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Okay cokey, if they are Terry Eustace Genesis rods, you are looking at circa 2003, which is probably why I couldn't recall Terry Eustace. The quality of his rod builds was second to none. I think he used Conoflex blanks.

Not many ducks are. Weeds, caddis, snails, pretty much anything they can get.

Carp eggs and fry are food for many birds, even insects; tufties, mallards, pochards, dragonfly larvae The syndicate manager has put some of the weed with eggs into another small pond on the estate. I had a look last year, definitely some have come through as baby carp. This is one of the fish that we got eggs from:

From memory Genesis carp rods were made by Maver. Any more than that I don't know.

Sky lies at the top of the stairs up to my flat while I take all the gear down and load the car, and is ready to get straight in while I do my last minute lock up checks.

It may be worth popping over to Hinderclay lakes off the A143 between Bury St. Edmunds and Diss. There are some good fish in the lakes, and Stuart Platt who runs it might be able to help. https://looksfishy.co.uk/places-to-fish/east-of-england/suffolk/hinderclay-lakes/

Don't do the 'shiny' thing in front of me please I don't need any help spending money Seriously I got Solar buzz bars to go with the P1 pod as the Nazeing banks were rock hard, often setting up on hardcore or on pallets. With the softer banks of Alton and Botesdale I ended up getting the P1 adaptors so I could fish goalpost on banksticks as while the water is high I rarely need the pod. I must admit though, that Solar stainless gear is expensive, but it does last. I own banksticks I bought in the 1990's and the P1 pod is now over 10years old. Where has that time gone? On the ESP note, Drennan are another manufacturer who rarely produce a bad item, most is properly researched and developed before release.

I managed to break a Gardner Braided hair needle this week pushing it through a hard boilie hookbait, well used and abused. It has also been used for needle knotting unleaded Solar Contour leaders, so snapping it was inevitable sooner or later. I've never found a better baiting needle than Gardner's. It's replacement, or two of have been purchased with more Duracell batteries. Cheaper to buy 4 than a pack of 3 Pro MN1604's. One for the receiver, 2 for Pike Fishing Delkims and a spare.

I did find a 'relax mat' handy for sitting in front of the bedchair, and it does also work on the barrow as long as you get get your feet either side of the wheel, just don't put too much weight backwards...

I used to do the same, sitting in front of the bedchair on the ground when I was carp fishing. I did buy a chair more for pike and roach fishing with fold down back legs and ended up with that across the bedchair at times. That lasted a few years until the material started to split, so I got the Sonik, which I think lasted a maximum of 3 years until the weld came apart. I do now prefer sitting on a chair with the back and hip problems I have, and if I sort the bivvy out tidily it can stay up permanently during a session, put to the feet end of the bed at night. The chair stays in the boot of car, in layers, barrow at the bottom, chair on that, with chesties, wellies and Kelly Kettle and some cardboard and twigs in a bag fitted in the gaps and unhooking mat on top.

Hospital appointment on Friday to see about the quinsy, which feels like it has returned for the 3rd or 4th time . Looks like the tonsils are going to have to come out

Tackleuk and Johnson Ross had it in stock according to Google but with different prices. JR you need to spend a penny more to get free shipping.

Looking at the pics, it folds up under the cushion and frame bars, so you'd be possibly be pushing down heavily on the cushion seat to feel it across your buttocks, although I may be not quite thinking straight about actual use.

That looks good. I'm sure my mate Will has one, I know it's comfortable on the ground, for obvious reasons I have not used it while on his bedchair. I'm sure you've seen my post about the Solar Chair I got, those legs are good; self extending on pushing the button, and the chair is comfortable.

I used to be terrible for drinking, Friday and Saturday clubbing, along with student night in the pub or club, as well as after American football on Sunday. Then when I got my Pub, Hotel and Restaurant Manager HND and saw the state of people after a night out I basically stopped drinking. I might have the occasional drink, but where 10pints and the occasional short and a slight hangover next day was normal, now its only a beer or two at the most, maybe a glass of wine with dinner. Part of that is I drive and so won't drink the day before a journey, and if I go to a PAC meeting in the pub it is 1 pint of shandy and that's it.

I think EE is better, I was looking at them for the same reason. I'm going to avoid O2 now they have merged with Virgin Media. The other thing is if you can get a monthly subscription, it's PayGo, normally around £10, but gives you so many call minutes, free texts and Internet, or go totally PayGo with a 2nd SIM

Must confess I have had to throw doggies and whiting back just to get them back in over waves breaking on the beach. Put them back in on the surf and they just get washed back onto the beach.

Didn't want to miss the England game... Not the best game, but we got through. I didn't catch though... Got to be in it to win it.

I wish that happened Saturday morning. I'd checked the forecast and was aiming to pack up between 11 and 12 once the rain stopped, only it didn't... I ended up reeling in, putting my rods in the sling then going to get the car and pack everything away and straight into the car leaving the bivvy until last. The only good thing is I hadn't used the full groundsheet just the front.

If you go carp fishing and catch a 7lb tench have you blanked? Catching other species while carp fishing has put me onto some proper specimens of other species. Catching 10lb bream on carp gear put me onto some big bream, so next session the carp rods stayed at home and I caught 12lb bream. Catching 7lb tench on my carp gear meant I switched tactics and fished for tench and caught a 12lb tench. Carp fishing has also shown me where 2lb roach are, even waters with worthwhile pike. Carp anglers are too snobby, sadly many have no respect for other species.

The number of times I've caught in the rain. I've caught in rain so heavy that it poured off my waterproof jacket and my boots were squelching as they were full. If anything I think the low pressure unsettled weather increases the feeding urge over high pressure and just the 'occasional snack', especially if it is with a south or westerly based wind. I must admit I do hate packing away a wet bivvy though; wrapping the umbrella up in a dripping wet groundsheet is not fun.

Gladwells hemp is around £38.99, although recently it has had a few twigs in there. I don't think any hemp is as good as it was a few years ago. I do my particles in a big pan on the cooker. Bring to the boil and then turn down to as low as it will go for around 15minutes. I often add extra water before I boil it so no chance of it boiling dry

If you get some bird foods they have suet or fat pellets in them, and they definitely become a sticky congealed mess if you boil them up. I've been camping, swearing at swans and pike...

Now you know why I dislike Crocs and insist on slipping into trainers. I must admit the breaking of the rod and reel is the biggest misfortune I have 'seen', but I have heard of loads of people going 'a over t' while wearing Crocs on wet slippery banks, grass especially.

Yet another Dot spod I've found attached to just braid crack-off, although this one was just the fractured knot on the link clip. I did cut the knot off as I used the spod for putting out some particles at short range. It's now in the spod compartment of my rucksack. I still use an Amnesia shockleader, and have no problems with the mono leader at any range. Last week it landed an annoying swan that swam through the line... Poxy thing I cast out and watched this swan swim straight for where I was baiting up, and as the Spomb hit the water the swan tried to empty it and swam through the line