salokcinnodrog

I'd love to, although with hip and back, I'm not sure what I'm doing with hospital appointments etc. 
 
If you can a Sky dog friendly venue would be nice?
 
I know it is a long way for many, but is Horcott a possibility?
Maybe the Tench lake?
 
 

I'd love to, although with hip and back, I'm not sure what I'm doing with hospital appointments etc. 
 
If you can a Sky dog friendly venue would be nice?
 
I know it is a long way for many, but is Horcott a possibility?
Maybe the Tench lake?
 
 

After making the comment above on the 'Is Fishing Tackle too Expensive?' thread I had to treat myself to a full Kelly Kettle kit.
Admittedly £75 but I think it might be saving gas...

After making the comment above on the 'Is Fishing Tackle too Expensive?' thread I had to treat myself to a full Kelly Kettle kit.
Admittedly £75 but I think it might be saving gas...

My honest opinion is yes, life is too expensive and with those 'labour saving, must have' devices, smart meters and equipment which use energy constantly compared to being able to switch off. I, meaning we, can buy a smart light switch, a smart doorbell, smart heating system, which constantly uses electricity, yet 'old fashioned' light switches don't use electricity when the switch is off. The bi-metallic strip thermostat didn't use electricity, but the smart 'stat is continually on.
 
I'm tempted to say eating out at a restaurant is too expensive, but I know the ins and outs of wages, the hospitality industry and how costs have gone up, which brings us to the cost of electricity and gas, even transport and utilities.
When CEO's take huge wages, massive dividends are paid to shareholders, yet prices to the user go to silly levels.
Then when we go to low tech alternatives like wood burners, laws are put in to make getting the 'right' wood, yet countries burn forests, destroy the environment then things are seriously wrong. It is the little people who suffer.
Our skills and trades have been forgotten.
 
Our metal production, steel uses massive amounts of energy, furnaces, burning gas,  coal or coke, which go to carbon emissions. You can't have both no carbon emissions and no industry, you need production, which means one is not possible.
 
Then cost of transportation goes up, and prices increase. UK wages are higher, say £10 a week to your Oriental factory worker compared to £10 an hour in the UK.
Fishing tackle is just part of it. You want 'made in UK', but we have lost the skills, so it becomes expensive. Having a UK factory goes to UK emissions so we went abroad to get it cheaper...
 

My honest opinion is yes, life is too expensive and with those 'labour saving, must have' devices, smart meters and equipment which use energy constantly compared to being able to switch off. I, meaning we, can buy a smart light switch, a smart doorbell, smart heating system, which constantly uses electricity, yet 'old fashioned' light switches don't use electricity when the switch is off. The bi-metallic strip thermostat didn't use electricity, but the smart 'stat is continually on.
 
I'm tempted to say eating out at a restaurant is too expensive, but I know the ins and outs of wages, the hospitality industry and how costs have gone up, which brings us to the cost of electricity and gas, even transport and utilities.
When CEO's take huge wages, massive dividends are paid to shareholders, yet prices to the user go to silly levels.
Then when we go to low tech alternatives like wood burners, laws are put in to make getting the 'right' wood, yet countries burn forests, destroy the environment then things are seriously wrong. It is the little people who suffer.
Our skills and trades have been forgotten.
 
Our metal production, steel uses massive amounts of energy, furnaces, burning gas,  coal or coke, which go to carbon emissions. You can't have both no carbon emissions and no industry, you need production, which means one is not possible.
 
Then cost of transportation goes up, and prices increase. UK wages are higher, say £10 a week to your Oriental factory worker compared to £10 an hour in the UK.
Fishing tackle is just part of it. You want 'made in UK', but we have lost the skills, so it becomes expensive. Having a UK factory goes to UK emissions so we went abroad to get it cheaper...
 

My honest opinion is yes, life is too expensive and with those 'labour saving, must have' devices, smart meters and equipment which use energy constantly compared to being able to switch off. I, meaning we, can buy a smart light switch, a smart doorbell, smart heating system, which constantly uses electricity, yet 'old fashioned' light switches don't use electricity when the switch is off. The bi-metallic strip thermostat didn't use electricity, but the smart 'stat is continually on.
 
