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I like my rump steak blue, and sirloin rare. 
Rump should never need a sauce, it is the tastiest, even though the cheapest🤪, yet sirloin (or the other more expensive steak cuts) might need a sauce with them as they are drier.
I always have a bag of dried pasta in my food bag; after boiling it I can prepare the vegetables and meat.
Couple of weeks ago I did a carbonara, admittedly bacon, with ready grated parmigiano, dried basil  and the egg with tagliatelle.
 
My lunches recently have been chocolate brioche dunked in my black coffee.
I am still on porridge and coffee for breakfast.
 

A Naturalz Wafter , the Snail one , produced a mid double for me this afternoon Nick .
Over a small bed of Black Snail & B5 freebies . I think it’s something a bit different they haven’t seen before , especially here.

I think that until spawning is out of the way boilies are often the last thing carp are wanting to eat, even more so or especially on richer natural lakes.
I do like a mix of small items in my background feed, Vitalin, crumbled and crushed boilies with a few small pellets, even (fresh) molehill soil, which is often rich in wormy goodness.
I think it was @JordanNW who asked about PVA mix, my mix is on here
I use it as my baited patch and for my bag or mesh mix. 

Only reason I ordered the paper copy is the David Miller artwork on it lol! I still have the full set since he started doing the art and plan to frame the lot when they stop doing paper licenses. I reckon a full set will be worth money one day.

I think I posted on the same question a few months ago, but it could be longer...
I have switched to the same rod for both, so occasionally even old dogs do learn something.
 
 
50lb Angry Fish braid, I have a run ring running on the shockleader, with my lead link attached to a Breakaway Spinlink Clip, at the end of the leader is an oval ring attached to a ball bearing swivel.  
 
When I'm leading or using the marker float, the marker goes on the oval ring, and lead on the spinlink.
When I spod or Spomb, I remove float and lead and clip the spinlink to the ball bearing swivel.
I'll try to put pics up, but signal in the swim I'm in is awful.
Just to get any Internet access to check my emails I've had to go up the other end of the lake.
 
Hitting the clip with braid can 'flatten' the Spomb so it doesn't always open, so at shorter range you may need to lob it.

REEL TECH based in March, Cambridge. Great service at a VERY good price. You'll find them on FB.

PROPER REELS!
I would get them serviced over buying new current models.
 
If you do decide to go new, of all the current Shimano range have a play with the current Beastmasters, but shop around for price. I think they are much better than anything over the £85 price range, including the Ultegras. 
That's from working in a tackle shop.
 
https://fish.shimano-eu.com/content/fish/eu/gb/en/homepage/Product-detail.P-BEASTMASTER_XB.html/
 

PROPER REELS!
I would get them serviced over buying new current models.
 
If you do decide to go new, of all the current Shimano range have a play with the current Beastmasters, but shop around for price. I think they are much better than anything over the £85 price range, including the Ultegras. 
That's from working in a tackle shop.
 
https://fish.shimano-eu.com/content/fish/eu/gb/en/homepage/Product-detail.P-BEASTMASTER_XB.html/
 

Why not just get them serviced?
They don't make them like they used to mate.

I'm positive I had fish feeding over my bait this week, in fact this morning, but I felt because it was over birdfood and Vitalin they weren't picking up boilies, so with previous sessions in mind I had ordered some treats for them for hookbaits.
The massive flat patch is where one of my baits was, but a snowman hookbait, 15mm pop-up over an 18mm bottom bait, not a bleep. I'm pretty positive it was carp clearing the smaller food items.
 

Yes - I now have a use for it and a puppy to play goal keeper! 👍

Swearing will not be Tolerated on the Forum. 
 
I have removed and edited posts to remove [censored] language. There is no need for it. If you cannot post without swearing then simply do not post! 
As for Swearing, I don't care if you use asterisks, @, figures etc to replace a letter. The Implication is there and as far as I'm concerned counts as Swearing. 
 
If you cannot post without swearing then simply do not post! 
 
The post will simply be removed and the Member who swears will be BANNED INSTANTLY. 
 
