kevtaylor

The deeper looks more than good enough to me and can use casting. We took my mates on Graffam Res Perching, worked OK but not enough battery life 👍

Have a search on youtube, Kevin Ellis, Leigh Stewart-Day you might find one of Kevs videos where he meets Leigh on the bank and there is a demo of the ND2 with Raymarine thats pretty epic, I bought mine after watching that from Leigh. If you cant find it let me know I'll have a look and share the link 👍

Yeah you should have mate, if I'm over Bluebell one time pop over if that's not too far, or on the next social - hint hint, get one sorted lol 😂👍

Looks sound, I'm using 30lb whiplash to a 60lb braided leader made from pike braid I had in the garage. Usually it would have been 50lb Armacord 👍

a crack off with 30lb braid going only 12 wraps, that's not right mate, should never snap when just flicking them out. Even on a massive chuck it shouldn't crack off at 30lb. My mate had some very dodgy whiplash, snapped like cotton, very weird, faulty! Whereas my whiplash lasted a silly amount of years no issues ever

Thanks to Elmo for arranging this one, a great venue and everyone was sound, Jack and I cant wait for the next one. Sorry for the noise they were provoking me. 🤣

Really where's this?

Fake corn being ingested full stop would be rarer than a unicorn on a moped, I've never lost any in 30 odd years, and I dont believe such a small item on it's own could block a fishes stomach. It's a big pig with fins. I agree plastic baits are dangerous as ive pointed out, but for some baillif to come out with that nonsense is crazy, what like it ate a pile of fake corn utter nonsense, bloke needs a reality check.

Think it's safe to say that the RT is the best, the most expensive - but some owners say the most unreliable, I couldn't say if that's true or not. I've got the ND2 with Raymarine fitted external still costs 2k, but happy with the boat and sonar. I'd say Raymarine is the best sonar for bait boats, I've not seen better anyway.

One day ticket venue I've been to bans particle, possibly because of it not being prepared properly, which I fully understand, but also specifically no sweetcorn!!! The most widely used bait, straight from the can being banned - unreal! I use it anyway, just keep the tins in my food bag. I'm pretty sure sweetcorn has never harmed anything, unless maybe you hit it with the can?

Full of fake corn, that my man is the funniest thing ever. What so people feed fake corn as freebies - that has and never will happen utter BS. On the rig it doesn't come off 🤣🤣🤣 A biopsy on the fish - as if that happens when one fish dies 🤣 I would have humiliated him talking utter nonsense and treating me like a prat, it might have got heated. Fake baits are always banned for the same reason, crack offs, cut offs leaving a permanently baited rig in the water, which is fair play.

It took some time to get that shot mate yeah, camera wanted to focus on the branches in the foreground.

Both mega fish caught neither. After 2 Scales I really wanted Two Tone but Mr O got him when he got in that tiny hole one winter- fishing for a ghost - still gutted now - why my fish lol Seen a pic of patch caught from the lake over the river pre syndi days.

A few from Kingy last week, 4 fish in shot, were loads in the snags. 2 from a previous syndicate, both mega fish Patch Common and Scaley mid 40 and mid 30.

I seen a clip of that video the other day - he's amazingly accurate with it. I asked my mad friend to make me a boilie tommy gun years ago - still waiting! 🤣

All true, however sonar has shown me things that I would never have found with a marker i.e drop offs that are actually undercut, like a catfish highway on Swan Lake Bluebell. Also my mate taking me straight to an undercut bank in the old river bed at Pitsford Res, Perch hotspot, you couldn't find that by any other means. Sonar also shows bottom hardness, mine does anyway, I'm not saying you can rely on it soley but with a combination of manual work and tech it can be useful on occasion.

Rudd imitating weed - love it and probably exactly what you are seeing. I spoke to a guy on my syndi about this and he said on this venue its suspended plant matter and the interesting part was that he said he only gets this in the evening - not all the time - really bizzarre! My arrival times were evening - seeing the stuff on the screen - yet casting and getting drops ok, there was low lying weed there but fishable, certainly not top to bottom. Any idea of just using the boat to find spots went out the window at this point, you have to combine manual feel with the technology imo

Its too easy to over think everything, we all do it. If tap water Is good enough for Mr Hearn - it's good enough. I've used rain water and pond water and I thought the bait went off quicker, might have imagined it though, I've used tap water since 👍

Terry Hearn uses tap water to make his GLM bait splash, made a point of saying as such, good enough for us.... I use tap water to wash my baits out and prepare particles, wouldn't even worry about such a thing tbh certainly wouldn't pay for bottled water unless I'm having it.

Bought a boat and pole during lockdown, had to do something! Anyway since used both and both have caught me fish, generally it's been the stealth that has been the successful element, measuring to areas of fizzing going on, then dropping a rig right on it once the fish have moved away. Those spots did loads of bites, especially in December when less active, and the quieter recast maybe sped up the next take. The pole is useful in the same way but more of a pain doing it, still a good tool though. Vast majority of the time I find my spots through observation first, then casting, first choice is still to cast the rigs and spod, however the tools are a decent alternative or addition to the casting and spodding. I've used the boat attached to the spod line just to bait up several times, that's an edge IMO. I spoke to a guy with the all signing all dancing boat, he explained that he was using the drop down camera to find little dinner plate sized holes in the weed and dropping the rigs on those, then checking the rig and amount of bait eaten the following day etc. Sounded mega but he hadn't caught anything in the 50 nights he had done on the lake to that point. To me this proves that it's just a tool, without the observation, watercraft, basic fishing skills it still will not help you catch fish. I see people blindly using boats a lot, no checking of drops, pulling back for snags etc nothing, even with sonar I have to check the drop manually, and I don't trust autopliot and spot saving completely either and still clip up the rods and have far back markers, nothing much changes tbh you have to be able to carry on effectively even if the boat stops working at the end of the day. Sonar has been really interesting on some lakes and has shown me features that I didn't know about, however on other lakes I've found the readout totally confusing, making it appear far weedier than it really was, areas that looked solid weed top to bottom were in fact fishable, I could get drops where I wanted them, very weird and misleading at times, although I'm sure that's rare, lots of suspended matter. At the end of the day casting gives me clear, instant and understandable info so it's first choice still.

Looks really good that, give us an update after some use. I've also looked at the Anker ones but so expensive, but it's a great make so I imagine they will be reliable.

Chris recently said they try to get in every night. It's a full time job keeping them out. Seen them on one of my current waters and the fishing has not been the same this year unless its me but seeing tail damage on fish in snags and a fish has been found by another angler 👎

I'm in - we'll make stuff noone needs - sorry Ali you've got new competition! 👍🤣

Not been seen for a good while, got a mate on there who's switched on and he's not seen it either so doesn't look great. the 43 went many years ago, went missing just before the fences went up same as the big common next door. I had the 43, cracking fish such a shame would have gone onto being 50+ easy.

BB's Naturals Range bivvy pegs - how much you knocking them out for, I might invest - looks carpy!