I'm tempted to say eating out at a restaurant is too expensive, but I know the ins and outs of wages, the hospitality industry and how costs have gone up, which brings us to the cost of electricity and gas, even transport and utilities.
When CEO's take huge wages, massive dividends are paid to shareholders, yet prices to the user go to silly levels.
Then when we go to low tech alternatives like wood burners, laws are put in to make getting the 'right' wood, yet countries burn forests, destroy the environment then things are seriously wrong. It is the little people who suffer.
Our skills and trades have been forgotten.
 
Our metal production, steel uses massive amounts of energy, furnaces, burning gas,  coal or coke, which go to carbon emissions. You can't have both no carbon emissions and no industry, you need production, which means one is not possible.
 
Then cost of transportation goes up, and prices increase. UK wages are higher, say £10 a week to your Oriental factory worker compared to £10 an hour in the UK.
Fishing tackle is just part of it. You want 'made in UK', but we have lost the skills, so it becomes expensive. Having a UK factory goes to UK emissions so we went abroad to get it cheaper...
 

Ouch !

I can remember a fair few nights getting home at 3am, and before going to bed filleting a few bass or cod and then freezing the fillets, with 1 left out for dinner that day.
My bass fishing is often quite cheap, almost like deadbait fishing for pike with a popped up bait.
 
Even my chub fishing is cheap, bread, slugs, lobworm and dog biscuits, those same baits work for other species. 
 
On my 'Distances and Wraps' thread I mentioned the 'need' or lack of, of distance sticks, and alliterated to it above. You DON'T need to buy distance sticks, 2 banksticks will do, but there are other products that probably come into the same boat.
 
I'm trying to compare my tackle to other anglers I know, my mates etc, and I'm probably the most guilty of spending money on 'shiny':
Five rod holdalls, three bivvies and umbrellas, seven bite alarms (3 Delkim TXI'd and 4 ST's), carp rods, spinning rod, float rod, specialist rods, marker rods, spod rod and reels to suit and two barrows, two bedchairs, oh gawd, stop now...
 
There's still more to say!

In my younger days I would be sea fishing all times 3 tides a week sometimes 4 if the cod were in, dig the worm low water and fish the tide up and down  
I had an arrangements with a mate who managed a butcher shop he would take all of the cod and swap it for meat. Talking of butchers shops where have they all gone used to have 4 of them in the high street now it’s the metros like Tesco and others that sell the meat.  😏

I can remember a fair few nights getting home at 3am, and before going to bed filleting a few bass or cod and then freezing the fillets, with 1 left out for dinner that day.
My bass fishing is often quite cheap, almost like deadbait fishing for pike with a popped up bait.
 
Even my chub fishing is cheap, bread, slugs, lobworm and dog biscuits, those same baits work for other species. 
 
On my 'Distances and Wraps' thread I mentioned the 'need' or lack of, of distance sticks, and alliterated to it above. You DON'T need to buy distance sticks, 2 banksticks will do, but there are other products that probably come into the same boat.
 
I'm trying to compare my tackle to other anglers I know, my mates etc, and I'm probably the most guilty of spending money on 'shiny':
Five rod holdalls, three bivvies and umbrellas, seven bite alarms (3 Delkim TXI'd and 4 ST's), carp rods, spinning rod, float rod, specialist rods, marker rods, spod rod and reels to suit and two barrows, two bedchairs, oh gawd, stop now...
 
There's still more to say!

I saw this in NCB, and decided it is a topic for main discussion as not everyone (meaning me) regularly go into Non Carp Banter, so I moved it, leaving a link to its new position.
 
I've made the point that as anglers and as people, society as a whole, we are targeted with advertising and marketing of things we don't need, and fishing tackle of most disciplines is the same; products to 'make life easier', that frequently take away personal innovation or make it that everyone is doing the same.
 
Fishing can be cheap and simple, a hook attached to the line with enough weight to get it where we need to cast to, simple barbel, chub and roach fishing, and either a float or rod tip to indicate a take. That is as simple as it gets, BUT, you can't watch a float or rod tip constantly for hours or days at a time.
This brings us to our need for bite indication, a buzzer or audible alarm.
 
Tackle has developed, rods that could only cast 50yards back in the 1960's have been superceded by rods that will cast hundreds of metres, and obviously the cost has increased.
Reels that could only hold 200metres of line, more modern gears and the baitrunner, or Bite and Run.
 
In alternative disciplines from carp fishing, sea fishing may work out 'cheaper', possibly because some fish may be saving us food money, as well as being leisure, although I admit lug and rag is expensive unless you dig it yourself.
 
