Higham1987

Love the ronnie myself....
Mine is tied as below onto a running rig, all to be going in a PVA Bag next time out, also only 5 inch the rig.

A few from last night 
26lb 2oz 
23lb 5oz 
23lb on the nose 

Trakker CR 3 piece suit, ready for winter now.
OMC tungsten putty.
20m 20lb OMC flourocarbon.
Korda Krimps
Korda Small Krimp Tool
Korda Spinner Ring Swivels
Time to try making some of my own Ronnie's with a nice stiff boom.

Seeing how you all had fancy chairs, I've just ordered the new ridgemonkey umpire chair, it has really telescopic legs powered by a remote control so you can raise it up and look over the lake in comfort, and it drops down in a flash if you get a run, comes complete with rig board, carry bag and it's especially useful for casting zigs. Was expensive though £2019.99 

A couple of pics of last nights overnighter 

Bog/Kitchen roll holder for me, taped to drill. 

Fair point. I was sitting on it.

Managed to catch a PB at 35lb 0oz during a 48 hour session. After a quiet first 24 hours, managed to move onto fish and also had a 26-0. Took a CreAmino wafter on a slip-D rig.

Bog/Kitchen roll holder for me, taped to drill. 

Loading the reel is the easy bit.
It takes 10 times longer, getting the old stuff off.

Just tried to explain to Mrs B B why I’m checking out the hole on the lid of our saucepan ….she said I’m just being stupid now 😏

Came up on mine this week also
genius yet so simple
 

I was mooching and found this:
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/CtSFibru45ifMqBD/

Cracking local pizza place delivers to the place. Can be a tough little nut to crack! 
Good luck! 

Kingfisher, mate.
There's a few beauties in there.
I'm sure the others will post their captures, where as I will have to settle for a few rod shots & the view from the bivvy🤣
 

I have a set of 6 footers that all go into a multi mat lol
 

NOT been at all this year.....YET

Got a few 👍
Catching my 1st ever park lake Carp & PB from my local HARD park lake, Sept 2020

Catching 1 of only 10 stocked Fish in a local lake, Feb 2022

1st ever overnighter with my Son & Pooch, my lad playing/Catching his 1st ever Carp June 2020

A 48hr and only having 1 bite and Catching the biggest fish in the lake, Sturgeon 31lb, July 2021

 
There have been 1 or 2 evening sessions were I've caught 20+ fish in about 4hrs but nothing massive.
 
 

Started off with this NGT line...didn't last long though....I actually started off with a FULL NGT Carp Outfit and quickly started to Upgrade some Gear after that....
I went through alot of lines starting off and now seem to go towards the Sonik Lines....mainly the Camo or Invisicam.....got the 15lb Camo on my 5000 Reels.
At moment I've got the Profiler NGT 6ft Rods x2 paired with the Prfiler Reel, NGT Rod Holdall, NGT Ruck Sack and Both are Top Quality (NGT luggage is up there with the Best)

Bags are OK but actually the distance sticks the deluxe ones £12 are brilliant, they come with a 12ft cord FYI 

Nearly forgot the first fish of the year from the carp.Com social, was good spending some quality time with @commonly and @dalej2014
I did have to move and be antisocial but it paid off 😂
Might be worth starting to plan next year's soon ? 

I've pretty much just enjoyed all my sessions this year. They've all been pretty memorable even the blank where I snapped my rod and caught a pike was good but first time on a new lake and I got to catch a new 31lber which I got to name snowball has to be right up there. 
But this one also, I worked so hard whilst being ill including a move to get on the fish it's a special one to me 

And some I caught with the kids in a mega summer session



And how could I miss out my daughters first 20lber 

Been a great year, hopefully more to come. 

Other memorable session would be last year when I was unable to get any time in for night sessions, I had a little girl at home and had returned to the ambulance service, so time was at a premium so a few quick day sessions were all I managed. 
 
my dad was float fishing at my local club water and wifey suggested I join him and do a quick overnighter, so I dragged the gear out the shed and headed down. I set up and cast out, not really putting any thought into it, just 3 rods with pva bags on a known spot with a few kg of hemp over the top, I sat and chatted to the old man for a few hours until he headed home, gifting me a few pints of maggots. I wasn’t sure what to do with them, so just filled the pva bags with maggots and put them back out. 
 
it then lashed it down and I retired to bed, at about 1am, the middle rod tore off! After a 30min battle, I netted a lovely common… at over 40lb, it was a right result 

I’ve several memorable sessions, one of my favourites being when I blanked! 
 
my son wanted to catch his first pike, but the rain was biblical and everywhere was flooded and the consistency of paint. Still, the boy was keen, so we headed out to a little known and fished section of the royal military canal (basically where it first begins) 
the rain was torrential and we were both head to toe in gortex, the water level was very high and the water was like hot chocolate and my confidence was rock bottom. My boy, with all youthful confidence was up for it, so we took a light lure rod each and went for a wander. It was a wet, windy day and every other cast ended up snagged so I ended up spending most of my session pulling his spinner free from streamer weed for the boy. 
 
after several miles of soggy slogging, I gave up and turned around to head for home. I stopped to talk to an old country gent who was in the process of telling me how mad we were and how hopeless pike fishing was in the conditions (as if I needed reminding) when my son snagged again. He called me for help, I told him to wind down, point the rod straight at the snag and walk backwards until the spinner cut through the weed. This the boy did, only the snag pulled back! He had hooked a pike! 
 
thinking it was only a small jack, I wandered down to give him a hand, this fish was running strongly downstream, so I told him to walk off after it. Once he got over the top of it, he brought it to the surface where an absolute unit appeared! I soiled my pants and told him to give it line, set the net up and generally went into a right old state of excited panic! My son gave me a withering look and told me to calm down! We eventually slipped it in the net where we were presented with my boys first pike…