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Had quite a few dogfish too 🙄

1st bass of the spring

job done 👍

Latest purchase, 4.5 and 5oz breakaway leads and plain leads. Some 2/0 hooks, 60lb greased weasel, double slim crimps and some Gemini links time to go after a few bass I think

I use a size 4 curve!

I fish a lake that has a large head of bream, I use 12mm pop ups, when on ronnies, I’ve caught a few, but when using hinged stiff rigs, I’ve never been bothered by them

Hinged stiff rig?

My son joined me, he had 4. 20lb on the nose 18lb

Did the last night on the estate lake until next winter, had 6 out, biggest 21lb. low double 21lb

last session of the season on the estate lake off to pastures new come June 16th

Best of luck Kev

I’ve always used floss as the “hair” on the slip d, then tied the hair stop on with a couple of granny knots then blobbed with a lighter. I then remove that bait and hair stop and discard it, then turn the floss loop so the blob is half way down the loop, then rebait, so the blob ends up in the centre of the boilie, then hair stop as normal. I do this because when I bait up, then give the bait a quick sniff, I can smell the melting/burning smell left from the blobbing process, but by replacing the bait and positioning the blob in the middle of the bait, this is eradicated. Extremely fussy I know! But it makes me feel happier! yet when I lasso and blob a pop up using floss, I can’t do that, and catch perfectly well, so the “blobbing burnt smell” can’t be that off putting… 🙄

Welcome to the forum buddy 👍

Just brought a bag of haiths robin red, betaine powder, vitamin powder, belachan powder, full fat GLM powder and krill powder to knock up my cork ball pop ups. now just need to buy the cork balls! 🙄

froggie I lent on my self take button whilst waiting for one of the fish to settle on the mat, it looks like I’m in a meditative stance fish is totally swallowed by the mat!

Did a quick overnighter on my winter estate lake last night, wind hacking into my face, mild night, overcast with showers on and off. This lake is a typical mixed fishery, rather than an out and out carp fishery, but has a good head of carp to 25lb(ish) the frogs were active in the margins, a sign spring is springing. I had a hectic night, with 14 carp landed plus 2 bream from 18 takes, a few low doubles, a smattering of singles and a couple of 20s to top it off. 15lb 20lb ghostie 22lb 14lb

Just brought a new Steve Neville buzzer to replace a buzzer with a cracked case, it arrived a few days ago - but didn’t work! I took the back off and saw that one of the contacts hadn’t been soldered! To be fair, the company I brought it off replaced it immediately, no questions asked - it’s a manufacturing fault that they couldn’t foresee so can’t blame them really, my new, er, new alarm should be here tomorrow. why didn’t I just not send the alarm off for a replacement case? Good question! I’ll do that too… £30 to repair. I’ve also got a neville that drains the battery in under an hour, it must be shorting out somewhere, £20 to fix that. Speculate £50 and I’ll have 5 good as new Neville alarms.

What do you mean? I am smiling! Lol!

Awoken up this morning by a cockerel at the old estate lake I’m doing the winter on

First 20 of the year, just! 20lb 1oz weather app says “feels like -3” theyre not wrong!

Had a few more, now on 7 carp, averaging around 8-10lb and a surprise capture… a barbel!

Out on the bank tonight, it’s -1c and I’ve had a few, nothing huge, but 3 so far, two low doubles and a single