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there was a company doing snail boilies It looks like they have stopped doing them, could be worth a phone call to double check https://www.carpparticles.co.uk/product-category/boilies-hookbaits/

anyone looking for a large car might want to look at the kia sportage the older ones are cheap and pretty much hassle free just make sure it's a diesel as the petrol versions are very thirsty, loads of cheap honda CRVs about in petrol same again though thirsty on the fuel but in good condition the older CRVs in diesel are normally well used and hard to find one that isn't a MOT money pit.

i had also been a heavy smoker before that but consultant i seen one of the counties top respiratory professors is very anti vaping it was him who told me no more inhaling anything other than fresh air, felt like a crayon eater lol

not visited in a bit thought i'd pop in. been sorting my health out, gave up inhaling anything as advised no vaping has made a big difference basically i got that illness you can get from vaping means i'm using steroid inhalers for life going forward, very early COPD. i do feel a lot better than this time last year, just need to avoid chest infections to the point i got issued a rescue pack which consists as strong antibiotics and anti inflammatory pills to be used if i get a chest infection coming on. i could moan about no bad weather fishing trips but i have always been a summer only kind of guy 😀

Ohh out tomorrow as a proper non smoker, two weeks since giving up the vapes and what an improvement, the hospital consultant said it was vaping that was causing the issue proper not keen on vaping longterm. Bought a oxygen level monitor hitting all the right numbers on a walk so I doubt I have any serious damage beyond ageing.

Be there tomorrow I didn't get any corn officially.

Seen it in the shops, packaging looks plush if it's made by Munch baits I can't see it being anything different to what is already available, The results you get from making fresh really is worth the effort on some waters.

Rigs are all tied and ready on the pb jelly wire, did alright with the the jelly wire previously so it's my first choice, all sitting in the box having a straightener, pretty much ready to go bar the arrival sandwich I take for afternoon lunch on the first day.

Booked in for Sunday, they reckon it's boilie and pellet only, yeah I'm taking a lot of sweet corn... and boilie, I know,.. I pre booked even picked picked my peg, been before but not in a while, I'm trying to stay local so it really limits specimen carp waters. I had a look a Bishops Bowl but they have a lot of filling in work going on so the actual specimen lake is pretty much closed unless you fancy a bit of a hike,I have never fancied Mitre pool it's a bit like Barston, if the rod goes at 4am might be a good un but more than likely not. So Dog Lane is looking good, I was thinking about Mineral lake but they have Sturgeon to 180lb I think I will give that a miss shame as there are some really big carp in there. So it's two rods on what is a margin venue from what I can work out, bait boats are very popular and no one uses a boat to fish the margins, I like my peg choice as well, nothing to the right of me and the next two pegs to my left are empty and have been hemed in by myself and whoever is in the third peg to my left. Shame they don't draw pegs on the day as it's a 10am start for all anglers arriving on that day. Food for me will be simple, a breakfast and shake before I leave home and a few bit for the evening the next day will be porridge and pot noodle. I'm thinking, get there for 10, set up and sit back real quite in the hop the fish come into a less pressured area with lots of corn to hold them, see what the fish are doing before putting my rods out around late afternoon time. I'm in a slight bay swim so can set up back a bit. It is a nice venue nothing built up or main roads near by, the old fellas son runs the place, I used to get on alright with his dad, as in he would let me do overnight without a bivvy just a tent. Although Dog Lane is said to hold over 250 large carp, they don't always show up from what I can gather off recent online reports I got rigs to tie, well booms to attach to spinner and loop rigs, will be using PB jelly wire as it's a clear flat bottom something very supple would be my choice I've a feeling it don't take much in the way of rigs standing up or bows of floro in the hook length to see them do the offski.

Finally finished the van build, reckon a few laps of a big lake Is due

You might find something with twin tips that would work, the problem being any rod that is suitable for silvers will struggle with carp most silver fish are very fast feeders using the rod tip to set the hook needs a very light tip that's why feeder rods usually come with multiple tips, you would want something that is good for large perch and chub as well as silvers, that would be the sort of thing you are looking for.

PVA bags or stick mix would be a easy change without going mad on end tackle I'd use the stick mix PVA approach with a simple multi rig tied to a size six hook, if you are struggling, the Korda booms and loops make a great combi rig pretty much straight out the packet, plenty of hook metal you can keep the hooks prone with a cheap very fine file.

Hybrids have been on the canals a fair bit, usually bream x roach didn't think you would get bream x carp the photo I seen was looking carpy, not a generated image as the boat yard was in the pic.

Not sure if twitter inspires me to get out for a few days or put you off, one poor chap is struggling with the wind, got the alarms on lowest sensitivity the wind is still being a disturbance. Rod tips in the water with heavy bobbins would fix that? think he would of been better off bringing them in myself till day light something I do on most sessions if I have a fish or a problem and a rod needs recasting I will wait till that first twilight bit so I can see how the cast went into the water, only reason I do that is, if I cast in the dark, come first light I will be more than tempted to bring that rod in for a recast.

Definitely silvers stocked for the match angling, there are silvers in the canals near me alot of hybrids as well, sure one lad had a carp bream hybrid out the canal it was a bream but with a carp like mouth, didn't think you got carp hybrids.