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I saw this on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/premiuminternet/comments/q36bwy/the_way_this_guy_casts_his_line/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

My condolences emmcee; it is incredibly hard but it was the last favour you could do for her.

Not my pb, but a real good looking fish from long ago. I wheeled him in 100 yds, and he took 1 look at me and went straight back out about 90, so I got to do it all over again. I suppose this one was memorable too, because it was just nasty out, cold and windy and we only got 1 bite, but I got the fish.

I like the way this group treats one of my old Canned Heat favourites.

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Reminds me of some Pedigree pet treats so maybe it's high-end cat food. Drill it and rig it up and cast it out.

My condolences; I know what it's like.

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Welcome to the forum. I'd go back to what was working before. The wheel doesn't always need reinventing, and the best catchers aren't always doing what everyone else is.

Any bait manufacturer had to take a hit over the past 18 months, as would their suppliers of ingredients. It was suggested up-thread that this could be seasonal, but if it's a significant price drop (and sustained) it might be a desperate move to keep their suppliers afloat. Without the companies producing the ingredients, there is no boilie business, so a strategic sacrifice. If dropping bait prices brings fishermen back to their product then it's a win.

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Touch more belly on that one; nice dark fish.

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Welcome to the forum.

That's a pretty fish. It's nice to get one when you've suffered a bit for it.

Some of us have the 6 pack, and some of us have the keg. 😳

I know a woman who was absolutely incredulous when I wouldn't go over to her house on a day off. She said "Do you mean to tell me you'd rather go carp fishing than spend time with me? Carp fishing in the rain?!"

I was retrieving ducks in a flooded gravel pit one evening, found a sudden drop and filled my chestwaders. I was able to regain footing and get a bit of the way back but couldn't go up the grade to shore. Shouted to my hunting partner who took about 10 minutes to find a fallen tree long enough to reach me so I could grab it and walk out. Drove back in the Gipsy 40 miles in the dark naked wrapped in a blanket. A life preserver and rope would have been handy.

I was kicked out of the United Church of Canada for awhile for hammering the smart mouth kid in front of me in the back of the head with my Bible in confirmation class when I was 14. I hit him so hard he got a nosebleed, and the elder who was standing in front of us teaching the class was his father. Red card. They made me go back and finish about 2 weeks later.

When I started I was under-gunned but carp tackle in Canada was almost non-existant so my friends and I just used whatever we could find. The fish were great though so we all burned out cheap reels in a season or 2. When carping really took off I started buying tackle from the buy-sell board on a forum and from fleabay (often from British expats who brought their gear over) and even had some reels sent from a tackle shop in England. Now there's tons of it taking up a whole corner of the basement, and I have no regrets. We're only allowed to fish 1 rod here, but I have a lot of choice as to which one I use.

Hilton Valentine of The Animals; dead of unknown causes at 77. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/31/hilton-valentine-founding-guitarist-in-the-animals-dies-aged-77

Our government was counting on tax money to help sell legalization, but they botched the roll-out, from allocation of licenses for shops and producers to supply issues to pricing. The grey market helped bring legal price down and quality up by sheer force of competition, and now government has to find a way to tax those illegal stores because it's just too big and entrenched to shut down. As for fishing, legalization hasn't changed what I do. Politeness dictates not being too brash about it. Since smoking or vaping pot in public is still verboten, the standard procedures of keeping out of sight and downwind of kids and tourists, looking around for cops or conservation officers beforehand are still in effect. All the bad effects that were predicted failed to materialise. No rush of psychosis cases to hospital, no increase in impaired drivers or workplace accidents, etc. The biggest problem was a shortage of cannabis on store shelves right at the start, and they've caught up now. Re:hash Someone gave me a nice lump of their home-made pressed kief from his own crop yesterday and it's a lot like the good old blonde Leb we used to buy almost 50 years ago. I'll be getting back to him.

I've seen a few strains advertised that are crossbreeds of the UK Cheese but haven't tried it. The review I just read of UK Cheese claims the smoke from some of it smells like rotten vegetables, so what you say makes sense. Legalisation in Canada hasn't been without a few bumps, but overall it's great. Anyone can grow 4 plants but for non-gardeners who don't want to buy from the more expensive licensed shops there is a thriving mail-order grey market. I can choose the potent Indica or Indica-dominant hybrids I want for pain management, and price is down, quality is up, and it's delivered in the post by an agent of the government. It's about time, says I, and glad I lived to see it.

It's a vice, and not even one of the really rewarding ones.

Try microwaving some of them, they're already made so nothing to lose.