salokcinnodrog

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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.

I soak my hemp usually for 2 or 3 days before boiling it up, although I know it will go after a day. The 3 days just allows a little bit of fermentation. I do like the smell of clean hemp boiling. I've taken to putting in frozen sweetcorn into the soak as well. Frozen sweetcorn, unlike tinned doesn't have sugar and salt, so needs a 'kick', and the hemp juice does that alright.

Bruce Ashby used mostly Harrison blanks but also built Conoflex and Century rods. Genesis does not come up on Bruce Ashby, but does on Terry Eustace with posts about Genesis rods on a few other forums like maggotdrowners and fishingmagic as well as the Gumtree advert

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.