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Little bit of drizzle here at the moment, so decided to break it out. Not a breath of wind so haven't bothered to peg it down properly. Loads more room than my previous Solace, can sit much further under it. Doddle to put up with the new central bar. Loving it so far😀😀😀

Hotel comfort , now that has to be my 8 leg Nash indulgence.

Wychwood Tactical Flatbed .....2150mm
Roughly 6 inches longer than 2m

I think the new brolly is going to get a run out.....https://www.metcheck.com/WEATHER/dayforecast.asp?zipcode=Lewes&locationID=57235&lat=50.9&lon=0&dateFor=20/02/2018
Metcheck saying rain all day, Accuweather saying none at all. Now who do I believe lol!!
Thing is, it looks so neat and tidy in the bag, I don't want to take it out and mess it up 

Winter in western Kansas is lasting too long, but the sunsets are pretty. 

Here's my weekly catch .
4 of us went.
We all had at least one 40.
 

The cover is  a waste of money , all you are doing with the cover on and the gas canister is making it colder , so you are  insulating the cold can and keeping it  cold .

If I was a fishery owner, I wouldn't want the additional hassle of having to challenge and check everyone entering my fishery. I would be running a business, not acting as a policeman.
If it was put into law, then that would be something they would then have to police, but whilst it is not an obligation, why should they enforce checks. Buying a ticket to fish is not like purchasing alcohol. Do you need to show a car salesman your driving license to buy a car? It's the same situation. If they start acting as an enforcer without the legal obligation to do so, there are unfortunately a minority who will start making threats.
The EA are a non-profit QUANGO, partly funded by DEFRA.

Some years ago I took the notion that I would like to catch a truly wild trout on the fly, but not just any trout.
I wanted to catch one of the big fish eating trout that are often called Ferox.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  One wind swept day at the end of March found me in a large traditionally clinker built boat slowly meandering around a huge sheet of Inland water with its multitude of islands.
When I say huge I mean huge by UK standards, 25 miles long and some ten miles wide is big by anyones standard.                                                                                 
On one side of the boat there was a downrigger, set to troll a fish bait at great depth, but it was only there as a teaser to try and get the fish interested and never meant to catch the fish.
My fishing gear was used on the opposite side of the boat, this consisted of a very large and heavy brass tube fly, some 3inch long dressed in black, yellow and silver  sporting a rather large treble hook, attached to my 10ft nylon leader , a 30 yard weight forward 12 weight ultrafast sink line and  150 yards of backing line filled my reel, a 16' double handed Salmon fly rod completed to outfit and it was gear I was very used to using, however I normal used it   for casting on some great Salmon rivers.                                                                                       
  This time I was simply casting the fly out behind the boat and pulling the backing of the reel as fast as I could allowing the whole lot to sink into the depths, some 90-130 feet down and when it touched down I reeled in some ten feet of backing before gently working the fly sink and draw.
Every now and then I would let line out to check the depth or reel in some to shallow up, strange how ones heart would skip a beat every time it touched bottom!
We had been at this for some 4 hours, all the time getting soaked by the constant waves crashing over the side of the boat, when the down rigger released, I franticly worked the fly to no avail, that was the total excitement that day, some would say I should have had hooks in the bait!.
Dawn the following day saw us on the loch in the boat again on a rolling 3ft wave with perfect overcast and very cold conditions.'
Fishing in 30-40 ft of water produced 2 small jack pike, so after lunch we moved back into deeper water.
At 2.30pm I was watching the fish finder/ depth sounder when I could clearly see a fish come up ten feet or so and start moving back and fourth at the back of the trolled fish, it was clearly a big fish and I worked my fly with a little more effort whilst still watching the sounder.
The fish vanished of the screen for a minute or so and then it happened, the line simply felt different, I lifted hard and there was a resistance like a wet rag, I started hand lining to get the rag in the boat, about half way up the rag woke up and took all my gained line back, that was its only good run, it was then simply a matter of getting it back 130+feet .
The fish was slid over the net and its beauty was there for me to behold in-between its mad slapping about and to realise a dream, a double figure wild brown on the fly, it was just over 10lbs and was slipped back carefully to hopefully live the rest of its life in piece.
The memory of that trout and the 3 that followed will live with me to my dying day, no more or less than any other of my red letter captures over the years, captures that make life truly worth living.
 

well gave it as long as I could gents but no snow carp  .... it was getting over 2ft deep on the track out so was time to make a start on the long journey home , would of stayed longer if i could of but needed to get back to the family. started slowly as we couldn't get up the hill out of the lake lol .
But a bit of graft on the shovel & we were soon on our way.  
loved it 

Good job you have Delkims and not Fox , you now have a chance of hearing that run with unfrozen Delks.

