salokcinnodrog

Like @newmarket I tend to carry on doing what I'm doing until the first few regular frosts or even into December. I would say 'first frost', but we had one a couple of weeks ago and then a few days and nights of almost constant temperature with rain.
In fact with the rain, I think the fish carried on munching big time. 
Tim makes some other very valid points, stock levels, bait reliant, how busy a venue, etc.
My syndicate is quiet anyway, the most I've seen is 9 or 10 on 45 acres, yet compare that to a commercial and you would have 50 anglers on that lake...
The commercial is 'overstocked' so you catch compared to the syndicate.
 
I do use less bait, but I tend to up the numbers of boilies and drop the levels of particles. Particles I think rely on the oils within to attract, in cooler weather the oils cloud up and solidify being less attractive.

Would certainly make you think that something has changed wouldn't it. Everything has gone up in cost including all bait ingredients,  the delivery cost on them etc, the import tax on it and yet the price has come down. 🤔
I wonder if catch rates have gone down on it. 

I actually mix RH Monster Crab, KMG, and Infusion as my feed. All 3 are good baits. The original idea was to mix them and then use the favourite on the hook  exclusively, but I've caught on all 3 so keep feeding and fishing them.

Rollin baits used to make Nutrabaits baits before Bill Cottam sold Nutrabaits.
They have a pretty good reputation, as does MCF.
 
I had a look at the websites of Innovate, Poacher and Blakes, and they look professional. You don't, no matter what Go Daddy or IONOS says, come up with a decent website like that without spending money.
 
I've said it in the past, and unfortunately it has bitten you (and me) in the backside, get a bait firm that will be there long term, no cutting corners or mixes, that will be there in 5 years.
 
Of the companies that you have given, I would be looking at Rollin, Blakes, because they are their own company, with the backing of an animal feed supply, or Poachers baits as I know the name and have been around a good few years.
 

Congratulations 🎊 
 
I did find Lily asleep on my unhooking mat when she was 4 or 5.

Congratulations 🎊 
 
I did find Lily asleep on my unhooking mat when she was 4 or 5.

Congratulations 🎊 
 
I did find Lily asleep on my unhooking mat when she was 4 or 5.

At 02:10am I bagged a new PB at the weight of 6lb 9oz. A new baby! Wifey gave birth to a perfect little girl last night 😁😁      

Rollin baits used to make Nutrabaits baits before Bill Cottam sold Nutrabaits.
They have a pretty good reputation, as does MCF.
 
I had a look at the websites of Innovate, Poacher and Blakes, and they look professional. You don't, no matter what Go Daddy or IONOS says, come up with a decent website like that without spending money.
 
I've said it in the past, and unfortunately it has bitten you (and me) in the backside, get a bait firm that will be there long term, no cutting corners or mixes, that will be there in 5 years.
 
Of the companies that you have given, I would be looking at Rollin, Blakes, because they are their own company, with the backing of an animal feed supply, or Poachers baits as I know the name and have been around a good few years.
 

Clifton Lakes complex now has a Facebook presence. Oh, and a contact number.
07845 746691.
Ian.

It would be my Shakespeare Specialist rod.
I use it for fishing for roach, bream, chub, tench, carp etc.
It slings out feeders, light ledger weights, surface fishing dog biscuits, float fishing, pretty much everything, and does it well. I've landed 20lb carp, 2lb roach and 5lb chub on it. Lovely rod!
 
Reel wise, stuck between my Marco Cortesi Centrepin or a Shimano 4000 fighting drag.

Time to bring back an old thread for the first pike trip of the season.
Started the day with a 12lb pike on a whole ledgered herring.
 
As it wriggled while I unhooked it, the barbless treble caught my middle finger, so snipped the trace to unhook the pike and my finger.

Been having a few pike trips this year, nothing special until today. 
A ledgered pollen produced a 20lb1oz fish. Hadn't been out more than 20minutes

Time to bring back an old thread for the first pike trip of the season.
Started the day with a 12lb pike on a whole ledgered herring.
 
As it wriggled while I unhooked it, the barbless treble caught my middle finger, so snipped the trace to unhook the pike and my finger.

If you want to make that claim you should don't forget it's a payment to keep you with some sort of active lifestyle and not because a person is fully immobile which is what a lot of people think. 
My Mrs gets it and DLA before the swap over she has had lifelong hypermobility gets to be a real problem with the most basic of tasks once you get past 40 or so.

It’s nothing special, we’ll it is to me , but it’s an old Ron Thompson Avon rod with Feeder attachments etc .
I use it ( obviously) for feeder fishing , surface work and float fishing for whatever comes along . Dunno how much it cost at the time , it wasn’t expensive, but it’s a proper Jack of all trades and I love it . Used it recently with my well old Mitchell 320 reel and landed everything from small silvers through to upper double Carp . 
A great tool and goes to show that you don’t need to spend fortunes on all these specialist rods to enjoy a days fishing.

He’s a tremendous all round Angler working for a tremendous all round Angling tackle company .
 
If he’s chosen to leave for another company I’d be surprised.
He’s not as young as he used to be . He probably just wants to retire and enjoy his fishing . Good luck to him .

As the title of the thread, Martin Bowler is leaving Drennan.
Always a credit to fishing, I wish more anglers could be like him.
https://fb.watch/gzKlQz-xUk/
 

As the title of the thread, Martin Bowler is leaving Drennan.
Always a credit to fishing, I wish more anglers could be like him.
https://fb.watch/gzKlQz-xUk/
 

As the title of the thread, Martin Bowler is leaving Drennan.
Always a credit to fishing, I wish more anglers could be like him.
https://fb.watch/gzKlQz-xUk/
 

At the other end of the scale but along the same lines ---
 
I had just landed a fish when this very old chap who had been fishing not far from me came up to take a look and the conversation went something like this.
“That’s a nice fish” he said
“Thank you. Do you fish here often”? I asked
“once or twice per month”
“any luck?
“Oh I’ve never caught a fish – I just like fishing”

I've used various shaped hookbaits, and some like discs, 'halves' or cubes are definitely harder to eject than round baits from what I have seen.

I really am itching to get out.....
I had 3kg of 20mm Mainline Diamond Whites, (from the charity match raffle) I've ground them up to a dust/crumb, trimmed a few down to about 12mm.
Gonna make up some pva mesh balls, for some close in fishing under the club lake trees, hopefully bring em in.
Fishing running rigs slack lined.

The only way to go imo 

I went for the large in the end. There was 2 on eBay last night within an hour of each other so had to make a decision.
I don’t particularly like well fitting clothes anyway and even my t-shirts are baggy so I went for the large when I could easily have gone for the medium .
I read on another forum about a fella recommending the bigger size saying the more air in there the more warm air created .
oh and the large was in DPM lol . Just need a light compact but warm sleeping bag now 🤣