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El Freddo out doing terrier stuff

Not quite a view from the bivvy door but from the swim to the next poke hole, gotta be one of the most carpy paths ever? - would love to see others.  😎

Not in any hurry to cast in, so set up the bivvy and chilling with a coffee

Racking up the blanks but we're enjoying the scenery for sure.

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Just about to weigh a Carp and the second rod goes off , zip it up in the sling and drop back into lake , play second fish net it,     and then the third rod goes off , 
The next hour was spent weighing ,photographing and resetting rods back out .

Just about to weigh a Carp and the second rod goes off , zip it up in the sling and drop back into lake , play second fish net it,     and then the third rod goes off , 
The next hour was spent weighing ,photographing and resetting rods back out .

Just about to weigh a Carp and the second rod goes off , zip it up in the sling and drop back into lake , play second fish net it,     and then the third rod goes off , 
The next hour was spent weighing ,photographing and resetting rods back out .

Ahhh the peacefulness of being alone on a lake. 

Just about to weigh a Carp and the second rod goes off , zip it up in the sling and drop back into lake , play second fish net it,     and then the third rod goes off , 
The next hour was spent weighing ,photographing and resetting rods back out .

Just about to weigh a Carp and the second rod goes off , zip it up in the sling and drop back into lake , play second fish net it,     and then the third rod goes off , 
The next hour was spent weighing ,photographing and resetting rods back out .

Just about to weigh a Carp and the second rod goes off , zip it up in the sling and drop back into lake , play second fish net it,     and then the third rod goes off , 
The next hour was spent weighing ,photographing and resetting rods back out .

Well I've decided to sell all my kit after blanking all week in France 🙈😁
Taking up magnet fishing 

Thats artificial grass from some football pitch from the continent , its amazing stuff and doesnt get hot 

This week's view from the bivvy, but has also included seeing a barn owl come out from between the trees and across the dam wall, and a video of a kestrel hovering above the tree border, as well as hearing tawny owls through the night

I get in trouble being the old man, heaven knows what I can do as a new man🤣
Problem is I'm early 50's so the waiting list is longer.
 
This was Sky enjoying the time out.
 

Been told I need a hip replacement and have lower back problems. To deal with that and the other life problems I shut myself away from the world.
 
 
A bit chilly this morning. Most of the lake froze over last night, just the area in front of me stayed clear, and it looks like the ice is gradually spreading.
I'm only hanging on from packing up just to let the 🌞 thaw some of the gear. My net got frozen to the rushes and the overwrap is covered in frost.
 
Sky however is enjoying laying in the sun outside.

Kites are beautiful birds for sure - the colours and the forked tail and a full adult is bloomin big with those wings fully extended - wow
This weekend i was so lucky to see an owl fly past really close and in the last hour of light so I got a great view, obvs no pics.  I'd like to get a good deer shot - they are all around the lake, one came out from the poke hole I was fishing earlier that day, prob there whilst I was and I had no idea.
This place is something else tbh - so many swans, geese, ducks, herons, white crane things etc etc too many bird types it's unreal even a tiny tiny bird in the reeds by the river.  Newts, frogs - toads and crickets in the bivvy (standard).  It is a nature reserve and should defo be protected if not already.
This is a stinky winky screen print off my Instagram of my best fishing pic ever - I had this young kingfisher on my rods for 10 mins practicing picking stuff up out the water- insects, twigs, pebbles it was a great sight and I had my decent camera there and ready.  One in a million I guess.  In the full shots you can see the slack lines brilliantly too

Love seeing the kites I've been a bit of a kite geek tbh - raving about seeing them getting closer and closer to where I live year after year from the rearing ground in northants.  Now prob 10 years later they are everywhere.  Best sighting an adult took a fish from swan lake on the wing - massive bird epic to see.  Driving home I often saw columns of young birds spiraling on the wind on the country lanes - as many as 30 birds in a column - unreal.  I must have nearly crashed a few times lol
Got a pic of this Buzzard a couple of weeks ago - he was just sat on the lake track and flew into the nearest tree and checked me out - so cool.
I remember when the birds were as rare as rocking horse stuff, so to see then making this massive comeback is so amazing, one of the highlights of my lifetime, told you I was getting geeky about it! 

An hour doing my favourite approach, no fish but always worth a go.

 

Try again - Saturday night blah blah blah

Bitech viper was my dads company so I know it more than most.
My dad developed the bite alarm due to delkim had the entire monopoly on bite alarms due to the way the patent was written which meant delkim made no real effects to improve the product even though your rod would fall off the thing.
my dad found a way around the patent to give people more of a choice and try to improve the product.
Due to this all happening Delkim started to make changes to try and stop there sales dropping.
eventually the patents ran out and enabled all the other companies to produce bite alarms.
My dad then went onto make good fishing alarms.
I remember this well mainly because of the threats he received from one very big fishing company which are still trading today and a name every fisherman knows and I still won’t buy anything with there name on even now.
Sorry about all the false alarms lol but really proud of what my dad achieved and going out of his way to try to make improvements and not letting the big boys bully him out off it.

I can second that....just having a storm passing through now in Wigan....
Hoping to be on the Park Lake for a few hours in the morning before work.