them with a coat purple for Highy or leave them for the natural look for Blue 🤔

Great song 🎵

I’m thinking if they done them in purple you know who would buy a set 😉

Theirs always a way, iv had to adapt in the past as well 🙄…

All the best luck…. O and nice reels

We all fish differently but I would be using all the rods with zigs with that sun shining 😎 and bags maybe in the night…but the experts say you can use the hemp oil

If I run out of the good oil I use what ever is in the kitchen normally Sainsbury’s sunflower oil I use a little to coat my mixers helps to give them a flat spot if theirs a ripple on the water easier to see them and a little in the spod mix which gives a flat spot when fish are feeding over the mix … But I only use the oil in the warmer months.

Ask in your nearest tackle shop that your looking for a fishing buddy and willing to share with petrol costs, the cost of fuel is crazy and will get a lot worse, more than likely theirs someone looking for a guy like you to share the cost. If you haven’t got a tackle shop near put a card up with your info in a newsagents window or the supermarkets usually got a notice board 👍

Have a look on the Fox website ….

Awww come on mate you’re just making us look lazy 😳