kevtaylor

What do you think of this mate, is it everything I need lens wise? Scenics and portraits? https://www.currys.co.uk/products/canon-eos-250d-dslr-camera-with-efs-1855-mm-f3.55.6-iii-and-ef-50-mm-f1.8-stm-lens-10192408.html

Thanks for the info mate I would consider second hand reconditioned for sure, had looked at a few online. I thought mine would last my lifetime but it won't even take a picture or respond to any button pressing.

£500 any good?

Not silly money, knew I should have added What have you paid - lets try that and half it lol

Any camera suggestions mate? mine has packed up working completely so I've just got my phone

It's deffo about the rod I've been on 12.6ft 3.5lb rods for over 10 years now and whilst I'm not a big caster by any means they really help with distance and accuracy, noticeable from the first chuck. The braided marker rod absolutely flies - much further than I can cast mono. I'd like to try using braid on the main rods but no venue I fish allows it. Lower the BS of the mainline to 10-12lb if your using a leader and can get away with it.

The spod rod was in a magazine feature from memory, rods were placed in 3 price ranges, this won the mid price range with all 3 judges and I think 2 also had it as their overall favourite to use.

Yeah I've got probably 10 spombs about 4 working and 6 odd in the garage needing new springs. I find once they get old they start not opening and or opening mid flight. Hate the fox one, bringing that in between lines is a joke. Not keen on the look of the nash one as you say looks cheap but supposed to be good. Keen to try the Wolf ones when they arrive. 👍

Yeah I've seen the price rise, think I paid 180, absolutely worth 200. I could have bought the Harrison one, but this one is raved about beating rods twice the price. 👍

Good point didn't think of that, I just take one and use for both spod and marker, but then I very rarely use a marker, the other is a spare in the attic. Doubles as a pair of cats rods should I do that one day.

Tackle box CFX Black edition, brilliant rod for the money, came out top in some published comparisons after field testing 👍 I fell on one snapped it in half and bought the same rod again - says it all, although after I realised I could buy a spare tip, so now I have 2 matching spod rods 🤣

Couple of shots from my recent 5 night blank on Swan Lake, Bluebell. A case of so near yet so far, the fish were smashing naturals in a tennis court sized area, moved to get the traps closer but chose a bad spot (felt feint gravel but the rods came back with a little silk weed on each) at ranges I shouldn't have been fishing so couldn't check the rods once in place - bad move in hindsight, thought I was being clever. 🤦‍♂️

Thats a good call mate I like the look of that. If I hadn't of lost the fish of a lifetime because of one of them dangling from a tree I'd have bought one years ago lol

I've started struggling to get the spomb to open on every cast since changing to braid, and maybe the spombs are getting on a bit, I have to catch to spomb up high and follow it down otherwise it won't open, mono just stretches and carries on with the same trajectory. With a bad arm I dont want to be doing double the effort so easy to open spod seems the better option. Nice one for the suggestion 👍

20k of Odyssey XXX for my France trip at the end of the month and 2 Wolf Spods, wanted to be throwing sticking it out but my right arm is playing up again so the spods are backup.

We're loving this bivvy (Aqua Ultralite) - good headroom for sitting inside, bigger than my brolley and quality. We broke one of the side sticks so replaced the 4 wiv Prolite obvs 🤣 Taking it France for a week - already done a 5 nighter in there so not feeling like I need to go to my bigger one. No complaints yet and bought in the bundle deal which seems great value IMO

Yeah it's not for me, if I wanted it off the bottom I'd use a pop-up rig, but I'm sure it works just like all rigs work in the right situation. I have 2 rigs that do it all and both are versions of the multi rig. They want to sell us all sorts of stuff to put a rig together, when you start needing swivels to connect the hook and pointless weights I'm out. But if I start blanking badly I might revisit lol

Yeah I wont use a rig balanced in that way, I have the hook laying flat with anything balanced. Blunting and asking to pick up debris IMO

It wouldn't work well on a soft bottom or in weed as you say and short rigs on hard ground is age old as are weighted hooks. If you wanted to do this just floss a split shot would prob do the job better anyway. I'm not at all convinced because show me a rig where the hook doesnt hang down when the bait is lifted? I think if they'd have gone back to what they started with in a shorter length they'd have caught just as many.

OK so what did we really learn from the latest video, short rigs on gravel bottoms - nothing new whatsoever, did the shot have an impact or the rig length? they didn't compare to their previous rigs in shorter versions, so we learnt just that shorter rigs worked better on the hard ground 🤣

Took mine for weekend trips from the ages of around 3 onwards, took life jackets, they loved it, finding newts - picking berries, catching tidlers - fun fun fun Neither fish now though so maybe I got it wrong, but both love being by water still, so I'll take that as a minor win 🤷‍♂️ What woman wouldn't want you to take the kids away for a while, any that refuse must be bonkers!

Seems they like some people more than others, a friend came into my swim one evening and the mozzies were swarming him. He wrapped up and they were still going for his fingers that were not covered, whilst I stood next to him with none attacking me. I take it I've got bad blood, he's got good.

My first email was to carpology saying I feel they are partly to blame and that they should at least take the videos down. I got no reply but from what you're saying they may have done it. Shoddy geezer, he'll be a wanted man. Took my mate a couple of hours on Facebook to locate his village, mobile number his cars and the clubs and venues he visits and when. Was surprised how easy the info line was followed. Removing your facebook account meant nothing!

So this never arrived (Barrow Conversions UK Ltd - conversion kit) along with many other unlucky customers. Looks like my bank is sorting a refund (fingers crossed) but many will be out of pocket. No answers to emails, phone line down, dreadful company! Gonna pre-order from CarpPorter hopefully get one for winter/early spring - should have got a whole new barrow in hindsight and stuck with the big boys - not tried cowboys! Lesson learnt 🤬

Nicks on the acid again! 🤪😃