Higham1987

a  mad rush after work /school for me and the daughter, made it for a night out on the bank last night, just about set up before dark.Forgot loo roll, cutlery and her little rod, Lovely looking swim, blanked like a good un till 10am then moved here for a bit

blanked till lunch time,put rods out back in the other swim, had hot dogs, packed away everything then back to this swim where we tried hard, cast to showing fish and did everything we could,we blanked all the way home too.n
Nothing to show for it but a nice time was had,
 

This was a few days into my trip, weather was lovely and caught me right out, sunburn on the head, ears and nose 🤣🤣

Another little mirror 👍
I'm home now, yesterday it rained relentlessly from around 11am all the way until 6am this morning, was driving towards the door so had the door down all day and night 💤🤣
had 2 wicked battles in the night, wading out into choppy water with waves riding up my waders, big wind and heavy rain, loved it 🤣
There's was a break in the rain this morning so packed up and got out of there before the next lot hits which is due to last until late Monday, so called it quits lol.
Caught 5 carp in the end, 3 commons and 2 mirrors. 16mm white sticky krill pop ups done produced the most bites, so gonna have to up my game and start giving pop ups a try on different venues lol
 
There's some cracking fish in there and I can't wait to return in September 👍 
Now have the task of drying everything out 🤣

I'm honestly finding Met Office totally different to the BBC, can't understand why, MET Office saying next to no rain this week, BBC says raining daily.  MET Office is the one thats proving to be more accurate at the moment, or it has been on my trips so far, strange!
Unless my data for BBC is not refreshing from when I looked days before?

Most apps and services use the same weather stations so for the most part they're all the same in terms of accuracy. I believe Met Office invite civilians to submit data from their personal weather stations to add to the data set. No idea if it makes a difference or not.
I've used all sorts over the years but now just go by the BBC. Let's face it, the weather here can change at the drop of a hat so no-one can really have massive confidence in the longer range data.

Yr.no is a Norwegian weather App, but look for your location and translate to English, just as good as any other 👍

Yep, exactly....daft as it sounds, that what I asked first before we proceeded.
If they think its a case they'll win they take on and recoupe no more than 25% of your compensation.

Yeah they are entertaining for sure, the canal seems really shallow.  I liked a lot of their older vids, pure lure fishing and setting hooks like pro's cough cough noddies! 🤣👍

French stuff has garlic 
Chinese stuff has sweet and sour 
best stuff is the Jamaican 😂 😜

Another weekend blank, racking them up.  Left what feels like my peg alone (West end, back of the wind) as there were others either side and only one down the windward end but out the way (East end taking a westerly).

Did Friday night in one swim and had a couple show over the rods at dawn but far more were showing in a vacant swim round the corner, so I planned to move midday get the rods in place early afternoon once it'd gone quiet.  I knew the swim a little and placed rigs all around the edges of the plateau with as little disturbance as possible.  Was absolutely gutted to wake up and nothing showing, just one tiny liner, area seemed dead and noticeably colder than the day before.  That's carp fishing in spring, never kind to me, onto next time.

Oh and pushing that barrow through floods and sticky clay holes full of random brick ends is not the one and will finish me off pretty damn soon, where's that power wheel 🙏🤣

 

For all the members that have difficulty owning up to tackle purchases to their better half’s here’s a trick I came across …but be warned tho if you get greedy and abuse the said trick you could end up permanently damaged …
 
 

Think I ended up doing both...
Now it's Handbags n Purses 
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Think I ended up doing both...
Now it's Handbags n Purses 
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Wellllll 🤗🤗
When you have a wardrobe full of matching Bags n Purses, think enoughnis enough 🤣🤣

I wouldn't like to say, but I changed mine every year regardless, fishing nearly every weekend....
BUT in the end after ALOT of money spent, Katran Crypton 17,5lb 1000mtr was the line for me.

EVERYTHING did go in there....
Not been since August 

Did do, sold up now.....
From this

To this

Wow that's some supply of sticky. When the misses next tell me I'm buying to much bait I'll just use this in my defense I think. I'll also tell her look he needs a shed for all his bait 😁.

I loved it...

I wouldn't use mono, need something stiffer like a Wire Trace or even Boom.

Brilliant thanks, ive had a play and come up with this,
i used a metal straw and 25lb mono through the middle, it seems to pull the deeper at a good angle where as just the mono would tilt the deeper.
think I'll crimp a key ring loop to the back of the boat for quick change.
might just stick with this if it works, do like saving me a few quid

Made the 2 loops either end, drilled a hole through the hopper (with a small drill bit), just big en enough for the boom to go through, then I passed 1 loop though and then looped 1 loop through the other....

Green loop through the hole, pull the blue loop through the green loop (had the quick change swivel for the deeper) then I attached deeper and off I went, then when finished, removed it then used boat as needed for baiting and dropping rigs.

 
 
 
 

so first time out since september and managed a cheeky day session on local water, great start to the day as not only did my landing net snap on the first fish but also my bite alarm decided it would snap at the bracket so maybe some glue later might work but not convinced. new bite alarm turned up in the shape of this beautiful Robin just sitting on the rod for what seemed like ages
 
despite all of that it was a wonderful feeling being bakside again and had a lovely time with a few very nice carp reckon all under 5lb, will also post up the awesome pic i got of a a carp photobombing my picture of ducks....

took a random picture of ducks to send the family while i was out and just look at the cheeky fish showing off