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Rod Hutchinson Monster Crab pop-up working again. Proper wake-up call this morning, an absolute screamer from around 40metres out and a clear spot in the weed, so I can fish my preferred running leads, 27lb 8oz

I can normally get away with a citronella and lemongrass based skin spray since Avon Skin So Soft has changed, although mosquitoes the size of vultures did used to get me at Taverham in the back channel swims; Jurassic park round there, and I needed to resort to Deet and Jungle Formula. Permethrin impregnated clothing could be handy, and @elmoputney now your not wearing Crocs, tuck your socks over your trousers. The stuff below works, and don't laugh, it's from a company called purple-turtle. It's that mosquito buzz beside your ear just as you are ¾ of the way to sleep. Other biting bugs are deer flies, they hurt, and of course the horsefly.

The number of people who think the Internet is faceless and anonymous!

Is that the exception that proves the rule? Beast of a common!

I'm hoping that I don't have to get the rake out this week, it hurts!

Cheers

Does look good, although your reel handles and indicators aren't level... Mine never are either, even on the rod pod.

Be interested in the price of Go gas compared to Coleman. I usually get 6cans of Coleman (and text or message) the link to @snowmanstevo around £25-27 inc p@p although Wow Outdoor do them £22 plus carriage so the same in total. I think Go gas are better canisters.

Sorry to hear that, hope you get your refund. I try to use PayPal for as many payments as possible as you do normally get buyer protection.

With so few swims fishable if the silkweed algae moves, someone will fish it. There are a couple of us cleaning swims of weed and silkweed and fishing each other's spots.

I ended having to rake a swim this week, the swans have made most of my other spots unfishable. 4 hours raking to about 5 rod lengths out and baiting up with hemp, sweetcorn and boilies. Sadly I can't be discreet, I have 2 piles of weed about knee height, one either side of the swim, and some weed dragged into the margin rushes to my left. I was able to fish running rigs on all 3 rods, cast just shy of the weedbed l couldn't rake with my usual array of rigs. A line aligned sliding ring on the hookshank and sweetcorn on one, Multi-rig and a Hemp Naturalz and a 360 rig with Nutty Bait pop-up. It's the old school sweetcorn bait that produced.

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I'm in this month, a lot of hard work for the result so far. 4 hours of raking and baiting with hemp, sweetcorn and boilies on Thursday, this morning I had one of this years stock fish at 15lb on sweetcorn. It went in in January at 11lb 4oz. I knew there were fish in the area, the young coot that was diving on my baits kept on coming up looking panicked, running away then return to dive again, so the run was not a surprise.

I make sure she has shade, and can reach the water for a paddle. I hope that is good news then. Not as bright today, and I've been on the receiving end of a heavy shower or two, one while I was walking Sky the 2miles around the lake.

Probably not, but sadly it is only sales that keep companies afloat. Produce a product that is perfect and lasts (for most) well beyond warranty you only get one sale. Make a new product within 5years or lifetime term you have more sales. It is the way Fox alarms worked for years. Many products replaced before lifetime expired. I have a pre-op this week to see if I'm fit for surgery. I presume it is for the tonsillectomy as the abscess is apparently life threatening; if it bursts I could inhale the liquid (it tastes foul), if it swells up it could potentially stop me breathing, and when it does return, although not enlarged, I have blood poisoning symptoms which can be fatal.

It was catching big bream on carp gear that made me switch to gear more suited to them, and I landed a couple of doubles. 12lb is special.

Optonic originals, back in the 1980's, followed by conversions, then Delkim ST's and now TXi'd's. A few mates got Bitech Vipers, we knew a train was coming 5minutes before it went past on A pit railway bank. My mate Bruce still has his Delkim Optonic conversions. Oh and not forgetting a homemade pike drop off buzzer made with a mercury tilt switch.

Don't need drugs Mate, I hardly even drink. I seem to pick out shapes in the trees, there is one that looks like Wile E Coyote.

I think many problems are user error. Mine are rarely totally straight at 180⁰; I wonder if that allows water to fall off the line and rod without puddling on the alarm? (Not in anyway a guaranteed theory, just a possibility). I know at one point there was an issue with components, many of which had a short 'life', mainly used on TXi's. My ST's were around 20years old and had actually been submerged in their early years when the lake broke its banks and the river flooded in raising the water level by 4feet. I had to move my bivvy back up the bank, then rescue my gear. The Delkims worked after drying out and replaced the batteries. On the last purchases I did also add some 2.5oz leads, dumpies and tournaments as I have changed to 2.75lb TC RH Sceptre rods. I'll probably cut the swivels off before I use them on run rings

Think my Txi'ds are 2 and ½ years old now, been out in some serious weather, plenty of rain, and extreme heat. About the only thing they haven't been subjected to is cold weather as I haven't done much winter carping for a while, its been no fishing or pike. I've replaced the receiver battery twice, and just gotten the low battery warning on 2 of the alarms, so I really must dig the new Duracell Pro batteries out of the kitchen draw.

Trees opposite to me look like a squirrel chasing 2 scotty dogs...

Oops, just ended up buying more RH Nutty Bait. I've still got around 5k in freezer, and 7/8k of shelf life's, but I can feel a big baitup coming on. I also ended up with some 15mm pink Nutty Bait, 12mm Monster Crab pop-ups and some Naturalz for barbel and chub.

Good to have you around. I would recommend holding onto pairs and triples as complete sets but the Daiwa Whisker Amorphous, your choice, I believe go for big money as a very wanted item. Depending on the test curve, the Armalite I think is a lovely rod for floater fishing, or in open swims, stalking with the lift float. I used to use the 2.25 mk.i at Taverham Mills for that exact purpose! The Fox and Greys rods are probably the latest rods of the list, and still valid and worth the use. Enjoy your fishing

It was owned or run by Kevin Nash, but he was forced to give it up.