jules007

A lot of forums are being targeted lately and admin and mods have to be on the ball to keep the forums a nice place to share your hobby with others

you did indeed and i should of listened to you, my main issue with the xl i got is storage

My latest i bought the NGT deep XL carp unhooking cradle and totally hate it, its way to big, i have a really nice beanie mat that is perfect for me but my club water is stating from October has to be padded walled mat/cradle, so i either loo for a new water to fish or sell the stupid big thing and find a more suitable walled mat

welcome aboard

Good on you for putting fish welfare 1st mate, some anglers forget the Pike is a bit of a delicate fish in some ways

Otters raiding all the fisheries and now Beavers coming back, i guess next step will be the Wolf as a predator to maintain numbers

Sadly i dont have a dog my old bivvy rat of a Greyhound passed many years ago, and i dont fish for pike, so will just get a cheap NGT cradle

Another new purchase being forced on me, local club lake has decided we all have to have walled carp cradle for unhooking, this is a but of a kick in the plums as i very recently bought a new Beanie mat, now i have to get a walled cradle and basically bin the perfectly good mat, no idea what to get, but seeing as i dont catch it wont get a lot of use so a budget one will do

Its high time i considered a newer mobile, may look at this again in a couple of months as a mate will be selling his mint S23, my old phone is a Huawei P20 lite, its been ace but no support for it now

Decided to check the app, says it wont work with my phone, so its a no go for me, not buying the sonar and then having to get new phone

Nice fish mate well done

I am tempted to get the IBobber sonar that can be cast from a carp rod and does lake mapping back to a smart phone via Bluetooth, has any one used this device, and would i need to use a heavy rod with braid or could i get away with 18lb Mono on a 2.75 rod just casting short distance

Just out of curiosity is it legal to shoot otter`s, even on private land, i have heard they are more protected than a BBC presenter

I do get where Blue is coming from, i am old enough to remember the early days of carp fishing, this is before the bivvy as such was invented so it would be a small bell tent that would leak like a sieve and let a lot of the wildlife in, rickety camp beds or sunloungers and bait was bread, corn meat or worms, this would of been around 1970-73 there must be a lot of truth in that if early anglers had not stuck with it the carp scene would not be what it is today

Sticking to my plan and fishing little pool till start of May, then get on specimen lake

not allowed to name my local water but they were proactive with otter fencing, but when tarka is determined to get a carp they find a way in, we lost about 5 carp while fence was beefed up and now there are camera`s and more fencing but still has to be checked pretty much daily

Having had yet another blank on main specimen lake i have decided to call it a day for a couple of months and just fish with some old school gear on the small lake, its about time i started to catch something and carp go to 18lb on little pond so not bad on light tackle

My 9ft Wychwood rods with the new DAM mini pit reels on, very happy with both the rods and the reels, i forgot to bring the rear rest hence tips up, still failed to catch

I would be happy with any fish, just dont seem able to catch any thing at all............ consistent as ever, good luck with a bedchair

Quoting myself for an update, i have found cheap Tesco sliced white bread, crust cut of and the slice lightly flattened indeed rolls very nicely to be able to hair rig with a pellet band, yet to try it at the lake but this may give me an edge for carp that only ever see boilie

At least all sorted

it was a fail, no bites

Yes keep it under observation dont be afraid to go to docs i had pneumonia about a year back was nasty, im one that never goes to doc unless a leg is hanging of so to speak but i knew i had a major chest infection took doc seconds to diagnose antibots cleared it up but still dont feel 100%

Good to see ya still about mate

Nice fish mate, proper common