salokcinnodrog

Don't I know it. Another series of trades with no new apprenticeships, plumbers, plasterers, electricians, carpenters.
The top 10 building companies in the UK already own the 1.5million plots required by this government to reduce the housing problems, yet don't have the tradesmen to do it. In addition those building companies have the cash reserves to do the builds but won't unless they can sell for a profit, meaning local authority properties are not being built in many areas.
Forcing tradesmen to go self-employed has not helped.
 
The 'cash reserves' were often because the companies were given the land by previous governments, as far back as Thatcher, and it was 'sold' to pension investment and hedge fund companies as investment opportunities under a 'buy back' scheme once building started.

That's a great build, well done.
 
As @jh92 has mentioned, please private message him if you would like to help with the development.
 
 

Nice 1 @ouchthathurt
Looks like it's got mouth issues, similar to the little fella I had.
It could barely get the pop up in its mouth

Mate, spent so many days on there in the summer holidays and a few overnighters in the snow lol
Loved it, seemed massive when I first looked across and bottomless lol
Mostly fished in the edge, watching them come and go it was mega.
You could hear Tom coming for his money from his house 'Mr TAYLOR' he'd bellow in my ear - happy memories, he was like a fishing dad to about 50 local kids over the years probably more, legend!
My first 20 from there would have been an original leeney 😎

Nothing exciting, but the boy and I managed a few commons this morning to start this years captures. 
 
now have to find a tip eye for a fox warrior 2.75lb rod (any ideas?) 

If its Gardner its good...

If its Gardner its good...

Sorry it has taken so long, but after we have managed to get server sorted there is now a section for videos:
https://forum.carp.com/forum/51-fishing-videos/

I'll have a look see if I can transfer them

A new section has been added to Non Carp Banter.
Sorry it has taken so long, but after we have managed to get server sorted there is now a section for videos:
https://forum.carp.com/forum/51-fishing-videos/

Sorry it has taken so long, but after we have managed to get server sorted there is now a section for videos:
https://forum.carp.com/forum/51-fishing-videos/

Don’t forget the carp anglers prayer… 
 
“dear lord, when I die, please don’t let the wife sell my carp gear for the price i told her I paid for it” 

I've somehow managed to lose 3 butt rests and banksticks from my pike gear so just had the joy of purchasing 3 more of each.
As an edit, I just realised exactly where I lost them; I was fishing at Beccles on the quay, where there is no way of pushing sticks into the tarmac path, so I put them underneath the bench I was sitting on, and at the end of the day forgot to put them back into the unhooking mat as I folded it up. 
 

It's for washed out baits only. 

Not sure the air dryer behind is a good idea...
🤣

Just scraping in the December report with a cheeky little 8lb mirror carp, caught it on a 12mm pink Mulbz pop up from club lake

Thank you 

I have watched some of this, and pretty much enjoyed it, like others i used to watch all the matt Hayes stuff on discovery channel

I know Rod Hutchinson do Water Snail Naturalz:
https://rodhutchinson.co.uk/products/naturalz-16mm

Yeah I do think the one's I bought would have caught fish and maybe more than usual when they were fresh with active ingredients.  I just tend to fish match the hatch more often that not and nothing more important than where you put it anyway.

Funny you should say that, on my local park lake it was 3 grains of corn held up by a single piece of fake corn over Vitalin that produced the vast majority of the carp caught. It is a very silty lake and most people tended to fish boilies which sunk into the gunk. The Vitalin and sweetcorn sat on top. I had some very successful sessions, and watched many others fail to catch.
 
Boilies did work, but only in specific places where the bottom is slightly harder.
I think there were or are some specials that really work, but I think many have changed as flavours have been regulated. The Solar Squid and Octopus, original Scopex (not later copies), Monster Crab, Green Zing, or Pineapple really did have something about them, there are still others now that work, but is is finding them.
Add to that, fishing over bait whether groundbait, particles or beds of boilies may make our 'non smelly' baits effective, or even the single bait that the carp think 'here's one I missed earlier'. 

Funny you should say that, on my local park lake it was 3 grains of corn held up by a single piece of fake corn over Vitalin that produced the vast majority of the carp caught. It is a very silty lake and most people tended to fish boilies which sunk into the gunk. The Vitalin and sweetcorn sat on top. I had some very successful sessions, and watched many others fail to catch.
 
Boilies did work, but only in specific places where the bottom is slightly harder.
I think there were or are some specials that really work, but I think many have changed as flavours have been regulated. The Solar Squid and Octopus, original Scopex (not later copies), Monster Crab, Green Zing, or Pineapple really did have something about them, there are still others now that work, but is is finding them.
Add to that, fishing over bait whether groundbait, particles or beds of boilies may make our 'non smelly' baits effective, or even the single bait that the carp think 'here's one I missed earlier'. 

Whilst I should play it down - last 3 trips were successful to a degree and all fish taken on Halibut Pellet wafters that barely smell of anything and very dull.  Proves the point really, who are the special specials attractive to?  US!

Super special mega expensive hookbaits, I wonder how gullible we are? 
I used to keep on buying tubs of pop-ups; strawberry ice cream, cranberry, dairy cream, squid and octopus, tutti-frutti, monster crab, pineapple, and goodness knows how many others. 
The honest answer is I found that the majority of the time that I got takes on 3 of them: squid and octopus, monster crab and my own spiced garlic. Those 3 produced fish as single hookbaits or as the topper on a snowman setup, with other baits like the pineapple and the green zing, tutti-frutti producing occasionally. 
I can't forget one session over winter, for two days 4 takes came on high attract pop-ups, after that the bait that produced was only the food bait tipped with the spiced garlic, and I constantly kept a high attract bait on one rod.
 

couple of low double Christmas commons