 
 
 
In terms of waters, many are overpriced; clubs, day ticket even syndicate waters. I can't justify £25 per night to fish a day ticket lake, nor can I justify £235 for the local club (including night ticket) when my syndicate is £500.
 
There's more to say, but I'll save a few thoughts for further discussion...
 
 

I saw this in NCB, and decided it is a topic for main discussion as not everyone (meaning me) regularly go into Non Carp Banter, so I moved it, leaving a link to its new position.
 
I've made the point that as anglers and as people, society as a whole, we are targeted with advertising and marketing of things we don't need, and fishing tackle of most disciplines is the same; products to 'make life easier', that frequently take away personal innovation or make it that everyone is doing the same.
 
Fishing can be cheap and simple, a hook attached to the line with enough weight to get it where we need to cast to, simple barbel, chub and roach fishing, and either a float or rod tip to indicate a take. That is as simple as it gets, BUT, you can't watch a float or rod tip constantly for hours or days at a time.
This brings us to our need for bite indication, a buzzer or audible alarm.
 
Tackle has developed, rods that could only cast 50yards back in the 1960's have been superceded by rods that will cast hundreds of metres, and obviously the cost has increased.
Reels that could only hold 200metres of line, more modern gears and the baitrunner, or Bite and Run.
 
In alternative disciplines from carp fishing, sea fishing may work out 'cheaper', possibly because some fish may be saving us food money, as well as being leisure, although I admit lug and rag is expensive unless you dig it yourself.
 
 
 
 
In terms of waters, many are overpriced; clubs, day ticket even syndicate waters. I can't justify £25 per night to fish a day ticket lake, nor can I justify £235 for the local club (including night ticket) when my syndicate is £500.
 
There's more to say, but I'll save a few thoughts for further discussion...
 
 

I've had a set of Shimano 5000 baitrunners for years, Bought them for barbel fishing on the Severn and suited my early carp fishing sessions on small estate lakes.
My mate has some Basia's that he bought when his mum left him some money when she died and he said he always though of her when using them. Unfortunately my mum died a few months ago and I decided to upgrade to some Shimano XTE's out of some money she left me. Waited for Black Friday and got them for £136 each despite being £160 elsewhere. (I did try Carp.com honestly Nick but they were £180 and always out of stock!)
Hoping for this spell of cold weather to break so I can christen them.

You're welcome.
There were some massive bream in the big lake, double figures.
The tench fishing in the small lake can be fun as well, especially on the float.

That's great , thanks Nick .
😃

That's the Solar buzzer bars with the goalpost adaptors, so I can use either pod or sticks.
With the ground being so soft sticks work.
Had to keep the tips up, still a lot of weed about.

Spent a lot of time on GAPS waters over the years, I can go back to 1984!
Causeway, lovely lake, but hard work for carp. The sound of the A14 always seems to do my head in.
Alderson, nice venue, the big lake can be crowded, and more than 5 carp anglers it will be cutting each other off.
I used to prefer the intimacy of the small lake. I never fished the canal.
On both lakes the carp can be caught on floaters at times.
 
 

That's the Solar buzzer bars with the goalpost adaptors, so I can use either pod or sticks.
With the ground being so soft sticks work.
Had to keep the tips up, still a lot of weed about.

That's the Solar buzzer bars with the goalpost adaptors, so I can use either pod or sticks.
With the ground being so soft sticks work.
Had to keep the tips up, still a lot of weed about.

That's the Solar buzzer bars with the goalpost adaptors, so I can use either pod or sticks.
With the ground being so soft sticks work.
Had to keep the tips up, still a lot of weed about.

That's the Solar buzzer bars with the goalpost adaptors, so I can use either pod or sticks.
With the ground being so soft sticks work.
Had to keep the tips up, still a lot of weed about.

That's the Solar buzzer bars with the goalpost adaptors, so I can use either pod or sticks.
With the ground being so soft sticks work.
Had to keep the tips up, still a lot of weed about.

The Tackle Box, Kent - online, great customer service, great shop.  I'm in the midlands so not local by any means.  I will not support Angling Direct if at all possible, just a personal choice 👍
I go to a tiny local shop where possible for small stuff, just to try and help, or they will all be gone.

Local tackle shops, AR tackle, Hastings angling centre or Sues cabin in Rye. I rarely buy online unless I’m struggling to find it locally. You don’t get the chat or local knowledge, you can’t get the gossip or tap up the local grapevine online like you can in a decent tackle shop