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Out of hospital at 5pm yesterday, and stayed the night at my mother's house so she could Childmind and Sky-sit.
 
I did have a typical reaction to morphine in the middle of the night, made me physically sick. Had to get up, get downstairs and into the bathroom in a hurry, not fun. Then of course that upset Sky, so after I'd sorted myself out I put her on the lead and took her into the garden so she could pee.
Poor dog, from about midnight until 5am, I was waking up, every hour at least once, so she simply did not know what to do.

Mine have been with very short Multi-rigs, either size 4 or 6 Solar 101's or size 4 Gardner Incizors, made up with Kryston Jackal or Merlin, and around a maximum of 150mm.
The Multi-rig is a doubled up length of material, no knots other than the hooklink swivel knot.
 

Here's to a quick recovery for you , Nick .
😃

Out of hospital at 5pm yesterday, and stayed the night at my mother's house so she could Childmind and Sky-sit.
 
I did have a typical reaction to morphine in the middle of the night, made me physically sick. Had to get up, get downstairs and into the bathroom in a hurry, not fun. Then of course that upset Sky, so after I'd sorted myself out I put her on the lead and took her into the garden so she could pee.
Poor dog, from about midnight until 5am, I was waking up, every hour at least once, so she simply did not know what to do.

Not just me then.

Think that’s everyone lol 
 

Out of hospital at 5pm yesterday, and stayed the night at my mother's house so she could Childmind and Sky-sit.
 
I did have a typical reaction to morphine in the middle of the night, made me physically sick. Had to get up, get downstairs and into the bathroom in a hurry, not fun. Then of course that upset Sky, so after I'd sorted myself out I put her on the lead and took her into the garden so she could pee.
Poor dog, from about midnight until 5am, I was waking up, every hour at least once, so she simply did not know what to do.

Fishing gets in the blood

It was always there, but Family, Work, and other unexpected trials n tribulations caused a break...

Welcome back mate,I knew this day would come. 

A trip to local GO Outdoors to see what Stove and Kettle/Pan set wife can get me for my Birthday next week, walked out with....😬😬
Trakker 13ltr Bucket + Tray, 2kg Maniline Bag Mix, 1kg Manills Stik Mix, Manilla liquid Food, Pot of Sticky Pineapple (Bait spray too), Mulbz & Manilla all in 12mm, Few small (1oz) leads, Pva Bags (forgot the loader) Few bits of Terminal to top the Box up....
Will only be using 6ft Rods, so small intimate close in fishing will be done, Running Rigs on 4/5 inch hair rigs, all inside PVA Bags.
This will be my go to method for a while now, Rucksack will have Food Bits, Cutlery, and some oddities, Rod Bag with Landi g Net, Banksticks with Alarms down side, Chair and Beamie Matt, also got the shelter if needed.

The Landing net below has been put with the 6ft Jig Setup I've also got, and replaced with a Sonik 2pc Handle and Net.

That now is ALL my Gear.

Wife said she'll order these for me 😁😁

I always found that, so far must be well over a year or two old my Gardner g force is still igniting. That being said everytime I use it I do burn all my hand hair 😂

I find the ignition doesn't last on most if not all mobile cookers. Always end up using a lighter.

I had a similar thing with my partygrill last week I turned the gas up more and it went. But I've had it before on burners and just used a lighter. 

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This one was my daughters first 20lber, she cast the rod herself and dropped it just off some pads, I had gone up the track a bit to clip up my rod and it screamed off and she was playing it and shouting for me, was a fraught battle on the old trusty 7ft greys, she did really well and eventually I netted it for her, she took the photos to school and everyone was really impressed. She's not really fished since but has worked on her casting. She did try playing one on my rods last week but they are too big and heavy for her. 

The Shot on the hook posts I have split into UK Rig Tying
 

Back on the res for a 48 hour, on the second night now and off the mark with this one 👍

Hovering just over 25lb 👍

I've gone back to Century's Big Bertha which I got around 2007. She is still a beast!
I've found:
a) Avid and Sonik Spod and Marker rods have awful rod rings, with liners falling out and the frames bending easily.
b) after replacing them, the rod just doesn't have the life or grunt to put out a medium Spomb much above 60metres.
Neither is a bad rod for a marker but despite being hybrids, not Spodding.
The Tackle Box Spod rods do get good reviews.

Hope it goes well Nick and it cures your problem. My daughter was getting tonsillitis about 4 times a year and it was really dragging her down. In frustration, she asked why she was getting it so often and heartless father chipped it that it was because she works in a germ factory (Nursery!)  Luckily she does seem a bit more immune to it recently but it was pretty bad and frequent and  I have an understanding of what you've been going through. 

My last trip was a bit of a social with my maté’s grandson and son-in-law coming along
The lad who is 11 started when he was 9 using a whip then progressed to a float rod and feeder rod …but he never has had a fish pull back till he gave me a hand reeling in and netting a carp, was great to see the shock on his face and he went on to catch carp to 9lb…Iv masked his face in the pic wasn’t sure to show it
The guy opposite us had his daughter who was 10 years old fishing I had a chat to them and complimented her on her casting and catching her carp 
 
 

Rather than relying on liquids you could try adding some of this, i use 2 little scoops in my spod mix and it honks,it was my little secret lol, but it has done me really well for the last 2 years 😳 

I used to cook Sunday dinner for around 1pm, and got to take Levi for a few hours on the whip for silvers after lunch while Liz washed up. He loved it.
Then it got to the stage of I would carry Lily and Levi's gear and rods to the park while they cycled up. When they got bored fishing they'd leave me with the rods and go for a cycle, then come back for a bit more fishing.
Hard life being left in charge fishing... 
He soon learnt to trot a freelined dog biscuit downstream for chub as well as I could, and on days I couldn't hit a bite he would manage chub to 4lb.
That was on my rod and reel as we'd just take the one between us and the other would land the fish.
I might split the 'children into fishing' to a thread of their own back in Carp Fishing, so if some posts disappear, please don't panic and I promise to try not to delete them😖

Whilst that one was awaiting processing in the retainer, I had another bite, this one off the rod I moved and the only one not on a match the hatch wafter. (MTH Pop up 😊) lovely fish, look at that tail 21lb 1/2lb 

Somewhere in all this lot I managed to lose 3 to hook pulls and one with a boulder of weed that acted as a pivot. 
And finally at just before lunch I had another run from the banker spot came in like a dog on a lead until it saw the net, then it took forever having seen it for quite a while I thought it was one of the bigguns. Turns out it was 27lb 12oz. 

 
but again what a creature all ancient looking and a real solid beast of a fish. I did lose one while this was in the retainer. But I'm not complaining. 5 fish in a session is mega and getting to share it with your kids and having a real good time too was awesome, I usually fish alone and while I love it, it is nice to share the special moments along the way. 
Also lucky to have a photographer as I had forgotten my camera 😁