So just to update. I did 3 sessions of about 3 hours 7 til 10, had about 12 carp ranging from 5/6lb to 14lb i think was the biggest. I fished on the opposite side from the beach, Didnt pay any ticket or anything so all good! the fish battled like mad, I guess because they are not really fished for.
I fished in the margin one evening which wasnt very effective (did get the 14LBer from there) the rest were in open water with a small PVA bag and a few boilies shot out in the general direction every so often. If i didnt catch after 20 minutes i recast.
For any course fisherman, Theres some big roach and rudd in there, I changed to corn and the silvers and small carp went mental, after 3 chucks i changed back to boilie!
Very enjoyable.

Lol - your like my mate selling stuff for a profit- love it well done, you saw him coming!
Used gas bottles for sale!  10 quid😂

I thought I'd give this a bump again as I'm out fishing tomorrow.
There's 2 maybe 3 waters I'm going to look at tomorrow, which ever one I see fish on I'm going to fish.
I've gotten everything ready to be packed in the car tomorrow after I've taken the little one to school, then I'm back early on Thursday morning.
The weather is looking wet so at least it won't be cold. 
What ever happens, I'm going to enjoy it regardless

And night, presumably..........
Ian

The two GSPs and the two cats, Silver Bengal and Selkirk Rex and the grumpy old git Algernon the tortoise . 

Meant the Nash one. 
Block of wood with the Nash logo indented coming next month ...

I wear the same as in the summer ,Joggers ,T shirt and hoodie , but wear a thicker coat and over trousers if it gets to cold .
I also have a Nash Artic suite , but very rarely wear it ,but do take it just in case .
I suppose working outside all my life has somewhat toughened me up to the elements.

http://www.nashtackle.co.uk/products/view/bank-life-bivvy-heater
Now this is a take on the twin flowerer pots upside down , (look up on Youtube) they work extremely well , we made one and the heat was excellent just to bulky to carry around.
So this seems a reasonable copy although well over priced , but aint it all
If you believe the spiel ,you wont die using it. just Burn your hands if you touch it

http://www.nashtackle.co.uk/products/view/nash-bank-life-footpath
Unbelievable ,why has this taken so long to come out , i can see me needing two 

Never had a problem with my Delkims, other than my own stupidity, like leaving flat batteries in, or breaking the battery connection wire,  even then the repair was cheap and quickly done by Delkim. Purchased I think in 2000, still working, still on my buzzer bars, or banksticks for pike fishing.
Oh yes, my nice carp alarms get battered and bruised, covered in mud while pike fishing as well.
 
Please don't make me laugh about Fox alarms, I have worked in tackle shops since 1995, and the most returned faulty alarms were Fox, number of Delkims returned were minimal, in fact I honestly can't think of any.
Do your Atts have vibration sensing?
No? Not so reliable then are they
The number of fish I have caught on semi-fixed leads when I have not had a proper run from the vibration sensing, when line movement is just noticeable, and you can put the sensitivity down enough so that ignores waves, but still picks up fish indication. With almost all other alarms you have to have a proper run, or dropback.
 
What is the big saying?
Oh yes, 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'.
Because Delkims aren't broken they have no need to try to fix or bring out a new alarm. Saying that, even then, they managed to bring out the more budget EV range, which is still better than most other alarms on the market.
Maybe because Fox is broken they need to bring out a new range every few years, or maybe its because they want to con you out of more money. Money, which to be honest, you have no need to spend if you have a proper decent set of alarms in the first place.

Basically any tube will have a plane which it ''likes to'' bend on
Building on this, the spine as it's called, will improve a rods performance no end, mainly casting accuracy thing but also the feel is better and far less twist
I don't accept non spine built rods any more
Most of the big manufacturters will rubbish the importance of it for a simple reason -  they can't be bothered  to do it
Daiwa's upper range of rods is built in the UK, on the spine. They are the only big manufacturer which bothers. You're looking at Whiskers and above. I have a pair of Whiskers as my spare rods and they are very good

If you look at my photo you will see a pump to pressurise type sprayer , and 5L of Fabsil , this is by far the best way to apply it , i doubt 2 cans will be adequate to be honest .
Go Outdoors were selling 5L for around £33 or 1L £13 ,hence i bought 5L

I had the same problem..bought second hand bivvy and like always thought to waterproof it again...i would spend on summat decent so it will last..i used fabsil from go outdoors...awsome...i poured about 2/3rd of the tin in a bowl and washed on with large sponge and let dry in the sun...looks brand new.