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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?

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! 🙄

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.

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

I got this new book adrift by Gaz Fareham for Christmas, I’m about 1/2 way through and it’s a very enjoyable read. Anyone else read it?

It’s one of my all time favourite books, along with tiger bay by rob maylin

last nights session on an old estate lake

Also get the marker leads with grippers and drag the spot, then reel in smartly, it should pick up leaves and give you some idea.

I’ve got great faith in maggots when it’s cold, I’ve been very lucky with my autumn/winter captures whilst using maggots in the past, so I’ll keep them in mind once the water temps drop.

A few hours out this morning, had a brace of small commons but nice to be out

Better to be over the hill then buried under it!

Morning all, so I’ve finally hit the big 40 this week and the wife and family have clubbed together to pay for a fishing trip to France (so I can tick it off the bucket list!) I’m looking at provisional dates in either June or October 2024. Preferably a long weekend, although id happily do a week, having a toddler at home, id feel bad disappearing for 7 days. im looking for drive and survive lake recommendations for a France first timer, preferably close to Calais as I’m travelling alone and am not massively experienced in driving on the continent, that offer long weekend packages, (but will “reluctantly” consider a week package!) that’s suitable for a France novice! I was looking at Vallee lakes, lake 1, if anyone’s got any feedback on this venue, id be grateful! many thanks

All i want is a pair that won’t rip and bear my backside to the world… 🙄

Local tackle shops, AR tackle, Hastings angling centre or Sues cabin in Rye. I rarely buy online unless I’m struggling to find it locally. You don’t get the chat or local knowledge, you can’t get the gossip or tap up the local grapevine online like you can in a decent tackle shop

Off out tonight for an overnight sesh, I couldn’t decide where to go, so left it to fate - I flipped a coin! Lol! Fingers crossed that it pays off.