riks

https://youtu.be/7bL7Zjcxa54?is=rWWvadn-Z2SNBYH1 nick helleur has it right. I believe things were better back then too .

Now this has made the forum even better for me. A bikers chat 👌 I've had my 1998 Yamaha thundercat since 2016 . Been all over the uk on her , been through great times and bad times and she's carried me through heartbreak and a divorce . Many great friends and family have been made because this old girl. Bikerlife 🖤

Amen to that 👍

Good luck 🤞 🍀

I met chilly at the carp society event at sandown Park race course must have been 2018 , I randomly bought one of his books ( light my fire) from the tackle exchange in Walton the year before and loved it, what a great book. So while I was there got him to sign all of his books that I had bought prior to the event 👍 absolute top fella and proper down to earth.

I'm guilty of number 3 😂😂

I'm a subscriber to surfers against sewage too. I've been following this travesty for a long time . Thames water are prolific at discharging into the Thames, and United utilities up here in the North West have been polluting the lakes in the lake district as well. I've signed countless petitions but it never goes anywhere. Those feckers in parliament and the EA do nothing. All the years I fished the Thames and paid for a three road licence and never once see or met a bailiff. It's disgusting!

Thank you so much that's awesome information. Can't wait to get back out there now 😁👍👍

Funny you mention that , I have quite often given that some thought over the years . I've never tried it as never thought the prawns would stay on the hair ? Also thought of muscles too . For the prawns as they differ in size would I need to make a rig to suit the size of the prawn as in hair length?

You know what I've never thought of going for the perch 😕 nice one 😜 👍

It's teaming with fry , it has its fair share of bream as those beggars keep waking me up during the night but I figured that spombing chilli hemp was the cause of that. I use 16mm krill boilies with a corn pop up on top with a hair rig which has been good most of the time on other waters but the carp there are hard to catch and that's why I like it other than the views . Definitely gonna go up a size in boilie next time , managed to get hold of a session pack of nash citruz cultured 20mm pop ups as I had great results with the pink citruz boilies back in the day, will try a different spomb mix too 👌

Thanks buddy 😁

I know Leatherhead quite well , dorking , box hill etc. I was a member of Guildford angling society for a number of years and mainly fished brittens pond off salt box road guildford . Done a couple stints at farlows and thorney weir & the Mets but my favorite was dessbourogh island on the thames between walton and weybridge . 👌 Why did I move to Manchester 😂

It is a lovely place to chill , it's a hard water and that what I like about it , being new I e noticed a lot of the threads are quiet ..

Hi all I'm riks and I'm 40 years old and have been fishing on and off since I was a teen. I love my carp and course fishing , love feeder fishing ! I joined up a couple weeks ago as I was looking for information regarding my old school fox DXR alarms and wether fox mk2 illuminated swingers would work with them. Well the help I got was awesome. I took a chance on purchasing the swingers without knowing if they would work and members of the site advised that they should/would and safe to say saved me from an expensive dose of anxiety 😂 . I'm originally from walton on Thames so I've always been a river thames fisherman but now I live in greater Manchester I am mainly stuck to lakes . And also looking for fishing buddies as I don't really know anyone up here I'm sad to say. Unfortunately I can only get out every other weekend so not as often as I would like with family and work etc. just want to say thanks to those who helped me with my post and tight lines to you all 🎣

I tried sea fishing at snettisham Bay Norfolk this year and yeah il stick to my course fishing 🤣 was not a fan of those lug worms and threading them over the hooks. Was there all day as the tide came in and not a sausage . Probably doing it wrong but I've had a go ha ha

Watching the sun drop behind the trees anticipating the coming witching hour 👌

Lymm dam

Ratticus pesticus sniffing me out at queens mere dam in swinton couple years back. Place is full of them as well as the drunk and drug abusing types 🫪🙄

Hi peeps , anyone on here fish or are familiar with lymm dam ? It's a large still water near Warrington greater Manchester. I've fished it a few times and I'm a member of Bay Malton angling club which runs the syndicate . Cheers Riks