 

Saute potatoes, with onion, mushroom, baby corn and a rare rump steak for tonight.

I can give you an add to this:
Start off with a basic hair rig and adapt and play with it.
I mention the perfect hooking point, middle of the bottom lip. If you are losing fish to hook hookpulls during the fight at the start, are hooking them at the very front of the mouth, the hair is not long enough.
 
When the basic hair rig stops catching move onto the next development, the sliding or extending hair, or add a line aligner.
 
As @yonny says, a bottom bait rig, and a pop-up rig it really is that simple.
 
I don't fish zigs, so I can't comment on their effectiveness.
 
How effective your rig is can be changed by what and how you feed.
A rig with a short hair can be good for fishing over particles or groundbait, yet over boilies may be very ineffective. A rig with a long hair may be great for boilies, yet awful for fishing over particles; the long haired bait may be blown in and out with no hooking, or alternatively cause bite-offs.

Saute potatoes, with onion, mushroom, baby corn and a rare rump steak for tonight.

Saute potatoes, with onion, mushroom, baby corn and a rare rump steak for tonight.

Sorry, I forgot to reply to you after my last post, although it has given me a chance to use and abuse mine over a winter of pike fishing and a couple of months of carp fishing, so I can give a fair appraisal of the Sonik Sk-tec standard chair.
It's comfortable and at a sensible height that is easy to get level on sloping ground.
Carpfeed did do a review on them, might be worth a Google.
Shop around for best prices, and here is Soniks link
https://www.soniksports.com/product/sk-tek-folding-chairs/
 

Saute potatoes, with onion, mushroom, baby corn and a rare rump steak for tonight.

Saute potatoes, with onion, mushroom, baby corn and a rare rump steak for tonight.

Saute potatoes, with onion, mushroom, baby corn and a rare rump steak for tonight.

Nigewoodcock isn't banned😉
Just not posting😒

Saute potatoes, with onion, mushroom, baby corn and a rare rump steak for tonight.

I used to do that to test my PVA as well, mesh, bags and string.
I also test them in the margins in both summer and winter.
 
Not all PVA is the same, there are some good brands, some 'ok' brands and some that just stick them in a hot wash in the machine and they still won't dissolve...
I stick to particular brands of PVA wherever possible because I have tested them.
Kryston bags and string, definitely good, along with mesh by Gardner and ESP. 
However after an incident with Nash PVA bags 10+ years ago that did go through a 40⁰ wash without dissolving, I won't touch that brand.
We also have the joys of direct Internet sales, so if you use a supplier on ebay, check and test it, and I would recommend, even if you use the same seller, test every purchase. I know some batches will come from different manufacturers, look and feel the same, but taste different and have different dissolve times.
 

Statement from PAC General Secretary, **** Culpin:
THE PIKE ANGLERS CLUB AND THE ENVIRONMENT AGENCY STANCE ON WARM WATER PIKING IN THE NORFOLK BROADS
After many years of lobbying by the PAC we at last have the support of the Environment Agency in relation to preventing pike fishing in warm water conditions. Attempts to introduce a Bye Law prohibiting such fishing have not yet materialised but a campaign to draw the attention of anglers to the real danger to pike when caught in warm water conditions is being launched in the Norfolk Broads and hopefully elsewhere. This will include posters that will be distributed throughout East Anglia in tackle shops, boatyards and in public places. Fact sheets are also being made available to anglers and the general public alike.
None of this would have been possible without the tenacity and determination of the former PAC General Secretary John Currie and the input of the Norwich and District Pike Club and we should all be grateful that their efforts have resulted in this positive development.
We hope that with the endorsement of the Environmental Agency anglers will take a responsible and sensible approach to fishing for pike in unsuitable water conditions. The reality is that many pike that are caught in warm water suffer and die as a result and we at the Pike Anglers Club will, with the support of other organisations, always look to welfare of the pike as a priority.
We are grateful to the Environment Agency for their support on this very important issue.
**** Culpin
General Secretary of the Pike Anglers Club of Great Britain